1/2 alttext: "We chose the term "asexual" to describe ourselves because both "celibate" and "anti-sexual" have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrified sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. "Asexual", as we use it, does not mean "without sex" but "relating sexually to no one".
2/2 alttext: This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality." The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972.
Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in US Schools lists the fifty-two most frequently banned books in U.S. schools so far this decade. Looking for Alaska by John Green tops the list, with 147 bans, while Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult comes in second place, with 142 bans. pen.org/top-52-banned-books-siβ¦
Do you have a second-hand musical instrument you could donate to the Olympias Music Foundation? With the help of Oglesby Charitable Trust Green Grants, we will repair up to 100 second-hand instruments for use by our young musicians at Olympias!
Every year, thousands of musical instruments go to landfill due to the prohibitive cost of repair. Many are made of rare woods and metals, which are impossible to recycle. We are partnering with the Oglesby Charitable Trust, Sound Post Limited and team of community luthiers (instrument makers) to breathe new-life into second-hand instruments and putting them into the hands of young people to inspire the next generation of musical talent in Manchester!
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We are accepting donations of violins, violas, cellos, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, french horns, euphoniums and electric keyboards. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept donations of pianos, guitars and drum-kits. Instruments can be dropped off at our base in central Manchester, or picked up from locations around Manchester.β
If you have a musical instrument you no longer need and would like to donate to Olympias, we would love to hear from you!
If youβve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wouβ¦
Didn't get to it this morn either, actually didn't surf the web at all, just wasn't feeling it, and won't be bothering tonight. Woke up a bit meh, dragged and ran errands before going to work a bit early, including hitting MickeyD's as I had a craving.
Tonight is much the same, mostly skipping the web, I'm tired, and my shoulder hurts bad. Ice and reading.
Reading is the big reason, although some of the stories I'm tracking on FiM Fiction do have updates, I'm not feeling it, so I started reading some of my Read It Later stories. Right now I'm on the 5th chapter of A Phoenix Beyond the Veil - The Philospher's Stone, and I'm rather taken with it.
Sunset Shimmer in the Harry Potter universe isn't unknown, but it isn't super common. However, those always use canon SS, a teenager who uses a portal mirror after the mirror showed her a future where she was an Alicorn, because Princes Celestia won't make her one. This one is more mature, what if anything she saw wasn't brought up, instead, she's gotten fed up with Celestia not teaching her like she used to, so she decided to go somewhere else where she can learn more. None of the desire for alicornhood, nor a plan to conquer Equestria, just a desire to learn more. Despite expecting to come out of a statue by a high school, what happened in canon, she comes out of a mirror in the Grainger household, something she blames on Philomena, her pet phoenix that came with her, because she perched on the top of the mirror where the focus is before they used it.
Any how, I'm finding the writing to be to my taste, and while SS is overpowered, the way they're handling it is quite good, she's happy to learn, experience new things, and help people. It makes it quite enjoyable to see how she interacts with the world.
What really has me engaged at the moment? I just reached the point where she tells Hermine's parents that she can give them magic, or more correctly, she can unblock their thaumic passageways. Apparently this is a known problem in Equestria, and she's been reading an advanced medical magic book, and feels capable of fixing it for them. Interesting idea, muggles, or at least muggles that have magic capable children, are capable of magic themselves but have a malady that stops them, wonder where this'll lead.
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language Tabloid is a Turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines. tabloid.vercel.app/
This is absolutely true. Americans are the biggest suckers in the history of man. We believe in the trickle down economic theory after proving it wrong again and again for decades.
Microsoft email asking me to verify my age on an account I registered 20 years ago to prove I'm over 18. You know what? I don't actually need Xbox Live. Certainly don't need to have my driving licence on the internet.
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