#2023 story recap

[restlessmaknae]

2023 story recap

Just the traditional yearly statistics regarding the stories I’ve published this year. 💖

In 2023:

✨ I’ve published around 130600 words worth of stories

✨ I’ve written for 13 different bands (including 2 soloists)

✨ 10 out of these artists were ones I’ve already written for in previous years: CIX; ONEUS; NCT; THE BOYZ; ATEEZ; ENHYPEN; Woodz; TXT; P1Harmony, WEi

✨ 3 out of these artists were ones I haven’t written for before: Cravity; EPEX; Kang Daniel

✨ I’ve published 28 stories in total

✨ I’ve received 1450 notes on these stories in total

✨ The most published stories were written for CIX (5); P1Harmony (4); WEi (3)

✨ The most published stories for an individual member (2 stories per member) were written for Seunghun (CIX), Keeho (P1Harmony), Jinyoung (CIX), Theo (P1Harmony), Serim (Cravity), the rest were 1 story per member

✨ The longest stories I’ve published were: enchanted (19.7k) ft. NCT's Mark; you're my fireflower (14.7k) ft. CIX's Seunghun; never forever (11.8k) ft. CIX's Jinyoung

✨ The most popular stories were love roulette (279 notes) ft. P1Harmony's Jiung, Keeho, Theo; love & hate (238 notes) ft. THE BOYZ's Sunwoo; enchanted (144 notes) ft. NCT's Mark

Thank you all so much for all the love and support that you’ve been giving these stories in the past year! I’m always grateful for all your kind words, reblogs and screamings in the tags. They mean the world to me. 💖

Honestly, the notes on my stories are down by around 500 this year despite writing almost as much as last year, but I'm not sad. I wrote for smaller fandoms a lot in this past year because lesser known groups and smaller Tumblr reader fandoms deserve as many stories as others. I'm glad to have catered to such fandoms, and I will continue to do so because I've never been one who wrote for solely one artist or for popularity. I'm a multifandom writer, so you can expect a lot of different kinds of stories for a lot of different kinds of artists next year as well. 🥰

A few plans I have for 2024 in terms of writing (from the zillion ones I already have sitting in my ideas docs):

finishing my requests for my request event (3 out of 9 are left)

spin-off for 'enchanted' with prince!Hendery

I have two story ideas for Serim, and I really want to write at least one of them

continue with the magical kingdom series for CIX (spin-offs to 'you're my fireflower' and 'never forever')

the spin-offs for 'how to cross the line' for Sunghoon and for Jay

Here’s to many more stories and ideas in 2024! Stay safe, everyone!  💖

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Rose Recaps 2023 - Korea

I started with Japan because this year it gave me everything I could possibly want. Korea gave me some very nice surprises. Let's go.

The one that had me question if watching it was good for my mental health.

The Eighth Sense

Much like what I said about Tokyo in April is... it was not a good decision on my part to watch this one live. I related way too much to Jae Won and I wasn't in a specially good place at the time. However, I love it so much. I have rewatched it since then and it's such an incredible journey.

I think they used the time very efficiently and they didn't try to skip too many steps to make it a happy ending. I would be okay without any redemption for those two but on the plus side the other friends were brilliant.

Favourite Moment

The one that came out of nowhere

Sing My Crush

This show came out all at once and I had no idea it was coming. But I'm so glad it did. There were I think 4 kbls that came out all at once this year. And with the exception of this one, they were all worse because of it. First of all I fell in love with the song instantly and Han Tae immediately after. He's so cute and in love and it takes him way too long to realise it, but his devotion to Ba Ram is unquestionable from the beginning.

Favourite Moment:

The one that was a sequel but not really

Love Class 2

The first couple of episodes I wasn't sure about this one. The first couple of episodes were kinda of confusing, starting with such a dark scene on the roof, and so many different types of relationships to keep track of.

Joo Hyuk was my instant favourite from the beginning. The way he was instantly smitten and committed from the first moment he saw the TA was delightful.

It took me longer to warm up to Min Woo and Maru. But I love their arc. Even the jealousy experiment didn't bother me, Maru needed a push. Much like Lee Hyun said, it was so obvious.

