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Published: December 21, 2024 15:00

I prayed and prayed and I can’t feel the point anymore. Please God, the three previous treatments all failing can you give me a few more months with this one? Having suffered excruciating pain, can I have less pain now? The normal routes of healing…

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Published: December 20, 2024 18:20

My first (maybe let's be realistic also last) novella will appear with @thepinkhydra.bsky.social Press. I'm so excited. It's a romance fantasy story about an unhoused magician (M, 30) and a university librarian (F, 47) who fall in love as she finds him…

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Published: December 20, 2024 13:29

Doc says realistic prognosis based in data and how I responded to treatment is 1-2 yrs. I’m feeling pretty devastated

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Published: December 19, 2024 19:35

My short story Rules for the direction of the artificial mind has appeared in AcademFic. early modern ideas and aesthetic (Descartes, Laplace, Condorcet..) a tempestuous sapphic romance in a boarding school and rights for conscious LLMs…. Read for free…

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Published: December 19, 2024 02:56

Is any of those recent live-action remakes of beloved Disney classics (Beauty and the Beast, Mulan etc) worth it? I've only seen the Little Mermaid and that was a total disappointment (ruined my two favorite characters, Sebastian and Ursula)

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Published: December 19, 2024 02:39

Muddled thoughts on Singal. His pitching of Bluesky as gentler left-wing is not sincere, because he knew people there (given who all moved to Bluesky) would not give him a warm welcome. He curated the death threats and got extensive media coverage from…

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Published: December 18, 2024 19:10

I don't understand how people seem to consider The Giving Tree this classic on the power of giving. It's exactly the opposite--the tree allows herself to be vandalized for an ingrate. You should not cannibalize on yourself like that.

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Published: December 18, 2024 00:38

Are there first-tier and second-tier philosophers (short answer: no) https://helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-two-tier-philosophy

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Published: December 18, 2024 00:35

I could not but help laughing reading this advice for anyone brave enough to the task of Colin McGinn's obituary -- https://www.colinmcginn.net/advice-for-obituarists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advice-for-obituarists

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Published: December 18, 2024 00:22

Fantasy romance now feels very samey, with many tropes (e.g., enemies-to-lovers) overused. This perceptive Youtube comment indicates it may have to do with marketing? Also, even 10 yrs ago I didn't hear fellow fiction readers be so heavy into tropes as…

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Published: December 17, 2024 15:13

New chemo regimen will begin soon (alas not curative but hope is to improve quality of life and duration of it). Please any good thoughts/prayers that this works

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Published: December 15, 2024 18:45

Pain doctor appointment next week I hope he can help me ease symptoms.

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Published: December 15, 2024 03:44

With Closer to Truth and @philipgoff.bsky.social we made a video about our religious journeys. Philip is moving toward Christianity, I am moving away. I was in quite severe pain that day so I had to recline but it went well, I think. Prepare for earnest…

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Published: December 14, 2024 17:59

Colby Wilkins, writer of speculative fiction, falsely claimed to be of Cherokee descent. She secured a $250,000 book deal for a trilogy with native characters. Apart from the most obvious issue, one thing that struck me is badly written it is. So meta and…

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Published: December 14, 2024 15:44

Still wrestling w cancer coming back and bad prognosis. It's so much grief. Grief for my future cut short, my family, things I won't be able to do ... So hard I don't know what to say. Will keep on fighting of course w clinical trials.

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Published: December 13, 2024 23:38

More on friendship with the ancients, invitation from Nautilus Magazine to look at a specific example, Mengzi …

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Published: December 13, 2024 01:52

Saw some videos of fans talking about Neil Gaiman (none of these are super-recent). It struck me they all adored not only the work, but also the man, and they'd put him on a pedestal. If you want to avoid disappointment, it seems you should not put ppl on…

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Published: December 12, 2024 16:54

Thanks United Healthcare for once again denying my pain meds. I'm a cancer patient w a bad prognosis and in constant unmanageable pain, but just keep counting beans.

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Published: December 12, 2024 16:36

Congratulations to Gukesh, youngest chess world champion. Wonderful game. Here's footage of him realizing Ding Liren's mistake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8FO2SNh0Y&ab_channel=CHESSWITHSAMARTH

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Published: December 11, 2024 19:13

True story of my childhood, recalled bc of recent news. My best friend in elementary school was nine, sitting outside in the yard with the family dog, a doberman recently adopted from a shelter. Suddenly, he jumped at her (she told me later, she was just…