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wombatarama.bsky.social

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writer, manga editor, crazy pug lady
also @yokaiparade.bsky.social

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yes please

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particularly unnerves me how many people don't seem to distinguish between "additional publications confirming the facts with their own reporting" and "other publications reporting that this outlet has reported this"

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having trouble getting enthusiasm up this year but happy 4th🤷‍♀️

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Fingers crossed about Daniel Radcliffe

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WHOA

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yes but dogs understand that figuring out how to please us is an easier way to get what they want than trying to survive on their own

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well lucky for you I literally don't have a local bookstore, so I ordered it on Amazon😞

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a couple of elections ago I was momentarily excited to find out that my husband was a Canadian citizen by this logic, and then my hopes were dashed when i found out this was of no help to me as his spouse :(

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I see I should have made the good choice of ordering the book from an outlet that does not care about release dates🤔

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I have had long conversations with the deer about how if they'd just eat the ground cover that needs to be pruned and NOT the rest of my garden, we could have a deal! but if not, they need to go! :D

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I mean I guess the early bird gets the worm and all but come on is there really THAT much competition for worms? can you even FIND worms in the dark?

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Aw you're nice ❤️Just last night I said to a firefly "oh honey don't go in the house, that's a bad idea!" but mostly I'm more like waking up at 4 am and yelling at a bird "why are you up so early and why are you so loud about it?!"

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there's disagreement about how to interpret "kill your darlings" but I'm sure we can all agree that it was not meant to apply to this case👍

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I have to follow a guy who posts our state and county covid numbers on Facebook. we really ought to do better than that

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In case you don't already you'll be pleased to know that reverse image search is no help😢😂

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at least a writer got paid to write the Cliffs Notes

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yes! here's my creature in return, in case that helps

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right but if they hadn't tried to get away with not reading it, they'd've found out the citation was fake. I mean, assuming they were guilty of that lesser crime and weren't deliberately citing a fake paper.

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This is very bad but isn't the problem also that they shouldn't cite something they haven't read? Or that they haven't at least downloaded and added to the pile of things they swear they're going to read? they obviously didn't even try to do that

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Today in Things I Actually Said to the Dog: "Stop chewing that shoe, it's bad, and it's cliche!"

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Oh I'm mad all right, but some battles you can't win no matter how mad you get. short of quitting and starting your own publisher I guess and yeah, no thanks on that.

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I can't really talk about this publicly but you'd be surprised at the things we are told that we can't ask

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If only they'd let us ask questions of the author😥

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sometimes I say to my translators, OK, we'll just have to file this one under "we can't always save the authors from themselves." We can't make it make perfect sense if it didn't make sense in the first place🤷

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"Although GPT-5 is more intelligent than ever, it also has debilitating imposter syndrome. So, if it appears to be in the process of overthrowing the human race, simply tell it, “Hey, did you hear that Google Gemini got tenure?” It will then lose its confidence and retreat to binge Nutella and cry."

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We've been saying "See you later, Alligator" for decades, when "Sayonara, Capybara" was right there.

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My first BlueSky post was pointing out that you can reply to "See you later, Alligator" with "Sayonara, Capybara" and it remains my only important skeet.

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omg "sayonara capybara" is the intersection of two of my main interests in life and I can't believe I never thought of this. thank you

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in which i am politely but firmly explaining to number 71 that they are not welcome in my yard

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reptile farmer?! that is neither unskilled nor sedentary! (source: I have worked keeping and breeding reptiles and amphibians). I wonder what other jobs on the list not only don't exist any more but never really met that criteria in the first place

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my contribution to the shoe discourse: I wear shoes in the house, and I used to be a freelance writer. I was often desperate for an article topic to pitch but I'm proud to say that I never once thought it was a good idea to write an article about my position on this subject

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it’s some kind of not very useful miracle 🤷‍♀️

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tax writeoffs because it isn't making money, though?

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would you like to see my favorite letter i've ever found in our records? it's from 1925 and i think about it every day of my life

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as a former freelance writer, I feel your pain😩

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ngl if I won the lottery there's a light novel about a capybara god on the Toden Arakawa line that I would try to commission a translation of just for me. But I'd ask translators who knew and trusted me, I would not email someone out of the blue, because turnip truck etc. also

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