Lee Hyun and Kim An were the last ones to reach me. I think the whole backstory around Kim An muddied the waters a bit and I'm not sure it was necessary to have so much of it, but I did love that when Kim An gave in, he did so with no reservations.

Favourite Moments:

The one that had me considering moving to a farm

Love Tractor

Ok. Not really, But look how pretty. Funny story, I actually rewatched part of this show in an orchard not that much different from the one here. I was on holiday in the countryside and just thought it would be incredibly amusing.

Anyway. I love Ye Chan an unreasonable amount. He's so dramatic and so earnest. And honestly if I ever had to move to a place like this I think I would pretty much have the same reaction as Seon Yul. I just want my peace and quiet.

But I really like their dynamic all throughout and considering the time restraints I thought that the development of Yul's feelings was done quite well.

Favourite Moment:

The other one with Love in the title

Love Mate

There was absolutely no reason for me to like this show has much as I did. Ha Ram should've bothered me. This whole concept should've annoyed me. The whole separation bit should've made me angry. Why didn't it? I have no clue. But I loved it. I've watched it more than once and love it every time.

Favourite Moment

The one with coffee and pottery

Unintentional Love Story

I adore this show. Pick an episode, any episode, I love it. Was it perfect? No. Was the kissing the thing that made it not perfect? Perhaps. I love it nonetheless.

[Confession time. Is there one thing about this show that bothers me no matter how many times I rewatch it? Yes. Is it the kissing? No. Is it something absolutely and stupidly tiny that only I could possibly be that bothered by it? Yes. What is it? " Let me at least do this." It's such a great moment. But why did whoever was in charge of the editing felt the need to show us the scene that we saw 17 minutes before? (it's really 17 minutes and 40 seconds, I checked because I'm nowhere near sane). Did they thing we forgot about it in that time? It lessens the moment and it insults the audience. I hate it an unreasonable amount. ]

There are so many moments in this show that I love. The four mains are amazing, the confession scene by HoTae in the coffee shop floored me, the writing in the sand moment was delightful and the soundtrack is my favourite of the year.

Favourite Moment:

The one that was perfect

Our Dating Sim

What's there to say. There's nothing wrong here. They are delightful, I had a great time with the video game format at the end of the episodes, their chemistry was amazing, and Ki Tae is my favourite boy. Also, my second favourite soundtrack this year.

Favourite Moment

See you next time with Thailand I think.

Thanks for reading💜

[natigail]

Fics I posted/updated in 2023 - natigail

Broke, Gay and New in Town (Phan, 298k+ (wip), Stardew Valley AU, farmer!Dan, BnB owner!Phil, magical realism, finding yourself)

Rest in the Belly of the Wolf (Stray Kids, 206k+ (wip), Minho/3RACHA, magical AU, witch!Minho, werewolves!3RACHA, polyamorous pack, aspec characters)

돈’t Lie (at least not to me) (Seventeen, 158k, Jeonghan/Joshua, Mafia AU, mafia!JH, doctor!JS, childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers)

oh, you kissed me just to kiss me (Stray Kids, 91k, Minho/Jisung, sex worker!MH, asexual!JS, touch starved, 5+1, falling in love)

What if I Told You I'm a Mastermind? (Stray Kids, 42.5k, OT8, prologue to skz wolfpack AU, getting together, character assemble)

Perfect Trio Bound by Blood (Stray Kids, 33.5k, 3RACHA, prologue to skz wolfpack AU, getting together, shifted werewolves)

돈’t Blink (at least not here) (Seventeen, 10.2k, Seungcheol/Jeonghan, svt mafia AU prologue, one-sided attraction)

돈’t Resist (at least not me) (Seventeen, 9.9k (wip), Seungkwan/Vernon, side piece to svt mafia AU, getting together, enemies to lovers)

to become an immortal dragon is to lose oneself (why did you do it?) (Tears of the Kingdom, 8.9k, Zelda/Link, canon compliant, angst and grief, dragon!Zelda)

the donuts are warm for you (BTS, 7.2k (wip), Namjoon/Seokjin, strangers to lovers, mental health issues, healing)

