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This needs to be shouted from the rooftops, and very loudly in the ears of anyone who equates forum moderation with "censorship": "[E]very social site eventually turns into a hate site if it is popular and not moderated." from a VERY THOROUGH post about how mumsnet turned into a trans hate […]

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#TombOfDragons o gods i think i know how fans get into shipping wars now

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#TombOfDragons again. Still. I really, really want to be listening to the audiobook. Liam Gerrard's character voicings are in my head whenever I take the time to really enjoy a sentence or a phrase. But I have a deep need to inhale the whole story NOW, and the audiobook would take too long […]

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[Tomb of Dragons: Extremely mild spoiler] My preorder of Tomb of Dragons dropped when I wasn't looking! Been reading it all afternoon. Exploring the implications of one's best friend being an opera director is fun. There's the wardrobe thing, and also-- ''“The props and sets crew built him a […]

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Another Monday - another writing prompt. Today's Monday Muse draws its inspiration from life, weird as it can be in its banality. https://www.patreon.com/posts/126686006 (unlocked post)

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Here's the Friday Fictionette what oughtta've gone out last week. Originally scheduled for April 4, 2025, it's "So Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?" in which we find a way to light candles against the dark, even though none of us have matches. Ebook […]

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There's been a lot of talk about the casting of the agender #murderbot with Sexy Action Dude Actor (to summarize and simplify) and, y'know, my headcannon is this: When they contracted the construction of an imposing "heartless killing machine" presence, the Corporate Rim's decisions were […]

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After a dearth of such last week, we have a Monday Muse post. There is the joy of "sumer is icumin in, lhude sirens wail," otherwise known as "the voice of the outdoor warning test is heard in the land". There is an update on Holland's health (all very very good!). There are also writing prompts […]

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In better news, I just ad-hoc'd myself some damn fine lo mein. 1. Cook pasta in broth from defrosting those chicken thighs last night in the #InstantPot. Reserve broth. 2. Stir fry carrots, peppers, onions in medium-hot oil. 3. Add ginger, garlic, scallions. 4. Cut up and add deboned chicken […]

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I was shocked today to refresh a page on Metafilter and get a huge web 1.0 style popup hand-puppet appearing in the lower-right-hand corner. My first thought was, "uBlock origin is suppose to block this shit, what the hell". I used uBlock Origin's element zapper to zap it. The second time it […]

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While doing my morning pages yesterday at a picnic table in Flatiron Park, I heard this insectoid bird trill and looked up to spot the culprit. It was sitting in a tree on the south shore of KOA Lake, and it had a crest that made me think, "Damn, that sure looks like a kingfisher, doesn't it? […]

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And we got a Monday Muse! With a tale of woe that's got a happy ending (another #bunny emergency followed by another bunny recovery, here's hoping this one sticks), a tale of #RollerDerby that's got a link to a photo album, and a tale of two writing prompts for everyone to have fun with! […]

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Oh hey, we have a Friday Fictionette. Originally scheduled for March 7, it's "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Fall in Love," in which a social media algorithm tries to please the user account with which it has fallen in love. ebook: https://www.patreon.com/posts/125089039 audio […]

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"And why should you do all these things? Why should we all use our creative power and write or paint or play music, or whatever it tells us to do? "Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold, and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of […]

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"Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers. Remember, how wonderful you are, what a miracle!" -Brenda […]

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Canned fish on toast has been my go-to quick meal for years now. Mussels, clams, anchovies, sardines, kippers, it's all good. But apparently I got unlucky with a tin of Patagonia's Smoked Mussels in Olive Oil. Started feeling queasy halfway through, couldn't finish it. Had a carrot and a […]

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Feeling seen over here: "...a realization that expecting too much of myself means one is afraid of work, does not enjoy it, has too much sorrow when it is bad, and it also means all this involuted perfectionism from which I often suffered so much, working things over--too fussy-mussy." […]

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#Bunday It is a thing they often do. Coconut seems to like it, and Willow is happy to oblige. #HouseRabbits

