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davidboatymcboa , to random
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Down to double digits now only 87 raffle tickets left now for the @neilhimself exclusive copy of 🌟STARDUST🌟 it’s utterly astonishing and someone needs to win, will it be YOU?

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

davidboatymcboa , to random
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Starting to get that fluttering feeling now reached only 162 raffle tickets left for the @neilhimself exclusive and ultra rare copy of 🌟STARDUST🌟 with signed illustrations by both Neil and Charles Vess & bound by those artisans at Lyra’s Books you’ll not find another like it!

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

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Yorkslass70 , to random
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Treated myself to a new book today. I would never have discovered it if it hadn't been for the wonderful @neilhimself . Can't wait to start reading it but I have The Dark Is Rising sequence to finish first.

The back cover. It says "All is not what it seems. In the murky London night, a knife wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff - gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an ancient and unearthly rite. For soon after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world. And all manner of Players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate. Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut. Now the dread night approaches - so let the Game begin.

charles_perkins ,
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@Yorkslass70 @neilhimself I love all of Zelazny's work but A Night in the Lonesome October is one of my favorites! I got to hear him read the whole thing to us at a Con over three nights. Every so often he would stop and make notes in the manuscript he was reading from.

stevedurbin ,
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@Yorkslass70 @neilhimself

I have several friends who read this every October chapter-by-chapter, day-by-day; I don't have that level of discipline; if I start it, it's getting finished same day!

Zelazny was a very underrated writer; I sometimes think he's omitted a lot in libraries, who always seem to have a lot of Asimov, simply because of his alphabetical positioning.

soonleenz , to random
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This is an excellent summary of the current discussion on the 2023 Hugo Awards by @CoraBuhlert. The statistics have just been released prompting a barrage of queries about irregularities, including people/works disqualified without reason nor notification. https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics-have-finally-been-release-and-we-have-questions/

lindamciver , to random
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Look, I'm a writer. I know there are too many superlatives in this piece. But there are not enough superlatives in the world for what @neilhimself and Fourplay did last night.

https://lindamciver.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/transcendent-and-creepy-all-at-once/

darth , to random
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A screenshot of a tweet by GOG.COM stating, "You should feel extremely comfortable with owning your games on GOG (they're DRM-free :)", posted at 8:11 PM on January 16, 2024, with 145

davidboatymcboa , to random
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Happy New Year one and all if you’re following my @neilhimself raffle we are now down to 495 raffle tickets left to go please see the full description as written by Lyra’s Books for this amazing edition of Neil’s 🌟STARDUST🌟 only 2 such books exist!
Link to the tickets also below

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

Chigaze , to random
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I saw a quote, as I do every year, from @neilhimself and then remembered he had expanded on it. These are good thoughts in hard times to take forward into the new year.

Saturday, December 31, 2011 My New Year Wish Posted by Neil Gaiman at 8:58 AM A decade ago, I wrote: [Edit for character count see first quote] And almost half a decade ago I said, ...l hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. And for this year, my wish for each of us is small and very simple. And it's this. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, Living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

MythingPerson , to random
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I’m not really a poetry guy. I love metaphor and allusion and symbology and fingers pointing at the moon, but when they get dense enough to collapse under their own mass into a poem, my interest usually evaporates. “Just say what you mean!” a part of me shouts out in frustration.

This one from @neilhimself made me cry, though.

https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/111659332192568371

davidboatymcboa , to random
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ONLY 548 TICKETS NOW LEFT and still up for grabs for the amazing edition of @neilhimself 🌟🌟STARDUST🌟🌟 with the addition illustrations by both Neil and Charles Vess and of course bound by Lyra’s Books.

Why not buy yourself a ticket for Christmas!

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

profoundlynerdy , to random
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Groups is ending support for .

https://www.osnews.com/story/138084/google-groups-ending-support-for-usenet/

Thank God! Google Groups has been an unrelenting torrent of Usenet spam for quite a long time now.

firefly ,

@profoundlynerdy

It looks like someone in EEE headquarters finally got the memo and did an assessment. Decision: Extinguish.

linuxgal , to random
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If you live in the like I do, then you're still down for with a application called toot.

firefly ,

I use 'toot' and 'tut'. Tut works nicer with some servers because of a datetime format bug in 'toot' python library that occasionally crashes it. Tut hasn't crashed on me so far.

TUT ==> https://tut.anv.nu/

I like to use the 'toot' shell commands for scripting and for snarfing posts to files.

SmudgeTheInsultCat , to random
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firefly ,

You are not kidding. You can get the captcha right and it will still say try again. Might as well just shoot in the dark ...

ddrake , to random
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The infinity room at the House On The Rock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_the_Rock

I've lived in Wisconsin for many, many years, and had read about it in @neilhimself 's American Gods -- but didn't actually visit until last week.

I only took a finite amount of time to explore the Infinity Room. I wonder what Zeno would say about that. 🤔

The Infinity Room at the House On the Rock attraction near Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
The Infinity Room at the House On the Rock attraction near Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

davidboatymcboa , to random
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Only 650 tickets are left from the original 2000 offered for the amazing and beautiful @neilhimself copy of 🌟STARDUST🌟 with additional illustrations by both Neil and Charles Vess there’s only 1 other copy of this edition it’s that RARE! If you check my @Raffall profile you’ll see the Special Edition of Coraline also

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

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