We balance each other out on the seesaw of life (Phan, 5.1k, reality, slice of life, introspection)

this thing won't have you, it won't win (Baldur's Gate 3, 4.8k, Astarion/Dark Urge, canon setting, resisting the urge)

contains information in a tuneful way (stop, you’re losing me) (Good Omens, 4.5k, Aziraphale/Crowley, canon compliant, S2E6, heartbreak)

Future's gonna be okay (BTS, 3.9k, OT7, chosen family, Agust D tour, getting tattoo)

You can feed on me tonight, if you’d like? (Baldur's Gate 3, 3.9k, Astarion/Tav, canon setting, blood drinking)

you can’t talk me through the fall if we don’t know if i can land (The Untamed, 3.7k, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, canon setting, heavy angst, temporary character death)

In another life you still would’ve turned my head (Phan, 2.7k, reality, lgbtq+ themes, domestic fluff)

Say that I'm a monster (Nimona, 2.2k, Ballister & Nimona, canon compliant, angst)

SUBSCRIBE FOR COMFORT CONTENT (Phan, 1.9k, reality, domestic fluff, introspection)

so tell me i’m a rainbow (it makes me feel alright) (Phan, 1.4k, reality, pride parades, domestic fluff)

it ends with a garden (and a cottage in the south downs) (Good Omens, 1.3k, Aziraphale/Crowley, post-canon, apology dance)

[mazzy-rockstar]

Monday blues are hitting me hard today

[talefoundryshow]

NEW VIDEO!

To commemorate what may have been our best year yet, the Tale Foundry Team put some of our absolute favorite videos of 2023 into one compilation for you to enjoy. What are YOUR favorites?

[dark-nymphs-fanfiction]

[navree]

anyway this is why, despite the fact that i firmly believe that dc has the better characters and the better stories and, for me at least, is the one that engages me more and that i'm the most emotionally invested in, marvel's the one that i'm currently even attempting to follow current continuity on, because i know they're doing fuckery with spiderman but doctor strange is my main marvel guy okay, and they brought clea back when she's my fave character of their's, and jed mackay is a good writer who both likes and understands these characters, so i'm really only interested in modern doctor strange and refusing to even look too closely at dc's current train wreck beyond what my mutuals are telling me is happening

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Year - 2023 Edition

Welcome to our special edition newsletter recapping the best news from the past year. I've picked one highlight from each month to give you a snapshot of 2023. No frills, just straightforward news that mattered. Let's relive the good stuff that made our year shine.

January - London: Girl with incurable cancer recovers after pioneering treatment

A girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body after what scientists have described as the most sophisticated cell engineering to date.

2. February - Utah legislature unanimously passes ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy

The Utah State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill that enshrines into law a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy.

3. March - First vaccine for honeybees could save billions

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the world’s first-ever vaccine intended to address the global decline of honeybees. It will help protect honeybees from American foulbrood, a contagious bacterial disease which can destroy entire colonies.

4. April - Fungi discovered that can eat plastic in just 140 days

Australian scientists have successfully used backyard mould to break down one of the world's most stubborn plastics — a discovery they hope could ease the burden of the global recycling crisis within years. 

5. May - Ocean Cleanup removes 200,000th kilogram of plastic from the Pacific Ocean

The Dutch offshore restoration project, Ocean Cleanup, says it has reached a milestone. The organization's plastic catching efforts have now fished more than 200,000 kilograms of plastic out of the Pacific Ocean, Ocean Cleanup said on Twitter.

6. June - U.S. judge blocks Florida ban on care for trans minors in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.

7. July - World’s largest Phosphate deposit discovered in Norway

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 50 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

8. August - Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

If the claim by Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim of South Korea’s Quantum Energy Research Centre holds up, the material could usher in all sorts of technological marvels, such as levitating vehicles and perfectly efficient electrical grids.

9. September - World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.

10. October - Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.

11. November - No cases of cancer caused by HPV in Norwegian 25-year olds, the first cohort to be mass vaccinated for HPV.

