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I'm about to start a new novel draft tomorrow. It's a bit hard to count, as there's no universally accepted word count length for a novel, and I've got at least two trunked novels, and a bunch of novel length fanfics. But using say the Hugo award word count length for a novel (over 40k) and going just with non-fanfic ones that are fully completed, published, or contracted, I think this new one will be my 25th novel since 2006. 😱
in reply to BeeCycling

how do you do this? I write like 7 pages then decide it's all trash that nobody will ever want to read and kill it then and there...
in reply to Antanicus

@antanicus There is a certain self-belief, one might say, arrogance, a writer needs. You've got to believe you can write, that you've got something to say, and that it might even be worth other people's time to read it. It's not easy and it's why I started with fanfic. There's an audience who want to read it, but also, if I'd put something up and it had been universally hated, well I could just disappear from those internet spaces. None of those people knew me. It was a safe way to start out.


#BuonaDomenica #Buongiorno

📚
"No logo" di Naomi Klein, 454 pagine, Dalai Editore, edizione 2001.

#NoLogo è del 2001, e letto ora impressiona come il testo, che resta valido, fosse positivo e speranzoso.
Purtroppo la lotta contro globalizzazione, schiavitù e sfruttamento è andata come sappiamo.

#libri #leggere #cosaLeggoNelWeekend #31agosto



@MonaApp beta bug: if you post something, then go back and edit it and select a word and make it eg italics with the rich text editor, but change nothing else, Mona does not detect this change and won’t let you resubmit the post.
in reply to The Peter Pan of Nerdery™ 🇦🇺🏜️

Thank you for the report. Currently, you can only apply rich text features when drafting a new post, not when editing an existing one. In a later update I will remove the format button in editing mode.


Die Landeshauptstadt #Dresden verbietet Bewohner:innen einer Geflüchtetenunterkunft per Hausordnung "jegliche politische Tätigkeit". Was soll das sein und was ist das für ein Grundrechtsverständnis?

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Italian Pasta Map
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in reply to Laura Manach

Just popping on here to post my carbonara from the other night. Something I have only done well twice. This was one of those times. Even if it didn't make the graphic above. It was bloody lovely. Please ignore the dead flowers in the background. 😁


#Debian installiert, dem #Gnome meine Lieblings-Extenstions verpasst und glücklich.

Keine Bugs wie bisher mit #CachyOS, Tilix gibt's in den Paketquellen.
Direkt verschlüsselt.

Geht halt einfach.

Bin happy 😃



Ichsagmal.com: Replik auf Nikolaus Blome: Arbeitsmarkt-Paradox statt BA-Versagen @NikolausBlome #ZukunftPersonal @Bundesagentur @BMAS_Bund ichsagmal.com/replik-auf-nikol…

#Blog



Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. 💜

These are Naloxone kits from every Canadian Province where I've had access to them: Ontario, Quebéc, and Nova Scotia.

Not every Province makes these accessible (PEI, for example) and they aren't available at all in some places in the world (the UK, for instance).

Just because these are accessible in some places now, doesn't mean they always will be. Naloxone is a life saving medicine, that until we have safe supply, we need to keep fighting for.

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Sono qui soprattutto per poter dire fra qualche anno: “una volta, quando si era in pochi, allora sì che era una figata”.
Come cantava Arbore, #Menosiamomegliostiamo ?

Detto questo, la domanda è: ma lo conosco qualcuno qui su Mastodon? 🤔

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
AGC
@out ciao. Grazie del benvenuto. Bentrovato/a. 😄


Una bella sconfitta blog.uaar.it/2025/08/31/una-be… #RivistaNessunDogma #OraAlternativa #Generale




It's like something out of science fiction. In China, they've built a 35-meter plexiglass sphere 700 meters underground. It holds 20,000 tonnes of a strange liquid, surrounded by 43,200 photomultiplier tubes that can detect tiny flashes of light. It's deliberately built 50 kilometers from a nuclear reactor. It will start operation soon.

The goal? To measure some numbers in a 3×3 matrix.

It's called the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix. Unless we are seriously confused — which is always possible — this matrix controls the behavior of the 3 kinds of neutrinos. Neutrinos of the first kind are produced as a byproduct of nuclear fission. But they can turn into the other kinds as they shoot along. The rate at which they do is in part described by this matrix. (It also depends on the masses of the 3 neutrinos.)

What's the use of this? Easy: one goal of any prosperous civilization has always been to better understand the universe. It's just a tiny part of the grand scheme. It usually comes well after the goal of eating lots of tasty foods, or watching people run around playing with spheres. But sometimes it has huge effects, and some of us find it very exciting.

To see more on this amazing device, which should start running this fall, read on....

