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1 week
The Undesirous Virus: COVID-19, Four Years Later

Yeah, remember when COVID-19 was a thing? I'm fine if we don't get a sequel, of course.
Alternatively, what's the real-world version of Cutie Pox?
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1 week
Friendship and the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

Because I am That Kind Of Person, I typed "Friendship" into the search bar on Wikipedia and immediately looked at the dropdown menu of suggestions. And I see this:
Friendship Games
There's some weird random stuff here.
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Going Bad, Babs Seed, and the Hostile Attribution Bias

Because writers feed on flaws and conflict, and because a great way to make some is to have a character go in cockeyed, I was looking up cognitive biases. This one caught my eye:
Hostile Attribution Bias
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3 weeks
Followup: Image Issue Seems to Be Fixed Now

Just checked. Embedded images seem to be working again.
Seriously, though, what was that?
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3 weeks
Check Your Images: Possible Site Issue

I've only just noticed, but is anyone else having random loading failure problems with inserted images/gifs on various pages? Blogs and user pages I've chiefly been noticing it on. I could've sworn they were fine yesterday, but today? Nope.
Fic embeds and videos seem to be working fine. I just wondered if anyone else had noticed the image issue.
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