Last year there were zero cases of cervical cancer in the group that was vaccinated in 2009 against the HPV virus, which can cause the cancer in women.

12. December - President Biden announces he’s pardoning all convictions of federal marijuana possession

President Joe Biden announced Friday he's issuing a federal pardon to every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted.

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And there you have it – a year's worth of uplifting news! I hope these positive stories brought a bit of joy to your inbox. As I wrap up this special edition, I want to thank all my supporters!

Buy me a coffee ❤️

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[storylineid]

Movie recap "The Kill Team" is a gripping war drama that follows Andrew Briggman, a young American soldier deployed to Afghanistan. He witnesses his fellow soldiers engaging in disturbing and unethical behavior, including unjustified killings of innocent Afghan civilians. Haunted by what he has seen, Andrew grapples with his conscience and seeks guidance from his father and a journalist who uncovers the truth. As tensions rise and the truth threatens to be exposed, Andrew must confront the consequences of his choices and decide where his loyalty lies. "The Kill Team" is a thought-provoking exploration of the moral complexities of war and the boundaries of human morality.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower

Yesterday, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia handed down a jaw-droppingly stupid and terrible decision, rejecting the whistleblower Ian Linkletter’s claim that he was engaged in legitimate criticism when he linked to freely available materials from the ed-tech surveillance company Proctorio:

https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/23/01/2023BCCA0160.htm

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter

It’s been a minute since Linkletter’s case arose, so I’ll give you a little recap here. Proctorio is a massive, wildly profitable ed-tech company that sells a surveillance tool to monitor students while they take high-stakes tests from home. The tool monitors the student’s computer and the student’s face, especially their eye-movements. It also allows instructors and other personnel to watch the students and even take control of their computer. This is called “remote invigilation.”

This is ghastly in just about every way. For starters, Proctorio’s facial monitoring software embeds the usual racist problems with machine-learning stuff, and struggles to recognize Black and brown faces. Black children sitting exams under Proctorio’s gimlet eye have reported that the only way to satisfy Proctorio’s digital phrenology system is to work with multiple high-powered lights shining directly in their faces.

A Proctorio session typically begins with a student being forced to pan a webcam around their test-taking room. During lockdown, this meant that students who shared a room — for example, with a parent who worked night-shifts — would have to invade their family’s privacy, and might be disqualified because they couldn’t afford a place large enough to have private room in which to take their tests.

Proctorio’s tools also punish students for engaging in normal test-taking activity. Do you stare off into space when you’re trying through a problem? Bzzzt. Do you read questions aloud to yourself under your breath when you’re trying to understand their meanings? Bzzzt. Do you have IBS and need to go to the toilet? Bzzzt. The canon of remote invigilation horror stories is filled with accounts of students being forced to defecate themselves, or vomit down their shirts without turning their heads (because looking away is an automatically flagged offense).

The tragedy is that all of this is in service to the pedagogically bankrupt practice of high-stakes testing. Few pedagogists believe that the kind of exam that Proctorio seeks to recreate in students’ homes has real assessment merit. As the old saying goes, “Tests measure your ability to take tests.” But Proctorio doesn’t even measure your ability to take a test — it measures your ability to take a test with three bright lights shining directly on your face. Or while you are covered in your own feces and vomit. While you stare rigidly at a screen. While your tired mother who just worked 16 hours in a covid ward stands outside the door to your apartment.

The lockdown could have been an opportunity to improve educational assessment. There is a rich panoply of techniques that educators can adopt that deliver a far better picture of students’ learning, and work well for remote as well as in-person education. Instead, companies like Proctorio made vast fortunes, most of it from publicly funded institutions, by encouraging a worse-than-useless, discriminatory practice:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/24/proctor-ology/#miseducation

Proctorio clearly knows that its racket is brittle. Like any disaster profiteer, Proctorio will struggle to survive after the crisis passes and we awaken from our collective nightmare and ask ourselves why we were stampeded into using its terrible products. The company went to war against its critics.

