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swan_tower

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Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent & more. Also 1/2 of M.A. Carrick. (she/her)

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swan_tower, to sundaypix
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For , a food stall on a cold day during a festival in Krakow, Poland! @sundaypix

annaleen, (edited ) to random
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I feel like everyone I know somehow got COVID this week (including me, for the first time). Did you also get COVID this week?

swan_tower,
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@annaleen I am hoping my "no" vote remains true -- turns out I had an exposure on Sunday, so now I'm Schroedinger's Infected Cat. I've dodged it this long; I don't want to break that streak!

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Got up at Horrible O'Clock this morning despite my natural tendency to sleep until 8, and went for a sunrise dip with my swimming group. Totally worth it but I also won't be doing it again anytime soon.

swan_tower,
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@csharpwords I generally only want to see a sunrise from the other side, and then go to sleep. But that's undeniably lovely!

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Goofy Kid Question as suggested by @AirlockDoc

What was the dumbest thing you did as a child?

swan_tower,
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@LadyDragonfly That is amazing! I got to play with him once, very briefly -- a church concert (service? I don't remember) for a church I didn't even attend, but they needed musicians, and I got tapped. After he played his piece he just parked himself among the cellists for the rest of the event. They must have been having a collective aneurysm; I know I was, from ~two rows behind them! From what I saw of his behavior, your story sounds exactly right.

swan_tower, to sundaypix
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@sundaypix For , have the most blinged-out skull I've ever seen, from a random shop window in Paris!

swan_tower, to random
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Can anybody tell me whether Mastodon has a built-in way to switch between different accounts? I run our M.A. Carrick account over on Twitter, and would like to set up one here, too, but I can't see how to manage it other than logging out and in all the time, or keeping a different browser open. Am I missing something?

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@Alon Unpack that for me? The ww3real you linked to appears to be a fiction account . . .

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@Alon Ah, interesting! I hadn't thought of doing it that way.

swan_tower, to random
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Anybody want to place bets on how many thousands of words I've written so far on AMA answers? (Time frame was slightly more than three hours of responding.)

swan_tower,
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@Alon I am a wordy mofo, aren't I? :-D Actual answer right now is 7K.

Sheril, to climate
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Today a group of remarkable young people in Montana won a landmark lawsuit when a judge ruled that the state’s failure to consider when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/montana-youth-climate-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=XItIeJpyG1NyXp6_DPR0oa-IWSb7zA4xuefMTXzZ4GMt6tFUvyspi_vmGYU8ULXZ1kL3MzHMLyr1y1tV_-F2SEwvphDbXBhoNLkEs7D5ivPX0QA-QkerTdk9obEhymIZiko_vsG_sr_HrtBichdT4C502ZSQ0hy1IlApVF0gPqcGrSMZn0FSKm2IPvkdVLN1T_Io8xQMav3WxNodEmN9_Lw6MLdrTOVOEXOGMLPzpM3eOpGDXJVr9Cizv8GzChPjzI6OG6sJv9AgBwhRjwHUQDRKKNi_3wP5oAYU2EjlzCiiG5v7Jp5PQslPnPUPGaM9mRkXB-2156bygVQzgjupjmxa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

swan_tower,
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@Sheril Very glad to see a decision that pushes back against the death bet of "well, we won't be around to see the effects of this, so who cares." What happened to trying to leave the world a better place for future generations?

swan_tower, to sundaypix
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@sundaypix If I can be forgiven two entries for , I have a pair of very different offerings! This first one I think of as the "ghost bird" I attempted to capture on (digital) film at Westminster Abbey . . .

swan_tower,
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@sundaypix And then my second offering for is this cheerfully absurd fellow from a Teotihuacan museum exhibit!

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swan_tower,
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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia Given that the site's analysis thinks "that's" is a helping verb and the emotional arc of a story can be charted by counting words like "grasses" and "feed," the utility on offer there was marginal at best. No great loss . . .

swan_tower, to random
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This is your reminder that in 1965, the average CEO was paid 21x more than a typical worker.

In 2020, it was 351x.

Is what they're doing today sixteen times more valuable than it was sixty years ago? Are we all benefiting sixteen times as much from their efforts?

swan_tower, to random
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We've been teasing our upcoming for the pattern deck; here's a look at three sample cards, drawn from the titles of the books in the series! (Sign up for the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/ )

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Film studios: Pirating films is bad because it prevents all the hardworking people who make these films from being paid.

Also film studios: Streaming is good because it prevents all the hardworking people who made these films from being paid, except us.

LOL avast matey, I'm in the clearrrrrrr.

swan_tower,
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@rodhilton I'm not saying I'm going to pirate a movie and then donate what I would have paid for it to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, but the thought did cross my mind . . .

swan_tower, to random
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I am absolutely delighted by the UK cover of THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR, my Viking revenge epic coming out from Titan Books this October!

swan_tower, to sundaypix
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@sundaypix For my , have some sweet, sweet loot . . .

swan_tower, to random
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"We can't afford to pay you a living wage," says the person earning millions a year

--basically every labor dispute ever

swan_tower, to random
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Following on a discussion here a few days ago, my thoughts on using ChatGPT as a "writing coach" and why that strikes me as a terrible idea:

https://www.swantower.com/2023/07/12/learning-from-ai/

swan_tower, to random
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How about, instead of funneling more money toward a company (Amazon. I mean Amazon.) that abuses its workers and is killing bookstores, we celebrate with free shipping from https://bookshop.org/ instead?

swan_tower, to random
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The paradox of vacation: in which one must work extra hard beforehand or afterward (or both) in order to have those precious days of not working.

swan_tower, to sundaypix
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For , a glimpse inside the Hagia Sophia . . .

@sundaypix

swan_tower,
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@wombat37 @sundaypix Took me a while to find a doorway and not just a closed door! I was pondering whether an arch would qualify when I arrived at this one.

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