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I am feeling so fucking emotional about the fact that not only did this guy read a huge chunk of my essay, but he spent so much time backing up what I said with video clips and photos.

I cut down the video so that Tumblr would actually post it — it's almost 25m long — but please go watch the whole thing and let him know I sent you. It's a REALLY good video.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

Amazing work. Effective and to the point. I am too poor to support otherwise I would have a send a coffee your way.

A trans sister from across the Atlantic

She was then accused of having a fake license.

THIS is something that needs to be broken up. Not into separate fics in a series, just into chapter. Please.

A number of fics with tags I like and interesting summaries have cropped up in my fandom and I would like to be able to enjoy them, but they just impossible to read. I have to leave the tab open on my browser, and leave my browser open to hold my place. This makes my computer slow. If I'm on my phone, even if I leave my browser open, when I return to it, it automatically kicks me back to the top of the page. It is impossible to hold my place. I have a job and a family, I cannot read a 5o,ooo word fic in one sitting. I need to be able to put it down and not lose my place.

Please, authors, please break your fics up into chapters! Your readers will thank you for it.

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Some people prefer 50k as a single chapter, and plenty of authors claim they can't figure out where to divide it.

Personally, I do think that the majority of 50k works could easily be broken into chapters, and this is preferable since AO3 has the 'entire work' button for people who prefer to read that way, but there's no way to divide a single-chapter work into chapters with a simple button click. That's not going to motivate authors who prefer to post this way though.

HAVE A RADIO (with a battery power option).

If you do not have electricity, the radio may be your only source of information!

"natural disasters are going to start happening here as the climate keeps changing"

"one shift in government regulations or corporate ownership and essential needs become artificially scarce"

"they haven't updated the infrastructure since the 1940s and it's about to blow"

"one financial downfall and i'm living out of my car"

"i can live without basic needs for a while, but my kids/pets/dependents can't"

Also it's super useful to have a 32GB or 64GB Memory Stick that can be plugged into both the USB Port on a Desktop Computer, and the USB-C charging Port on a Smartphone. You can keep some files on there that you may need access to when you evacuate with Just your Phone, or when you have unstable/Limited electricity so you can't afford to start your Desktop Computer but you CAN keep your Phone charged.

Apps that may be useful for when Part of the internet doesn't Work:

Navigation App that works with just GPS and downloadable offline Maps (Like OSMand)

eBook Reader App that is compatible with all the file types and can navigate your phone's internal Memory

some offline Games

apps that make use of your phone's short-range Wireless connectivity for purposes you think you May need (Like file Transfer, local networking...)

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

How am I supposed to hold it?

Got some squishy little silicone tart cups. They're rated to go to 446F and can be used in an air fryer.

I do want to try other things with these- I've got some bananas that are going to go soft soon, and I want to try putting banana bread batter in them to make little banana bread treats, and see how well they freeze/thaw after baking. It would be nice to not have to eat an entire loaf of banana bread at top speed.

I think they'd work for dehydrating eggs in, too. I want to make some egg powder to test out (I don't generally NEED egg powder, my birds lay more than enough for me to take an egg break over winter, but winter time is when I do most of my baking of things, as the oven helps keep the house a little warmer, and I can use dehydrated eggs for baking without having to take up a ton of fridge space for egg cartons.

There were several reviews saying that they were a good size for mini pot pies and ngl, that sounds great. I love a high crust to filling ratio. i might try little meat pied or mushroom pies, too. I like the idea that they can kinda be peeled out of these silicone cups rather than being in a tin.

This headline is missing some important nuance -- it's a headline, there's only so much they can do -- in that the Vatican said "this action you have taken excommunicates you." That is, 'we're not actively doing this to you, you are doing this to yourself, because we told you this was beyond the acceptable boundaries.'

The Vatican went way beyond what most of my Catholic friends expected -- they expected the bishops and maybe some priests to get excommunicated, but the laity and the nuns and... the Vatican has basically said 'bet, try it. See what happens.' (Excommunication, that's what happens.)

If you are on BlueSky and you are not following Claire Willett, you are truly missing out on some good fucking tea. Claire is a lesbian lifelong Catholic from Portland who knows her shit & has been sitting watching all of this with a giant bucket of popcorn and translating for the rest of us: