She married well, or so she thought. He was wealthy. Their estate was large, their furnishings lush. But he was utterly cold. The #bountiful life she imagined was a mirage, a gilded mirror reflecting the emptiness of her soul. Loneliness in all that abundance was the worst sort of poverty. #vss365

He felt it the moment he stepped into his flat. It was cool and dark inside. His briefcase slipped out of his hand and fell to the floor; he barely noticed. He had just enough energy to make it to his recliner. His lids fell shut. As the #lethargy took over, he smiled. Let the weekend begin. #vss365

Today's sunset was creamy orange and purple with gray-tipped clouds. Spectacular, but weren't they all? Every evening brought a new canvas, and he collected each one. #Cataracts may have dimmed his vision, but the museum in his mind was filled with bright, beautiful watercolor paintings. #vss365

If you want to buy HOCL first before investing in the machine, you can purchase premade solution on Amazon. But I strongly discourage anyone from aerosolizing HOCL. At higher concentrations it can be damaging and we need to know exactly how how strong our solution is. It is safe for squirt spraying

2024 Year in Movies | Trailer Mashup - "In the midnight hour I can feel your power!" (flashy things) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7M...

i love fan exchanges the concept is so funny like what if we all loved these guys so much that we gave ourselves homework about it

I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃

I think it needs tweaking but it's a good start. 25 years ago at a dinner party someone asked if there was one thing you could change in the world what would it be. We immediately answered "End corporate personhood." The group of liberal friends thought we were crazy. Then Citizens United happened

Check out the Starsky and Hutch Archive for zines! We're slowly but surely adding more zines. You never know what treasures you'll find! www.starskyandhutcharchive.net/sharecon-201...

We're adding new videos to the Starsky and Hutch Archive. Here's a fan favorite! video.starskyandhutcharchive.net/if-i-had-a-m...

The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981–1996)

#MiddleclassWomenOfACertainAge unite, we have nothing to lose but our…. actually, we have nothing to lose

I will match this. (Hey @diane.dianeduane.com how should I do this again?) My DMs are open.

the two fallacies at work are that a) the purpose of making art is making good art (it's not; that's why we sing in the shower) and that b) making art is an inborn talent that you either have or don't, and therefore craft doesn't require practice and training (also laughably incorrect)

PT&A and Uncle Buck were my late partner's favorite movies 💕

With alt text. This was posted 2 years ago by TheXMan2024 in the xmen Reddit

Just grabbed my audiobook from Chirpbooks! 😍

We must must must resist the idea that generative AI is inevitable. It is not inevitable. People don't really like it. It doesn't do its job well. It removes the humanity from one of the most human-forward things. Not to mention it is an environmental nightmare. Keep banging the drum. Say no to AI.

A fic doesn't have to be novel-length to be 'worth' writing. Put your short stories, your flashfic, your drabbles out into the world 💕

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

If you are downloading your favorite fanworks from AO3, just a reminder that calibre and the FanFicFare plug-in for it can automate a lot of that for you (and download useful metadata along with the stories or fanvids or whatever). 🧵 calibre-ebook.com github.com/JimmXinu/Fan...

As we roll into Valentine’s Day, and with Easter looming- it’s time for my annual PSA- these kill cats. Period, full stop. Lily pollen is insanely toxic and will destroy their kidneys in 18 hours. If you have cats- THROW LILIES AWAY. 1/

Heads up: If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting. Go to Adobe account website on desktop -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

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@hardboiledbaby.bsky.social recs Eternal Holmes by Diana Williams www.vidrecs.com/video/227/et...

Huge, FREE #covid safety resource list! updates Look for the bold "NEW." Hot black N95s, car air purifier, LOTS of new insider tips/links in the section on what to do when infected. Share it with anyone who needs it. No one is safe until all of us are safe. Link: www.patreon.com/posts/huge-f...

Well played, my friend. Well played 👏

1.9.11 is up! - Hashtags are now supported! You can add #hashtags in the post text, or by using the new # button in the post composer! - Clicking on any hashtag either in text or in the post list will search posts with that hashtag and you can add that search as a column

Oh damn 😢 #RIP David McCallum

If you want to help support archiving of fan videos and preserving 18,000 fanvids with decades of fandom history, please consider tossing a dollar towards the vidders.net at patreon.com/vidding

I can't be the only person who sees 'bsky' and hears 'biskie' in my head, can I?

Diane Duane's early Star Trek novel DOCTOR'S ORDERS, on sale for only $0.99 today! @dianeduane.bsky.social Doctor McCoy is left in command of the Enterprise while Captain Kirk is off on a routine mission. Then Kirk goes missing. McCoy's day gets very complicated.... www.bookbub.com/books/star-t...

Vidding is a unique & spectacular alchemy of 3 of the most popular forms of media (TV, Movies, & Music) where the end result is greater than the sum of its parts. Its artistic existence can have a short life span making the experience of viewing them as much or more valuable than viewing a painting.

Heads up, Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio peeps: American Foods Group, LLC Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. Coli O103 Contamination | Food Safety and Inspection Service (usda.gov)

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

To avoid feeling like hammered dogshit for the week after you get your COVID booster, take 50mg diphenhydramine (Benadryl) 15-60 minutes before getting the booster. If you do feel like shit, avoid fermented foods and leftovers for the week after or until you feel better.

Vidding: A History is an engaging history of a fascinating art form & fan subculture. The book emphasizes that "vidding"--the practice of creating short video montages remixed from movie and TV footage and edited to popular songs--has a surprisingly long history . . . www.amazon.com/Vidding-Hist...

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I mean, not only horny users, but yes, horny users too.

I think people are misunderstanding this (and the picture is not helping) Key take away: 1) off the shelf sudafed made with _phenylephrine_ does not show effectiveness. 2) behind the counter sudafed made with _pseudoephedrine_ does work

CVS is now taking appointments for updated COVID boosters! You can schedule your shot starting Monday, September 18. Please please please get your booster, and tell your loved ones too!

If you buy a print book, you own it, the publisher got their cut, and that's the end of it. That goes for individuals and libraries alike. But eBooks aren't treated that way and, if the path we are on continues, it is going to financially ruin libraries. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The new HIGHLY INVASIVE ad monitoring & selling framework is now live in Google Chrome & it's ON by default, so you MUST EXPLICITLY OPT OUT. We all know this is bad, but here's how to do it: Settings>Privacy & Security>Ad Privacy, disable all 3 options: Ad Topics, Site-suggested Ads, Ad Measurement

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