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'Fashionable Cats Juggling Balls' by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1841) is a single panel of a diptych print from a series titled 'Popular Plays Acted by Cats' which portrayed actors of the time as cats in order to circumvent the ban on depictions of actors. #Caturday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

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funny how yall were like "a humanities degree?? so employable 🤭" and now you're explaining to me how a machine that can compose vaguely correct-sounding sentences is critical to our economic future

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surprise! I wrote another book

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Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name. Pope Easter Chocolate V

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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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Four Years and Today is a short read, my first go at the Fake Dating trope. It's about geeky best friends who pretend to date each other out of convenience and it just goes on wayyyy too long bc feelings Non-binary / Male romantic comedy books2read.com/FourYears

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Peppers stuff is amazing! please get cool stuff

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If you're in Aotearoa New Zealand and are not participating in flutracking, please sign up! it takes very little time on a Monday morning and is important data gathering www.flutracking.net/Join/NZ/inv2...

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God please we ask for so little

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HOLY MESSED UP DEER, Batman! We are 11% funded already!!!! 👀👀👀

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Today's goals: writing as much as I can and cut out Cursed Cat Alastor plushies I gotta good life

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Overdues and Occultism is the cozy MM urban fantasy you've been looking for, perfect to read with a cup of tea 🍵👌 books2read.com/OverduesandO...

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I took too many notes during @penamerica.bsky.social’s “the role of novelists during times of crisis” panel last night. But my favorite might be from Burhan Sönmez: “Literature never uses the front door. It opens a window to enter the house of truth.”

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Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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I got a trophy!

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Friends: Why do you write such strange stories? Me:

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Do you want to get inside information, advance copies of my books and more in exchange for hyping my books online? I'm starting a street team and I'd love to have you apply for it <3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Good on Greyhound! #goodtrouble

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Post Ages of Pages I've updated my payhip store If you're in New Zealand you can buy paperbacks, notebooks, ebooks, toys, book boxes if you're outside NZ you can buy ebooks directly off me! I'm willing post overseas but you will pay shipping of around NZ$45 so... payhip.com/GreyKelpieSt...

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Ages of Pages book fair today Claudelands Event centre, Hamilton 9.30 - 4pm 26 April

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Here's a little reminder to consider getting a measles booster if you were born before 1990. Two doses weren't recommended before 1990, so you might want to check your records, or get a titer test, or get an MMR booster. In many states, pharmacists can administer vaccines on their own authority.

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New Zealanders! The "definition of a woman" repeal bill is only in the biscuit tin but I want the right thing to happen if it ever comes to a reading. Today I wrote to my local MP and the minister of women's affairs urging them to fight the bill.

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someone rescue the babies omg please

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Jurassic Pope: Dominion

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Do you like vampire books? What about gay vampire books with lots of spice? Dark Attraction is long form/novel length series (2 books in), Blood for Hire is a short form series (5 parts, all out now,), Both series available on multiple book platforms ✨️

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So did any news outlet include the fact that NZ First overwhelmingly voted against abortion law reform while breathlessly promoting their "protecting women's biology" garbage? You are allowed to remember things that happened five years ago, you know

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Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

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there was a giant horrible cockroach on the bathroom bin, and I was very brave and lifted the bin to bang it out the open window to dislodge the roach. However it clung to the metal even with the banging so, long story short the whole bin went out the window with the roach

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nods in Asian

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