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Seems like everyone is getting it at the minute. All the coughing is giving me a headache!

I look forward to the day we get negative calorie jellies

Think of it as a forced rewrite - in all likelihood, the second go round will be better than the first 😊

Finished the first draft of book three! I'm really proud of this one, and I'm excited to get it out to some agents once I've finished editing.

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Around my neck of the woods, I'm not sure there's any specific term other than city boy / city girl etc. I love grockle, though!

Things are getting exciting in novel number three!

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My story, 'Bound', is included in Vol. 7 of Kinda Weird Magazine. It's a really cool mag with all sorts of nice music, art, and writing. Highly recommend checking it out!

If you read my story, let me know what you think of it ☺️

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Do any #writers have good alternatives for Grammarly or ProWritingAid?

Grammarly works well for catching misspelt words but doesn't account for style etc. - it wants you to write in a very specific way.

I'm not keen on PWA's integration into scrivener.

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The issue being that he is now part of a government, perhaps the most powerful one in the world.

It follows that it will be in Elon's interests to listen to ANY censorship requests from the US government.
The same goes for any amplification or discourse steering the US gov desires.

Concerning.

Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’ Musk has previously said X has “no choice” but to comply with these requests.

It's safe to assume that he complies with censorship requests when it comes from a government that he benefits from:

www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/242...

Musk decries government ‘censorship.’ His X has been more compliant. The social media platform’s new transparency report suggests that the site is more compliant under its high-profile, freewheeling owner than it used to be.

And whilst Elon says he's a free speech absolutist, his actions don't match his words. He's happy to bow to censorship requests:

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I've noticed the Elon apologists X are saying @bsky.app is a censored echo chamber because tweets targeting specific groups of people are being blocked.

Funny thing is, I can't tweet the word 'cisgender' because it's a slur. Thats despite anyone being free to tweet any number of other slurs 🤔