About ten years ago, I wrote a fanfic, which I published online. It was one of my favourite stories, and it has just sat there gathering dust ever since. Well, this year, I decided to turn that into an actual story of its own, with my own characters and environments. So ... let's see how this goes 😭

I swear, I've already seen responses from guys saying the whole "Man Vs Bear" thing is which would you rather have sex with. Not even ironically, either.

Rebooting to the last restoration point is apparently going slower than expected, but it's getting there.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Someone suggested that Cards Against Humanity would be a good choice.

It has become a labour of love of mine and has had a few small tweaks here and there. It still receives a few minor updates when I get to sit down to it, but I absolutely love it. Visit colourlibrary.dev (or colorlibrary.dev, if you're in the US 😜) to check it out.

For what it's worth, there is an opinion piece saying to do just that. Haven't read the one about Boden, so I don't know how forceful the language is here, but the headline sounds "meh" ...

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Link removes paywall from here: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/o...

There have been numerous terror threats in Ohio with schools closed and leaders threatened, after Trump's and Vance's comments about Haitians eating pets.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Reports within the last three days

It's sort of the same, but there's also often a limitation on some trademarks to prevent generalisation. So, I couldn't use "I'm lovin' it" for my fast food company, but I could (probably) use it for my skydiving company. "X" was already trademarked by Meta and Microsoft before Twitter was renamed.

Somewhat related: early this year, Walkers lost their appeal for their Sensations Poppadoms.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I love this because the judge used the argument that calling them poppadoms didn't make them so, as Monster Munch wasn't "generally reserved as a food for monsters".

Salsa: the socially acceptable, tomato-based fruit salad.

It's meant to signify "moving forward". There's also an arrow in the Hebrew and Arabic versions. Not only that, but in English, the arrow goes from left to right, because that's the direction we read, so that's considered "forward". In Hebrew/Arabic, it goes from right to left for the same reason.

The UK ran a PSA campaign which taught The Green Cross Code in the 70s and 80s, in which the Green Cross Code Man would appear to help kids cross the road safely (youtu.be/CRUBMBi_lp4 was one). He was played by David Prowse, the physical form of Darth Vader.

Fun fact: Darth Vader taught kids in the UK how to cross the road safely in the 1970s, and taught those same (now) adults in the 2010s. I think he found our lack of road safety ... disturbing.

(It is also completely true. Sort of.)