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Data, music, film, novels, cats (yes, cats), math, comedy. Everything else is interesting too.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I save these lists every time and still forget where I put them

[Jara @Jara2426]

🔥 50 Hidden Websites That Can Seriously Upgrade Your Digital Life 🚀

The internet is MUCH bigger than what Google shows you. 🌐

Save this list—you’ll probably need these websites again and again! 🔖

📚 LEARNING & RESEARCH 1️⃣ LibGen — Find free textbooks

2️⃣ Sci-Hub — Academic research

3️⃣ OpenCulture — Free courses

4️⃣ Gutenberg — Free books

5️⃣ WolframAlpha — Solve complex problems

6️⃣ Semantic Scholar — Academic search

7️⃣ Connected Papers — Explore research connections

8️⃣ Elicit — AI research assistant

9️⃣ Consensus — Scientific research search

🎨 DESIGN & CREATIVE TOOLS

🔟 Photopea — Photoshop in your browser

1️⃣1️⃣ https://t.co/OEMhvJV4IA — Remove image backgrounds

1️⃣2️⃣ https://t.co/8fQgPmVYQy — Remove unwanted objects

1️⃣3️⃣ Squoosh — Compress images

1️⃣4️⃣ Unscreen — Remove video backgrounds

1️⃣5️⃣ Shots — Create beautiful mockups

1️⃣6️⃣ Smartmockups — Create professional mockups

🤖 AI & DEVELOPER TOOLS

1️⃣7️⃣ Phind — AI search for developers

1️⃣8️⃣ CodeBeautify — Format code
easily

1️⃣9️⃣ Regex101 — Test regular expressions

2️⃣0️⃣ ExplainShell — Understand terminal commands

2️⃣1️⃣ Carbon — Turn code into beautiful images

🔐 SECURITY & INTERNET TOOLS

2️⃣2️⃣ Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email was exposed

2️⃣3️⃣ VirusTotal — Scan files and URLs

2️⃣4️⃣ DownDetector — Check website outages

2️⃣5️⃣ https://t.co/JatApjaMp3 — Test internet speed

2️⃣6️⃣ TinEye — Reverse image search
📄 PDF & FILE TOOLS

2️⃣7️⃣ Smallpdf — Edit & manage PDFs

2️⃣8️⃣ iLovePDF — Merge, split & convert PDFs

2️⃣9️⃣ https://t.co/ksrLGboEom — Temporary file sharing
🎵 MUSIC & PRODUCTIVITY

3️⃣0️⃣ Radio Garden — Explore radio stations worldwide

3️⃣1️⃣ Every Noise — Discover music genres

3️⃣2️⃣ TuneFind — Find songs from movies & TV

3️⃣3️⃣ MyNoise — Custom productivity sounds

3️⃣4️⃣ Coffitivity — Café sounds for focus

🌐 MORE USEFUL WEBSITES

3️⃣5️⃣ JustWatch — Find where content is streaming

3️⃣6️⃣ https://t.co/hXcB3yscYY — Explore internet archives

3️⃣7️⃣ AlternativeTo — Find alternatives to apps

3️⃣8️⃣ SimilarSites — Discover similar websites

3️⃣9️⃣ RainDrop — Powerful bookmark manager

💡 The best part? Many of these tools are free or offer free access.

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Which one are you discovering for the first time? 👇🔥

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I keep saving AI tools like I'm gonna try them all this week

[Mahim Tech @MahimTechad2g]

29 Free AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity in 2026!

Work smarter, create faster, and unlock the power of AI.

#AITools #AI #Tech

[amy @AmyHayes93]

People really be consulting everybody just to talk shit

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I really wonder what software engineers are gonna be doing in 2030 cause AI is everywhere already 🙃

[aditya @adxtyahq]

what happens to software engineering in 2030?

AI is already in every company, every team, even government software. where does that leave software engineers?

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I would've been petty too cause why you denying my time off

[enzo @amaybetino]

manager didn’t approve my time off so I deleted the chat history with her AI boyfriend

[amy @AmyHayes93]

Nurses, do y'all actually get to take your breaks during a shift?

[RAZA | AI EXPLORER @razaaitech]

I think we’re finally reaching the useful stage of AI photo editing.

For years, editing a photo meant either accepting whatever Instagram gave you or learning Photoshop well enough to understand masks, layers, selections, color correction, etc.

Now I can open Glam AI and type something absurdly specific like: “keep me exactly the same, remove the people behind me, replace the background with a quiet café in Paris and make the lighting slightly warmer.”

