Posts by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
(DIR) Post #AsKwpSnzy5HkMQEgrI by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-03-23T05:34:47Z
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I told my husband I bought new spicy underwear and he just gave me a deadpan look and said "It has chili peppers on it doesn't it." And that's why we are married.#SorryNotSorry #image
(DIR) Post #Asq5A94YjraiCNItqi by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-04-07T06:16:11Z
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Today on #WomensEpics: Fatima Dhat Al-HimmaThe original text of this epic - the only one in the Arabic sira tradition that is named after a woman - is 5000 pages long. The English book was a partial translation, but it was still amazing.Princess Fatima is a warrior woman with a life full of adventures. She battles armies, befriends djinn, quite literally fights for her right to divorce, and raises a son on her own.Read here:https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/04/f-is-for-fatima-al-amira-dhat-al-himma.html#folklore #AtoZChallenge #Women
(DIR) Post #AtSBo4DklPCP00x5hQ by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-04-25T15:27:32Z
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"My daughter is not bossy! She has leadership skills!"Lady, this child just shushed me and gestured to me to zip it when I tried to talk to her parent. That's not a leadership skill. Bossing people around is not a leadership skill.#parenting
(DIR) Post #AurkZb4DslgyczgMam by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-06T17:08:20Z
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New book 🥰🥰 Brother Shark: Folktales about misunderstood animalsThis project was so close to my heart. Sharks, wolves, centipedes, bats, rats, crocodiles, slugs, mice, spiders, vultures, and more 😊 I made sure they are all positive characters. I found some really fun stories. Like the French folktale about a blacksmith who teams up with a flea, a cricket, and a tobacco-marinated rat to win a princess...#nature #folklore #folktales #books #bookstodon #storytelling #animals
(DIR) Post #Av31zbPmRX2l0x2ExU by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-12T06:53:22Z
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Another folklore tidbit:"When trying to get rid of rats, walk around the house naked seven times, and loudly tell the rats that you are so poor you don't have anything left for them to chew on, so they should go bother someone else."#folklore
(DIR) Post #AvI4LR18tYq6PxRqCG by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-19T14:04:44Z
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Sea shinies!#Italy #beach #Ostia #image #beachcombing
(DIR) Post #AvKGzmMOY9zhxcJRey by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-20T15:35:29Z
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I was gonna post photos of Rome, but honestly, this is the only one we need.(I'm an archaeologist. I am allowed to make that joke)#Rome #Italy #archaeology #image
(DIR) Post #AvQ45J0rUYUobSIHB2 by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-23T08:27:25Z
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I am late to the party, but this is the funniest perfect book title I have seen in a long while. 10/10#bookstodon #books #puns #image
(DIR) Post #AvbN6RmW026MwvEabQ by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-06-28T20:01:34Z
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"I came here to stand up for the rights of a minority... but this crowd looks like a majority." - Judit Hernádi#BudapestPride today was illegal... but also the largest we had in 30 years. Incredible turnout. Trying to ban it made it stronger. Propaganda trying to make hate the majority opinion failed.A handful of counter-protesters blockaded the Freedom Bridge (because irony is lost on them), but the parade moved one bridge over and passed them by.#Pride #lgbtqia
(DIR) Post #AvjSWAJr5Tdb7Wwl0q by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-07-02T18:39:55Z
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So I did the math. At 90 minutes a pop, sharing equally with my husband, by the time the kid turns 7 I will have spent about 68 days begging someone else to go to sleep.More than two whole entire months.And this doesn't include bedtime stories. This is just the post-lights-out struggle bus.Per parent.#parenting
(DIR) Post #AwSgjVe1WoFUQswLgm by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-07-21T03:57:24Z
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Last night I had a dream about a cemetery where each headstone had a donation portal for the favorite charity/NGO of the deceased (or in some cases, a medical NGO related to their CoD). Instead of flowers, people swiped their cards.I don't even know why my brain did this, but I kinda like it.#dreams
(DIR) Post #AwY3B9Vma4Xwg9THt2 by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-07-27T04:57:08Z
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Last night in a dream I was having a very awkward conversation with someone, so at one point I said "nope, I'm just gonna go wake up" and I did.#StrageDreams
(DIR) Post #AxxUJNFnAMRj8BT8xE by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-09-07T04:58:28Z
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I hate it when I talk about AI "art" and how awful it is, and people respond with "Oh, but it will get so much better at it! It will be able to create amazing stuff, not just creepy images!"I. Don't. Care.I want stuff made by thinking, feeling, flawed humans. That's the whole point. I don't care how good AI is at "art". I don't care that "writing a good prompt is difficult". I really don't. The problem was never the quality to begin with.#AI #art
(DIR) Post #AxxUJUvWdazKve34TY by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-09-07T05:27:03Z
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Also, unpopular opinion:Trad publishing's preference for easily marketable tropes makes the use of AI easier.Multiple people I know have been told by publishers that they need to "describe the manuscript in three common tropes" or "as a combination of two popular books/movies" in order to be marketable. The more formulaic something is, the easier sell. They were told to tweak stories to fit into a trope.This, #AI can do easily. But it's not even an AI problem. It's a marketing problem.
(DIR) Post #AxxUJcmxPKt7JO6LEO by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-09-07T05:36:18Z
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And finally, a #StorytellingPSA:There is no such thing as "I generated a new folktale with AI!"(Yes, someone has actually tried to convince me AI will make me new folktales to tell.)That might be a tale, but it's not "folk." Folktales are part of a community's oral tradition. They work because people have told and told and retold them. You can't plonk a chunck of text down and call it a folktale. Connection is the whole point./end rant #AI #storytelling
(DIR) Post #AxxUJkWwckphK2ffNo by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-09-07T06:16:20Z
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Caveat of sudden realization:Michael Ende's "Momo" is the perfect book for the AI era. Grey villains telling people they should save time and effort, and then they turn around and steal everything worth having.#AI #bookstodon #books #art
(DIR) Post #Aym3uXkhG1cQLorQTw by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-10-01T18:35:11Z
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Women's true solidarity across cultures: a woman in Transylvania explaining to me how a woman in Dubai taught her how to tape down the toy ambulance car in a way that the sirens on it get quieter.#parenting #women
(DIR) Post #Az4FzJpN9VZeuLMzzc by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-10-10T13:02:14Z
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If you have anxiety and also a small child, you can choose between exhaustion and caffeine-induced anxiety attacks. Those are the two options.☕️#parenting #anxiety
(DIR) Post #AzEqEf6HslnH9tUqbQ by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2025-10-15T12:00:14Z
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Can a biology person explain this? It looks neat.#nature #trees #biology #question #image
(DIR) Post #B314H65XviyIFLlKXw by TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
2026-02-05T16:11:27Z
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Parenting as a storyteller:"Mom! Tell me a story!""Mommy is very tired right now. How about we just talk?""Okay!... Mom?""Yes?""What was the story about?"#storytelling #parenting