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The Best-Selling Historical Fiction Books of All Time bookriot.com/the-best-selling-…

The Best-Selling Historical Fiction Books of All Time

Historical fiction’s popularity has remained solid since the 19th century, when Romanticism inspired writers to look to the past.
Courtney Rodgers (BOOK RIOT)

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The C3S global temperature trend monitor, based on #ERA5, allows you to explore how the estimate of the time to 1.5°C global warming has changed in recent years. While it should not be interpreted as a forecast, it does show trends in global warming.
#era5

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"PULL THE PLUG!

DEFUND TESLA!"

#TeslaTakedown #TeslaChainsawMassacre #Tesla #fElonMusk #AdolphTitler #ApartheidClyde #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis

#Tesla #fascism #felonmusk #nazis #teslatakedown #fascistamerikkka #teslachainsawmassacre #adolphtitler #ApartheidClyde

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Tropical Rock Lobster Panulirus Ornatus:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panuli…

species of crustacean

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heute ist warntag und ich wurde nicht gewarnt

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Good morning!

Today I passed a couple out walking when I went out for my early-morning walk. With the temperature in the 30s F, the woman was wearing a puffy coat with the hood up and tied tight around her face. The man wore shorts and a light hoodie, hood down. I had to laugh.

My attire was much closer to what the woman was wearing.

Annie won't eat the special food. It's heartbreaking to hear her cry while sitting next to the full bowl.

I'm going to call the vet again today to see what she has to say.

Have a good one, my friends.
#Today

#today
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Every time I start thinking about getting a range finder, I'll see an image like this, and I close the window.
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Chris Huck
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It almost looks like they’re looking *really* closely to see there’s any more vape in their giant rig.

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:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathugyou: Have a most wonderful day and stay safe ♥️😸
George the half sleepy cat on the couch half sleeping
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Along with all the horrible national and world news, it's such a relief to come upon kitty photos!

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Over 450,000 calories in a single bite.

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - Five Books Expert Recommendations fivebooks.com/best-books/pulit…

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - Five Books Expert Recommendations

Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of "distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Five Books

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ユーザー数は増えないなあ
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みあ
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#aichat

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Shark swimming through a large school of fish

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I've been looking through the web config and can't find any reason why I can't connect to port 8005.
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Navi
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some kind of secuity feature of your ISP?
We have Spectrum, and I had to disable security Shield just to play the final HOur beta, or connect to masonasons.me

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Sidewalk ice abstracts
#ice #icetodon
Thick sidewalk ice that has cracked into squares and triangles and sometimes even graffiti-looking letters. Most of is it white and blueish, and in the lower left is reflected some yellow streetlight
More cracked sidewalk ice, seen from closer to the ground, in a diagonal swath across the frame, with clear black pavement at the upper right.
An even closer view of some thick cracked ice, with lots of yellow reflections from streetlights
#ice #icetodon

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Speaking of sidewalk ice, here's a treacherous street corner. In March there are block-long stretches of ice like this. Once I slipped and fell on one of them. I caught myself with my hands, got up, and kept walking. Then I smelled something gross. I was sniffing at the air trying to identify it. I brought my (gloved) hands to my face and sniffed, and they smelled like shit. That frozen meltwater included a full winter's worth of uncollected dog poop from the adjacent park. I tossed the gloves
A corner of sidewalk where the snow melted during the day, and then froze solid at nice, forming a very dangerous slip hazard.
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And aside from the ice, in my town it's becoming routine to see dog poop on and near sidewalks. We have a dog and walk him constantly so we see this. What's wrong with people?

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Cute Octopus Walking On The Sea Floor

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I have had abusive emails, comments, social media posts, and entire articles. Today I received my first abusive _source code comment_. 😁

github.com/Versoft-Software/Fr…


Free95/src/theregister.txt at dev · Versoft-Software/Free95

Free95 is an open-source windows-compatible operating system. - Versoft-Software/Free95
GitHub
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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
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"I'll show them who's boss by being grotesquely ableist, unprofessional and fully lacking in chill, right up there in front of everybody."

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@FediTips, I’m having a lot of trouble with the mastodon iPhone app where all of a sudden while reading a toot the screen jerks and I’m pushed to 5 or 10 posts down. I have to scroll back up to continue reading what I was before being interrupted. Then it happens again. I’m suspecting this is possibly because some of the posts with links render a preview and causes all posts under it to realign vertically. Is this a known issue? Any recommendations? #askfedi #Mastodon
#mastodon #askfedi @Fedi.Tips
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@OliviaVespera makes the app very hard to use and hurts my eyes each time it does that. Wonder if there’s a solution like using a different client?
@Olivia Vespera
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This seems to be a bug on the official app so switching to another app should solve it.

I would strongly recommend using a third party app anyway, most people who try them prefer them.

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Jeep Wrangler Unlimited - das klassische praktische Auto für eine Stadt wie #Mannheim🤦
Naja, ist nun geklaut. Vermutlich mal wieder #keylessgo ftw?