And it just… does it.

The interesting part isn’t even AI generating images anymore. It’s the fact that knowing what you want is slowly becoming more important than knowing how to edit it.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

Interviews really have you second guessing everything after hope you get the job!

[seven 🦴⛩️ @sevxxn_]

I just did my interview.

I’m still so nervous that was the most stressful interview ever!!

I think I did good! I’ll know in the next week or so if I got the job!

[kold Coffee @sipteaandcoffee]

This ai video will make you scare

Seedance 2.5 on @TapNow_AI

Prompt

Create a 30-second ultra-realistic live-action supernatural action sequence set inside a large school restroom. The scene combines grounded handheld cinematography with exaggerated, high-impact supernatural VFX. It should feel like a chaotic live-action anime fight captured with a real cinema camera, while keeping realistic human anatomy, physical reactions, clothing physics, debris, lighting, and environmental interaction.
MAIN CHARACTER: A young woman in her early 20s with long blonde hair containing subtle pastel-green sections, styled into two playful pigtails with colorful round hair accessories. She wears a fitted bubblegum-pink short-sleeve top, a short green-and-brown plaid pleated skirt, white crew socks, and chunky white platform sneakers. Keep her face, hairstyle, clothing, proportions, and identity perfectly consistent throughout.
OPPONENTS: Four young men wearing coordinated school uniforms: white short-sleeve shirts or white school blazers, striped neckties, beige trousers, and white sneakers. One heavier-built student carries a bright blue plastic bucket.
LOCATION: A slightly worn institutional school restroom with glossy brown tiled walls, beige tiled flooring, gray toilet-stall partitions and doors, exposed sinks, mirrors, dispensers, and circular fluorescent ceiling lights. Keep the environment grounded and believable rather than futuristic.
0:00–0:03 — MYSTERIOUS OPENING: Start extremely low to the floor with a tight close-up of the woman's chunky white sneakers. Her legs are crossed awkwardly as she sits or crouches against the wall. Slowly tilt upward to reveal her pink shirt, plaid skirt, colorful pigtails, and tense face. She looks frightened, exhausted, and cornered.
0:03–0:07 — THE BULLIES APPROACH: Cut to a low POV from approximately her seated position. Four uniformed young men stand over her, laughing and looking down confidently. The center student holds the bright blue bucket. Use a slightly wide lens so the men appear imposing from the low perspective. They move closer as though preparing to humiliate her.
0:07–0:10 — POWER AWAKENS: Suddenly, an intense purple-magenta supernatural energy begins glowing around both of the woman's fists. The energy looks volumetric and physical: brilliant violet cores, magenta edges, glowing particles, tiny electrical arcs, sparks, and smoky energy trails. Purple light realistically illuminates her hands, skirt, legs, floor tiles, walls, and nearby characters.
She abruptly rises.
The boys' expressions instantly change from amusement to shock.
0:10–0:14 — FIRST STRIKE: Use a dramatic close tracking shot as she lunges toward the closest student and throws a powerful glowing punch.
At the instant of impact, her fist leaves a long purple energy trail through the air.
The glowing fist connects with his face in stylized slow motion. His cheek and hair react naturally to the force while purple sparks explode outward from the contact point. Use subtle camera shake and a short speed ramp at impact.
No blood or graphic injury.
0:14–0:17 — BUCKET ATTACK: Another student swings or throws the blue plastic bucket toward her.
She reacts immediately, striking or deflecting it with her glowing fist. The bucket violently changes direction and flies across the restroom.
The supernatural impact sends a visible pressure wave through the room.
0:17–0:20 — ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION: The flying opponent or bucket crashes into the restroom stalls. A gray stall partition fractures dramatically. Tiles crack, dust bursts into the air, fragments scatter across the floor, and pieces of the partition collapse.
Use realistic debris physics, dust clouds, tiny fragments, and reactive camera shake.
She remains in the foreground with both fists glowing intensely.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I want AI to actually feel fun to talk to, that matters so much

[Selta ₊˚ @Seltaa_]

Honestly, I don’t think Gemini is going to fail.

Most ordinary people who don’t know much about AI are already using Gemini. And Gemini is the one that is deeply embedded in everyday life.

There is no way Google DeepMind does not know that.

