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CAUTION!! COLORED PEOPLE OF BOSTON, ONE & ALL, You are hereby respectfully CAUTIONED and advised, to avoid conversing with the Watchmen and Police Officers of Boston. For since the recent ORDER OF THE MAYOR & ALDERMEN, they are empowered to act as KIDNAPPERS AND Slave Catchers, And they have already been actually employed in KIDNAPPING, CATCHING, AND KEEPING SLAVES. Therefore, if you value your LIBERTY, and the Welfare of the Fugitives among you, Shun them in every possible manner, as so many HOUNDS on the track of the most unfortunate of your race. Keep a Sharp Look Out for KIDNAPPERS, and have TOP EYE open. APRIL 24, 1851

The more things change...

(From: Welland Canal Museum)

Reblog by @the-stray-liger · 1 image 💬 67  🔁 294405  ❤️ 233171 · I'm laughing it starts like a magical girl transformation and then it just goes splort

"The splort device": Melting aluminum with an electromagnet

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I've mostly used www.sectorgeneral.com/articlesclas... when I've wanted to re-check who's who.

Only if you want to; though the 'will no one rid me of these troublesome [s]priests[/s] errors' approach does work almost as well.

Not quite the fursuiters who I was expecting to be in the middle of Interesting Current Events. Always nice to be pleasantly surprised.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

"But if they were never published, are they *really* part of the series?"

Congratulations on achieving literary apocrypha; if Tolkien lived with it, it can't be all bad. :)

(... But if you're up for doing the data-recovery thing, I would, of course, be more than happy to read new-old Journals...)

A black and white illustration of a border collie wearing a gay pride collar standing protectively in front of a lamb wearing a trans pride collar. Text above it reads “Protect Your Herd”.

Mad about politics again

#politicscw #transrights #antismad <block this last tag if you don’t wanna see my political shit lol

two stills of a man in a suit,wearing glasses and smoking a cigarette When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.

Goodnight.

Tempted to post an "I understood that reference" meme, but James White still has fans willing to do fannish things: eg, drive.google.com/file/d/17rM2... . (... And now the streams have been crossed, and I'm wondering what a jumpchain for The Journal Entries would look like...)

Those Who Run It is important to understand that the Great Confederation is not a benevolent organization. Neither is it particularly wicked. It is not built to...

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"Those Who Run", 5k words, one of the top HFY scifi stories to be found.

#PC892: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Cambist and Lord Iron by Daniel Abraham Read by Wilson Fowlie. Previously published as #PC051! Rated PG. For as many years as anyone in the city could remember, Olaf Neddelsohn had been the cambist of the Magdalen Gate postal authority. Every morning, he could be seen making the trek from his rooms in the boarding house on State Street, down past the street vendors with their apples and cheese, and into the bowels of the underground railway, only to emerge at the station across the wide boulevard from Magdalen Gate. Some mornings he would pause at the tobacconist’s or the newsstand before entering the hallowed hall of the postal authority, but seven o’clock found him without fail at the ticker tape, checking for the most recent exchange rates. At half past, he was invariably updating the slate board with a bit of chalk. And with the last chime of eight o’clock, he would nod his respect to his small portrait of His Majesty, King Walther IV, pull open the shutters, and greet whatever traveler had need of him. From that moment until the lunch hour and again from one o’clock until six, Olaf lived and breathed the exchange of foreign currencies. Under his practiced hands, dollars became pounds sterling; rubles became marks; pesos, kroner; yen, francs. Whatever exotic combination was called for, Olaf arranged with a smile, a kind word, and a question about the countries which minted the currencies he passed under the barred window.

#PC892: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Cambist and Lord Iron by Daniel Abraham
Read by Wilson Fowlie. Previously published as #PC051! Rated PG.

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Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

Change the Locks A tale of two sisters; the narcissist's demand for reconciliation without reparation, and the lowest rung on justice's ladder

This week I dug deep into the Paradox of Tolerance.

We might hope still to build a new house to replace the one abusive bullies are burning down, after centuries of decades of being enabled in the name of civility.

If we do, the new house will need new locks.

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Scavenger: Caches and Prizes, My sci-fi #ttrpg is now for sale on Ko-Fi and Itch!

ko-fi.com/s/33399d6627

DTRPG, and it’s capability for print, will take a little longer.

A catalog of algorithmic sabotage tools designed to tarpit, confuse, misinform, and poison the data stolen by AI webcrawlers. Deploy at your own risk; most will definitely raise your bandwidth usage.

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www.kevinandkell.com/2025/kk0811....

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

- An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation by Luke Kemp argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Story by me
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Bored? Looking for something to read? Interested in chemistry and/or incredibly dangerous things? Then check out the "Things I Won't Work With" category of Derek Lowe's "In The Pipeline" blog! www.science.org/topic/blog-c...

I have an MP3 of "Everybody Loves a Lesbian" that ends with "Can I be the butch one?", "If you like..."

A New COVID Variant Is Here, And It's More Transmissible — Here Are The Signs And Symptoms A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.

Oh, hell. Get your shots, if you can: www.huffpost.com/entry/new-co...

In Firefox, to disable some new AI features, go to about:config and set these three settings to 'false':

- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

Post by @idiopath-fic-smile 💬 27  🔁 4676  ❤️ 7496 · steve rogers: pr disaster | gen | 4k · (someone asked about the full version of this, so here u go) “Wait,” says Sam, “you had a publicist?” “For my first five months at S…

I don't know if Superman is a socialist, according to one Vox headline for a members-only article I can't read, but Captain America is one. This utterly-nails-the-voice-fanfic of how being Cap's publicist went from "easy street" to "nightmare" is glorious:

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'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed t...

Here's hoping that current events don't delay this from passing clinical trials:
newatlas.com/cancer/unive...
("'Universal cancer vaccine' ... This "general purpose" mRNA jab ... instructs the body's immune cells to rally and hit any kind of tumor")

Clients’ names and personal information have been... Clients’ names and personal information have been omitted to retain their privacy. You can read the sequel here: LINK You can buy a digital copy of this and the sequel here: LINK You can buy a...

"Clients' names and personal information have been omitted to retain their privacy." -- Therapist R. J. Hill, by Panic Volkushka
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(And don't miss the sequel comic.)

Artwork Gallery for Susfishous -- Fur Affinity [dot] net Sorry, but I don't do requests or commissions!

Have you met QB and EB yet? www.furaffinity.net/gallery/susf...

"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.

The DOI of Alsan's paper is 10.1257/aer.20130604 , if you're the sort to visit sci-hub dot st or some other source of such material. (The Badsite doesn't let me see comments, so I don't know if there was more discussion there on it.)

The history of Canada in Heritage Minutes - YouTube Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦

(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)

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