@pastelsinmysky i feel like many years ago before i was into BTS i read a crow namjoon fic and was like ‘hm compelling’ and then never followed up on it
Kindness of Strangers
@alpine_thistle playing the long game???
Kindness of Strangers
@alpine_thistle so, concubines and mistresses were legally distinct from adultery within the church?
@kate only one bites
food, baking results
@runpunkrun i’d be interested in hearing how it works out!
food, baking results
@runpunkrun the NYT has a marshmallow cookie recipe i’ve been meaning to try ( https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024782-mexican-hot-chocolate-cookies ) which recommends freezing the marshmallows solid to reduce the melting issues. So perhaps they do something similar for their photos? Tho why not just include it in the recipe as a tip in that case….
@rowyn aww our little rock friend is so diligent!
@rowyn (no art?)
@pagrus was this inspired by a particularly good or poor example?
@lookitmychicken congrats!!
@ryfulets it really does make you wonder what it was about them that snagged so many of their friends imaginations in such a specific way
D&D stats poll, 1 of 2
@twistylittlepassages i feel like my wis/int/cha are all high enough to get by—don’t have great strength and my dex is…lets say narrowly applied and while a free boost to either might be *nice* i don’t think it’s quite as important as remediating my terrible con (which also gets in the way of doing the things which would build strength and dex naturally)
food
@pamela it’d depend how much other stuff was in the scrambled egg besides the egg for me (i usually try to sneak plenty of fat in) but it doesn’t sound *that* unreasonable honestly if you’re craving easily digestible protein
@TheGentleKlingon metatext!
activists open letter to Meta about hatespeech and misinformation on threads: https://accountabletech.org/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-Meta.pdf
Amnesty international again, talking about how their business model is fundamentally problematic & makes these human rights abuses inevitable:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol30/1404/2019/en/ (or, media coverage of the same: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20974832/facebook-google-surveillance-data-assault-privacy-amnesty-international )
more recent, Meta censoring peaceful protests against the Palestinian genocide: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content
Sophie Zang (ex facebook employee) on how internal whistleblowers have basically no effect, no matter how dire the claims they’re raising: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-fake-engagement-whistleblower-sophie-zhang
@Cyborgneticz @negative12dollarbill the UN and Amnesty international reports (or media coverage of those, if you need something more accessible) are also good “official” sources on what happened:
@negative12dollarbill @Cyborgneticz was just about to link that one, seconding.
@kate …which of the many civil wars in which Obi Wan has been implied to have banged at least one of the leaders are you referring to
sleepy af
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