Just set up a totally useless automation.
Every day at 2AM, an automation is run to get a random number between 1 and 8192. If it happens to be a certain arbitrary number, it sets a reminder to alert me at 6AM that today is a shiny day.
It means nothing, but who wouldn’t want to out of the blue be told that today is going to be special?
Inspired by ‘shiny Pokémon,’ being rare off-color Pokémon that have a 1⁄8192 chance of spawning per encounter. I remember catching a shiny Machop on Gold as a kid, and have never even encountered any other legitimate shiny Pokémon ever since. (Gyrados not included. Pokémon Go neither.)
I’ve been working on this shortcut for a few days now. It’s called 2000s nostalgia trip. In this shortcut you can hear great audio from sounds like the Xbox original startup, zoopals, The old universal logo, The Pixar animations intro, Charlie bit my finger, windows operating system sounds, and more good sounds. I also added the Snee Oosh logo from nickelodeon. I hope you enjoy it. Ideas of what stuff you want on the shortcut is welcome. Download the Shortcut with the following link https://routinehub.co/shortcut/9296/
I already know Scriptable and Pushcut
A lot of podcasts I listen to are on the educational side: science, history, philosophy, current and past events, etc.
Despite listening to them constantly, I feel like I don’t retain any of it. I have shit memory, I don’t really take the time to let an episode seep in after listening, and I never do any further investigation on my own. So in the end, I’m left with vague notions that…
roundabouts are more efficient
Yellowstone probably isn’t going to kill us all
recycling isn’t as valuable as we’re led to believe
something something tribal psychology
pumping silicates into the atmosphere to combat climate change isn’t a great idea
LeVar Burton is still a cool dude
What do you do after learning something in a podcast? Do you go read into it further, or just do what I do and say, “I heard in a podcast that, uh, artificial sweeteners change our microbiome in some way, but we don’t really know how yet”?
Serial season 1 was fun and all. But in general hearing about a mystery that has yet to be solved/likely never will be is hot garbage to me, not entertainment. It’s unsatisfying. I’d love to listen to a podcast that covers mysteries that went unsolved for a long time but reveal the truth at the end that was finally found! Any suggestions?
It feels like most of my favorites lately all divert from any meaningful storytelling so that they can lecture me into adopting opinions that I actually already have. It’s like I’m stuck in an echo chamber filled with voices I already agree with but who are condemning me for not agreeing harder. Almost as if the hosts don’t actually care about issues but care about us thinking they care. Sorry, end of vague rant.
Anyway, if someone can recommend anything really engrossing that’s simply just a good story, I would love it! I like true crime and scandals or anything funny. Please no politics (I work at a news station so I’m good lol) or anything where the hosts care more about image than the content.
Thanks!
I like the in depth look at controversial stories that make our world
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-barack-obama.html
This is an interesting and wide-ranging hour long podcast with the former president.
The first chapter was released a while ago in his other feeds as a teaser, but the book now has its own feed and will begin releasing. The plot is described as:
After the Revolution is a novel about North America, roughly twenty years after the collapse of the old United States. In the Republic of Texas, a failing Libertarian rump state, a Christian dominionist militia suddenly sweeps into power, disrupting the lives of our three protagonists.
Manny is a fixer, ferrying journalists across the sundry hotspots of North Texas. Sasha is a suburban teenage girl, bent on joining with the dominionists. And Roland is an old revolutionary and U.S. army veteran, with a body full of high-grade cyberware and a head full of broken memories. Together, they’ll confront the nightmare that is the ‘Heavenly Kingdom’ and try to rescue Manny’s home of Austin from the flames of damnation.
tl;dr: What are your favorite weird, overly-specific, or breathtakingly beautiful “coffee-table-esque” non-chapter books that I can add to my high school classroom library?
Hi, Reddit! I’m a public high school English teacher (16-18 year old students), and I’m trying to build a classroom library primarily out of books that aren’t chapter books.
I set aside one day every single school week where students can read for the entire period. They don’t have to journal about it, they don’t have to take a quiz about it, they don’t have to talk about it, and they can read whatever they want. No strings attached. The only rules are that they can’t sleep and they can’t be on their phones.
Now, I’m looking for books that are not chapter books because I have three types of students:
1) Students who say, “I hate to read.” They really don’t. They just hate to read chapter books. My theory is that they don’t like to read chapter books because they never developed the endurance. My goal with these …
…But the kind of porn that has you invested in the plot as well. I’ve seen a lot of recommendations for “spicy” books that don’t really do it for me, or meet my standards. So i want something more depraved, well-written, with a good plot, that doesn’t feel like the rest of the story was written as filler to accompany a sex scene.
I forgot the last time I’ve read a fiction book, I have been well deep into the nonfiction and poetry for years now.
I am open to any genres. Seriously.
Thank you ☺️
I feel like there’s a lot of potential for creepiness with ghost stories or weird fiction set way back in time, but it’s tough to find.
Hey guys! I thought it would be fun to comment your favorite show or movie and people recommend books that they would like :))
Here are some of my picks: * Tv show: New Girl * Book: Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Dating // The Hating Game
(I would add more but I have really only been watching Disney movies and Pixar lately haha😅)
Are there romance writers out there who write sexy books for men? All the romance books I’ve read seem mostly fun for readers who are women, so it’s hard for me to provide romance recommendations for dudes.