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thread. no really. follow the off-threads too please. if you've never actually thought about this stuff then do so.

And while you're at it, scroll down further to uncheck this

In case anyone who follows me would be interested in such a delightful thing!

Oh, I found the thread where I wrote some of my answers. Particularly proud of the first answer (first two skeets):

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

This whole chain of quote posts:

Screenshot of @lovegarden.bsky.social a content thief who doesn’t credit any of their models.

CONTENT THIEF ALERT!!

This page doesn’t credit any of the models, artists, or photographers whose images they steal… please report & block!!

@lovegarden.bsky.social

….you need to read and understand your contracts. You need to have your contracts read and understood by someone who a) understands the purpose of contracts & b) has *your* best interests at heart.

Please, for the love of god, do not rely on some corporation's "AI" to "summaries" your contracts.

Tbh the “how to decorate” article sounds way more interesting!

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

Or cultural? Squat meaning “place to live” isn’t common usage in the US, and copilot will have a US bias.

Also a fan of manual transmissions here. Automatic feels like driving a couch.

Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.

And here was the inspiration, Michelle Dorrell, the woman who voted Tory and then got upset the Tories cut her working Tax Credits

Go fill it in, Canucks:

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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

Sexy dinosaurs, hot tigers and handsome … boats? Welcome to Chuck Tingle’s world of weird erotica With hundreds of self-published books and one Hugo nomination, Tingle has become a beloved internet eccentric – and proof that anything can be horny if you try hard enough

what an incredibly kind feature from @theguardian.com thank you to writer @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social i appreciate these thoughtful words about the tingleverse www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

Fascinating thing* about a thing I didn't know existed!

*post? article? I've been up since 5:30am & spent most of today travelling & I'm not sure I know what words are any more...

1915 Country Life advert for Stonehenge, featuring b/w photo of the monument, and the words “STONEHENGE, THE WHOLE EXTENDING TO ABOUT 6,400 ACRES. The Vendor is prepared to leave two- thirds of the purchase money upon mortgage at 4 per cent. for five years to approved purchasers of lots exceeding £300 in accordance with the conditions of sale. TO BE OFFERED BY AUCTION ON 21ST SEPTEMBER, AT THE NEW THEATRE, SALISBURY, BY Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH Messrs. EDEN, BAINES & KENNAWAY. ESTATE OFFICE, HEYTESBURY, WILTS. Solicitors: Messrs. FARRER & Co., 66, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.

It’s the 110th anniversary today of the last time Stonehenge was sold by one private owner to another. Wealthy local barrister Cecil Chubb went along to a property sale at the Palace Theatre in Salisbury on 21 September 1915 and bought the monument on impulse for £6,600

Heirs of the Vikings Examination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend.

Boydell & Brewer have a 40% sae on paperbacks with code PB40!

You could, for example, get Heirs of the Vikings for £16.19

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a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Skilful seduction (do not shatter) | Girl on the Net She doesn't know what she needs, but her body isn't working. She feels broken and alone. And then he embarks on some pretty skilful seduction...

Kissing softly, like she’s precious…

NEW blog: this one is partly about self worth and how it can have a massive impact on whether one is horny. It’s also about some very skilful #seduction…

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/skilful...

Mostly lurking :)

Hello!

Yeah, the stove I bought for my old place had that and I’d never run across it before. IIRC it’s a Jewish thing—firing up the oven counts as work, which you can’t do on the sabbath, but if the oven is already on it’s ok.

Bless him this is a work of art and absolutely magnificent. I don't want to know why. I feel like the existence of it answers that