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Lady Gaga: Abracadabra (2025) (x)

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My mom told me a story once. It was about a little mouse that woke up every morning and couldn’t wait to get to his fort in the woods. He’d jump out of bed, he’d throw on some mouse clothes, get halfway out the door, and then he’d remember that he should probably bring some food with him. The mouse could go without lunch, easy, but he’d like to have something to give to the other animals he’d see along the way. So, he’d wrap a crust of bread or two in a napkin and race out into the woods. His fort was just a couple of branches over a patch of grass. But to this mouse, it was everything. He built it, he’d fixed it up. It was his. And when he saw the rays of sun shining on it through the tree, he felt happy. Like there was one small corner where things were right and the world was as kind as it should be. But then one day, something happened. One day, the mouse raced through the woods and up to his fort and something was very wrong. The mouse couldn’t believe his eyes. Someone had trampled his fort to the ground in the night, and he realized that even in his own small corner the world wasn’t as kind as it should be. I don’t think I understood that story back when my mom told it to me. I was so upset about the fort getting trampled I didn’t pay attention to the ending. The end was that all the crumbs of bread the mouse had shared with the animals along the way made them want to help him. So, together, they rebuilt the fort. It was just a couple of branches over a patch of grass but to them, it was everything. And when they saw the rays of sun shining on it through the tree, they felt happy. ‘Cause even if the fort got trampled in the night, they knew they had created something indestructible. They knew they had created one small corner where things were right and where the world was as kind as it should be.

NCIS: Origins (2025), S01E12 Touchstone

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Capitalism kills art

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first drafts are a necessary evil, but that knowledge doesn't make it hurt any less. like, what do you mean it can't be perfect on the first try? what do you mean I wrote all this just to rewrite the whole thing? rude.

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Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.

Use Firefox.

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editing is just playing a game of “spot the disaster” where every sentence is a little arsonist and you’re the firefighter, running around trying to make it look like a controlled burn instead of total chaos.

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pink pony club full performance at grammys 2025

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the first rule of being on the internet is you should have other stuff going on, besides being on the internet

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The man in charge. The hours he keeps. The pride he takes. The orders he gives. The rules he follows. The ones he breaks. The giants he topples. The burdens he bears. I think about him a lot these days. Back then, I thought about him, too. I thought about how he managed to be the way he was and what I’d have to do to be like him. He did all that with one hand while he was carrying some pretty heavy burdens with the other. Every case was a burden that he piled on top of his own. The problems he saw in your eyes, well, he’d take those on, too. And somehow, every morning, he’d stroll in ready to take on more. Ready to push the team ahead. And I looked at all that, and I thought maybe one day I could figure out how to fill those boots.

NCIS: Origins (2025), S01E11 Flight of Icarus

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Special Agent Fox “I do not gaze at Scully” Mulder ⤷ [4/13] ✧ Season Four

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"That wouldn't be fatal!" It would."They couldn't survive that!" They could.

If my time as an EMT and instructor taught me anything it is that the body is both impossibly resilient and impossibly fragile, and almost any traumatic injury you can think of could either be fine or fatal depending on the whims of the universe.

So use that crap as liberally as you want to serve whatever narrative you're writing.

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Finished something new! Which of these do you recognise from your shelves?

Shop

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“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

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Whole-heartedly BEGGING writers to unlearn everything schools taught you about how long a paragraph is. If theres a new subject, INCLUDING ACTIONS, theres a new paragraph. A paragraph can be a single word too btw stop making things unreadable