In 2020, Proctorio CEO Mike Olsen doxed a child who complained about his company’s software in a Reddit forum:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar

In 2021, the reviews for Proctorio’s Chrome plugin all mysteriously vanished. Needless to say, these reviews — from students forced to use Proctorio’s spyware — were brutal:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency

Proctorio claims that it protects “educational integrity,” but its actions suggest a company far more concerned about the integrity of its own profits:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/#cheating-anticheat

One of the critics that Proctorio attacked is Ian Linkletter. In 2020, Linkletter was a Learning Technology Specialist at UBC’s Faculty of Education. His job was to assess and support ed-tech tools, including Proctorio. In the course of that work, Linkletter reviewed Proctorio’s training material for educators, which are a bonanza of mask-off materials that are palpably contemptuous of students, who are presumed to be cheaters.

At the time, a debate over remote invigilation tools was raging through Canadian education circles, with students, teachers and parents fiercely arguing the merits and downsides of making surveillance the linchpin of assessment. Linkletter waded into this debate, tweeting a series of sharp criticisms of Proctorio. In these tweets, Linkletter linked to Proctorio’s unlisted, but publicly available, Youtube videos.

A note of explanation: Youtube videos can be flagged as “unlisted,” which means they don’t show up in searches. They can also be flagged as “private,” which means you have to be on a list of authorized users to see them. Proctorio made its training videos unlisted, but they weren’t private — they were visible to anyone who had a link to them.

Proctorio sued Linkletter for this. They argued that he had breached a duty of confidentiality, and that linking to these videos was a copyright violation:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/proctorio-v-linkletter/#proctorio

This is a classic SLAPP — a “strategic litigation against public participation.” That’s when a deep-pocketed, thin-skinned bully, like Proctorio, uses the threat of a long court battle to force their critics into silence. They know they can’t win their case, but that’s not the victory they’re seeking. They don’t want to win the case, they want to win the argument, by silencing a critic who would otherwise be bankrupted by legal fees.

Getting SLAPPed is no fun. I’ve been there. Just this year, a billionaire financier tried to force me into silence by threatening me with a lawsuit. Thankfully, Ken “Popehat” White was on the case, and he reminded this billionaire’s counsel that California has a strong anti-SLAPP law, and if Ken had to defend me in court, he could get a fortune in fees from the bully after he prevailed:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1531684572479377409

British Columbia also has an anti-SLAPP law, but unlike California’s anti-SLAPP, the law is relatively new and untested. Still, Proctorio’s suit against Linkletter was such an obvious SLAPP that for many of us, it seemed likely that Linkletter would be able to defend himself from this American bully and its attempt to use Canada’s courts to silence a Canadian educator.

For Linkletter to use BC’s anti-SLAPP law, he would have to prove that he was weighing in on a matter of public interest, and that Proctorio’s copyright and confidentiality claims were nonsense, unlikely to prevail on their merits. If he could do that, he’d be able to get the case thrown out, without having to go through a lengthy, brutally expensive trial.

Incredibly, though, the lower court found against Linkletter. Naturally, Linkletter appealed. His “factotum” is a crystal clear document that sets out the serious errors of law and fact the lower court made:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aB1ztWDFr3MU6BsAMt6rWXOiXJ8sT3MY/view

But yesterday, the Court of Appeal upheld the lower court, repeating all of these gross errors and finding for Proctorio:

https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/23/01/2023BCCA0160.htm

This judgment is grotesque. It makes a mockery of BC’s anti-SLAPP statute, to say nothing of Canadian copyright and confidentiality law. For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a “performance” of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright.

This is a perverse, even surreal take on copyright. The court rejects Linkletter’s argument that even Youtube’s terms of service warned Proctorio that publishing world-viewable material on its site constituted permission for people to link to and watch that material.

But what about “fair dealing” (similar to fair use)? Linkletter argued that linking to a video that shows that Proctorio’s assurances to parents and students about its products’ benign nature were contradicted by the way it talked to educators was fair dealing. Fair dealing is a broad suite of limitations and exceptions to copyright for the purposes of commentary, criticism, study, satire, etc.

