Horizontal tricks with the G Force got me thinking about a competitive comeback 🤔

Yoyo is the Ptarmigan by Featherspin

Been doing repeaters for Seth and Skully’s repeater contest on Instagram, thought I’d share them here too.

Load out for the Lloyd center jam in Portland today.

Ten months progress!

Haven’t had a good session for a few months due to moving house, getting old house ready for sale and just hectic at work.

First good session and first video at the new crib! 😊

TW child sex abuse

I was recommended these here—so thank you to those users 🙏

I’m still really in shock. As I was listening and experts were explaining the behavior and psychology of serial offenders of child sex abuse, I couldn’t get one person out of my head.

One thing that was said multiple times in both podcasts is that actively offending pedophiles will often make the claim that pedophelia is not “that bad” and that child sex abuse does not hurt the child (despite the inherent repulsiveness most people feel and belief that it DOES and IS WRONG especially in the US and myriad of scientific evidence). This is often thought or said by the abuser to rationalize what they’re doing to themselves and others and to test the waters over who will be more likely to cover for them/support them.

This is something a friend of my parents said at a party they hosted a year ago. My parents ended their friendship with him because of it and I was shocked and horrified that anyone would have that …

Hey all, if you are fans of Sarah Marshall from You’re Wrong About, she has apparently bailed on writing a book about the Satanic Panic, but she has released a podcast about it!

“ The satanic panic. Ever heard of her? In a new 8-part series from @cbcpodcasts, Sarah is exploring its tangled web, in a journey that will take you everywhere from Victoria, B.C. to rural Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas. This is a show about the people who experienced the Satanic Panic in real time - the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully convicted. What was it like to be a psychologist told to look for Satanists in every case; a mother slowly recovering memories of supposed Satanic abuse; a teenager accused of conspiracy to murder? The stories of these eyewitnesses point us toward the real underlying problems - individual and societal - that the Panic was a response to. The fault, as ever, was not with Satanists, but in ourselves.”

I need a break from true crime podcasts, any you recommend?

I tried to get into Heavyweight but I was not really a fan, maybe I need to give it more than 1 episode.

The Moth, is it celebrities always talking or is there real everyday people if that makes sense.

I want to listen to stories that will make me cry, laugh but everyday people telling their stories.

Edit: So many good recommendations, thanks everyone!

I saw someone recommend this podcast years ago (maybe ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉?). I started listening to it, but I just couldn’t follow through at that moment. I think it was a podcast that covered different topics, and that it had “parts” on this particular topic of how evangelicals had no opinion/were actually in favor of abortion until the 70s when one man convinced the church that this was the way to gain political power (keeping segregation alive was his initial goal). I think it was a man that told the story. I tried searching for it on google and I found a couple of stray episodes about this topic from Throughline from NPR but in my memory, it was more of an actual series with multiple parts. Admittedly, my memory is terrible. Maybe I’m confusing it with a documentary? Can anyone help me?! Thanks in advance!

I listen to a big variety of different pods, but one overall pet peeve of mind stays true. I cannot stand it when the pod or pod episode is about a specific historic event, crime etc. and it’s completely obvious the host is just reading off of Wiki. I get it in the sense that it’s a very popular resource, but if that’s the only research you do it’s lazy. Especially when you’re formatting your show based on the format of wiki, history, then main events etc. You don’t have to read an entire book, just look at other sources, videos and docs

I am in need of a lighthearted and witty podcast hosted by older women. I enjoy Smartless because the guys are around my age, they genuinely like each other and give each other the gears regularly, they remind me of my own girlfriends.

But they don’t talk the same way that women talk. Any good podcasts with a cast of women just chatting about life, making jokes, supporting each other?

Edit: Thanks for the great suggestions! I’ve already started Pop Culture Preservation Society and it’s right up my alley!

Yeeeeeah. It’s for me. 36F just diagnosed with lung cancer stage 4. There are life extending treatments I can take but I’m probably looking at 1-6 years if I’m optimistic. No kids. Just me, my long term partner, and my cat.

My perspective has shifted in an interesting way recently. I told my partner (who survived Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his twenties) that it was like being whisked away to the top of Mount Everest but nobody else is there. It feels like I can see so much more and it looks so small and time moves more slowly and I’m alone at the finish line but in a quiet serene kind of way. He said he felt the same way when he was diagnosed and pointed me to the painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.

Feel free to interpret this as you see fit. If you only had time for twenty more books what would your picks be? Or maybe what would you recommend to someone who is dying? Either to cheer them up or to capitalize on questions of existence?

I ask that this thread stick to great …

Let me explain what I mean.

I remember reading Stephen King books when I was younger. More than once, I would come to the end of a chapter, in which two characters would be innocently parting ways and he would drop a line like, “…if they only knew they would never see each other again.”

It’s that specific kind of gut-punch feeling.

I just had the same thing happen with a Neal Stephenson book. I turned the page, read the very first line, and had to physically put the book down and say, “Holy F.”

I’m looking for more books that have these moments, a reveal so shocking or a line so profound that you literally have to stop reading for a second to process it.

