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Ikea has stuffed ones! [more]
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After ten years of an impressive-looking career at various prestigious advocacy nonprofits, I had a great resume and a crappy life. Constantly stressed, thinking of all the things I wished I had the energy to create on my own time, and justifying it… [more]
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When I rewatched this episode knowing the ending, I was blown away by the private conversation we see between Michael and Shawn. This is a real mess, huh? No matter what they decide, I'd bet you're gonna be in pretty hot water with your boss… [more]
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I got to ride in a Weinermobile once in Chicago because a friend of a friend was one of the drivers, and hand to god, we would not have gotten more attention from people on the street if we’d been in the popemobile. People lost their minds. This… [more]
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(maybe she wouldn't have slept with Spike in 6 if she'd just signed up for e-harmony or something...) You know, they never come right out and SAY this, but Buffy only tends to maintain long-term relationships with guys who are, like her,… [more]
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I always assumed that Dru was the one who killed that woman. [more]
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Also - are you sure you haven’t UNDERwatered? Overwatering is much more of a concern in containers than in the ground. I know just as many if not more people who kill plants by underwatering out of fear of overwatering, than people who kill… [more]
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It’s clear you feel a massive amount of shame about the circumstances that led to the stains. You seem to think eviction is a “punishment” you “deserve” for warping a floorboard. Please stop thinking that because it isn’t true. Your landlord wasn’t… [more]
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I just started reading these books in March and am already on Murder Must Advertise. I’m obsessed. I had never even heard of these before a friend told me about them this year and they might be my favorite mystery series now? Certainly up there… [more]
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It could just be plain old sun exposure on plants not accustomed to it. The other ones you planted earlier that are doing better - do they get less sun? And/or did you plant them when the temperature was cooler and the angle of the sun was lower?… [more]
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My friend, hoping to find photos of tugboats working on freeing the ship, image-searched “ever given tugs.” She did not receive images of tugboats. [more]
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When I first heard the phrase “autofiction” recently, I assumed it was something to do with automatic writing, like, the spiritualist thing. I thought it was all fiction supposedly written by spirits with the author as a medium. The reality is so… [more]
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Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year
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Actually, I've never had fiction work rejected. DAMN IT SCALZI With that said, I've had rejections galore in non-fiction and also when I've gone to pitch in LA, and when I was in newspapers I was turned down for jobs I've applied… [more]
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Incredible clawhammer banjo playing
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First off - you know this has absolutely jack shit to do with a couple stains on the floor, right? They want more money so they’re kicking you out to rent to someone with more money, and they are telling you it’s because of (minor and easily fixable)… [more]
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This was the first movie to make me cry in the theater as a kid. I will probably never rewatch it because I’m sure it’s not, uh, great, but it will always have a special place in my heart. [more]
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Ok but… where did the shoes come from?? I can’t believe this is the thing I’m hung up on but, why are there thousands of pairs of shoes in the basement if the shoe company had no knowledge of this whole plan? Who manufactured them? [more]
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I had an old roommate like this. She was just a negative and self-centered person who really could not grasp that calling all my favorite local businesses bad and dumb was mean and insulting. Her own personal experiences and tastes were the only… [more]
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I mean, text-to-speech has gotten awfully good in the past few years. I know someone who’s written half a novel verbally. Worth a shot? [more]
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My pal that is a puddle not a pond! Any way you can expand it? Anything that tiny is gonna be far less able to weather changes of any sort. [more]
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I think it’s important to point out that all the NYT knows about the the texts is what Fox’s lawyers chose to show them. There’s nothing in there confirming that he was fired over those specific texts that lawyers were willing to show a… [more]
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I think the word "conflict" might be making you limit the examples you pick necessarily - in this situation, "mild disagreement that was cordially resolved" is totally fine. Can you think of a time when you worked on a… [more]
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“Interior redesigner” is an actual thing! I know someone who specializes in it (not near you unfortunately). Googling that term and your location might get you somewhere. [more]
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The snow globe scene says that the CFO doesn’t stay anywhere very long - either because she gets replaced or because the businesses get shut down. Huh… now I’m wondering if the VC firm has some ulterior motive for funding Keeley’s… [more]
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I maintain that this is the worst song in recorded music history. And I said, what about Breakfast At Tiffany's? She said, I think I remember the song And I said, as I recall, we both kinda loathed it And she said, well, that's one… [more]