So even if linking is a copyright infringement (ugh, seriously?!), surely it’s fair dealing in this case. Proctorio was selling millions of dollars in software to public institutions, inflicting it on kids whose parents weren’t getting the whole story. Linkletter used Proctorio’s own words to rebut its assurances. What could be more fair dealing than that?

Not so fast, the appeals panel says: they say that Linkletter could have made his case just as well without linking to Proctorio’s materials. This is…bad. I mean, it’s also wrong, but it’s very bad, too. It’s wrong because an argument about what a company intends necessarily has to draw upon the company’s own statements. It’s absurd to say that Linkletter’s point would have been made equally well if he said “I disbelieve Proctorio’s public assurances because I’ve seen seekrit documents” as it was when he was able to link to those documents so that people could see them for themselves.

But it’s bad because it rips the heart out of the fair dealing exception for criticism. Publishing a link to a copyrighted work is the most minimal way to quote from it in a debate — Linkletter literally didn’t reproduce a single word, not a single letter, from Proctorio’s copyrighted works. If the court says, “Sure, you can quote from a work to criticize it, but only so much as you need to make your argument,” and then says, “But also, simply referencing a work without quoting it at all is taking too much,” then what reasonable person would ever try to rely on a fair dealing exemption for criticism?

Then there’s the confidentiality claim: in his submissions to the lower court and the appeals court, Linkletter pointed out that the “confidential” materials he’d linked to were available in many places online, and could be easily located with a Google search. Proctorio had uploaded these “confidential” materials to many sites — without flagging them as “unlisted” or “private.”

What’s more, the videos that Linkletter linked to were in found a “Help Center” that didn’t even have a terms-of-service condition that required confidentiality. How on Earth can materials that are publicly available all over the web be “confidential?”

Here, the court takes yet another bizarre turn in logic. They find that because a member of the public would have to “gather” the videos from “many sources,” that the collection of links was confidential, even if none of the links in the collection were confidential. Again, this is both wrong and bad.

Every investigator, every journalist, every critic, starts by looking in different places for information that can be combined to paint a coherent picture of what’s going on. This is the heart of “open source intelligence,” combing different sources for data points that shed light on one another.

The idea that “gathering” public information can breach confidentiality strikes directly at all investigative activity. Every day, every newspaper and news broadcast in Canada engages in this conduct. The appeals court has put them all in jeopardy with this terrible finding.

Finally, there’s the question of Proctorio’s security. Proctorio argued that by publishing links to its educator materials, Linkletter weakened the security of its products. That is, they claim that if students know how the invigilation tool works, it stops working. This is the very definition of “security through obscurity,” and it’s a practice that every serious infosec professional rejects. If Proctorio is telling the truth when it says that describing how its products work makes them stop working, then they make bad products that no one should pay money for.

The court absolutely flubs this one, too, accepting the claim of security through obscurity at face value. That’s a finding that flies in the face of all security research.

So what happens now? Well, Linkletter has lost his SLAPP claim, so nominally the case can proceed. Linkletter could appeal his case to Canada’s Supreme Court (about 7% of Supreme Court appeals of BC appeals court judgments get heard). Or Proctorio could drop the case. Or it could go to a full trial, where these outlandish ideas about copyright, confidentiality and information security would get a thorough — and blisteringly expensive — examination.

In Linkletter’s statement, he remains defiant and unwilling to give in to bullying, but says he’ll have to “carefully consider” his next step. That’s fair enough: there’s a lot on the line here:

https://linkletter.opened.ca/stand-against-proctorios-slapp-update-30/

Linkletter answers his supporters’ questions about how they can help with some excellent advice: “What I ask is for you to do what you can to protect students. Academic surveillance technology companies would like nothing more but for us all to shut up. Don’t let them silence you. Don’t let anyone or anything take away your human right to freedom of expression.”

Today (Apr 21), I’m speaking in Chicago at the Stigler Center’s Antitrust and Competition Conference. This weekend (Apr 22/23), I’m at the LA Times Festival of Books.

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[teethlordd]

Can’t believe the context of that bit is bro trying to convince two guys in a Fantasy Hooters to tag team his husband with him. What a show.

