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Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order. 404 Media granted the bookseller anonymity because they worried sharing this information would harm their business. Biblio did not respond to a request for comment.

If you don't like that AO3 is too bright for you, they have a way to fix that, it's called "skins"

and while yes, you can make your own, other people have already made an abundance of them, and share them freely, as you can see from this alone, my AO3 is blue in theme.

And if you complain about seeing naughty stuff like Wattpad censored (thought of you are, idk why you're on AO3, but whatever, I won't judge out loud)

THERES A WAY TO FIX THAT!

First, go to whatever fandom tag you wish and up top you'll see some buttons.

Click the third one over and a bar will appear across the side of your screen, and you'll see this nifty creation called the "exclude section"

From there you're going to tap one of those little black arrows, for this example I'll choose "additional tags"

That will open a new drop down menu! That may or may not look similar to this one below where I've drawn an arrow to one of the tags I will want blocked from my filtered search

After tapping it the X turns red, that means you'll need to return to the top and click a button to filter your fics

The "Sort and Filter" button, once you do, fics tagged with the excluded tag will no longer appear!

BUT

be aware, this does not always exclude all fics that include those exactly aspects, which is why you filter THOROUGHLY.

Choose as many filtering options as you can.

If you don't want to see smut, filter out fics with ratings "Mature" and "Explicit" and under warnings perhaps even exclude some of those to make sure.

Beyond that, just use some sense, if it seems like it might be something distasteful to you specifically, then don't read it.

Fandom etiquette changes overtime, but AO3 IS NOT A FANDOM, it is an archive.

Act as if it were a library and do not leave rotting cheese among the pages, it's not classy, it's fucking trashy.

Do not critique what has already been written, you are not a beta reader, the author does not want you to be.

And most of all, there's a back button for a reason, fucking use it.

If you see a fawn laying down on the ground all alone, leave it alone. It is not lost, it does not need your help, do not pick it up, do not move it.

This behavior evolved to keep deer young safe. The baby is very small, very quiet, and hard for most predators to see. A young fawn cannot keep up with a fleeing mother deer, which is their primary problem-solving strategy. So while the mother goes elsewhere to graze, the fawn stays safe and hidden. The mom will be back.

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

And Dropout fans who haven't seen Taskmaster.