I couldn't swear to it, but that is very likely a clip from Protective Love by Kelsie Calloway, a short romance about a professional baseball player who comes to a sultry southern belle's rescue in a dive bar. I had a blast narrating those voices!
If that sounds like your cup of (sweet) tea, you can check out Protective Love on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books. https://geni.us/ProLo
@selfhosted strange problem. I have a raspberrypi as vpn gateway. I have a reolink cctv. It emails me when motion. If i use openvpn, it works fine. If i use wireguard, it does not work. If i connect to the vpn gateway on my laptop, openvpn and wg forward the laptop traffic fine. The openvpn and wg is connects to the same commerical vpn service.
What US gov is doing to Tiktok, is just like a guy named America says to you:
"Your wife is incredibly beautiful, and I yearn for her day and night to the extent that it threatens my health and safety. I hope you will divorce her and give her to me. I am willing to compensate you with some money; otherwise, I will forcibly take her away or even kill her."👿
I'm reading Hot Blooded by Heather Guerre, which I think will be a straight romance between a vampire and a paid blood donor.
I'm intrigued because this has consensual non-consent which can be super hot if done right, and also somebody on romance.io complained it was too "woke." So you know I'm there for that.
This was a romance between a male vampire and a woman, but I'm hesitant to call it a straight romance because they're both bi/pan. Any respectful insights on this?
Verdict: Amos and Tessa can sit with us sometimes but idk if we're going to have a lot to talk about.
The main themes were consensual non-consent and the parentification of oldest daughters. I liked that we got to see some mutual planning of the CNC and that it was clear both parties were enthusiastically interested. There was a really sweet moment where they both dropped out of scene for a second to kiss and be affectionate and then went right back to it. D'aww!
Tessa's emotionally abusive family was written really well. I didn't like the resolution or find it satisfying, but whatcha gonna do.
I found I was interested in what would happen next but not very invested in the characters or their relationship.
@sotolf@selea not sure if this is it, but the last 2-3 years, I have noticed that many many many times it does not grab a copy into the buffer on the first try. And it is so often taht it can not be a mistake on my end (also, happening on multiple PCs with different keyboards, so...)
@dmcahill Thanks for sharing. Good article. Even though I live in a different country, have a different gender and a different job, this text could have been mine. So many stories of those identified later in life are quite similar to one another.
Sergej Sergejitsj woont in een dorp in de grijze zone in de Donbas, aan de rand van Oekraïne. Aan de ene kant vechten de separatisten, aan de andere kant soldaten van het Oekraïense leger. De meeste dorpelingen zijn in 2014 al gevlucht. Er is geen winkel, geen postkantoor en geen stroom meer. Drie jaar later wonen er nog twee mannen: Sergejitsj en Pasjka.
TL;DR Putin is a MGS character: anticom russophobes miss that he doesn't get the USSR+thinks orthodox christianity can magically boost birth rates+stonks, criticism of Russian elections has to be insane because is it is broken the same way as western demo
It occurs to me that, since the demise of Twitter and the half-hearted move to Mastodon, most of my communication on social media is only with people I know. My brain is currently actively calculating if this is a good or a bad thing.
I do miss old Science Twitter, however. Is that still a thing here or elsewhere in another form? Is everyone partying without me? Leads welcomed. #Science#SciComm
My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as "growth" disciplines, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!
Here are my 8 reasons for this:
POSSIBILITIES
At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
I fear Pauline that you have described perfectly all the reasons why politicians would look to erase anthropology. It threatens their singular view of the world.