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Credit to el coffin for their fantastic work!

See my fic for which this was made: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60417025/chapters/157905961

Note that it is an aegond fic and Daemyra critical

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Credit to @elcoffin. They have create this and many more sketches for my fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60417025/chapters/157905961

The fic is Aegond, with Velaryon ladies, including Laena, playing key parts.

Amazing artist- thank you!

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"The scientific method is the only way to find objective truths" and "all systems run by humans are prone to corruption" are two statements that do and must coexist.

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Credit to El Coffic, @Elcoffin for the amazing, beautiful, stellar work.

For my fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60417025/chapters/157905961

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Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40% without affecting their health or weight. The study was published Dec. 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is the first study to test seaweed on grazing beef cattle in the world. It follows previous studies that showed seaweed cut methane emissions 82% in feedlot cattle and over 50% in dairy cows.

Continue Reading.

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Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

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Credit to Manhaxa for this art. Commission for a fic I am writing re: HOTD. Has Aegond and Laena

Fic Series link here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4249540

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If you're wondering why polling averages are suddenly showing Trump winning despite all the bad news he's gotten lately- it might have something to do with this:

Basically, Republicans are ratfucking the polling averages by churning out huge numbers of partisan polls, and the polling aggregators/analysts like 538 aren't doing due diligence to compensate for it.

Now, what is the purpose of this?

Well, in the immediate-term, it creates a narrative that Trump is winning, boosting morale of his supporters while demoralizing support for Democrats and Harris.

Beyond that, if polling averages show that Trump is winning ahead of election day-which we can pretty much guarantee they will, because see above-then they will use that as "proof" of fraud if Democrats subsequently win.

Basically, they are engineering a pretext for their next coup attempt in front of us.

The only numbers that decide anything are actual votes. So ignore the polls, and VOTE.

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AMEN to that

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On AI in fandom spaces

Since some AI creations have been circling around in the fandom, I thought it would be a good time to share my stance on AI in general.

The use of AI not only undermines the wonderful creative work of fans from around the world, but it actively steals from us.

An AI video is not a fan edit. An AI image is not fanart. An AI text (for crying out loud) is not fanfiction.

If we make exceptions whenever AI suits us, then we are no longer against AI. Because that same AI is making it harder and harder for creatives to make a living. Artists are no longer being paid. Translators are no longer being hired. Writers are more and more often accused of generating their own work - because AI is getting better at stealing and emulating human writing.

As a writer myself, it's hard watching AI evolve, especially text generators, because it's literally threatening to steal, replace, and take away my writing and my dreams of becoming a published author (I mean maybe it already has stolen from me. After all, I have almost 700k words worth of stories online).

Maybe we won't be able to hold AI back, but the least we can do is refuse AI without exception, and support the artists that put in hours and hours of labor into creating something for the community.

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Corporate media downplays fascist corruption.

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Weatherman discovers his monitor has a touch screen

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We call it education

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