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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

I'll be visiting Watermark Books today to read and sign POETRY COMICS. Go out and support your local bookshop!

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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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Wholesome 100

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I was at a writing seminar run by Becca Syme and she got everyone to stand along the wall of the room at the time they preferred to do their work ... and we stretched all around the clock.

But yeah - burn out is destroying people - and some are NOT coming back from that.

I don't know what tenth circle of hell my YouTube algorithm fell into, but I really wish it would stop showing me videos of 5 a.m. morning writing routines.

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PURPLE NOON / PLEIN SOLEIL (1960) dir. René Clément

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

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“An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys and aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an announcement by the state attorney general. Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA. Trump was not charged, but he is described in the indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator.”

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Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe

Put them all in prison for the rest of their lives, please.

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I am reading a book titled: Books Fatal to their Authors

it is not what I thought it was going to be, but it is fascinating to see how often people were put to death for saying 'hey, maybe the garden of Eden story was a metaphor?' or whatever.

Apropos of That Poll I want to share that I was the only kid in my AP European History class with goyiche relatives and close friends, and when we were talking about the Reformation I think every other class period someone was like "wait which ones believe in Jesus again? Catholics or Protestants?"

"BOTH."

"Wait, then what's the difference?"

I've heard this genre of question posed in a shitty anti-Catholic way (implying that Catholics don't really believe in Jesus because Mary is such an important aspect of Catholicism) but in this case it was genuinely because Jesus was such a nonentity to us that my classmates couldn't imagine BOTH* types of Christians believed in him and yet somehow were still having wars over this. I think my teacher also had to clarify that Martin Luther wasn't an extra bonus messiah at least once.

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* I considered telling them about Eastern Orthodox churches but AP Euro is taught to a standardized test that's mostly about Western Europe, so it wasn't very relevant to the curriculum and they were having so much trouble with it already...

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Put thee not on Silent

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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

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anybody else in the club feeling this one

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do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

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me, listening to murderbot the way murderbot watches rise and fall of sanctuary moon: it's what martha would want.