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jadeazora

Oh, free Mewtwo and Master Ball timed research is live on Pokemon GO.

"Free" both in "costs nothing" and "extremely easy".

Edit: ....Pardon?

Edit 2#: Got 'im.

cdx1016

Coming in HOT! (viacarad1016)

spin-the-wheel-polls

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

#sensitive to sunlight #that sucks

49wasagreatyear

Nazca Hydraulic

Engineering: The Cantalloc Aqueducts and Puquios System

The Cantalloc aqueducts, constructed by the Nazca culture approximately 2,000 years ago, are located about 4 km north of the modern city of Nazca in southern Peru. Part of a larger network of underground and semi-underground aqueducts known as Puquios, the system originally comprised more than 46 structures. Today, 32 of these aqueducts remain operational, demonstrating remarkable long-term functionality.

In this arid region, surface rivers flow for only around 40 days per year, creating severe challenges for sustained agriculture. The Nazca engineers developed the Puquios to capture and channel groundwater to agricultural fields, enabling the reliable cultivation of crops such as cotton, beans, potatoes, and maize. The structures consist of carefully engineered underground channels lined with stone paving and reinforced with huarango (Prosopis pallida) wood, a durable local material resistant to decay in dry conditions.

A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of spiral-shaped ventilation shafts that descend into the ground. These shafts serve multiple purposes: they facilitate airflow to maintain water quality, allow access for maintenance, and help regulate pressure within the subterranean conduits. The precise geometric design, consistent gradients, and integration of mathematical and architectural principles reflect advanced knowledge of hydrology, geology, and civil engineering.

This hydraulic system stands as a sophisticated example of pre-Columbian water management technology adapted to extrem

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darlingofdots

ten years ago as part of my creative writing degree we had a class on professional development where we learned how the publishing process works for different mediums and how to choose an agent and what the role of a publishing house is and back then, the advice was "self-publishing has its advantages but a traditional publisher will provide editorial support and market your book and if your book sells well enough they want to invest in your future" and now basically none of that is true anymore. books make it to shelves with noticeable errors and structural issues that could be addressed with one or two more rounds of developmental editing, authors are expected to do more and more of the marketing themselves to the point that they are expected to be social media influencers in their own right, and publishers appear to be prioritising flashy debut novels with huge advances they don't outsell, which means the author is less likely to get a follow-up deal.

Obviously a publisher is a business and a business needs to make money, but the idea used to be that you'd have a couple of very successful authors who bring in so much cash that they subsidise the new kid who is building a back catalogue of books that sell okay until they get name recognition and pay for themselves. I was told back then that a couple thousand pounds was very reasonable for a debut novel because you want to get royalties for the sales exceeding your advance and that way the publisher sees you as a profitable investment. The last couple of years I keep hearing about six figure book deals for debut (!) literary fiction (!) novels, what on earth?

I'm not saying that the publishing industry is uniquely awful or that it's worse than it's ever been or whatever, but especially in a time when reading and talking about books is trendy and there is so much money in books, it feels very, I don't know, symbolic? Prioritising flashy one-time projects over sustained and sustainable growth. Investing only enough resources to make your product fit for sale but not enough to make it good because people will buy it anyway. It's frustrating to me as a reader and as an aspiring writer and as a person existing in a capitalist system.

poorshadowspaintedqueens

One of the tags referred to people thanking their editorial teams in acknowledgments, and I want to point out the growing prevalence of people thanking beta-readers and writing groups, both of which usually rely on a pre-existing community or relationship and, just as importantly, are unpaid.

My day job is as a freelance editor for nonfiction books, and I can safely say that if the publishing industry were operating as intended, I would either not have a job at all or be working for a specific press. Authors pay me directly to do the work that a press editor used to do as part of publication contracts. This is because so many presses have started outsourcing all their editorial work to either third-party contractors or, even worse, to genAI.

In short, venture capital has broken the publication industry the same way it's broken the retail, restaurant, and travel industries.

darlingofdots

I didn't go into this side of it in my original post but YES! Fuck! I know this is a huge issue for translators too because they're being asked to do more work in less time for less money and I've heard rumblings about human translators being brought in only to essentially proofread work done by AI, which is so disrespectful to the sheer skill and artistic abilities of (literary) translation...

