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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12663 posts

T_T ASDFGHJKL ;_;

Running around in circles…

Trying to get The Amity Incident capital-n Noticed by some nice famous people.

Except…

  1. In order to gift something from Smashwords, I have to know the recipients’ email
  2. Celebs don’t give out their emails to random hacks on the internet because reasons
  3. Very good reasons
  4. Like everyone and their kid brothers’ dog spamming them with bullshit
  5. There’s no such thing as a private tweet so I can’t go that route
  6. About the only thing left is snailmail and we all know how well trying to send something to another country goes [Hint: might as well put vouchers for free books into bottles and chuck them into the ocean]
  7. Plus there’s a high liklihood it would wind up in a landfill, anyway
  8. I have to Know a Somebody to get Noticed
  9. I have to Be a Somebody to know a Somebody
  10. I have to get Noticed to be a Somebody

Is it me, or is it inherently impossible for a plebe like me to get anywhere?

Challenge #00879-B148: Tokens of Adulthood

multitool,

They threw him a Going Away Party. Just like they threw him an
Adoption Day party on the anniversary of his arrival on Hippo Mining
Station. And, like all the things the mining crew did for him, it
involved available materials.

So far, he’d been given a pair of
The Drongo’s old work-boots - refurbished and ‘gussied up’ with a layer
of gleaming black ductape. This parcel contained fabric scraps from
Dode’s stash. Every colour of the rainbow,

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Fan Art Friday

carissaxanne:

You guys have been making too much amazing art. Calm down. You’re making me want to just have a day where we feature all of you!

…but seriously, don’t stop.

Make art about robots, and about the humans beneath the metal. Draw sound guys with dreads or scales, mixing music or breathing fire. Make Walter Workers with or without white-stained skin and blue-streaked hair. Feature baby giraffes and pixelated smiley faces and sonic interface AI’s. Give us your

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brinconvenient:micdotcom: These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days A company called Doppler Labs...

brinconvenient:

micdotcom:

These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days 

A company called Doppler Labs just finished the prototype for an incredible new technology that has the potential to change live concerts and even the way we hear the world. It’s called Here Active Listening, and it’s a wireless earbud that, instead of playing music, lets you control the sound of the world around you.

With the understanding that I don’t have sensory

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Florida cop suspended with pay after sexually assaulting lesbian teenager

Florida cop suspended with pay after sexually assaulting lesbian teenager

sicksadfemme:

peachdyke:

gaywrites:

In Hialeah, Florida, a 17-year-old lesbian has filed a police report after a cop allegedly detained her, sexually harassed her and alluded to raping her.

The 17-year-old and her girlfriend, who have both asked not to be identified, were pulled over for making a u-turn and detained for questioning. Sgt. Jesus Menocal, Jr. told the teenager to get in the back of his police car to go to the

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Challenge #00878-B147: Educational Aside

Since this year was a bust, eurovision prompt 2: Lasha Tumbai

[AN: I looked her up on Youtube… wow]

“So…
if that’s ‘Eurovision Lite’…” Rael couldn’t help himself. Perhaps curiosity was yet another Alpha-draft flaw. “What is -ah- ‘Eurovision
Heavy’ like?”

“Nearest words I can get is - the video answer tae crack.” Shayde queued up another video segment and fetched more popcorn.

“I’m not going to see anything… awful… am I?”

“Na, na,

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First Aid for Dummies

princess-911:

1. If it looks broken, it probably is.

2. If it doesn’t look broken, it probably still is.

3. If it’s straight, don’t bend it.

4. If it’s bent, don’t straighten it.

5. If it’s protruding, don’t stick it back in.

6. If it’s impaled, don’t pull it back out.

7. If it’s bleeding, cover it.

8. If it bleeds through your covering, cover it again - without peeking back underneath.

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"The Basics"

thecosmosknowsitself:

radiantbutterfly:

sortinghatchats:

The basic structure of the @sortinghatchats system is that you aren’t just sorted into one House, but into two tiers of Houses: Primary and Secondary. Your Primary House defines WHY you do things. Your Secondary defines HOW. To build this system, we’ve drawn on the Sorting Hat’s songs, general HP canon, extracanonical data (ex. interviews with JKR)… and then extrapolated.

People are complex– for joy or for utility, due to social pressure or careless recreation, people

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Challenge #00877-B146: Walk This Way

The ministry of silly walks.

“Absolutely not. That walk is the wholly-owned property of the Consortium of Steam.”

Ribuffo
sighed and stood still. “Fine. It was just an experiment. What about this one?” Once again, she paraded in front of the motion capture
cameras.

And once again, the alarm blatted.

“Don’t tell me. I
accidentally did Wilgro. I knew it. One more. One more.” This time, Ribuffo added the little fillip with the half-skip left step.

“That’s Wilgro with a

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I feel really uncomfortable with shit like this. It feels like sugar-coated health shaming to me. “Wow! You did a good thing!”...

I feel really uncomfortable with shit like this. It feels like sugar-coated health shaming to me.

“Wow! You did a good thing!” Should not immediately be followed with “DO BETTER TO FIT THE MOULD!” IMHO

The programmers don’t know about user health issues. They definitely can’t know about my bad feet or getting used to orthotic shoe inserts.

But now I feel ashamed of myself.

Thanks a bunch, Withings.

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