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Broken wrist bones are officially fully healed!

Physical therapy also progressing well!

But physical therapy exercises take So Much Time, I'm supposed to do these three times a day and the full set takes an hour so hahaha yeah the only time I'm doing all three sets is on weekends which. Is also my writing time

So anyway

Updates to stories shall continue to be slow. Honestly quite pleased I got any updates at all out during this. Hoping that I'll have enough casual mobility back to drop the most time consuming exercises in the next month or two, fingers crossed

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there are a lot of reasons i don't vibe with evil water tribe/good fire nation atla aus but i think one of the main ones is that people try to swap zuko & sokka and azula & katara and that just doesn't work bc the emotionally driven one standing up for what they believe in is katara and the high-strung strategist trying to make their dad proud is sokka

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you get to cut one basic need out of your life. you can still CHOOSE to partake in them and they will feel as good and refreshing as normal, but going without will no longer affect you negatively.

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The monarch population is measured by how many acres they occupy when overwintering in Mexico--last year the resting butterflies took up 4.42 acres as opposed to 2.22 acres in 2024.

The increase in the monarch population is likely due to less severe drought conditions and a decrease in damage to the forest habitat where the monarchs overwinter.

From the article:

“We recognize the key role of local communities, as well as the support of the government of Mexico in conserving the forest and providing this iconic species with the opportunity to thrive,” said Jorge Rickards, director general of WWF Mexico. "It’s now time to turn this year’s increase into a lasting trend with an all-hands approach where governments, landowners, conservationists, and citizens continue to safeguard critical habitats along the monarch’s North American migratory route.”

Thanks to @xxaninvinciblesummerxx for sending this in!

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TOS Spotlight: Harassment

The Policy & Abuse committee is posting a weekly spotlight series explaining some of the most common violations of the AO3 Terms of Service. This week's spotlight is on harassment. Read more at: https://otw-news.org/yy9ntaxd

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Eris needs extra tasty treats for being mom of the year!

She got a platter of wet feed, garnished with scratch grain, peanuts, nugget treats, and superworms, so I think she's pretty happy today :)

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In light of recent events

yay she got her award!

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Someone hit me with their car and I got isekai'd to a world that's really similar to my old one except in this one my collarbone is mysteriously broken

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2026 House Elections

The Democrats House elections arm announced a jaw dropping 35 Republican seats it's targeting in its opening list for the 2026 (expect it to grow, first lists are always the most conservative target list)

So Check here if you're in one of the listed seats because control of Congress will rest on your vote, and getting out to volunteer will have a huge impact on what our country will look like.

Alaska

Volunteer

Alaska-At-Large: Flip

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Arizona

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AZ-01: Flip

AZ-02: Flip

AZ-06: Flip

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California

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CA-09: Hold

CA-13: Hold

CA-22: Flip

CA-27: Hold

CA-40: Flip

CA-41: Flip

CA-45: Hold

CA-47: Hold

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Colorado

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CO-08: Flip

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Connecticut

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CT-05: Hold

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Florida

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FL-07: Flip

FL-13: Flip

FL-27: Flip

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Indiana

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IN-01: Hold

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Iowa

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IA-01: Flip

IA-02: Flip

IA-03: Flip

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Kentucky

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KY-06: Flip

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Maine

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ME-02: Hold

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Michigan

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MI-04: Flip

MI-07: Flip

MI-08: Hold

MI-10: Flip

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Missouri

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MO-02: Flip

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Nebraska

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NE-02: Flip

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Nevada

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NV-01: Hold

NV-03: Hold

NV-04: Hold

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New Jersey

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NJ-07: Flip

NJ-09: Hold

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New Mexico

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NM-02: Hold

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New York

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NY-03: Hold

NY-04: Hold

NY-17: Flip

NY-19: Hold

NY-22: Hold

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North Carolina

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NC-01: Hold

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Ohio

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OH-07: Flip

OH-09: Hold

OH-10: Flip

OH-13: Hold

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Oregon

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OR-05: Hold

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Pennsylvania

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PA-01: Flip

PA-07: Flip

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Tennessee

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TN-05: Flip

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Texas

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TX-15: Flip

TX-28: Hold

TX-34: Hold

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Virginia

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VA-01: Flip

VA-02: Flip

VA-07: Hold

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Washington

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WA-03: Hold

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Wisconsin

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WI-01: Flip

WI-03: Flip

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Control of the US House in 2026 runs through these seats, the map will expand, and it'll expand faster of Democrats see fired up volunteers ready to go in their target races. If you march in a protest you have no reason not to sign up to volunteer with your state party, so look, do you live in one of these districts? close to one of them? sign up! get going!

