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For people who use twitter. This is a hellhole. Devastating because i loved that platform so much, and all the amazing people i met there.

Please tumblr, don't ever do us dirty like that in the future. This is my only platform i'll ever post on, you're my only hope.

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Twitter writers are so fucking good but twitter is the most annoying medium for me to read I do it out of sheer love for them and them only

#reading threadfics rn #the love and annoyance are real #twitter writers #might do a rec list later

Does anyone know anything about writing community on Twitter? I heard there's a lot of publishers etc there but what about writers? I would like to try to join it, but I know next to nothing about it so I'm trying to do some research

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Not Leaving But ...

I might finally get around to using Twitter to promo my SWTOR writing at least. Not happy about it ... I find the atmosphere there to be pretty White Knight and dudebro and, while not nearly as bad as the forums or genchat, can be kinda toxic.

But I’m reviving aliyamirat as my SWTOR/fanfic/writing Twitter anyway. I will tag everything #SWTOR and if it’s about a story, then #SWTORFanfiction and the relevant title tag. I’m going to start hawking my existing fics there for a time. You can DM me here if you want me to follow you, too, and I miss you there. I need to build up a good network stat.

For non-Star Wars stuff, my main Twitter account is stellacadente. I mostly retweet news, nerdery and politics there, though. Like, a lot more than I do here. This is essentially my news crawl account and place to vent about the state of the world.

I do have a Pillowfort and I’m pretty sure it’s also aliyamirat but I can’t check until the site is back up. I am very active on FB but that’s all cursing, politics and me picking fights with old white men. Also cats and geek shit.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. Achoo.

1) The real Colbert will triumph on Late Night

...at another Washington engagement, Colbert once again arrived in character to speak to politicians. After he had become a migrant farm worker for a day in a segment on his show, Colbert was given five minutes to speak in front of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Security. To the obvious discomfort of the committee members, he offered his usual absurdist commentary: “Now we all know there is a long tradition of great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work. After all, it was the ancient Israelites who built the first food pyramids.” He ended by saying, “I yield the balance of my time. U.S.A., number one.”

If he’d stopped there, his appearance would have been an act of subversive but straightforward political protest—mocking anti-immigration politicians for their xenophobia and tweaking Congress for its occasional attempts to spice up committee hearings by bringing in celebrity “experts.” But his testimony continued with a question-and-answer session. He had a funny exchange with Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, in which he said, “I endorse all Republican policies without question.” Then he got into an awkward spat with John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, who asked him to leave the hearing. Later, he took questions from the California Democrat Judy Chu. She asked him why he was interested in the issue of migrant labor. Here, in a telling moment, he paused, patted the back of his head with his hand, and looked away for a moment, before responding, in obvious seriousness: “I like talking about people who don’t have any power. And it seemed like one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don’t have any rights as a result.” Colbert was thoughtful and sincere—and had ruined the whole thing. By speaking honestly, he had become the very thing he was mocking, a celebrity testifying before Congress.

2) Seasonal allergies, explained. Or more bluntly, the weird way our bodies respond when we get in the way of plant sex.

Scientists have recently determined that because of climate change, pollen season is likely to become longer and feature even higher amounts of pollen than it does currently. Right now, in the US, it generally starts in mid-April and peaks in early May; by 2020, it'll begin in mid-March, peak in April, but continue even later into the summer, with higher amounts of pollen in the air at any given time.

Happy sneezing.

3) The Power Of Poop: A Whale Story

Nicols' team analyzed 27 fecal samples from four species of baleen whales, reported New Scientist. "He found that on average whale faeces had 10 million times as much iron as Antarctic seawater." Basically, that's iron concentrate. And strategically emitted — which would have to be up near the ocean surface, where the sun shines — that extra iron would create blooms of phytoplankton, which would then be eaten by krill, leading to a boost in the krill population, leading to ... yes ... bigger whale dinners!

4) Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan

This is so sweet, written by Carl Sagan's daughter.

“You are alive right this second. That is an amazing thing,” they told me. When you consider the nearly infinite number of forks in the road that lead to any single person being born, they said, you must be grateful that you’re you at this very second. Think of the enormous number of potential alternate universes where, for example, your great-great-grandparents never meet and you never come to be. Moreover, you have the pleasure of living on a planet where you have evolved to breathe the air, drink the water, and love the warmth of the closest star. You’re connected to the generations through DNA — and, even farther back, to the universe, because every cell in your body was cooked in the hearts of stars. We are star stuff, my dad famously said, and he made me feel that way.

Also, Seth McFarlane is the reason the new Cosmos was able to get off the ground, and also "made it possible for all the contents of the Sphinx Head Tomb — all the essays on nuclear winter, the papers on the climate of Venus, the scraps of ideas, a boyhood drawing of a flyer for an imagined interstellar mission — to be preserved in the Library of Congress."

5) How a Middle-aged IT Guy From Peoria Tweeted His Way Into a Writing Job on Late Night With Seth Meyers

Donaldson had no idea he was auditioning for a job when he was tweeting. “Being that it’s Twitter, maybe I just couldn’t take it that seriously when those people were following me," he says. "I never felt that I was at that level, as far as comedy writing.” A direct message from Baze was the first professional contact Donaldson had ever had with anyone in the comedy world. The Peorian greeted it skeptically. "I wasn’t going to consider uprooting my family at age 40 and starting a new career in New York, where I’d never even been before," Donaldson says. "But my wife basically said I’d be an idiot if I didn’t give this a shot, because it’s such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Bonus: Me in real life