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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

This is such a wild story like holy shit dude

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Some things that I have been mistaken for inventing on this webbed site that I definitely did not invent:

The phrase "torment nexus"

The popular scifi story 17776

The entire r/hfy genre (somehow)

The concept of a generation ship

Using rotation as a substitute for gravity in a weightless environment

Using rotation as a substitute for gravity on a generation ship

So many biological technologies, both real and fake, that I've lost count

Computers made out of brains. Please I am begging some of you guys to read one scifi story that I didn't write. Most of the stuff people think I invented is stuff that was old hat in scifi before I was old enough to read.

I don't know why I keep getting credited with random stuff but it's safe to go forward in life assuming I didn't invent dick. If you think I invented something you're almost definitely wrong. Assume I'm referencing something else or that I stole it from somewhere. I love stealing.

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vaguely working on a vampire comedy about a group of vampires dealing with the death of their sire, not because they're mourning him, but because they're rapidly realizing that a lot of the Vampire Rules were him just straight up fucking with them

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#myfish

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Gaining its strength from the moon’s rays, this loyal pokemon is the perfect companion for quiet night walks and stargazing.

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A rather sensitive pokemon that is easily startled or angered. Be sure to be wary of its static charges!

(couldn’t decide which background color so you guys get both)

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Im just so frustrated bc it doesnt seem fair that your skills can degrade over time. i LEARNED IT😭

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chessbway: What a scene! What a joy! 2 months until CHESS♟️ 📸: jennyandersonphoto

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From Ursula K. Le Guin’s Cat Dreams. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.

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modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

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type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

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I know I say that I'm kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.

Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:

Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it's not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it's not really giving any information about the owner. Even if you want a basic sofa... What kind of basic.

comfy and cheap?

kinda rigid?

inherited? ------

who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?

guy living alone?

teenage girl?

Grandma?

Anyway I'll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!

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The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

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