(Updated) Apple said this to me on the matter:
We are aware of an issue where previously shared shortcuts are currently unavailable. Newly shared shortcuts are available, and we are working to restore previously shared shortcuts as quickly as possible.
(Original):
Hey folks, just want to confirm for the whole community that iCloud links for previous Shortcuts are now broken.
I’m attempting to officially reach out to Apple and confirm the situation but for now, almost nothing we’ve shared here on Reddit will work.
Thanks to folks in the other thread for highlighting this.
I don’t think she’s going to kill me or anything… but if she wanted to she surely knows how.
I was recently in a bit of a podcast rut trying to find new ones to listen to and this subreddit has been a big help with that. I stumbled upon one on my own that I haven’t seen mentioned here so I wanted to share the love. I promise I am in no way affiliated with the podcast or people that run it, I’m just impressed by how well done and entertaining it is. I never thought just listening to other people solve puzzles would be this enjoyable.
The premise is that the host writes audio escape room stories with puzzles that guests come on each episode to explore and solve. There’s a mix of stand alone episodes and serialized arcs, and there’s a fairly big backlog of episodes (as well as new ones coming out now). In the past couple of weeks I’ve listened to a few stand alone episodes, the whole “Descent of the Cullodens” series, and the newest series that’s in progress. I’ve even been listening to the in between shows they do where …
The podcasts title is a lil long BUT the episodes are really, really good! It takes one reality show at a time and deep dives episode by episode. It doesn’t seem to be that well known , but the production and quality is great!
Episode 1 is about “An American Family” the first reality show in the 1970’s. I didn’t expect much going into the series, but I was hooked, I was googling what the family looked like, curious what happened, I loved that they had interviews from the crew and sound bites from episodes.
Other episodes are “the real world” “the bachelorette” “survivor” and moooorreeee skip around
I’m always excited when I can find a new series to binge, so I wanted to share. I love mini documentary style series and it made me sad that this lil pod only had like 200 reviews !
Edit: I’m glad everyone’s enjoying it :)
I could listen to Dana tell stories and do impressions all day. The best!
Just out of curiosity, what would you say your favorite creepy, nonfiction podcast is? If you can pick one episode from that show as your favorite, which one is it?
I’ll go first: Favorite is Radio Rental. Episode is Laura of the Woods.
I just wanted to see how many I’ve been missing out on, and also to find my group of like-minded listeners. I’m obsessed with first-hand accounts (not really into narration by the show hosts) of experiences with creepy people/situations.
I love a good narrative style science show that is well-produced and tightly edited. But there just doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of them. Unexplainable checks all the right boxes for me.
All four episodes so far have been great.
They kind of remind me of classic science-focused episodes of Radiolab (but a little less over-zealous on the sound effects and production values).
If you love a good science story, check it out! (btw I have absolutely no affiliation with the show, just want more of this kind of thing)
For me, that would be Haruki Murakami.
He is the author that got me back into reading a couple years back. 1Q84 was a revelation and it holds a special place for me. Since then, I have been slowly and surely reading his back catalogue and his newer releases, whether they be full novels or collections of short stories.
I can’t recall doing this with any other author even though I might enjoy singular works by other authors more than any of Murakami’s books, but my completionism streak doesn’t flare for anyone other than Murakami - don’t ask me why; probably the atmosphere he creates in all his books, even though it is pretty much a hash-and-recycle formula of urban ennui, food preparation, cats, wells and missing persons wrapped in a blanket of magical realism, but it is my comfort read
Which author’s works will you buy and read blindly, without even looking at book reviews, or knowing what they are about?
So I just finished my Masters dissertation on Literature and I don’t know if any of you ever gone through doing a hard study on something you are passionate about, but it has a way of draining all of the joy you once felt when you did it before.
So now I’m crawling my way back to reading for enjoyment, but I seem to get stuck on thinking most stuff is boring. Maybe I can’t seem to take of the analytical hat, maybe I just really can’t think what I would like to read that would be actually enthralling.
So I want to ask you all if you could suggest a GOOD book. I’m purposefully not being specific, I want to trust your guts on this one. I just want something that’s REALLY GOOD. You know that book? That one? The fall-off-the-chair-this-is-so-good book? That one, please suggest it to me.
Thanks in advance <3
Like how Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance teaches about engine systems, or how Lemony Snickett teaches unusual words. Anything like that, or historical knowledge, or technical knowledge (like a cast away book that teaches tips to survive in the wild)
I can’t do YA anymore, I’ve sat through too many heroines so awkward at their new school because why would anyone like them with their perfect skin, hair, figure, clothes and personality? And then there’s generally this boy, who is so perfect and amazing and why would he like me but then there’s this other boy, exactly the same but with a different hair colour, and completely opposite with obviously evil intentions, but is strangely compelling but then turns out to be the good guy, etc, you know the drill.
I don’t require graphic sex and/or violence to enjoy a book but I’m wary of anything labelled YA because of the above.
I have recently extremely enjoyed Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education, and despite the main characters being in their second last year of high school, it never occurred to me that it would be classed as “young adult” until I started defending it against that supposed stigma.
I generally can’t stand …
hello! my bf usually reads a lot so he can take his mind off of things. it’s nearing our anniversary and i figured it will be best to gift him a book. any suggestions to which book i should buy for him? he likes historical, action-fiction, fantasy, or any genre near that. hope you can help me. thanks!!
And lead towards something more soulful, like nature, eccentric behaviour, spontaneous adventures, being kind and non judgmental
I get depressed and upset by modern society and the way people lose their childish spontaneity and ridiculousness!
Only author i can think of is Henry David Thoreau but I guess this suggestion is a lot more expansive and general
Thanks so much in advance
Edit - thanks for letting all of us be enlightened on some beautiful books - enthusiastic to read all of the suggestions and ill be busy going through them all, itll definitely help some people feel more at home