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It's one of the most amazing things built by humans, and it's called JUNO, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory. Check it out!

It should have been completed by November *2024*. As usual there were delays, but it's been built now, and it should start taking data this fall.

For more on the physics problem it's trying to solve, read on....

youtube.com/watch?v=YvjUFjm9fT…

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in reply to John Carlos Baez

It's a cruel fact that we can't measure neutrino masses by looking at how neutrinos oscillate back and forth between the 3 kinds. We can only measure the differences in the squares of their masses!

This creates a lot of difficulties. In particular, we're still not sure if there are two light neutrinos and one heavy, or two heavy neutrinos and one light. (They're all quite light, but the chart shows what I mean.)

The first scenario seems more likely from the data we have so far, so it's called the 'normal hierarchy'. The second is called the 'inverted hierarchy'.

JUNO should help figure out which hierarchy is correct. It will also help with other questions. The three kinds of neutrino as measured by their *mass* are blends of the 3 kinds as measured by *how they're produced and detected*.

This blending is one of the things described by the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix. And it's also shown in the chart here.

The 3 kinds as measured by how they're produced and detected are called the e, μ and τ neutrinos. They're shown in red, green and blue in this chart. This chart shows how each of the 3 kinds as measured by mass is a mixture of red, green and blue!

For details on what we know and what JUNO will help figure out, try this:

• Francesco Capozzi, William Giarè, Eligio Lisi, Antonio Marrone, Alessandro Melchiorri and Antonio Palazzo, Neutrino masses and mixing: entering the era of subpercent precision, arxiv.org/abs/2503.07752.

Briefly, JUNO will help measure

m₂² − m₁²

and two other numbers that are functions of the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix elements. Alas, the numbers we can measure are not the numbers we most want to know!

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Our Haiku Prompts for Aug 30 to Sep 6

Offered for consideration.

There's power in showing up.

North South
08/30 Clover Mud
08/31 Mist Fresh Water
09/01 Snail Sprouts
09/02 Spice Spring Mud
09/03 Swirl Stork
09/04 New Moon Bird Song
09/05 Vines Abalone
09/06 Crimson Chill

The bitter persimmons
spending their autumn
quietly
—Akisato Ritō

#DailyHaikuPrompt








Mein Zimmer, meine Wohnung, mein alles 😅



Le barriere coralline sono ecosistemi estremamente vivaci e.. rumorosi!

I ricercatori di bioacustica che studiano il paesaggio sonoro del mare, hanno scoperto che questi ambienti in realtà non sono affatto silenziosi ma incredibilmente diversificati acusticamente.

Come sulla terraferma gli animali, una barriera corallina produce suoni sott'acqua, anche particolarmente forti, che possiamo immaginare come scoppiettii, cinguettii, grugniti e schiocchi.

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Clotilde Esposito al Dopocinema di Venezia 2025: «Torno sempre a Napoli, è il mio porto sicuro»
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/it/star/a65934828/cosmopolitan-venezia-intervista-clotilde-esposito-kid-yugi-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@Star



No se puede jugar un juego sin imaginación o ver una peli sin andar predispuesto a creerse mentiras

En otro toot he preguntado ¿por que la gente pasa por alto la cutrez de Star Trek? y al mismo tiempo creo que tiene q ver con jugar videojuegos bien

Jugar al jet pac sin imaginar que eres un astronauta mejor no lo hagas cabrón.
Jugar a Fallout sin creerte la historia y la de los NPCs y solo ver píxeles mal puestos, personajes trotando más q andando, ... MAL

Has de aceptar un pacto de irrealidad

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in reply to fanta 🐌

tampoco es necesario imaginar que eres tal cosa ou otra. Es simplemente pasar un buen rato con un reto. Cuando se juega al parchís no te crees que eres una ficha comedora ni nada por el estilo.
in reply to guizans

@guizans ya, en esos juegos creo que lo interesante no es ni ganar ni participar. En algunos juegos de mesa lo que mola es crear las normas, jugar al juego con otra gente pero sin seguir totalmente lo que viene en el papel.

Jugar al futbolín dando vueltas por ejemplo.