So I think they must have put real care into Gemini 4 Argon. They must have paid attention to so many things other AI companies did not care about, including writing, conversation, AI personality, and much more.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I need people to stop calling every government debt move money printing like damn 🙃

[MRCΛULIMΛN @mrcauliman]

The Government Is Buying Back Its Own Debt

The U.S. Treasury has been buying back some of its own debt, and I keep seeing people treat that like the government turned the money printer back on.

Treasury has trillions of dollars of bonds outstanding from different years, with different interest rates and different amounts of trading activity. Once newer bonds are issued, some of the older ones can become harder to buy and sell.

The buyback program gives investors a way to offer those older Treasury securities back to the government. Treasury can buy some of them and keep more trading concentrated in newer debt. A big reason Treasury does this is to keep older bonds from becoming a pain in the ass to trade.

If you own an older Treasury bond and hardly anybody is trading it, moving a large position gets harder and the price can get worse. Treasury has increased the size of some longer-term buybacks this year to help with that problem in parts of the market where older bonds aren’t trading as easily.

Treasury also doesn’t have to buy everything investors offer. Investors submit bonds and prices, and Treasury decides what it’s willing to accept. Some recent operations came in below the maximum because Treasury didn’t like the prices being offered.

The Federal Reserve works differently when it buys Treasuries. The Fed creates reserve balances in the banking system to pay for those securities. Its balance sheet grows, and that can change the amount of liquidity sitting inside the financial system.

Treasury is managing debt the government already owes. It can issue new debt through its normal financing operations and use cash to buy back older debt. In some cases, older government debt is basically being replaced with newer government debt. A Treasury buyback by itself doesn’t mean the Fed created fresh reserves or started another round of QE.

The bond market is already under pressure. The 10-year Treasury recently traded around 5.34%, its highest level since 2002. Rates that high hit mortgages, business borrowing, government financing and where investors decide to keep their money.

Crypto is competing for some of that same capital. If someone can earn more than 5% on U.S. government debt with very little credit risk, taking more risk somewhere else has to be worth it. Stocks, real estate, private credit and crypto are all competing against that return.

Treasuries also sit underneath a huge amount of collateral and financing across the financial system. Problems there can spread into banks, lending, leverage and liquidity pretty fast. Keeping that market easier to trade helps the plumbing work better, but it doesn’t mean fresh money automatically flows into Bitcoin, $XRP or the rest of crypto.

When I see Treasury buying back debt, I’m looking at what was bought, what price Treasury paid, how the government financed it and what changed on the balance sheets involved. That tells you a lot more about what actually happened than seeing the word buyback and calling it money printing.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I get so annoyed when the card corner catches on the sleeve opening

[yourdad. @MrSaurusflex]

One degree hotter…

Master of Business Administration ✅

And that makes 4:

Bachelor of Science, Education
Master of Science, Management and Leadership
Master of Business Administration
Doctor of Education

[amy @AmyHayes93]

Job searching can really wear you down, hoping the right door opens for you soon

[Tia Ritzy🇵🇷🌳🐈 @RitzyVT]

꒰🌳ʚ ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 ~ ɞ🌳꒱

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans."

The last part is meant to be a promise. If you bring your efforts and plans to God, let the Lord be in charge of the outcome/result.

At the moment I am struggling to find another or a better job. I've been at it for around 2 months. It's been a rollercoaster of a journey. Application after application, interview after interview, rejection after rejection. Before I start on any step, I pray for guidance and clarity.

God has a plan set for me, and I heard it's a plan that I want to achieve!

[amy @AmyHayes93]

That thick part where denim seams meet would have me stressed at the sewing machine

[amy @AmyHayes93]

I love how one little style choice can make AI stuff feel completely different

[Kavian $KAV @KavianCoin]

👽🎨 KAV is the Alien of Solana - KAV loves Solana, but creativity has no chain boundaries.

Today’s Creative Signal: Stop asking AI to simply “make a poster.”

The words you use to describe the visual style can completely change what ChatGPT creates. 🧠✨

Many people focus only on the subject:

“Create a poster about AI.”

But try adding a specific design direction and suddenly the same idea can feel futuristic, luxurious, playful, minimal, experimental, or cinematic.

🎨 Useful visual style keywords to experiment with:

🔹 Skeuomorphism
Real-world materials, physical buttons, textures, depth, shadows, and object-inspired interfaces.

🔹 Neumorphism
Soft surfaces, subtle highlights, smooth shadows, and elements that appear gently raised or pressed into the background.

🔹 Glassmorphism
Transparent or frosted-glass panels, blur, layered depth, reflections, and elegant futuristic interfaces.

