Mara, Technopact Warlock @DialMforMara@wandering.shop

Pokemon Go and Ingress developers Nyantic

Oh no! A convict has escaped!

A tool to simply "move" your Spotify end-of-year playlists to Bandcamp.

Paste your playlist URL and hit Find and it'll hook you up with the artists on BandCamp.

(This is your regular reminder that Spotify is awful for musicians and is destroying podcasts.)

#BandcampFriday

https://hypem.com/merch-table

The princess repelled down her tower, crept to the stables and freed her horse, not even bothering with a saddle nor reins.

She whispered a simple - to her at least - spell; trotting unobserved past guards and bandits alike.

At midnight she reached the cave and scampered in.

It was warm, dry and smelled vaguely of baked vanilla. She discarded her cloak and wriggled under a large, leathery wing.

The dragon yawned, "Bad dream?"

"...Yes."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

So this Facebook group admin has a whole cult of group members defending them and spreading the word, it's now widely held (but very niche) industry knowledge, and it's all a conspiracy theory from ONE PERSON based on a screenshot of a Facebook comment auto-translated from Dutch.

The admin said that Company A patented Cultivar A before Company B stole it, so Avery asked to see the original patent, since the patent system is meant to be publicly viewable so anyone can verify anything.

The admin didn't provide it, and described it as "quite elusive."

Living with a plant nerd (🌿🤓) means you get to hear about the really specific nerdy drama that happens within groups of species specialists, and this 🍿 is a GREAT one.

Also I love USPS Priority Flatrate. It's a little bit more expensive than first class package, but it's tracked and you can print postage at home without a scale.

And, critically, the (high quality) envelope/box is included as part of the price so you don't need to figure out your own packaging. You can pick up however many flatrate boxes you want at a post office and just wander off with them to use later.

Hey, if I may plug a website briefly, https://pirateship.com/ is really good for shipping stuff from home (via USPS).

Lowest commercial rates (cheaper than post office walk-in or USPS website), good UI, minimal required setup.

Also, best URL.

Is there a forest within comfortable walking distance from your home?

#poll #AskFedi

This weekend, should I try to focus writing time on

for real tho, why are Kudu so unnervingly handsome...

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/04/get-ready-for-false-side-effects

"Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of cancer. And about 14,000 of that ten million will die, out of usual all-causes mortality. No one would notice. That’s now many people die and get sick anyway.

But if you took those ten million people and gave them a new vaccine instead, there’s a real danger that those heart attacks, cancer diagnoses, and deaths will be attributed to the vaccine. I mean, if you reach a large enough population, you are literally going to have cases where someone gets the vaccine and drops dead the next day (just as they would have if they *didn’t* get the vaccine)."

"Tell me a new story," my hatchling requested.

"A new story entirely, or something you haven't heard."

"Um, yes?"

"Once upon a time there was a dragon-turtle, like us, who didn't know how to make friends, 'cos he was considered big and scary. So one day, he sought the aid of the beloved princess of a nearby kingdom - surely she could guide him! But just 'cos he went about it the wrong way, a mean plumber threw him into lava!"

"Boo!"

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you the ability to take things in small steps ✨

Today's gender is the smell of a library.