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writers love to be like “such and such made a brilliant speech” without knowing the first thing about what makes a brilliant speech and consequently showing their entire ass

look writers, my take is this :—

if you’re going to have your character be good at something with words—say, poetry, or public speaking, or telling folkloric stories—you’d better fucking learn how to be good at that thing yourself

« the encyclopedia lacks entries for fruit »

“The Nuttall Encyclopædia”

Editor: Rev. James Wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuttall_Encyclopædia

`Object.setPrototypeOf(new Array, null)` is definitely cursed but is it useful?

sometimes my brain asks questions which really ought to be obvious, like “why are the accounts on girlcock club always horny”

once javascript gets records and tuples then that is probably ⁜actually⁜ what i will want, however

having to significantly refactor this code because turns out i probably actually do want `Object.create(null)` instead of `Map` and `Array.from()` instead of `Set`

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• No major updates! There was a problem with Let’s Encrypt certificates? Didn’t seem to affect us! 😄

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• A reminder that October 8 (Friday) is International Lesbian Day!!

§ From Our Members

• I finished my work on https://www.u2764.com, an archive for various things I have published on the internet.

• @aescling is working on refactoring httpd.execline (which powers our WebFinger and her website) but it isn’t done yet!

#GlitchCat #SundayPost

oh right i should do a Sunday Post huh

straights don’t get to write books about the death drive

Naya should pick the first option

how to tell an author is Canadian

i also do not want to read about people incapable of maintaining professional distance

i’m not planning on reading this book

i could wake up every morning to discover that this cover and i shared a bed, and i would not consider my life a tragedy

give whoever designed this cover an award

if you want to write about someone unnaturally sexy and gifted, the correct genre for you is vampire fiction

i also do not want to read about widows, royalty, Harvard law students, or Navy SEALs

how hard is it to just write a book about somebody normal

romance authors: if i write a book about somebody normal then everybody will know i’m a fraud