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I cannot stress enough that most ppl don't ever even think about calling their reps. I talk to ppl in my fam about it and they go "Huh? What?". But your reps work for YOU. They need to know what you actually care about. When we call in big numbers it ALERTS them, cuz they rarely hear from us.
Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!
US House Subcommittee Advances 18 Child Online Safety Bills | TechPolicy.Press
Some members expressed "fury" at the tech industry for not doing more to protect children and teens.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I cannot stress enough that most ppl don't ever even think about calling their reps. I talk to ppl in my fam about it and they go "Huh? What?". But your reps work for YOU. They need to know what you actually care about. When we call in big numbers it ALERTS them, cuz they rarely hear from us.
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Whenever people talk about how great TV shows often have unsatisfying endings, I bring up Due South as one that bucked the trend and is absolutely perfect
truly sincerely recommend. if you have never seen due south. I think you should watch due south
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Whenever people talk about how great TV shows often have unsatisfying endings, I bring up Due South as one that bucked the trend and is absolutely perfect
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BEIGNET BLANC
Thanks to Sesame Street, we have a Knives Out puppet mystery.
Benoit Blanc Gets Puppety in KNIVES OUT x SESAME STREET Short
nerdist.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
BEIGNET BLANC
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You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
I understand (from having played "guess the author" games in school) that I have a fairly distinctive nonfiction voice. I honestly don't know if my fiction writing is as obviously me, but I definitely have themes, literary tricks, etc that I tend to fall back on
here's a writery tuesday question
do you have a recognizable style, or do you prefer to change things up from story to story? do you think you have tells that your readers could identify?
do you have a recognizable style, or do you prefer to change things up from story to story? do you think you have tells that your readers could identify?
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I understand (from having played "guess the author" games in school) that I have a fairly distinctive nonfiction voice. I honestly don't know if my fiction writing is as obviously me, but I definitely have themes, literary tricks, etc that I tend to fall back on
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Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
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is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
is a sandwich a speech act
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
If any of you think there's even a remote chance you might be interested, I'd super appreciate if you could take a look at our primary works & see if there's anything appealing. We had to push our timeline back for unavoidable RL reasons, but now our sign ups conflict with holiday exchanges 😬
Complementary claims for the due South & Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang are now OPEN! Anyone can sign up; all you need is an AO3 account and a willingness to make something cool for one of our awesome primary creators. Link below
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If any of you think there's even a remote chance you might be interested, I'd super appreciate if you could take a look at our primary works & see if there's anything appealing. We had to push our timeline back for unavoidable RL reasons, but now our sign ups conflict with holiday exchanges 😬
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Complementary claims for the due South & Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang are now OPEN! Anyone can sign up; all you need is an AO3 account and a willingness to make something cool for one of our awesome primary creators. Link below
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Complementary claims for the due South & Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang are now OPEN! Anyone can sign up; all you need is an AO3 account and a willingness to make something cool for one of our awesome primary creators. Link below
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Source with more great quotes found in the comments: www.npr.org/transcripts/.... It's NPR's Ari Shapiro interviewing David Simon, creator of The Wire and many other shows.
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Source with more great quotes found in the comments: www.npr.org/transcripts/.... It's NPR's Ari Shapiro interviewing David Simon, creator of The Wire and many other shows.