Anyway, I love editing. I think I love editing almost more than writing, and I'm pretty sure that I'm better at it. Last year I edited an academic article from 11k to 9k words for my supervisor and I felt like a god when I finished it, but when my supervisor asked if I'd thought about doing this professionally, I had to tell her that there's just not a viable career in editing anymore. Publishers used to employ! editors! Several different kinds of editors for different stages of the process! That used to be my dream job!

Editing is so essential to making a text good. It doesn't matter how talented or dedicated you are as a writer, you cannot achieve the level of quality by yourself that you could achieve by working with a skilled editor. That's normal! The lone genius who comes out of the cave with the perfect novel does not exist! The manuscript that gets sold to a publisher is supposed to be handed off to an editor who tells you to tighten up that plotline and reminds you that every day can't be Tuesday and sharpens your prose so your voice really shines. Skimping out on that part of the publication process takes money out of the hands of skilled professionals, leads to consumers (ew) receiving subpar products (ew!), and is such an injustice to the writers whose work can't reach its full potential (and the writers who won't get published because they can't afford to pay an editor out of pocket!).

It drives me up the wall. I hate reading a mediocre book and knowing that a skilled editor could have easily raised it from 3 stars to 4. We should all be way angrier about it, frankly.

One of the downsides of ai, as someone who now has to read several ai assisted emails, is that it's so fucking long. 90% of this is not needed. Got an 8 page report. Maybe 2 useful pages

sexybritishllama

just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews

Man people will call anything a twink huh

themakeupbrush

Geyanna Youness

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ivy-michaels

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

randomitemdrop

Item: Corset of Visibility

obscurelocalstranger

amnesiaguy

you can experience life altering devastating emotion and then your cat will throw up next to you & look at you like does this help ?

frostedmagnolias

Evening Dress

c. 1810

unknown maker, England

Victoria and Albert Museum

sevserez

Soup incident

#comics

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Alternate between mad that womens athletic socks were only available in pastel and thankful I wont confuse them for someone else's socks

#mostly mad tho #they dont need to be pink

orcboxer

it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! 🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,

arroscnleche

soy yooo tu ángel de la guarda holiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 bueno. en como seis meses, vas a morir de hambre. 🥺 y si no te protejo, me van a: #¡despedir! 🫢 y eso No esta Chido 🙅‍♀️jajaaa Entonces. 🙏investigue acerca del tema y resulta que: ¡puedo prevenir tu muerte al 100%! 😯 ¡Uh oh! 😆 Hay más que suficiente comida para que sobrevivas sin que interfieras con la supervivencia de los demás, ¡pero no puedes teneral! 🤨 ¿Queeeé? 🤷‍♀️ Al parecer, tu muerte fue premeditada por miles de cosas llamadas "accionistas." Y bueno. 🙏 empeze a matar personas,

tracing-rivers

c'est moooi ton ange gardien coucooou 😇 bon 🙏 alors. dans genre six mois, tu vas mourir de faim. 🥺 et si je te protège pas, je vais me faire: #virer ! 🫢 et ça c'est pas Pas Super 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Donc. 🙏 j'ai fait mes recherches sur les causes de famine et devine quoi: Ta mort est 100% évitable ! 😯 Oh-oh ! 😆 Il y a largement assez de ressources pour te nourrir sans interférer avec la survie d'autrui, mais tu n'y as pas accès ! 🤨 Quoooi ? 🤷‍♀️ Apparemment ta mort a été préméditée par des milliers de trucs appelées des "actionnaires". Du coup.🙏 j'ai tué pas mal de monde,

clockworkspider

hiiiiii 😇 我是亲的守护小天使！okay🙏 嗯。您在差不多半年会饿死哈🥺 若我不能救您我会被#炒鱿鱼！🫢 那可不行哦🙅‍♀️ 哈哈。所以昵🙏我查了一下人类饿死的原因，然后发现：诶呀呀😯亲的死是可以避免哒！😆 这世上有足够食物给亲吃，一点儿也不需要影响别人的生存率哒！但不给亲！🤨 怎么会这样昵？ 🤷‍♀️ 原来，亲的死是被一帮叫“股东”的东西计算好滴！所以昵🙏 我杀了一些人，