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Arguments against "separating the art from the artist" are nothing new: "But now we are apt to say of a man: 'Oh, you must not pay any attention to his _personality_; it is his _ideas_ that are the important thing." But I think ... that the ideas of a meager and dishonest personality are no […]

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i don't have many "kids these days" knee-jerks, but if you want me to imagine you saying "pleeeeeeease?" you know, a single-syllable word with its only vowel elongated? like a pleading child making puppy-dog eyes? you will not get me there by mashing the final oughta-be-silent e […]

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I did not expect I'd be doing a coda on the #instantPot chicken pot pie thing, but... https://wandering.shop/@NicoleJLeBoeuf/114079072546248554 ...tonight was "Chicken WHATEVER pot pie," using WHATEVER vegetables I had on hand: the end of a bag of frozen broccoli, the last of an aging heart […]

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This week's Monday Muse summarizes the happy end of Holland's stasis saga (if you follow this account you've probably heard already: he's all better now, yay!) and gets correspondingly optimistic about this week's writing. Includes a link to a video full of someone else's bunneis binking, and […]

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Another day, another treat shakedown from these two in my office. #Bunnies #HouseRabbits #BunniesOfMastodon

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Please enjoy 25 soothing seconds of a #bunny eating his daily greens, like a healthy bunny should. (Turn up the volume for EXTREME MUNCHING NOISES, which are the BEST noises.) #RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #BunniesOfMastodon

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This is a #bunny who finished off this morning's Oxbow Forage Wise pellets, most of his afternoon veg (dandelion greens were the first to disappear), and just now spent about 10 minutes packing hay away like it was going out of fashion. "All right, Holland […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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This bunny. This absolute unit. His bedtime feeding of Critical Care went remarkably easily. He just... accepted the feeding syringe? Just like that? And followed it when I pulled it away? Like a frickin' light switch. You flip it, and suddenly he LIKES CritCare. Huh. Then, not twenty minutes […]

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The Friday Fictionette project got delayed by BUNNY EMERGENCY. To be perfectly honest, bunny emergency has been going on all week, which has certainly had an effect on my writing. NOT A GOOD ONE. In any case, here is the status report. It contains bunny pictures […]

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Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear is just 1.99 at your favorite ebook dealer throughout the month of March! https://bsky.app/profile/matociquala.bsky.social/post/3ljsf6exklc2n https://books2read.com/u/bPkqYz

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Giving up shopping at Target for Lent: Target Boycott going on RIGHT NOW to protest their ending their DEI programs. https://apnews.com/article/40-day-target-boycott-fast-dei-d1d40f79f5f1b3afb2dfe8561e7729a0 Shop elsewhere in solidarity: "Redirect your spending to Black and ally businesses […]

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

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#rollerDerby roll call: Boulder County Roller Derby is looking for officials for our April 12 "Cryptid Catastrophe" tournament! Location: Boulder County Fairgrounds (Longmont CO) Format: Three JRDA games and two regulation WFTDA. Officials application link (google form) here - Responses by […]

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Hello, Monday Muse in the house! Better late than never. Here we have some praise for Brenda Ueland's warm hug of a book IF YOU WANT TO WRITE, and some musing and maundering about age. Also there are writing prompts. https://www.patreon.com/posts/123750001 (unlocked post)

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A neighborhood lady showed me the Merlin app today. We encountered each other while I was trying to lay eyes on the bird making a warning call comprising several seconds of rapid high-pitched notes that rise slightly and fall away at the end. Thing is, this was not the only bird in the […]

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I just went through a bunch of shenanigans that began with "Whaddaya mean the Libby app needs to have internet connectivity to work, I want to read my library loans offline" and ended with a freshly de-DRM'd epub installed on Calibre on my laptop and the ebooks.com app on my Galaxy A15. It […]

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Today's the day. February 28: ECONOMIC BLACKOUT. Zero purchases, if you can manage it; otherwise, locally owned businesses only. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311972/economic-blackout-february-28-explainer

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