What books have done this to you? And please, try not to use any spoilers!

my parents are conservative farmers that are college educated, and smart about everything except politics. they consume a lot of conservative radio and are business owners so it makes them that kind of conservative. i want to find some books for christmas that are ideally fiction that sneak in some progressive themes. nothing too obvious - their ears perk up when they think they hear something liberal and will just shut it out. a bit is ok, i just want to trick them into actually reading it.

I wanna see if it’s meh for me too.

I’m looking for something that will keep me hooked from start to finish..

Please list your fav “can’t put it down” books

Games like Kingdom Come Deliverance, Kenshi, Mount & Blade, or kinda Fallout New Vegas where you start as a total BUM and must survive/build yourself up. I guess Like a Dragon fits too

I have a buddy that said RuneScape ruined his life for a while, I was curious what games are on that level of being notorious for negatively impacting someone who gets too deep

Games that really make you feel overpowered and awesome

I’m talking inscryption, SOMA, Disco Elysium type games that will have my jaw on the floor. Could be gameplay or story, though I prefer if it was story focuses

I’m talking about that one game that genuinely left you in awe. Whether it be for its story, visuals, gameplay, atmosphere, or even just for a single moment that hit you hard. I’m looking to rekindle that sense of wonder that I experienced playing games in my youth. I’ve already played the heavy-hitters such as RDR2, TLOU1&2, and the Persona series. Games similar to evoking the sense of emotions and quality that those games delivered for me.

A game where you could just sit back and watch NPCs do their own tasks, communicate with each other, fight, etc.

The only game I could think of is worldbox, but the NPCs aren’t that fleshed out, and their actions no deeper meaning.

Edit 2: It is a Voice Memo recording, not a video.

You have to assign this shortcut to your Back Tap. Further instructions are in the Import Questions, also keep in mind you have to turn silent mode on before using this.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3e9868308834df595375b4023609f44

Edit: Sorry about the Vodafone thing, that was the configuration I was using (the shitfaces message me everyday so everyone around me’s used to it) and it may have seemed like I was promoting them. I have removed the text.

I get tired of how iPhone links the alarm volume to the ringer volume. There’s no separate slider for alarms like on Android, which honestly makes no sense. If I keep my ringer low or silent, the alarm ends up too quiet and i never wake up.

I made a simple shortcut automation as a workaround. It basically kicks in when any alarm goes off, it temporarily increases the ringer volume, starts a 1-second timer, and then reverts back to the original volume. It’s a bit of a hack, but it does the job. It only works if Change with Buttons is turned on in Settings → Sounds & Haptics. You can change the timer sound in the Clock app if you want a different tone.

Create a Shortcut Automation for “When any alarm goes off” and add these actions, improvements are welcome

Hey folks!,

A few days ago, I shared Memento, an AI shortcut designed to help you organize your thoughts: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1o8f36l/memento_organize_your_thoughts/

Anyways, this new post is a follow-up to my earlier shortcut, Node, which I also announced here a few months back. After receiving a lot of feedback; especially requests for more integrations and support for Google Gemini, I started working on something much better. Today, I’m excited to introduce my largest shortcuts project so far: Lumen.

Lumen is a modular AI agent. You can download or create individual modules (called servers) that automatically connect to the main agent. The concept is inspired by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced in 2023 by the AI company Anthropic. Thanks to this architecture, anyone can build their own integrations—making the system nearly limitless in possibilities. Also, Lumen runs on Google Gemini, so you’ll need a Gemini API key to use it.

I recommend it …

You can create your own stateful widgets using Shortcuts with Control Centre in macOS 26 Tahoe.

For example: A caffeinate control to prevent the system from sleeping. Get shortcut.

There’s numerous menubar utility apps to keep the screen on with more or less features but these controls cannot be moved into the new Control Centre. I figured it ought to be to possible to do this with the built-in caffeinate command and without third party utilities since Shortcut controls are supported. The only issue was, while a shortcut that toggles a setting or running process is easy enough to create, it is hard to tell the current state of the setting or process. The key was using the Rename Shortcut action so the shortcut can rename itself when it is run so that the title shown in the Control Centre widget updates with the current state.

The shortcut only has two actions. A shell script checks to see if caffeinate is running - if it is, stop it, otherwise start it in the background to …

I’ve been digging deeper into the Health app, and I wanted to start tracking my water intake. However, I can’t remember to actually log my water manually to save my life. So i created a shortcut that lets me tap an NFC sticker attached to my water bottle, and it automatically logs 24oz of water (the size of my bottle). I simply tap the top of my bottle with my phone once it’s empty, and the automation is triggered.

I wanted confirmation that the shortcut has actually been run, so I added alerts to insult me if I haven’t met my goal.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/25a32af657384e7cabd222ddeccb8e29

Edit the value in “Log Health Sample” to the capacity of your water bottle, and then under the “If” workflow, you can change your goal to reflect when the alerts pop up.

I recently swapped watches and somehow:

• erasing the old one killed half my shortcuts
• I restored. Pairing with the new killed half my shortcuts.

I restored thanks to a shortcut I found here some time ago. It saves them into Files per month. Do not forget to pair it with an automation running daily. Restoring is literally going to the files, un zip, copy paste into shortcuts, done. Let your devices sync and you’re back to normal since the names are the same. No disruption for the action button, automations, chained shortcuts, etc

So many thanks u/yesomg1234

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/04c0e6390f1f45338aec0239abc1bbb2