orcboxer

y'all are doing some rosetta stone shit to me

megacarapa

to sam jaaa tvoj anđeo čuvar hejjjjjj 😇 ok🙏 dakle. za nekih šest mjeseci, umrijeti ćeš od gladi. 🥺 i ako te ja ne zaštitim, dobit ću: #otkaz! 🫢 i to Ne Može🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Dakle.🙏 proučila sam o uzrocima gladi, i ispalo je ovako: Tvoja smrt je totalno sprječiva! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 Ima dosta i previše hrane da te održi bez da ometa preživljavanje ikoga drugog, ali nije ti dozvoljena! 🤨 Štaaa? 🤷‍♀️ Izgleda da je tvoja smrt unaprijed isplanirana sa strane gomilu stvari koje se zovu "dioničari". Dakle. 🙏 Počela sam klati ljude,

cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords

Ich biiiiiiiins dein schutzengel hiiiii 😇 okeee 🙏 also. in so sechs monaten wirst du verhungern. 🥺 und wenn ich dich nich beschütz, werd ich: #gefeuert! 🫢 und das Wär Blöd. 🙅‍♀️hahaaa also. 🙏 ich hab mir mal die ursachen fürs verhungern angeschaut, und es stellt sich raus: dein tod is völlig vermeidbar! 😯 ohjemine!! 😆Es gibt mehr als genug essen um dich am leben zu erhalten ohne dass es das überleben anderer einschränkt, aber du darfst es nicht haben! 🤨 Wie jeeetzt? 🤷‍♀️ anscheinend ist dein ableben durch tausende von sogenannten 'Aktionären' vorgeplant. Also. 🙏 ich habe angefangen leute zu töten,

snakesarefuckingcute

Det är jaaaag jag är din skyddsängel heeeejjjj 😇 okej 🙏 så. om ungefär sex månader kommer du svälta ihjäl. 🥺 och om jag inte skyddar dig blir jag: #avskedad! 🫢 och det är Inte Bra 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Så. 🙏 jag kollade på orsakerna till svält och det visade sig att: Din död är helt förbyggbar! 😯 Ojsan! 😆 Det finns mer än tillräckligt med mat för att du ska klara dig utan att påverka någon annans överlevnad, men du får inte den! 🤨 Vaaaaaaaa? 🤷‍♀️ tydligen är din död orsakad av tusentals saker som kallas "aktieägare." Så. 🙏 Jag har dödat folk,

gihussysupremacy

Se oon mä, sun suojelusenkeli tässä heiii😇 okei🙏 eli. noin kuuden kuukauden päästä sä kuolet nälkään.🥺 Ja jos mä en suojele sua, mä saan #potkut! 🫢 ja se Ei Oo Hyvä🙅‍♀️ hahaa Joten🙏 mä tutkin nälkäkuoleman syitä, ja kävi ilmi: sun kuolema on täysin vältettävissä!😯 Ohhoh! 😆 Maailmassa on enemmän ku tarpeeks ruokaa pitämään sut elossa ilman että se vaikuttaa kenenkään muun selviytymiseen, mutta sä et saa sitä! 🤨 Mitääää? 🤷‍♀️ Ilmeisesti sun kuolemas on suunniteltu juttu, toteutettu tuhansien niin sanottujen "osakkeenomistajien" toimesta. Joten.🙏 Oon tappanu porukkaa

naiad-r

би шүүүүүүү харин таны хамгаалагч сахиусан тэнгэр нь байна сайн уууууу 😇 за🙏 тэгэхээр. ойролцоогоор зургаан сарын дотор та өлсөж үхнэ. 🥺 тэгээд би таныг хамгаалж чадахгүй бол: #халагдана! 🫢 энэ нь Сайн Биш 🙅‍♀️ хэхэээ Тэгэхээр. 🙏 би өлсгөлөнгийн шалтгааныг судалж үзээд нэг ийм юм илрүүллээ: таныг үхлээс бүрэн сэргийлж болно! 😯 Өө! 😆 Бусдын амьдралд ямар ч саадгүйгээр таныг тэжээх хангалттай хоол хүнс байгаа ч та үүнийгээ авах эрхгүй! 🤨 юу вэээ? 🤷‍♀️ Үзвэл, таны үхлийг "хувьцаа эзэмшигчид" гэж нэрлэгддэг мянга мянган зүйлс урьдчилан төлөвлөсөн байдаг юм байна. Тэгэхээр. 🙏 би хүмүүсийг алаад байгаад,

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