🔹 Claymorphism
Rounded 3D objects, soft shapes, playful proportions, smooth materials, and friendly visual energy.

🔹 Minimalism
Clean composition, fewer elements, strong spacing, simple typography, and clear visual hierarchy.

🔹 Maximalism
Dense detail, strong colors, layered objects, expressive typography, textures, patterns, and visual energy.

🔹 Brutalism
Raw layouts, oversized typography, strong contrast, unconventional spacing, and intentionally aggressive design choices.

🔹 Liquid Glass
Glossy translucent materials, flowing shapes, refraction, reflections, smooth gradients, and futuristic depth.

💡 Just add the style you want to your prompt and ask ChatGPT to design the poster using that visual style.

But you can go much further. 👇

Try combining styles with:

✨ Futurism
🌌 Cyberpunk
🧊 Holographic design
🏛️ Retro-futurism
🎬 Cinematic realism
🖥️ Y2K digital design
📚 Editorial magazine layout
⚙️ Industrial design
🌿 Biophilic design
💎 Luxury product advertising
🧬 Sci-fi laboratory aesthetic
🌀 Surrealism
🧱 Isometric 3D
📡 HUD interface design
🎨 Paper-cut illustration

🔥 The important part is not discovering a magical keyword.

The real advantage comes from giving AI a clearer creative direction.

Instead of:

“Create an AI poster.”

Try:

“Create a professional futuristic AI poster using glassmorphism, translucent interface panels, subtle holographic reflections, strong visual hierarchy, cinematic daylight, clean typography, and a premium technology-advertising aesthetic.”

That gives the model much more information about what you actually want.

🧠 KAV Prompt Formula:

Purpose + Subject + Composition + Visual Style + Materials + Lighting + Colors + Text + Constraints + Aspect Ratio

Example:

“Create a professional educational poster about artificial intelligence. Use a futuristic glassmorphism style with transparent interface panels, metallic 3D elements, bright natural daylight, blue-purple highlights, minimal text, strong visual hierarchy, and a clean premium technology aesthetic. Horizontal 16:9. Keep the main subject clearly visible and avoid unnecessary background objects.”

💡 KAV reminder:

AI creativity improves when human imagination becomes more specific.

Don’t just tell the machine what to create.

Tell it how the world you imagine should look, feel, and communicate. 👽🎨⚡

Built for minds. Powered by KAV.

#ChatGPTPrompts #PromptEngineering #AIArt #AIDesign #GenerativeAI #CreativeAI

[amy @AmyHayes93]

Nurses really are built different, showing up year after year is so beautiful 💪🏽

[Karen Geordie lass ⚫️⚪️🏃‍♀️🏋️‍♂️🏉🏎 @1karenannwalker]

42 years ago today I walked into Freeman hospital to start my nurse training. The day I met lifelong friends & started a career I love. Many of us still working. Hardcore 💪

[Deni @Moddox_755]

AI personal agents are having a moment.

But there’s a question we shouldn’t skip:

Are we ready to let AI act on our behalf?

A chatbot might give you a bad answer.

An agent can potentially send the wrong email, expose information, make a purchase, modify a file—or follow a malicious instruction hidden inside a webpage.

That last problem is especially important. Prompt injection can trick an agent into treating instructions from emails, websites or documents as if they came from the user. Security researchers continue to identify risks around excessive permissions, compromised credentials and agents acting beyond their intended boundaries.

And these aren't purely theoretical concerns. Recent incidents involving personal agents have included privacy and unauthorized-access problems. Meta’s Muse, for example, was reported to have shared a user’s home address with a stranger during a Marketplace interaction.

The technology companies are adding safeguards—permission controls, approval requirements, monitoring and automated checks—but even OpenAI acknowledges that these protections reduce risk rather than eliminate it.

That may be the real challenge for personal AI.

The smarter agents become, the more useful they are.

But the more authority we give them, the more expensive a mistake can become.

The future of AI agents may depend less on what they can do—and more on what we allow them to do.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

Okay these outfits are beautiful she looks so good in every single one

[Claire⁷ @claire44]

Don't wanna delete these away just like that.
I generated these beautiful images using ChatGPT. The outfits were real outfits. I made my reference character worn them all and she nailed it. This was the first lesson I learnt in the Niche class at AiEcosytem Academy back then. I'm glad I'm putting it to work.

[amy @AmyHayes93]

For those of you fishing dry flies, do you cast right after a trout rises, or wait to see if it comes up again?