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In absolutely heartbreaking news, I checked on Bug and her kids this afternoon around 3pm before I left to sell some quail, and when I went to bring them in around 6:30pm, Bumblebee (the light one), was just... gone. Not a trace. I pulled Mantis from under Bug where she was covering it up, and reached back under and.... no Bumblebee.

I spent two hours out in the rain, digging around in the grass inside and outside of the pen, and found nothing. I called and called and called, and got no response. I lifted Wendy and Heather both up to see if maybe he'd somehow gotten under them, and he was not there; I DID find a scalped chick under Heather, so I removed Earl from the pen, in case this is his fault. But, I didn't even find a body, so my suspicion is that Bumblebee got out of the pen somehow, and got got by something else, or lost so badly he couldn't get back.

I know that there's nothing I could have done, outside of live out there with them 24/7 to ensure nothing ever goes wrong, but it sucks that I was not able to at least know WHAT went wrong.

So, they're inside for the night, and since it's evening and the last 10 eggs of the season are hatching, I took an EV baby from Aurora and Stella, and put her under Bug. I am hoping that, given an overnight to get used to hearing and feeling her, and the fact that they're on Bug's nest, Bug will accept her as a "late hatch" baby. So far so good... often if they're going to reject a baby, they'll do it as soon as they feel something weird under them. So I have hopes. Not high ones, but hopes.

I will probably post photos from the last few days over the next few days, so don't be surprised if you see Bumblebee. I am gonna miss my little buddy.

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One of those situations where, 'you're turning into your father' is the furthest thing from a insult possible.

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gotta be careful saying shit like “god i hate my body” cause you know the self-esteem patrol is gonna be all like “no you’re so cute!” and it’s like no i KNOW i’m hot, the problem is i’m supposed to be a DRAGON

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I know I’m never on, but I encourage all of you to watch and share this video as much as possible. This is an Australian reporter covering the LA protests. You can see, on camera, the cop turn and purposely aim at her before firing. This narrative that it’s all the protestors is a clear lie.

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I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

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why do you think that the wheel became the more romanticized ship steering implement in pop culture, rather than the tiller?

What a fascinating question, anon! I've been thinking about this all day. I have two theories, not necessarily exclusive.

The first is the Hollywood theory - I think it's likely that films formative to how people picture tall ships, like Treasure Island and Peter Pan, used wheels. And why did those films use wheels? Because, over the course of the 18th century, the wheel because more and more common. It's got significant mechanical advantage over moving the tiller yourself, and it's less likely to knock your crew about. If you are a production designer in 1942 for a swashbuckler movie is set in, say, 1650, your audience isn't going to walk out of the theater if your ship has a wheel and not a tiller. They're there for a fun time, not accuracy. So why go to all the trouble of having your characters steel by tiller when you probably have access to a set (or real ship) with a wheel?

(Ship's helm in Treasure Island, 1950.)

(Someone on the tiller of Lady Washington.)

My second theory is narrative: it's cooler to have one guy dramatically stand at the helm than for him to command a team working a tiller. You can hold it with one hand and hold a sword or a bottle of wine in the other one. You can give your plucky child protagonist a formative moment of leadership and responsibility. You can even spin it dramatically to steer your ship in a new course! (Well, in reality you can't, wheels still take effort to move, but your audience doesn't know that.)

I could be entirely off base here, so please take my theories with a generous pinch of salt! Check the notes - it's entirely possible I have people with either more experience or better theories than me who will weigh in there.

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I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module

It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.

Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’

That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place