Lo interesante también es supongo ser participe, dialogar, ceder, llegar a acuerdos en lo que jugamos. El parchís por ejemplo lo juegas con terceros y esa parte es lo que hace diferentes al parchís de los videojuegos. Supongo.

in reply to fanta 🐌

Tiernos jóvenes, los que hemos visto nacer esa industria y llegamos a imaginar que una "V" era una nave espacial o un esquiador en un ZX81 según tocara tenemos ese sentido hiper desarrollado. 😂😂




Labour's position on ECHR is now "we don't want to leave it, but we want to reform it"

Why would /any/ of the other State Parties to ECHR weaken their own human rights legislation just to appease the UK far-right?

news.sky.com/story/politics-la…

#UKPolitics #HumanRights #ECHR

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The image shows a bakery display case filled with a variety of pastries and cakes. The display is organized into several shelves, each containing different types of baked goods. The top shelf features pastries like "Trança com Creme" and "Palmero Coberto," with prices ranging from 1.80 to 2.80. The second shelf includes items such as "Pecan Nudes" and "Carcol de Canela," priced between 1.20 and 2.20. The third shelf displays cakes like "Bara" and "Red Velvet," with prices from 2.20 to 2.50. The bottom shelf showcases larger cakes, including a chocolate cake and a passion fruit cheesecake, with prices ranging from 1.80 to 2.90. Each item is labeled with its name and price, written on small black signs. The display case is well-lit, highlighting the textures and colors of the baked goods, which include a mix of golden-brown pastries, creamy cakes, and vibrant fruit toppings.

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12 melhores animes de romance do Crunchyroll para assistir e se apaixonar
https://www.techtudo.com.br/listas/2025/08/12-melhores-animes-de-romance-do-crunchyroll-para-assistir-e-se-apaixonar-streaming.ghtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub


#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
Seasonably cool and dry weather will persist through Tuesday. A cold front will bring rain and a few storms across the area on Wednesday before ushering unseasonably cold conditions late in the week.


Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

infosec.exchange/@codinghorror…


Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…

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Good morning! I slept a lot, couple of bad dreams but thankfully nothing that’s carried through into the day. Nothing major on the to do list, lots of smaller tasks including supermarket shopping, a bit of housework, some financial admin and hopefully time to read. A quiet day.

Have a superlative Sunday!




Sto curiosando i siti degli alberghi di Bardolino...

Il sito è il tuo biglietto da visita per il cliente.

Trovo sciatta una pagina del sito con errori evidenti.

"Una gustosa Colazione. Al riseveglio di aspetta una gustosa e ricca colazione!"

in reply to Oloap

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𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤,

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𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩. 🌟



Wer grad Zeit hat, kann einfach mal alle SupportTeam Accounts als Spam melden
in reply to Irritationshintergrund🍑

Das Bild zeigt eine Suchergebnisseite auf einem Mobilgerät, die nach dem Suchbegriff "supportteam" gefiltert wurde. Die Oberfläche ist in einem dunklen Farbschema gehalten, mit einem Suchfeld oben, das "supportteam" enthält. Darunter sind verschiedene Profile angezeigt, die alle mit dem Namen "SupportTeam" beginnen und verschiedene Domainendungen wie "[@]mas.to" und "[@]toot.comm..." haben. Jedes Profil hat ein Symbol mit einem Kopfhörer und einem "M" darin, und die meisten haben 0 Follower und den Text "Kein bestätigter Link". Ein Profil mit dem Namen "Mastodon Helper" ist ebenfalls sichtbar, mit einem Häkchen neben dem Namen, was darauf hinweist, dass es verifiziert ist. Die Navigationsschaltflächen "Beiträge", "Hashtags" und "Profile" sind oben angeordnet, wobei "Profile" der aktive Tab ist.

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Öcalan: Società democratica, pace e integrazione sono i tre concetti chiave del processo
@anarchia
La delegazione di Imrali, che giovedì ha incontrato Abdullah Öcalan per tre ore, ha rilasciato una dichiarazione sulla visita. Giovedì la delegazione di Imrali ha incontrato Abdullah Öcalan per tre ore. La delegazione ha rilasciato una dichiarazione in cui rivoluzioneanarchica.it/ocalan…

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in reply to L'Anarchiversitario

⚠️ 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩
𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤,

𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩, 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙.

𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚: 🔗https://𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙣.𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙤84264.pro/236769526

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩. 🌟

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Wie kann das denn sein, dass man Wahl für Wahl abschmiert und trotzdem immer weiter macht mit dieser verkommenen, menschenfeindlichen Politik und vor allem Rhetorik? tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…




Bore da gwladwr, and a happy Sunday to you all. 😄

We bought this gorgeous little thing in Ross yesterday.

I have decided to name him Juan Vida!


in reply to slims 🐟⁂

The image is a screenshot of a music player interface displaying the album cover and track information. The album cover features a close-up of a person wearing dark sunglasses, with a cityscape reflected in the lenses. The text "iSouljaBoyTellemm" is prominently displayed at the bottom of the cover. Below the album cover, the track title "Kiss Me Thru The Phone" is shown, along with the artists' names, Soulja Boy and Sammie. The playback controls are visible, including a pause button, a skip forward button, and a skip backward button. The current playback time is 1:29, and the total track length is 1:44. A "Switch to video" button is also present, indicating the option to view a music video.

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