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If you have access to a 3d printer you can print one for yourself to try this out. Here's a simple, relatively quick-to-print model:

You won't be able to put anything hot in there, and depending on the material you use you probably shouldn't use it for potable liquids, but it'd be good for doing demonstrations and pranks.

The same designer provides a Pythagoras Cup - it holds liquid up to a certain point, but if you overfill it the liquid drains right out of the bottom.

The Assassin's Teapot

The assassin’s teapot is a cleverly designed container that can pour from different reservoirs depending on how it’s held. Steve Mould digs into the physics in this video, and he builds a transparent cutaway version of the pot to show exactly how it works.  (Video and image credit: S. Mould) Read the full article

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Quote:

Vincent White, Wallner’s lawyer, was surprised Gaiman had filed the claim against his client. White, an employment lawyer in New York who specializes in sexual harassment in the workplace, said that in his experience, allegedly abusive men only rarely sued women for violating NDAs because the optics were so poor. When you’re trying to silence someone who’s alleging “really heinous acts,” White said, “everyone thinks, Oh, the allegation must be true. I would think he may have come to the conclusion he has nothing left to lose.”

Here's hoping Mr White is wrong. I'd like to see him lose quite a bit more, thank you.

neil gaiman is seeking $500,000 from the person accusing him of rape because she broke an NDA. i hope that man dies in excruciating agony.

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Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PS, people are correctly noting that Rowling doesn't get a percentage of ticket sales for Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but incorrectly saying she only gets paid if you buy the merch. Rowling gets an annual licensing fee from the Universal rides and attractions, not just the merchandise. She gets paid just because Wizarding World exists, and it exists because people go to it.

This is the contract, public record through the SEC:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262449/000119312507178559/dex1041.htm

That contract actually gives her more profit and creative control than Marvel gets from any MCU attractions.

Every deal she makes is like this. The mere existence of Potter in the world puts money in her pocket. Even buying second hand just makes you an unpaid brand ambassador, advertising this to everyone around you. If you partake in anything Potter, even passively, money is being funnelled into demonising and dehumanising trans people.

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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Wonder Woman Historia Book Three.

Rest in pieces, Heracles.

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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I woke up in a cold sweat and I was already awake

i just had a nightmare

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There's so much wrong in what was done to this guy, but this is the part that really highlights who these border patrol agents are, as individuals:

Posters hanging on the walls that had once celebrated diversity, equity and inclusion, had been crudely updated with a black marker pen, with mentions of DEI scribbled out.

Not merely taking down the posters. Keeping them up with the Un-Words and Wrongthink scribbled out. A clear message to anyone who might get the mistaken impression that US Border Patrol is capable of acting like human beings.

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Between original and special edition I'm now at a little more than 2,000 hours in Skyrim. Over 83 days of my life in that beautiful janky bitch.

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"I'm not skilled at gardening and i don't have the time/energy to learn, but i really want a pretty garden, so i hired a gardener"

That makes a lot of sense, it's nice to experience that beauty!

"I love writing music, and I can play a few instruments, but my playing skills don't cover the breadth or depth of what I want my songs to sound like, and none of my usual partners were available for recording this month, so I hired someone who's good on sax and another musician who plays an upright bass to help me record my new stuff, and they added a lot of depth to the experience!"

Good call, when you really want the right sound right now it makes sense to bring in people who are available and talented!

"I'm a decent cook and my friends love the food i make, but sometimes I enjoy a really high-quality meal in a carefully curated atmosphere or i don't want to do dishes, so i go to a restaurant and pay a chef and cooks and waitstaff and dish washers to make me a fantastic meal in a nice setting without any of the chores."

Of course, we all love a good time without the usual work sometimes!

"I love music and I play the piano really well, but sometimes I want to hear it played by someone who's really dedicated their career to it, or who plays in a style I'm not experienced with, so I go to a concert and pay a musician for their music, or I buy their albums so I can listen to it at home."

Yes, getting to experience an expert in their craft is a real treat!

"I've been way too busy to take care of myself or my living space lately and it's been taking a toll on my mental health, so i hired someone to help me tidy up this week and then went to a salon to get spiffed up so I could feel better about myself, and i paid those professionals for their work and education and experience and skill."

Good on you, self care is so important!

"I'm not very experienced with sex and and would like someone else to show me what it can feel like, or I want to enjoy sex at a time when I don't have anyone available, or I enjoy sex and am pretty good at it but I want to experience it a dedicated atmosphere with someone who takes it seriously, or I want to see what all is possible when someone is really an expert at it and treats it like a set of skills they've spent a long time working to master, or sex makes me feel good and i could really use that good experience in my life right now, so I paid a sex worker to help me achieve that goal."

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If you think the last one is somehow fundamentally different from the others, that hiring a professional to provide a service that you want or need for any reason is suddenly immoral because it involves sex, you should probably reflect on why. Because really, at the end of the day, it's not.

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He's always talked like this, and I truly wonder how much traction he would have gained in the first place if most media outlets never translated his word salad into a coherent version of what they assumed he was trying to say.

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At the time of this interview Woody Allen was 31 and Twiggy was 17.

He was a grown man trying to humiliate an adolescent girl.

TWIGGY & WOODY ALLEN My Generation (2017) dir. David Batty

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Can we please just have one Australian election that doesn't end up revolving around cum? 😭

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Not sure about the equivalent for other countries, but there's an Australian government site dedicated to teaching people how to spot scams and provides a place to report them: Scamwatch.

It has information in multiple languages and customised resources of Indigenous Australians. Two sections that should help people around the world:

Types of scams.

Help to spot and avoid scams.

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