(link to the post with the bit in question btw https://www.tumblr.com/choppedl1ver/754665610496081920/absolute-insanity-at-the-toomanygames )

Edit: here's a link to the game :)

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

2023 Through Rose-Tinted Glasses

Moments That Live In My Heart Rent Free Unintentional Love Story

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[elderwisp]

2024 has been such a year of growth for me creatively. I learned a bunch of things I've had interest in but never really learned due to time. Being able to say all except three photos are fully posed by me is something I never thought would be possible! Breathing life into these lil dudes has been incredible. Sharing their stories on the other hand, has been something I wouldn't have imagined. With all of that being said, it's so strange I feel like I'm hitting a glass roof so I'm curious as to where it'll push me in regards to creating. I'm sure it'll be something cool. I wanted to also say I'm super grateful as to how nice and welcoming everyone has been. This is the first year where I've interacted with a bunch of people! Huge thanks to everyone who has followed along and has taken the time to interact through silly memes, thoughtful comments and asks ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚ 2023 Recap

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Mallorca

Liked by kellypiquet, landonorris and 1,743,294 others ynhorner: Suns out buns out ☀️

yourfriend: Are you trying to kill me with the last pic? ↳ ynhorner: Is it working? ↳ yourfriend: Writing my will now

dailyyn: No words 🔥🔥🔥

Liked by maxverstappen1, ynhorner and 1,379,294 others landonorris: Nothing better than a summer spent in the sun ☀️

danielricciardo: If you need some tips mate give me a call 🤙

redbullracing: Something looks familiar

softboynorris: He looks so happy 🥺

Liked by f1driversdaily, landonorizz and 3,420 others f1gossipgirl: Lando Norris featured a Red Bull branded Jet Ski and boat on his recent post. Sources close to the Red Bull team have revealed that Christian Horner has been talking with the McLaren driver. Coincidence?

maxthelion: A Max/Lando lineup would actually be iconic

softboynorris: Not the red circles, girly we have eyes 😭

Liked by kellypiquet, landonorris and 2,942,407 others ynhorner: Summer recap ☀️

yourfriend: Is the last slide what I think it looks like? ↳ ynhorner: Looks like I'm in love or something idk

dailyyn: Girl who we soft launching 👀

ynsource: Everyone's obsessing over the last slide but I'm here like NEW MUSIC???

Liked by maxverstappen1, danielricciardo and 2,375,105 others landonorris: Eating well 🤗

alex_albon: LANDO NO ↳ landonorris: LANDO YES

maxfewtrell: She's gonna leave you mate Liked by ynhorner

christianhorner: I don't like what this is implying, Lando. This comment has been deleted

Tagged: christianhorner, landonorris, ynhorner therealgerihalliewell: Finally posting the photos from our little Mallorca getaway!

yndaily: This was not on my 2023 bingo card

ynsource: I did not expect Ginger Spice to hard launch y/n and Lando's relationship yet here we are ↳ landonorizz: I didn't expect a Y/n Lando relationship at all tbh ↳ ynsource: Think it's time you change your user girly

ynhorner: Geri... 🫢 ↳ therealgerihalliwell: I am so sorry sweetie

Tagged: landonorris Like by therealgerihalliwell, kellypiquet and 3,380,284 others ynhorner: No point hiding it now. Rumour Has It is out tomorrow xx

landonorris: My baby makes the best bangers 🔥 Pinned comment

danielricciardo: Boss man hasn't killed him yet? ↳ ynhorner: After his last caption he's close. ↳ landonorris: ynhorner I was just telling the truth baby ↳ ynhorner: landonorris👌this close

maxverstappen1: Kelly and I were taking bets on who'd break first. ↳ landonorris: Who won? ↳ maxverstappen1: landonorris neither of us had Geri so we drew. ↳ kellypiquet: landonorris I thought Y/n would post a close friends story on main. ↳ maxverstappen1: landonorris I thought you'd slap her ass in the paddock and Ted would catch it on camera. ↳ ynhorner: maxverstappen1 that almost happened last race. ↳ landonorris: ynhorner not my fault your ass looks good in those jeans.

