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我又在對這條褲子動手術了

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have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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@colorschanging You're gonna love this. (x)

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Love the silly little filler episodes we’re getting atm setting up a case, they’re so fun

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knit this up whilst listening to wolf 359 (which is amazing) and now i'm just waiting for the weather to cool down enough for me to actually wear it

pattern: cumulus tee (petite knit) yarn: knitting for olive cotton merino in blueberry ice cream

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Hey, fellow space nerds, NASA just released its own free, zero-ad streaming service with all kinds of space-themed documentaries - and a few about Earth, too.

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🐞x🐈‍⬛✨ Recently started watching miraculous ladybug, I'm not immune to the shoujo charm!

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I love the word “innit” british people cooked with that one

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Blue Jay by Alanna Hart

hand embroidery

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Hnngh. The Audible "hack" is making the rounds again, with people claiming you can use your Audible credit to listen to a book and then return it "for free." While I am the first among many to say "fuck Amazon and we should gullotine Jeff Bezos," I need you all to know it's not Amazon refunding you.

It's the authors.

They take that out of our royalties. And that's after they take 80% of our royalties on sales we do make.

(Note: Also, do not assume that your credit is worth the price listing that Amazon shows. Amazon does not pay us the cost of the listing. ((WHICH THEY PICK, we cannot set our own prices on audiobooks and then that forces us to use the Amazon price for the rest of the market!!)) What we get is 20% of the credit's value, so my book might appear on Audible for $20-30. However, if you received an Amazon credit for one of those $4.99 deals, I'd get 20% of $4.99. Yes, it's fucked, it's all fucked. Yes, other audio retailers do the exact same thing. This is one of the reasons authors don't make half as much money as people think they do.)

This became such a big issue that they had to make it impossible to return books after a certain point without talking to a customer service representative, because people were using Kindle/Audible and Amazon's return policy "like a library," and some authors (myself included) were getting royalty checks that showed negative income.

At this point, I don't even know if the Audible "hack" still works (Amazon has made changes to protect authors from this kind of thing at a glacial pace), but I need you to know it's not Amazon that's refunding you. This isn't a fun little "fuck Amazon" thing. The way Amazon has it set up, it's directly fucking the authors over.

So, yeah. Obviously, if you download something and can't get into it, or if something pops up on the author's side that makes you not want to support them anymore, yeah, process that return. Yeet the bitch. But please don't use it "like a library."

It's really harrowing to see your predicted income based on sales and then find out you're getting one-tenth of that because of refunds. And it's not even because people didn't like your book. They're just using the wrong place like a library and fucking over your algorithm as well, because once you get too many returns, you stop getting promoted.

Try using a library. You can access places like @queerliblib for FREE provided you have a US library account that you've hooked up to Libby. It's a little bit of work, but once you've got a card number, you're golden.

Just, y'know, throwing it out there because I don't think people realize this is how it works. You're not taking something back to Walmart, and Walmart is eating the refund before dumping the item in the garbage. Amazon takes the refund, turns to the author, and takes it off our plates.

Note: this does not affect Kindle Unlimited. Flip through the end pages to give the author maximum pages read, and then return that bad boy so the author can get paid. But also, please, maybe think about switching to a Kobo+ account instead. It offers the same subscription-based membership without demanding exclusivity, so authors aren't locked into just Amazon the way they are with KU. (Royalty rates are roughly the same, but it's a better deal in terms of allowing broader market access.)

This has been a rambling and exhausted PSA from your local peddler of weres.

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this guy in the library is raging bc chatgpt is blocked on their wifi lmfaooo common public library W

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lil spinning and knitting update bc i'll finally be able to wash my tdf skeins so i can provide finished photos soon!

tdf- i really only ever get 2 weeks of tdf, as my maternal family decided it would be efficient to have every birthday in late july, but this year i wrestled my wheel to manchester and managed to get a few more skeins done! i fully spun a lustre fleece from fernhill fibres (incredible fleece, would recommend), and got a 100g skein of alpaca-silk done for my mum, who wants some gloves for xmas!

knitting-

finished my nordés top! i used the silk i spun earlier in the year (i think it ended up using abt 325g, something like that), and i'm super proud of the result, even though i haven't blocked it yet! by my count it took a full 24hr of le mans, plus an extra listen through of 'witches abroad'

better pictures of yarn and shirt incoming once i have a blocking day tmmrw!

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Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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