Have you read The Handmaid's Tale? If not, now would be a good time.

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I’ve received four scam emails in the last week. Here’s one for your amusement/edification:

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This is a repost, quoted from a flister's LJ, with permission:

Somebody with this website is repostings several authors/fanartists fics on there without listing the name of the authors/fanartists on there and apparently in most cases, without permission. I've seen a good number of stories/fanart I'm familar with on the site (all of them most ( Read more... )

Three weeks in, as of Wednesday. ( It's been interesting... )

...but this cold therapy machine -- which I got on Wednesday -- is helping a lot. The downsides: it's a pain to set up, drain, etc. (although B is able to do that for me right now, and it's a little too effective, which means that I have to check the skin hourly to make sure i don't actually get frostbite. (So no sleeping with it on.) And it's not ( Read more... )

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