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Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
The new low rise pants aren't even that low & I'm already relearning some of the things I didn't like about low rise the first go round (absolutely zero room for wiggling into a smaller size bc the waistband sits on your hipbones, not belly flab; deeply unflattering unless they fit perfectly)
September 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The new low rise pants aren't even that low & I'm already relearning some of the things I didn't like about low rise the first go round (absolutely zero room for wiggling into a smaller size bc the waistband sits on your hipbones, not belly flab; deeply unflattering unless they fit perfectly)
I thought I was pretty Normal about random technical writing things, but turns out I cannot stand people using parentheses to fulfill the function of brackets
August 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I thought I was pretty Normal about random technical writing things, but turns out I cannot stand people using parentheses to fulfill the function of brackets
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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
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brb making "hich" happen
![Screencap from the middle of a paper:
questions like ‘where?’, ‘whither?’ or ‘what?’ and answer them with demonstrative words like ‘there’, ‘thither’ or ‘that’. English, like many languages, allows a range of spatially calibrated answers—here versus there (and yon in older English), hither versus thither, this versus that. Moreover, many languages are like English in having proportional formal relationships between question words and demonstratives. The English formula is wh- for questions, h- for proximal demonstratives, and th- for distal demonstratives, but we don’t do this consistently HIGHLIGHT (we don’t express ‘now’ with hen, or answer which? with hich or thich). END HIGHLIGHT Some languages, like Japanese or Tamil, have systems that are both richer and more consistent (see Evans 2012b for [screencap cuts off mid-sentence]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxttw4f3ket2uyrrtc5ou4n2/bafkreift7beypncmvtvtvwvoxari5ve6qwyrpam5zvgrmc3brtjo3tkh5e@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
brb making "hich" happen
Sitting at a large table at the coffeeshop, & two people came up & just sat down without asking or interacting with me. Luckily the group of people I'd been waiting for simultaneously decided on a different meeting place, but it's still mildly annoying
July 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sitting at a large table at the coffeeshop, & two people came up & just sat down without asking or interacting with me. Luckily the group of people I'd been waiting for simultaneously decided on a different meeting place, but it's still mildly annoying
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'Pony up' has nothing to do with horses.
It probably comes from the Latin phrase ‘legem pone,’ found in Psalm 119 of the Bible.
It essentially meant “money down” and was invoked on March 25, which was the first payday of the year and the date when debts were settled.
It probably comes from the Latin phrase ‘legem pone,’ found in Psalm 119 of the Bible.
It essentially meant “money down” and was invoked on March 25, which was the first payday of the year and the date when debts were settled.
July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'Pony up' has nothing to do with horses.
It probably comes from the Latin phrase ‘legem pone,’ found in Psalm 119 of the Bible.
It essentially meant “money down” and was invoked on March 25, which was the first payday of the year and the date when debts were settled.
It probably comes from the Latin phrase ‘legem pone,’ found in Psalm 119 of the Bible.
It essentially meant “money down” and was invoked on March 25, which was the first payday of the year and the date when debts were settled.
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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
CANCEL EVERYTHING THERE'S A NEW LIBRARIAN SHOW ABOUT TO DROP
May 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
CANCEL EVERYTHING THERE'S A NEW LIBRARIAN SHOW ABOUT TO DROP
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Christian Kane (Jacob Stone) offers a rundown of what you need to know to watch the first season of TNT and Showrunner/EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Plus, we have a new teaser to check out! / #TheLibrarians
Christian Kane (Jacob Stone) offers a rundown of what you need to know to watch the first season of TNT and Showrunner/EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Plus, we have a new teaser to check out! / #TheLibrarians
Christian Kane offers a rundown of how to watch the first season of TNT and Showrunner & EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter.
dlvr.it
May 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Christian Kane (Jacob Stone) offers a rundown of what you need to know to watch the first season of TNT and Showrunner/EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Plus, we have a new teaser to check out! / #TheLibrarians
I've always been a picky eater, & was raised to not expect accommodation. I don't think this was necessarily bad, it gave me some social skills that a lot of picky eaters seem to lack, but it sure is a pleasant surprise when someone goes out of their way to try to make sure I'll enjoy something
May 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I've always been a picky eater, & was raised to not expect accommodation. I don't think this was necessarily bad, it gave me some social skills that a lot of picky eaters seem to lack, but it sure is a pleasant surprise when someone goes out of their way to try to make sure I'll enjoy something
I had turned bluesky into yet one more place where the ongoing Horrors were inescapable, so in the interest of mental health I've been attempting to unfollow all of the primarily social/political accounts I'd followed (not longstanding friends w opinions to share). I think? I've done it?
May 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I had turned bluesky into yet one more place where the ongoing Horrors were inescapable, so in the interest of mental health I've been attempting to unfollow all of the primarily social/political accounts I'd followed (not longstanding friends w opinions to share). I think? I've done it?
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now this is the kinda shit im talkin about. saguaro cactus. hell yeah. these bad boys can sequester the carbon equivalent of 40 gallons of gas, not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere during decomposition but interacting with the soil to create the mineral calcium carbonate(just a fuckin rock)
May 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
now this is the kinda shit im talkin about. saguaro cactus. hell yeah. these bad boys can sequester the carbon equivalent of 40 gallons of gas, not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere during decomposition but interacting with the soil to create the mineral calcium carbonate(just a fuckin rock)