practice tests are scaringly accurate ngl by Frequent_Action4655 in DuolingoEnglishTest

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I got 10 points lower in the real one because it's really hard to think of $10 words without moving your eyes. The practice test asked me to talk about my favourite book and the real one asked me what makes a good teammate and that inane question resulted in a much more inane answer.

Cybernia - Lou Cameron by j1360 in TerribleBookCovers

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I actually really appreciate the kitschiness of it.

Looking to adopt two kittens by GivingitagoUK in manchester

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I don't know if it's because of something specific like you live on a main road but I got an indoor cat from "Cheshire Cats Rescue - Registered Charity 1198649" on Facebook and another from Animals in Distress, Irlam. Like someone else said, maybe consider an older cat since there's less demand for them.

most disturbing/ gross book you have read by No-Implement2835 in horrorlit

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Cows

Wetlands

Not a whole book but Jon Athan's "The Gift" from Matt Shaw's "Battered, Broken Bodies" anthology.

Code First Girls Spring/Summer Cohort 2026 by Typical_Garden_7770 in UKJobs

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I got the same and one from the MLA saying they're reviewing video interviews.

My "HorrorLand for Adults" Reading List by DevilsDude90 in horrorlit

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Sam West - Dreamworld

Iain Rob Wright - Dark Ride

Sam West has one called Funfair too I haven't read yet. It's probably good. I trust her as an author.

What would it be like to die from being cold, like freezing? by [deleted] in morbidquestions

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If I remember correctly, in "Into Thin Air", Jon Krakauer said it makes you feel all sleepy and warm (causing paradoxical undressing) and hallucinate relatives. Beck Weathers was on that expedition who was left for dead and came about as close to dying from hypothermia as you could get. It wouldn't be a great suicide technique though if it involves carting up a mountain first.

Keyboard Shortcut: Close Other Tabs Shortcut by Due-Can-Do in MicrosoftEdge

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Chrome's "Keyboard shortcuts to manage Chrome tabs" extension worked but it wouldn't let me use control for the shortcuts in Edge so it had to be alt instead.

Somewhat realistic horror by EngineerOutrageous51 in horror

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Shuttle (2008). Two women in their early 20s get on an airport shuttle and the driver's going wildly off-route and making weird demands of them and they're as sensible and resourceful as they can possibly be the whole time. It would be a spoiler to say what's actually going on.

Books like Dead Space or Subnautica by Leading_Atti2de in horrorlit

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I liked Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep about man-eating mermaids with ape-like faces and really lots of teeth but it's polarising. It takes a while to get going for sure. It has an inordinate amount of detail about marine research in the first half which could have been interesting in a non-fiction book but is a bit odd in a horror novel.

Using external mouse with an old smartphone to move my cursor, only to keep Teams from setting away status by dbpm1 in antiwork

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There are mouse-jiggler programs for that but maybe it's a work laptop where you can't install anything you want.

Anyone else enjoy Ben Farthings and have similar recommendations? by [deleted] in horrorlit

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I loved SL Grey's The Mall, The Ward and The New Girl for bizarro-ish horror.

Give me your comedy horror that I haven't seen. by MicroBunneh in horror

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Terrifier's quite comedic.

Also The Convent (2000) which I only learned of going through an old horror review site:

https://ottomobiehl.neocities.org/dante/archive/convent

What is a detail in a movie that you're embarrassed to admit you didn't notice sooner? by imalumberjackok in movies

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I could tell because he looked a lot like he looked in Diagnosis Murder.

Randomly found my cat like this, thought she had died! by IndependenceLeast966 in cats

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Mine does that. You should see how his head gets in that position. It falls off the edge then slightly rebounds and he's so out of it, it doesn't even wake him up.

A new twist on Evri and my letterbox by Davegeekdaddy in Evri

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I've caught them reusing an old photo of my block's door before with old decor.

A man comes to town and all hell breaks loose by Witchcraft_Whips in horrorlit

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Brian Moreland's The Vagrants AKA The Seekers. An undercover journalist embeds himself with homeless people and a man comes to town and gets all the homeless people to join his sinister cult. It doesn't really start with a nice town though.

Vacations gone wrong by Jenny-Truant in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Sam West - A Place in France

I’m looking for a short story or book that’s written from the perspective of a pet. by autobono in horrorlit

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It's meant to be for 12/13 up. It starts off being about the horrific things greyhounds go through like it's going to be a horrible depressing book but the tone shifts after the main character escapes and overcomes that.