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I'm finally reading a bit again and now I don't know what to read next. What are the good SFF books from the last 12-18 months?
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I think this is what the board will be at the August 20th show. I might take the Wombtone off in favor of adding back a dedicated delay.
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I live in the city in a townhome. The costs of rehearsal spaces keep rising. So now I'm seriously thinking about how we do silent rehearsal at my house and I feel dirty.
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Bravery would be telling Murkowski and Collins they can safely vote no and then waiting until after they vote to say 👎 and sink a grossly unqualified nominee.
Birth sex is almost never something you need
Please read Danielle's thorough explanation for why you almost certainly should not collect separate information about sex and gender . I think about these questions a lot as someone who has worked: as a social science researcher for the state at a technology company (currently) that is a core data collection system for compliance with state and federal agencies in the US. We have to collect all…
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I'm feeling slightly insane right now-- is Hank Green getting shit because he used AI to find academic papers to read? Is anyone saying he failed to properly fact check or straight up used AI scripts or just that he used AI as a research tool? Between this and D'Addario the plot seems well and truly fucking lost right now.
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In case you had no idea what this morning's post was about, here's a pretty thorough timeline of DHH“'s descent from "private shitbag" into "public shitbag". That said, I kind of think this was all latent and there and not some kind of break/snap due to the stress of being called in at work.
The milkshake duck has been dethroned
DHH showed who he was a few years back. Some people thought his offenses were circumstantial or insignificant. I think those folks who offered him the benefit of the doubt should have a thorough reassessment on how they judge character. Any generosity toward him in the past should have been erased when his reaction to being challenged was strident denial and doubling down. He either did no…
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New friend
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Off to try out a couple of guitars-- might do a trade-in swapperoo if things go well.
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Finding out soon if I can out my contacts back in and have normal vision again after a week of drops to treat inflammation. Kerataconus with apical scarring is the gift that keeps giving. 🙃
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I'm pretty sure I need to adjust my Les Paul's truss rod, but I trust my eyes so little. Makes me constantly nervous to do work like this because my observational skills are crap. I might buy the expensive digital relief meter thing because I trust numbers.
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Taylor Farms was the source! Millennials keep eating Taco Bell. Taylor Farms was not the source! Millennials-- still eating Taco Bell.
Score another one for Siri AI
I had another nice Siri AI moment today. Once again, an events-style app where I had to buy a ticket did not offer a one click "add this event to my calendar" (how is this still not table stakes?). So I said, "Hey Siri, add the event on my screen to my calendar." It did a great job-- right title, right date, right time, and even inserted the correct location (with a proper point of interest)…
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Sisters!
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I know I'm getting old because I played a killer Bad Cat Cub IV 40W amp today. Just one of the best sounding drives I've heard in a long time. It was really affordable. And I didn't buy it because all I could think is "this is just too damn loud".
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ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers It’s like if Jay and Silent Bob showed up at your house because of an online comment you wrote, except with guns and the force of the federal government. It’s both deadly serious and deeply unserious. What are they afraid of? Well, we already know. Accountability in any form.
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The past few days I've had that edge-of-your-brain-and-body feeling of some kind of illness approaching. It's like allergy season ended and my body went, "Wait, we need something else to go wrong!" Just counting down how long it takes to boil over.
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I have once again been overly excited by a headline only to realize it omitted "in mice".
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I wonder why Russia would think NATO lacks resolve ? Disasterous. Fuck Trump.
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Are there any good telecaster style bridges that are top loading other than the Gotoh GTC-Art-03? It's not quite my style.
A coordinated escalation from tabloid journalism to policy infrastructure
I'll never understand how the right wing smear campaigns that emerge from a closed, hateful ecosystem of rabid rage manages to drape themselves in the banner of "free speech". I'll never understand how active denial of factual realities is seen as a virtue. The sequencing is: Monticello, July 9; Montpelier, July 16; Heritage, July 27. That is a coordinated escalation from tabloid journalism to…
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This adorable girl is a total monster if someone tries to cut her nails. Scratched and bit the hell out of me while I held her hoping that would calm me down. It was disturbing how dramatic she was. Any tips?
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Our country/world continues to dehumanize trans people because of baseless fear, choosing cruelty over empathy, rashness over patience, and ignorance over understanding. But don't take my word for it, read Parker Molloy on the horrible system we've built.
We live in a world that is less safe and less free
The view of an ascendant right-wing can be summarized as "might makes right". Morality these days is winning, and winning is morality. The prosperity gospel equates wealth with not just morality, but favor from God directly. We extend this everywhere-- having the ability to use more force makes you right. Having the power to build systemic assurances you maintain power makes you right. Winning by…