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in the figure of “just a little guy, just a little birthday boy” is the image of 21st century ethics. everyone is constantly trying to like position themselves as uniquely non-agentic, to defer or deny what power they have or can have over others, to self-absolve by adopting an affect of ignorance or victimhood or perpetual adolescence that can be transmuted into moral righteousness

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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The Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen

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pangolin - its not a phase!

buy a print

painting of s pangolin painting his nails black

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Flooding of two train stations due to "amorous" couple real???

Melbourne Central station had to be evacuated late on Thursday evening, due to extensive flooding.

While it was initially believed the incident was an act of vandalism, the Minister Danny Pearson said a review of CCTV by Metro Trains had proved otherwise.

“It would appear that an amorous couple in a stairwell dislodged a sprinkler,” Pearson told reporters outside Parliament on Wednesday. “And well... there was extensive flooding," he continued, before being forced to stifle a laugh.

The extensive delays affected commuters returning home from Olivia Rodrigo’s concert at Rod Laver Arena.

“At this stage it is unclear if Miss Rodrigo planned to get home via train or limousine,” police said in a report on the incident. "The investigation remains ongoing."

Thanking @silver-hibiscus and @dreamingbright for the tipoff on this.

Strongly advise everyone watch the video of the press conference:

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oh. probably good I didn't bring Wexter here actually

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Gonna tell my kids this was Martin Crieff in Uskerty

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Snoopadoop the cockapoo, noblest of hounds

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Sharpe + Incorrect quotes (Part 3)

@elodieunderglass- there you go ❤️

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is this anything

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i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

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Op, if they are actually celiac watch out for the cocoa, lots of cocoa can contain gluten. Ditto actual chocolate.

Also you'll need to scrub the kitchen down and be careful not to use anything that has had flour on it and can't be totally cleaned (sieve, wooden or plastic or non stick items, dry goods that have been opened while flour was open).

I'm guessing if you have nut allergies, none of this is surprise to you actually. Just figured I'd warn just in case. (Sometimes ppl very kindly make something 'gluten free' for my spouse, and they feel bad about having to turn it down because of this.)

Hi! I’m going to a Friendsgiving this weekend with someone who can’t have gluten, so I’m trying to make brownies that are gluten free but also tasty. Two of us going also have nut allergies, so nut flour isn’t an option as a replacement. I’ve got a few days to try a few things out and see what works, but I was wondering if you had any advice you’d be willing to share? Thank you either way!

Brownies are actually super forgiving as a gluten free dessert, king arthur measure for measure should be fine but even plain rice flour would work. But to make them hold together better, whisk the eggs until light before mixing them with the other ingredients.

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Sometimes I think about how in order to be a writer today you cannot have internet privacy. I was reading an article in which a journalist recalls collaborating with Mary Oliver, who was notoriously private. Oliver refused to communicate with them through fax or email and said (through her publisher) that she would hand them written notes at an event she was doing in New York City. It struck me that Mary Oliver in 2024 would have almost no chance of becoming a successful poet. Writers today have to have a social media presence to have a built in audience so publishers can be assured that they will get sales and to bear the brunt of social media marketing. They have to be available and put themselves on the internet in every way possible.

More and more I read interviews from artists across many mediums talk about how if you cannot market on Tik Tok your chances of success diminish. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be an online influencer and I am surely not saying that the author-influencer is a new phenomenon, but it should not be a pre-requisite for being a successful writer. I love that writers like Mary Oliver, Elena Ferrante, and Donna Tart exist, and it is not talked enough about how they could not begin a career in 2024 and achieve the same amount of success unless they were well connected or extremely lucky. It makes me sad that this is the state of publishing.

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One of my favourite long-running bits of DS9 is that Keiko is the only member of her polycule that is aware they're in a polycule

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S2E19 Blood Oath