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anyone here actually read ebooks?

i run a lit mag and i'm trying to determine if it's worth the significant extra effort to put epub & kindle out there.

they barely sell. i do much better with the print editions. i'm just not sure if the audience is small but loyal, or if digital feels like a bonus addon that people take but never actually read.

please give me your insights!!! i need perspective outside my own. :)

boost too, if you'd be so kind.

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Kids are callin' it Robot Hangover. She set a dumpster on fire behind a Shake Shack and huffed the fumes until she thought she was bein' chased by Jared Leto ridin' a giant polar bear.

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Misread: parseInt() -> parselInt(), now thinking of a function which converts snek to integers.

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birdsite auto-moderation failure thoughts 

the emphatic summary statement of problems being discussed is often missing from threaded conversations because it's controversial to the people who hate minorities and they report it a lot -- possibly even programmatically having it reported by bots on some people's accounts at this point

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venting about depression & suicide 

Fuck depression.

Fuck depression for ruining the lives of wonderful people in times of stress.

Fuck depression for leaving scars both mental and physical on so many.

Fuck depression for taking the lives of so many good people before their time.

But most of all? Fuck society for viewing depression as laziness.
For seeing suicide as intentionally selfish.
For voicing thousands of reasons to hate the depressed and berating those who love and care for them.

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tired: traditional default human-style angels

wired: old-school angels that border on incomprehensibility, like the thrones, winged wheels covered in eyes

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Hey, agender people? Could you send me the genders you're not using anymore? I have... a project in mind for them.

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yelling about software 

I'm so frustrated with desktop clients that are just chrome wrappers for web clients and BLOCK THE OS API SPELL CHECKER AND OTHER RELATED FUNCTIONS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AAAAAUGH

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Bayspreading: the web coding equivalent of 'manspreading', where your web page loads stuff from a million separate Amazon and Google servers located in the San Francisco Bay Area because you figure 'the Silicon Valley Cloud is everyone's personal computer these days, isn't it?'

and you don't realise 'everyone' in the world doesn't host data in the legal jurisdiction of the USA or even wants their data packets going beyond their local USB cable.

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vaguely warm take 

honestly if there's one thing I hate about most implementations of "realism" is that it's always just to reduce diversity, color nad just... the whole vibrancy to things that makes it all enjoyable to begin with

like truth is often much stranger than fiction and it's perfectly possible to get super weird while still staying well within the bounds of our universe, embrace that shit
embellish it, even

Woke up before 5am because that's apparently a thing that happens sometimes. Oh well, researching discontinued film scanners from 2008-9 that aren't even on eBay anymore because the demand for them is too high is normal at least, right?

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game idea:

you're a soft-spoken and forgetful expands-in-water dinosaur sponge in the distant, arid future

you're in a dessicated stasis when a still-running social markov bot posts 'meds reminder' to a media feed in your vicinity, spurring you to roll/waddle your way to all the nearest water sources to keep hydrated, lest you fall back into capsule stasis. you do this out of a desire to find the bot that reinvigorated your spirit and express your delicate, absorbent gratitude

A whole fleet of small white sailboats out in Portage Bay! :D

An ever-expanding repository of memories with oft-diverging emotional values attached to them, around which grows a garden of interconnected, overlapping, interwoven beings.

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