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[strawberryicedcookies]

HOW I MANIFESTED MY SP 🧘🏿‍♀️🎀.

soo i started my manifestation journey back in 2019, but it was only until 2022 that i REALLY started to understand it. that whole year i basically just worked on my mental health and self concept and i felt pretty complete and comfortable, even if i was single. Fast forward to august of 2023, the school year had just began and i wasnt really looking for anyone until i met this boyyy he was so cute guys. he matched my energy and i grew a small small crush on himm 😭😭. i started working super hard on my self concept, i took care of myself, i made sure that I KNEW that i did not need him to make me happy. every night i would listen to a subliminal and do SATS as i fell asleep THATS ALL! I did not obsess over him because quite frankly, i knew my worth. i did not focus on the 3-d (because i didnt care) i knew he was mine, i enjoyed my time with him and all the moments we shared. (i was so delusional i just pretended we were dating and i was satisfied). We kept talking and my self concept just got better and better. I listened to a few subliminals and i did SATS, thats literally ALL I DID. Literally a month or two later he asked me out and we started dating.

unfortunately we are no longer together because my self concept got so bad because after i got with him i stopped working in myself like completely. i guess i became to much and he left me (umm fuck it we ball i guess) i didnt even bother trying to manifest him back bro that shit was so fucking crazyy 😭😭. worst moment of all 2023. GUYS WHILE UR DATING YOUR SP WORK ON YOURSELFFF.

SO A LIL RECAP!!

- SELF CONCEPT IS THE STAR OF THE SHOW!! if you feel like you need him, hate yourself, feel empty, or dont know your worth, baby your just not ready for this and you need to take a step back and work on your mental health. It is not just important for manifesting, your mindset is LITERALLY your whole life dude. Work on your self baby, nobody else is going to do it for you, unfortunately not even your sp.

- SUBLIMINALSS!! bro i started manifesting because of them, i love subs so much they help me manifest and help me stay awake while i do SATS, they are so so helpful i 100% recommend. (my favorite sub maker had to be ‘i want it, i got it’ her subs are GOLD.)

-SATS (State Akin To Sleep) bro sats changed my flipping life dude. Ive never manifested so many things in such a short amount of time until i started using SATS. Please watch youtube manifestation coaches explain SATS because theres no way i can fit it into this post. Thats a post for laterr.

-Consistency/ Ignoring the 3-D. I stayed consistent in dont think there was a night where i forgot to manifest bro, i was in a constant state of manifestation. when i tell you I WAS LIVING IN THE WISH FULL FILLED i literally wass!! I did not give one flying shit about what the 3-D showed me, he was my boyfriend n thats solved 🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️.

ANYWAYS GUYS THATS ITTT I WISH YOU GUYS THE MOST JUICY SUCCESS STORIES EVER 😋🎀. Dont make the same mistake i did and keep working on your self concept babes!!

I love you guys! Stay safe and stay soft 💟.

[coolnonsenseworld]

AS PROMISED - we start with the Wintery comic! Winter Wondering II - Part 1/8

AND IF YOU GOT LOST:

Winter Wonderland comic recap: in 2017 I published a first little winter comic (where they buldoze each other into the snow), then, in 2019, I made a continuation of it, where Lance is slightly hypothermic in a cafe as a consequence, and finally in 2020/2021 - I've connected these two with another one, where they go on a wintery trek to watch a sunset - and made a PDF out of it, called Winter Wonderland which you can find on PayHip right here. **2017&2019 are still available on my social media and I want to publish the 2020-2021 part after this, because it will explain why Winter Wondering even came to life**

Last year, in 2022, I've added sort of a prequel to the "wintery trek" part of the Winter Wonderland - where Keith is sick - this one is published in full color on all my social media as well as available as PDF here, as "Winter Wondering".

This year, in 2023 - I'm posting a second part to the Winter Wondering, continuation of the sick Keith story. It squeezes in right before the last page of WWiondering, where Lance and Hunk stand watching Keith fly off in the distance.