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Adorable!

Ok wow, it’s finally here! 

The Sarah Scribbles Hidden Art Game!

We've literally transformed my art into a world that you can explore for free. Your task is to find every cat hiding in each layer of this world. Just when you thought it was over... BAM! Another cat. 🐈‍⬛

If you need a 5-minute break to relax, check it out and let me know what you think in the comments and feedback form!

P.S. Send this to your favorite cat person (everyone knows one!)

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Hi there! Do you ever take commissions? I don't have the money for it right now but it's something I'd love to save up for; even your warm-up sketches strike me so deeply.

Yes, I take commissions and I also sell originals. Message me whenever you're interested 😊 I'm glad that my art is meaningful to you, I'm also very fond of my sketches and it's always good hear from people who enjoy them.

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See, I have no issue with the technology itself. When mature, it's gonna be great.

But everything around it? Developing it stealing original works with no permission? Making no effort to make it eat up less energy? Techbros engaging in the latest "who's got it bigger" contest with little regard to literally anything beyond "winning" the race? Not curating the damn sources generative AI eats up, not teaching it to distinguish bogus from authoritative sources? Unleashing it to the public when it's still very immature in order to have a crowd of beta testers, and who cares if someone gets hurt in the process?

The technology is great! It's the humans around it who are not the best at developing it sensibly.

I feel this should have been in the hands of scientists, not Silicon Valley lunatics.

...One of those reads that just makes you grit your teeth. Repeatedly.

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Seriously, Boeing. You have planes losing parts mid flight, how on Earth did you think you could safely make it to space and back?!

(growling) Oh FFS. 🫤

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And all it took was to remind them they're gross and wierd?

We should all use the power of public shaming more. Let the idiots know their shit doesn't fly and it's also pretty embarrassing.

Gee.

The incelfulencers are turning on Shitler

Now a bunch of weak cowards will turn on each other and have the most epic slap fight we have ever seen.

Delicious.

Split that vote, you Nazi Chuds.

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I knitted a pink rat for a friend 🐀🩷

[Image description: a knitted rat with a bright pink body and pale pink inner ears, feet and tail. First image is a view of the front, second image is a view of the side. End ID]

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The best Wesley Crusher-as-Traveler explainer. (via @EditKrisEdit over at the Bird Place.)

(@wilwheaton) :)

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Watching Przewalski's horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years

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put your knitting hot takes in the reblog tags, whether it be about techniques, trends, yarns, patterns, etc.

reminder to keep it opinions about stuff only, don't go after ppl or insult anyone in my tags pretty please.

I'll start. I prefer to knit English and when I teach people to knit I teach them English because I've found that it's easier for them to understand.

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"And this certainly is the last war to remember".

If only!

The Civilian View of D-Day

The Normandy landings in France, which began on D-Day, 6 June 1944, involved the largest troop movement in history, but in this article, we focus on the view from civilians directly involved in that momentous day when the Allies sought to liberate Western Europe from occupation by Nazi Germany and end the Second World War (1939-45).

D-Day Preparations

As the Allies built up their troops and resources for D-Day in the south of England, to maintain secrecy and provide areas where training exercises for the landings could be conducted, some civilians were required to temporarily move from their homes and such buildings as churches were locked and surrounded by barbed wire. Betty Tab from Slapton in Devon remembers telling her mother of the rumours about this:

My sister heard the rumour in the shop when she went to get some groceries and she said to Mum that we were all going to have to move and of course Mum says, ‘That’s nonsense talking like that. Where we going to go?’ And she says she heard in the shop. There was a meeting called then in the village hall and that confirmed that there was going to be an evacuation of the area for the American training.

My parents just couldn’t believe it. I mean, Mum just said, 'Well, no, it’s not going to happen because it can’t. What are we going to do? Where are we going to go?’ But it had to be so. So, of course, everybody had to get their thinking caps on and think, 'Well, where are we going to go?’ If you couldn’t get anything yourself the authorities would help but they did want you to try and get yourself fixed up, if possible, because, as you can imagine, there were hundreds trying to move. Thousands, I suppose, really. Quite an area it was.

(Bailey, 44)

Desmond O'Neill, an official cameraman for the British Army, describes his visit to a camp of troops readying themselves for the invasion:

I remember going to one unit, I think it was the South Lancashire Regiment, and taking some film of their final preparations for D-Day…they were laagered down near Roland’s Castle in Hampshire, in woods there, and I went into the camp – the whole area was actually one huge camp. Very strict all the way round.

There was certainly a very excitable, tense atmosphere amongst those chaps. They’d been training presumably for a couple of years and they knew full well that they were going to be the spearhead troops and they knew therefore that there was a good chance of them getting shot. The atmosphere there was totally different to any other unit I’d ever been to. Discipline was strict but absolutely on a hairline. A very peculiar atmosphere. I know that the casualty figures had been given to them, the presumed casualty figures.

We photographed the chaps being instructed as to what was going to happen on the morning of D-Day, where they were going in and the rest. It was all mocked up. I didn’t do very much filming apart from taking pictures of these chaps in the camp. They liked it. First of all they’d never seen a cameraman before. Secondly, it was a great divertissement. You know, 'The Mrs is going to see me back in Wigan,’ all this kind of thing. I think it was a welcome diversion.

(Bailey, 66-7)

Continue reading…

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Maybe he himself.

both the half arsed apology and the use of the italian for faggotry on sky news without censorship are sending me

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It's magic: you can never really translate it, you can only learn how and when to use it.

In Ehren des Speak Your Language Days präsentiere ich das beste Wort der deutschen Sprache:

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I took a voluntary no-sex, no-relationships year after leaving the abusive relationship I was in. I did it to take the time to face the reasons which had led me into the abusive relationship to begin with, heal, grow, and learn to love myself. Also, therapy.

Granted, for the first 10 months I felt absolutely no desire for either sex or a relationship, but by the time the year was over, I was happy it was.

A year of no-strings-attached fun and shenanigans followed, just to learn that detachment is possible (ok, I was horny as hell, but still didn't want a relationship).

Bottom line: it all worked out!

I'm no longer emotionally dependant, I like who I am and the relationship I have now is a healthy, respectful one.

Pulling back and reflecting is sometimes just what you need.

Abstinence pledges, also known as purity or virginity pledges, became popular in the United States in the 1990s as an evangelical Christian response to the moral panic about teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and the increasing social acceptance of 2SLGBTQIA+ persons.

These pledges are a statement promising that the person signing will maintain sexual abstinence until they are married. If you can believe it (and I bet you can) most people who signed them did not end up keeping their pledge and engaged in sexual activity before marriage, because teens are teens and will have sex when they want to.

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Word.

i just want to quit my job so i can do crafts all the time

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@reallyndacarter

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please just read the whole thing