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Beispielbild Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 4xe, ein Kfz mit dem du deiner Umwelt sagst, dass sie dir komplett egal ist 🎉

klassisches Geländefahrzeug

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#mannheim #keylessgo

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#Maine #weather discussion from Pine Tree Weather - Thursday March 13. 2025 pinetreeweather.com/discussion… #MEwx

Thursday March 13. 2025

Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Certified Weather Forecaster Penn State '21 American Meteorological Society National Weather Association ​ ​SKYWARN-CWOP Matthew 19:26
Pine Tree Weather
#Weather #maine #mewx

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*It's pretty bad, kid
memetic cartoon about recursion

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to understand recursion you first have to understand recursion 😵‍💫

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It's basically impossible to get Vumatel to fix a fibre connection - all morning doing tests with the ISP and sending them requested test info, which shows slow speeds and intermittent 0 mbps upload speed . Now this 👇 and it appears they are playing us for fools. I'm thinking to terminate the service and go with Vodacom 5G. Anyone with experience or a wireless broadband alternative? #fckVumatel #Vumatel #SouthAfrica #Internet
#southafrica #Internet #fckvumatel #vumatel
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#Emacs is great. Adapting #orgmode is great as well. It delivers a ton of useful features for my everyday work which I could not do without or with any software alternative.

However, with a sufficient complex setup, upgrading software causes things to break. This time: :emacs: 28.x ➡️ 30.1

Currently, tag completion of org headings is broken, linking to contacts is broken (helm-org-contacts), some larger Org buffers can't be saved (without switching to text-mode first), my magit-status window doesn't work and I'm not sure what other stuff is hidden below that doesn't work. 😩

I guess you can't have such an excellent custom environment without that pain. 😢

#rant #PIM #Emacs30 #updates #software #PKM

#software #emacs #rant #orgmode #pim #emacs30 #updates #pkm
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@ramin_hal9001 for the amateurs, how would that help in these kinds of cases? (i know zero about type checking basically) my understanding of the magit issue is that it can easily arise through dependency clashes, like from having frankenstein situation of half updated but still some old version lying around getting loaded, at least from memory.
@Ramin Honary
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Ramin Honary
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for the amateurs, how would that help in these kinds of cases?


@mousebot @publicvoit type checking isn’t really for end users, it is for the developers of packages. So if an update occurs, if for example, some API in Emacs shifts from version 29 to version 30, the type checker will be able to tell developers of packages like Org Mode or Magit which APIs broke, things that maybe are missed by the unit tests that don’t have 100% coverage.

The type checker could have other goals as well, for example, rolling back a package installation if it can be shown that the upgrade could cause some things to break. It depends on the goals of the type checker, what problems we are trying to prevent, and how we can go about proving through types when the thing we are trying to prevent happens.

@mousebot @Karl Voit

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Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind space.com/space-exploration/ja…

(Pretty wild theory! "I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole...") 🌌


Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole."
Robert Lea (Space)

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Cow-Nose Stingrays

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#Cupofteasocial
Good morning lovely people 💕💕
A spring time #mugshot to brighten your day.
Another Thursday knit and natter group this afternoon! A few of the ladies are asking me to teach them #crochet which is interesting 🤔
Whatever your day holds I'm sending you lots of love and hugs 🥰🥰🤗🤗
Mug of tea on a bedside cabinet, it's cream coloured with tall spring time flowers on it.
#crochet #cupofteasocial #mugshot

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Starfish larvae

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Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish

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Take me down to estradiol city where the girls are tall and oh so pretty

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Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in
Executive Producer Dennis Shirk talks with Ars about the state of the game.
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Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in

Samuel Axon (Ars Technica)

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we traded

[floppy disk noises that make you afraid the system is gonna eat shit]

for

[laptop fans that spin real hard when you load a goddamn website to read an article with worse affordances than you used to get out of an ascii text file with mangled line endings]

and where has it gotten us?

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Puffer Fish!

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You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.

$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.

keshetonline.org/movetothrive/


Keshet-HFLS “Move to Thrive” Interest-Free Loan Program - Keshet

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation
Keshet
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A new day. A new chance to succeed.

Some days, I got nothin'.

Or at least feel like I do.

In truth it's never true even if I tell myself it is.

One positive thing. Every morning. Day after day.

Relentless.

Just one small thread to hang a day on.

I write it down and send it out to the world.

And in the doing, I find something positive. Sometimes hope. Sometimes peace, in 500 characters or less.

Even on days I got nothin', I have that.

I hope you have something, too, #today

#today

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A Rare Sighting of the Pelican Eel...

The pelican eel's most notable feature is its large mouth, which is much larger than its body. The mouth is loosely hinged, and can be opened wide enough to swallow a fish much larger than the eel itself. The lower jaw is hinged at the base of the head, with no body mass behind it, making the head look disproportionately large. Its jaw is so large that it is estimated to be about a quarter of the total length of the eel itself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_…

taxon

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