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[RadFemHedonist]

So he came home from school in tears and said he had been worrying all day about how he had spoken to me. I was like you daft thing, you should have messaged me! He gave me a huge bear hug.

Aww! Gives me a lil more faith in humanity stuff like that!

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Happy Australia Day to our Aussie chums. These have made their way to UK shelves just in time!

 

[Girls with Guns]

Mmm, biscuit bars - someone ship me a case of the caramel, please!

 

[awadama]

I tried the Original ones a few weeks ago. Uh...yeah.

 

[D1tchd1gger]

I tried the Original ones a few weeks ago. Uh...yeah.

Just like a Penguin bar, but bigger and the chocolate is.... Different!

 

[Spark_Heal]

I’m hoping to travel more this year. To meet new people and go new places. If I can go to a convention or event every month then it would be a good start. Trouble is that part to me wants to go to Dokomi in Germany but I have a really bad fear of flying. So that might be too big a leap too fast. Not sure how to handle that.

 

[Anj]

I’m hoping to travel more this year. To meet new people and go new places. If I can go to a convention or event every month then it would be a good start. Trouble is that part to me wants to go to Dokomi in Germany but I have a really bad fear of flying. So that might be too big a leap too fast. Not sure how to handle that.

Are you in the UK? Eurostar and going by train if so, apparently trains are far cheaper over there than in Britain

 

[Shadow Cat]

Happy Valentines Day

 

[RadFemHedonist]

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone here, I love you all and wish you all the best whether you are single or partnered! Just leaving one of my favourite love songs here for everyone to enjoy!

Spoiler: Paper Route - Two Hearts

And as is customary

 

[Otomo]

A first kiss, best experienced while on the run from a Secret Organisation.

 

[Girls with Guns]

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

[Dai]

Urgent PSA for Kindle users. Amazon are removing the ability to download e-books to PC from your account page on their website. It's happening in phases over the next few days. Some people have already lost the feature. The process will be locked off for everyone by 26th Feb. If you want to backup your e-books, do it now.

They haven't advertised this, of course. I only found out because the Youtube algorithm happened to push this video my way:

 

[demonix]

Urgent PSA for Kindle users. Amazon are removing the ability to download e-books to PC from your account page on their website. It's happening in phases over the next few days. Some people have already lost the feature. The process will be locked off for everyone by 26th Feb. If you want to backup your e-books, do it now.

They haven't advertised this, of course. I only found out because the Youtube algorithm happened to push this video my way:

I think that exact video came through my youtube recommended feed a day or so ago, and even though I'm not currently a kindle user, I would have been in the future but since they've pulled this "you will own nothing and you will be happy even if you paid for what you read" crap my future kindle e-reader purchase is now going to become a future kobo e-reader purchase.

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Time to raise more money for Cancer Research. I also need to kick start a bit of a health drive after having a lazy 2024 after my hernia op.

Please donate if you're able by using the link below:

Simon's Giving Page

Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m completing Walk All Over Cancer to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving research by donating to my page.

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org

 

[RadFemHedonist]

Not sure where is the appropriate place to post this, but Michelle Trachtenberg who played Dawn in Buffy has passed away aged 39 - I always loved her character in that and felt very sisterly towards her, and given my estrangement from my own sister, this is hitting me harder than celebrity deaths typically do. I sincerely hope she rests in peace, she was too young to go

Michelle Trachtenberg: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl star dies at 39

Trachtenberg, 39, found fame in television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and later Gossip Girl.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Anj]

Not sure where is the appropriate place to post this, but Michelle Trachtenberg who played Dawn in Buffy has passed away aged 39 - I always loved her character in that and felt very sisterly towards her, and given my estrangement from my own sister, this is hitting me harder than celebrity deaths typically do. I sincerely hope she rests in peace, she was too young to go

Michelle Trachtenberg: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl star dies at 39

Trachtenberg, 39, found fame in television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and later Gossip Girl.

www.bbc.co.uk

It's really sad, so young. I wonder if something happened after her transplant?

 

[RadFemHedonist]

It's really sad, so young. I wonder if something happened after her transplant?

I'm not a doctor but that does sound plausible as a possible explanation

 

[Anj]

My course I'm doing with the open university is treating me to chemistry and physics at the moment so I developed a scale to remind myself which to revise the most:

 

[Girls with Guns]

My course I'm doing with the open university is treating me to chemistry and physics at the moment so I developed a scale to remind myself which to revise the most:

Heh, yeah I'd much rather do chemistry and physics homework than have to watch any of the anime on that list, lol. I've avoided every one those anime series, and even Spirited Away and Ponyo are way down the list of my favorite Ghibli movies - Spirited Away is about 17th and Ponyo is at the bottom.

Science classes were actually my favorite in school, I even wanted to get a job in a laboratory as a mad scientist after I graduated!

Study hard!

 

[awadama]

I didn't like Ponyo or science but I like Dr Stone!