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meaning is always about context + intent “that baker’s got great buns” could be just a compliment about his luscious bread rolls 🥖
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yes but those nests are everywhere including behind those cupboards in your kitchen and under your bed
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as far as I can see there’s no option on this site (and likely GA and others too) to access multi-chapter stories in a single file (eg pdf) which means each chapter would have to be opened+copied individually then pasted over to a wp file in order to create a single story file “book” - quite tedious and time consuming if you have a lot of favourites, unless there’s a better way?
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https://tedlouis.com @Paqman alerted in the CRVBOY thread that the “tedlouis” gay story website is going to disappear soon. The home page contains this message: “While my site will technically go away, some long-time friends of mine have been busy working on an archive of all the stories on my site. The archive will be available to all of my site's readers. I will post more info as I receive it.” It’s good that there seems to be a rescue plan underway by the site’s readers for this particular gay story website, but other websites may not be so lucky eg if the domain holder is elderly, suddenly dies or becomes seriously ill when it may then be too late to launch any rescue plan
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did you mean https://tedlouis.com? *another victim of autocorrect? * The home page (above link) says: “While my site will technically go away, some long-time friends of mine have been busy working on an archive of all the stories on my site. The archive will be available to all of my site's readers. I will post more info as I receive it.” Not sure if this means the site will only be accessible by existing “readers”
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Last year (13 March 2022) at the age of 85, Dame Shirley Bassey sang a live performance of her most famous song “Diamonds Are Forever“. And she’s right. Except under extreme conditions diamonds are and will last forever. But websites aren’t and won’t. Every experienced web user will have clicked on site links only to find the site’s gone, replaced by a stark message from a cyber squatter trying to flog the domain and all the contents have presumably just been deleted. In the recent Lounge thread on CRVBOY.org @Carlos Hazdayposted “the site's a one-man show, and the webmaster faced some health issues” which suggests that this gay story site, and all the other ones like it, could be at risk and at some point end up as a“domain for sale” with all the stories deleted. Obviously where the authors have themselves died there would then be no way to recover those stories (unless they had been published which, of course, most aren’t). It’s a bit of a worry that our gay literary legacy, which perhaps we take for granted, could just start disappearing. Not “are forever” but gone forever. Or have I missed something? Perhaps the bigger sites (GA? Nifty?) have a backup plan to preserve the best?
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timeline in link… 300 Million Years Ago The First Spider is Spotted And what did Rentokil do?? Absolutely NOTHING!!
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now I want a hotdog! grrrrrrrrr
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Hopefully he had a friend to help him clean up so everything was spick+span for the “kit inspection”
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Nope. Too many eyes and too many horrible hairy legs and a fat hairy body …and all the other nightmare stuff
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Exactly, and every business has its own templates and if you’re able and willing to deliver these then everyone’s happy And “romance” of all kinds is a massive genre But there’s nothing stopping you going outside the template and writing something different. Many writers do this, sometimes using pseudonyms (to avoid confusing core readers) and with a different publisher if needed.
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Just noticed this final comment in the OP source article: “Unfortunately, f/f romance has had trouble finding its niche in the world, and so m/m romance was used if only to reflect the majority of the same-gender romance genre.” Seems to me that’s worthy of much more than just a single throwaway line, because the very first same-sex novel (in the English language) was the lesbian The Well of Loneliness written and first published in Britain in 1929 by Radclyffe Hall (again an English writer). My mum had a copy and she never expressed strong views on social political issues, so the fact that she had it and had kept it throughout her life impressed upon me the huge impact that book had in Britain. And yet “f/f romance has had trouble finding its niche in the world”…
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some may well be in fact this became very popular in post-war Britain where it was even given a name - “kitchen sink” drama - but for me it’s kinda dull, such that re-runs of Dallas start to look appealing… unrealistic is what most entertainment is about and again it’s been given a name - “escapism” - which is what most folks seem to want m/m romance written by+for women is certainly a significant market segment but guys also write+read a lot of this stuff And women writers have written m/m romance read avidly by a huge male readership ever since the English writer, Mary Renault, really opened up this market in the 1950s it’s called “Fantasy” for a reason don’t think it’s true that most hetero romance is about musclemen - I’m sure some is but Jane Austin is still pretty popular… sure it can be but I think a lot of people want something else which might explain its popularity agree, if that’s happening, cuz there’s nothing wrong giving people what they want (Oooh Matron!… )
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love the way he screams like a girl
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Monocular stereopsis WTF??? Yes, strange but true, you can see in 3D with just one eye 👀 …even when viewing a two-dimensional image, like the screen you’re looking at now Don’t believe it? Watch this YouTube on “full screen” setting from this link https://youtu.be/fljp-Q784r4?t=161, cover one eye with your hand (don’t think it matters which) and just look at the flowery shrub thing on the right (mute the sound, it’ll distract) How/why does it happen? Because human vision works by receiving data from the eyes which do not function as cameras - it’s the processing by the brain of the eye data that creates the images we see Quite a lot on the web if you search the term but this weird phenomenon does not seem to be generally accepted, known or understood https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-method-for-inducing-monocular-stereopsis-A-single-pictorial-image-is-viewed-with-one_fig2_253334388
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just checked the ads on my (non-work) iPad they’re all disappointingly bland…
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“zonked out” is common in UK (= knackered )
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where’s the fun in that?
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AI and school grades 30 December 2022 (The Telegraph) “anyone who registers for (ChatGPT) can type questions into it, including requests for essays on any subject, and have them answered by the chatbot’s algorithms. “Teachers who marked three ChatGPT answers to GCSE questions in English language, English literature and history this week said they would score between a grade 4 (=standard pass) and a grade 6 (=strong pass). “Coursework is a larger component of assessments for the more than 5,000 pupils in the UK who sit the International Baccalaureate (IB) each year. “An IB spokesman said: ‘The use of ChatGPT or any other AI tool is against the IB’s academic integrity policy’ “ 8 weeks later… 27 February 2023 (BBC) “Students sitting the International Baccalaureate will be allowed to use the artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, to write their essays”
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or car and let’s be honest guys, this car could be filled with 200lb rugby players with the exact same result…
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Previously… What’s gone wrong with Google?
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10 Green Ways to Keep Spiders Away = 10 ways to have spiders take over your whole life while you fail miserably trying to keep ‘em outta your home …and bed
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Today is Valentine’s Day 💕 here’s an interesting seduction technique by sexy bf Jesse…
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this is the URL for the embedded pic which should work in any browser (not sure why yours didn’t display) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdO58hyXkAAuqMY.png
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I’ve just tried out this new AI search tool from Microsoft, asking some specific questions on physical symptoms. The results were impressive - quick, clear, detailed, informative and helpful. More so than you would get from a doctor. I’m convinced this is a major step forward in achieving correct diagnosis of medical symptoms, which seems to be the Cinderella of medicine where the focus has been on new pharmaceuticals, surgical innovation and machines (not to say these are not important). But everything starts with the diagnosis - unless that is got right then everything that follows will most likely be wasting precious time and may cause more harm than good. Has anyone else tried this tool and, if so, what do you think?
