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Luke

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Fountain pen, photography, microscopy, cycling, and cats.

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This actually is where the rich guy who thinks he's in control lives. As soon as his henchmen don't need him anymore, they're going to reconvert this into an actual compound.

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I got to read a galley proof of your book and I really enjoyed it!

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"Sorry, this survey is not currently active."

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Grabbed a copy!

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Q. Pheevr's avatar Q. Pheevr @qpheevr.bsky.social
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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BREAKING: Manga artist Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, has died at 68

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We should start making fake memes and say we want that on a T-shirt.

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I just guess 22 each time. People are still offended somehow.

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Randall Munroe's avatar Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

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I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.

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I read and really enjoyed it as well!

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The real question is why we would want to be like a failing platform? There were so many problems with how Twitter/X pushes content, it would be nice if we don't try to mirror those exactly.

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VICTORY! Ring has announced it will no longer facilitate warrantless police requests for footage to Ring’s users. This comes after years of sustained pressure from EFF and other civil liberties and privacy advocates.

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Kevin Hearne's avatar Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know. *old guy takes long hit on the bong* “Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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Thanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. Cory Doctorow's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives.

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My pottery course is going well. I'm still waiting to fire these, but they are turning out well. I'm told I'm doing pretty well for a beginner!

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What is an "author's preferred edition"? Is it like a director's cut or just that the cover is the favourite of the ones published?

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Quick everyone, do copyright infringement before it's boring and legal:

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I tend to only post reviews of books I finish or were so bad that finishing them would be physically painful. Almost any book I hate or dislike I put in DNF and don't post a review since it wasn't for me.

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Now hear this. I am going to need two things from you: A video of how you made these and where I can buy one off you.

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It annoys me, I thend to ignore that person's review and move on. The total score is just a weathercock for if the book is worth the effort for me to read reviews. If I'm reading reviews, it's because I'm interested in the book for some reason.

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I've stumbled across a mystery and I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. There's seemingly a small press called the "Society for Preservation and Dissemination of Books We Love to Read". They seem to publish ebooks written by women from the 70-80s who are not in print anymore.

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Man, I love the cover art for her books.

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John Cullen's avatar John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social
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This ancient Garfield edit has lived rent free in my head ever since I saw it. Probably one of the first examples of "Garfield But Creepy" I ever saw. It's weirdly difficult to find it now, so here it is for posterity.

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Benjamin Dewey's avatar Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social
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I respect a perfectly timed backwards jump; I do not, however, approve of sword-point banditry.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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A multi-day crime spree in Aurora has come to an end after officials tracked down the culprit — a 400-pound pig named Fred.

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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If I understand this correctly, the author is 1) entirely ignorant of the laws banning books in the US, including those threatening to imprison librarians 2) upset that libraries use Banned Books Week to promote To Kill A Mockingbird instead of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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Had some lovely none pizza with left beef for Pizzamas

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We had great fun at ours! I can't wait for next year's!

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TWSBI Swipe. Inexpensive, good construction, lots of filling options.

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Nice! Let me know how you find it. I have a fair few but didn't get a Kakuno, though I've heard good things.

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I like my TWSBI Eco Demonstrator with a 1.1 stub nib.

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