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I had never even heard of this before yesterday but I immediately sent the trailer to a bunch of friends. Can’t wait to watch, I love a show with a premise this convoluted and The Leftovers was delightful. [more]
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How many other nations have multiple champions in an activity that's popular in other parts of the world but which they don't pay much attention to? US women’s national soccer team? [more]
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"I like my evil like I like my men: evil." YES this was so perfect. [more]
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Send out the laundry! This alone will save you so much time. [more]
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I need to slowly decode all of them... and then I will instantly forget or reverse them on my way to input them into another platform. If people would write "Thursday April 20, at 7pm Mountain Time" I would do WAY better So, I… [more]
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Now, years later, I can buy things, but I feel terrible if I "wasted" money because I could've gotten it for cheaper. I'll literally spend hours feeling bad about $3. When you buy something, you are not just buying the thing… [more]
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Wow, just imagine a pediatrician saying that an injured child freaking out in the doctor’s office was a “bad kid.” Obviously dogs are not kids but that’s the level of shockingly unprofessional we’re looking at here. [more]
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I need thought approaches, like: One thing that may help - make a habit of always writing back to people to confirm dates, written out in the style that makes sense to you. “Just to confirm, we’re on for Thursday June 8 at 7 Eastern?” or… [more]
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It sounds like you wish these people realized you loathed them, but you're unwilling to tell them you loathe them, so you just stew and stew and stew and stew. Maybe see if you can arrange your life so that you don't hate 80% of the people you… [more]
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Even benevolent gods are terrifying when you actually run into one. I mean, how do you oppose an entity that's always ten steps ahead of you? This is giving me shades of an earlier era of sci-fi, like in one of the later I, Robot stories… [more]
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The fatty bits shrink more than the meaty bits, so the meaty bits become warped as the edges are pulled in by the fat's shrinkage - imagine putting a sweater knitted from part wool and part cotton in a dryer. Every slice of bacon has a unique… [more]
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I saw a tumblr post about this and I honestly couldn’t tell if it was a real trend or a joke. I’m kinda still not sure. [more]
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Huh… I’ve always quit jobs by just popping into my boss’s office and saying “hey, do you have a minute?” Never did any rigamarole about setting up a meeting. [more]
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Regarding the part about whether to tell people at this stage - a couple of years ago I had a shocking and unexpected death in my immediate family, and universally, people I told about it WANTED to help me and my family. It made them feel good! It… [more]
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I have a friend who loves video games, who as a kid was left alone in open water when the boat he’d been in drove away without him. It returned pretty quickly but ever since, he’s had this phobia and had a huge amount of difficulty with underwater… [more]
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I’m a big fan of real dairy but oat milk is the one fakeo milk I like. I keep it around to put in coffee on mornings when I feel a bit queasy. Along with adding it to oatmeal as people have suggested, I recently made instant pudding with it which was… [more]
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Not only has this thread given me lots of good potential characteristics for a plausibly old and abandoned house, some of those characteristics have incidentally provided two or three ways to make the story even more emotionally devastating than it… [more]
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I think MiraK’s advice is spot-on - and trying it out doesn’t mean you can’t shut things down harder if it turns out not to get you the results you want! But I think it’s worth a try. I have an acquaintance in a larger friend group who used to… [more]
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If a person I'm not already dating wants to stay over after sex, I mentally sigh and write off the first 2-3 hours of shit I had to do in the morning, because they're gonna want to wake up and snuggle and maybe have morning sex and use my shower and… [more]
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I was stuck in a career (grant writing) that felt very non-portable, I burned out, and I got fired. Spent months depressed and not bothering to apply for anything. I HAVE BEEN THERE! First new job I got was through a friend - I started asking… [more]
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How long can an abandoned house stay habitable?
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Just chiming in to say I’m so happy to see the Joanna Russ love in this thread. We Who Are About To… is one of my absolute favorite books despite the fact that I’ve barely ever recommended it to anyone (“It’s kinda like an angry lesbian postmodern… [more]
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Are these friends actually asking for feedback? Because I have the friends I actively solicit real feedback from (generally people also in the hobby) and then the friends who it’s nice if they say they liked it but I’m not keeping score or… [more]
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I really do want to reiterate that she is absolutely putting her life and the life of others in danger by running red lights. That is not something to brush off. It’s a bad way to die. [more]
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