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Can't find the article that mentioned it, it had made the rounds a while back. But yeah it's nasty. Im sure there's more to it as well but don't know enough to speak on it with any authority
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Authors seem to almost always style "goose bumps" as closed and "wineglass" as open, opposite the @merriam-webster.com definitions. The former is likely largely because of the book series, and the latter? It just looks odd, I'm guessing. #AmEditing
November 22, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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What America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation
What America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation
Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Congrats! 🥳 🎉
November 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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So this here poem published in @IndianapolisRev is getting nominated for a Pushcart Prize!! Huge thanks to them

theindianapolisreview.com/money-change...
MONEY CHANGED MY APPEARANCE, I’M A DOLLAR SIGN
– after Babyface Raynow I’m valuable I’m breedableI’m a legible hex on the necks of menwear me flare me carry me cover meI’m nothing but trouble I’m paperI’m wall I’m stained glass I’m ceilingI’m t…
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November 22, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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🚨Full story on @BylineTimes

Bereaved Families Hit Out at COVID Inquiry Lawyer who Suggested they are ‘Confused’ about Role of PR Firms Linked to Government...
November 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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NEW: The top lawyer for the official inquiry into the Government’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic has suggested that groups representing bereaved families have a “lack of understanding” after they highlighted a potential conflict of interest at the heart of the process
November 22, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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gosh this sounds yummy 🥺
November 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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the sudden urge to sit someone in my lap & read them smut with their head back over my shoulder while they desperately rut against me & use a wand on themselves
November 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump and Elon Musk pull each other’s strings.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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I am once again asking for your support in poking me with a sharp stick every few minutes to keep me on task, because it's Friday and I have a negative amount of desire to do work this afternoon.
November 22, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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I regretfully/joyfully inform you all that I am still procrastinating.

Here is a picture of one of my cats. After I took this photo, he followed me back into my office and is now snuggled up on my lap.
November 22, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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this is what happens to people who don’t complete their to do lists
November 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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🔈More people are watching videos with the sound off.

You may think this only happens in public. But that's not the case according to multiple studies. This includes social media.

No 6 of Caption 10 Guidelines: buff.ly/3OlFnwR

#Accessibility
Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) on LinkedIn: #merylmots #video #captioned #accessibility | 13 comments
🔈More people are watching videos with the sound off. You may think this only happens in public. But that's not the case according to multiple studies. This… | 13 comments on LinkedIn
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November 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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There really is something broken about centrist-columnist brain that posits horizons are broadened not by being in conversation with novelists, scientists, urban planners, artists, & activists but by being in conversation with right wingers. It highlights how flimsy these people’s outlooks are.
November 22, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Anyone who thinks seeing more (polite, it always has to be polite) climate change denial or transphobia is more enlightening than getting an inside look into how laws work or reading a poem, or leaning about how the the mitochondria factors in chronic illness is a unserious, incurious person.
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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That's absolutely pathetic behavior, but that does explain alot. How sad.
November 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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The latest in a series of events that have lead me away from first party materials for D&D and directly towards third parties.

You'd be fair in saying that I'm biased as I make third party content for D&D, but all I have to do is point to any number of Chris Cocks quotes to prove my point.
November 22, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Part of what makes poetry worth decrypting is the knowledge that someone encoded their experience into it, in a way that allows for multivalence in meaning and interpretations, which gives it dimension and body and life. I liked this by John Ashbery, even though it was a lot of decrypting on my end:
November 22, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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It's such a weird idea. Maybe a thought experiment: if you were going to attend an earth sciences conference where there'd be talks about volcanoes and erosion and plate tectonics, would it be an "echo chamber" if a bunch of flat-earther panels weren't approved?
November 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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One of the things that has slowed experiments with CCS down is of all things the injection permitting - delays were in the years because it all had to run through the overstretched feds. One by one states are getting permission to do it themselves (class VI primacy).
November 22, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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that's a real and recurring thing--like, there are people I do not agree with on our side of the fence but, for the most part, they are not Fucking Weak Sauce
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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It's just useless noise, all they know how to do is flood the zone with garbage
November 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Honoring Jim Henson's legacy with a Muppet attraction that children aren't tall enough to ride.
November 22, 2024 at 6:32 PM