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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

I'm an author. If I sold the first 5 books at around 80k each, then tried to sell the last book in the series, the culmination of all 5 previous books, as 40k? I'd be rightfully boycotted.

If anything, subsequent and final anythings really should be at least as long if not longer than previous.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

It's good to excellent for most & I really enjoyed many of the characters (most died). The actors for the core crew did amazing work.

And I just don't have any desire to invest in tv shows for reasons like 'oh surprise! Only 6 rushed episodes in the last season.'

Or 'We canceled it unfinished.'

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

And yes, I did note the episodes extended from around 40ish minutes to closer to 60.

Doesn't make it work.

So much of what happened in s6 deserved more screentime, more development.

Whatever. I've had editorial issues with it since the first poorly paced death. Just add that to the pile.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

fail to comprehend why people accept that.

Your dollar, your valuable time, your emotional investment. You know? You don't actually *have to* watch TV? It's a thing you can choose not to do.

No. This isn't just how it's always been. I'm 49 and I clearly remember it as different.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

When did the paucity of tv show episodes even start?

I grew up for most of my early years without a tv. It doesn’t hold much interest for me in general. I'd probably watch a lot more if we had longer seasons, though.

It might feel worth the time and emotional investment.

And I legit

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

My kid is going to be so disappointed.

Guess who doesn't watch much tv? Him. I guarantee it'll be less after that.

(Just cause I know him. The expectation set by the series was 10-13.)

He's not old enough yet to enjoy getting fucked by streaming services or doing without them like I usually do.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 2h

Call me a dinosaur, I don't care, my kids call me ancient all the time. (I'm a Parasaurolophus.)

Gods, I *feel* ancient saying this. 🤣

And when I was a kid? We sometimes got 50 episodes in a year. 25-30 was pretty standard.

6? You cannot actually be serious in calling that a season. SMDH.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 3h

See? This is why I hardly ever watch a show until everything is available.

Just finished s6 of The Expanse. All 6 episodes. If I'd been waiting for that season, I would've been pissed at how short in comparison to the rest it was.

And *massively* rushed.

S1 10 eps
S2 13
S3 13
S4 10
S5 10
S6 6

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 3h

It's been a while since I read about it, and I think you're right.

We used machine learning in labs in uni, and I believe it was used to decode some of the Nag Hammadi library.

And absolutely. There's absolutely nothing intelligent about what is sold and packaged as 'artificial intelligence'.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 3h

My kids have been surprisingly receptive to older ones, too. I would never have expected that. They're not usually partial to modern movies.

Do have to admit that Alien 4 was somehow *worse* the second watch. (Younger hates to skip movies in a series 😅.)

We've still a long list to get through.

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 3h

I utterly adore them! Clothes or no clothes. 🤣❤️

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 13h

Been watching older movies with the kids for a while, and yeaaaaah.

Born in '76, but movies are so very different now.

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 13h

There is a vast difference between machine learning (which we've used for decades) and AI.

I really wish people would stop conflating the two.

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 13h

Same

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently, I'm chatty today.

So I'm watching The Expanse. (Will read the books when I shift back to reading phase.)

I love it, and... like everything, I have some editorial comments.

This may be different in the books, but since I've been told the show keeps to the spirit of them, I'm

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 17h

Magic mice! These tinies have prehensile tails.

Vicky Outen Photo DPAGB @vickyoutenphoto.bsky.social · 1d

As It's happy harvest mice day today here are some harvest mice on some berries

linktr.ee/vickyouten...

#wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #ThePhotoHour #photography #vickyoutenphoto #harvestmice

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lev ✨🩸@ patreon @saintmalev.bsky.social · 17h

✨ The Incident at the Temple✨

My first Dragon Age comic attempt from 2024!! Pretty proud of this!

#dragonage | #comic | #ocsky

A one page comic set in a temple from Dragon Age. Dorian Pavus, Iron Bull, Sera, and my Inquisitor are all the characters in the comic. The text reads: 'its an altar' from my Inquisitor, Sera says 'Or a trap'. Dorian then says 'and everything was perfectly serene, until they disturbed this ancient altar. That's what Varric will write in our obituaries' and Sera says 'yeesh'. My Inquisitor says: 'you're being dramatic' then picks up the scroll from the statue. The next panel is Dorian facing an explosion and Sera and Iron Bull yelling in panic

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 1d

This. What’s more, if everyone masked in some places (grocery stores, medical facilities, transportation), that would open up worlds for those of us who have been shut out of society bc y’all like to cough on each other.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

When we say “everyone should mask” we don’t actually expect people will. We know how selfish people are. But we say it because:

1) it’s factually true

2) if even a few people listen to us that’s a few more lives saved and, as the Talmud says, every life is a universe.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Me today 😰😭

A black background with white text that reads: "You look exhausted."
"I socialized."

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

www.opb.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good show. A little slow at the beginning when you're learning about the characters & world.

It's just numbed me to the point where I don't want to invest emotionally in new characters bcs they're all gonna die anyway.

Definitely worth watching. The cast does some absolutely amazing work.

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V.H.T. @v-h-t.bsky.social · 1d

#medievalsky

Fernand Peloux @fpeloux.bsky.social · 1d

Célèbre mosaïque du chœur (XIIe s.) de la cathédrale de Lescar

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 1d

OMG SO CUTE!!!!! Help, it's too much!

(Ruby-crowned Kinglet) #birds 🌿

A small light gray bird stands in a green plant looking towards the camera in the cutest possible way with its big dark eyes.

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