So, I was lying in bed tonight, and I realized something about Honkai: Star Rail, the latest gambling simulator video game from the makers of Genshin Impact.

This isn't the first time.

Years ago, someone told me that there was a show called The Good Place, and it was about someone who went to Heaven (i.e. the Good Place) by accident.

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Some years ago, a famous French painter made a painting of a pipe, labelled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." - "This is not a pipe."

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Hey folks!

I know I have some of you added on Discord.

I got a strange message from someone this morning "from" someone on FIMFiction inviting me to a Discord server. Said server requested that I scan a QR code to join it using my mobile Discord app.

I'm 99.9% certain that it is just a way to hijack people's accounts, doubly so as I was unable to reply to the person in question.

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I randomly poked my nose back onto FIMFiction today, only to discover that ObabScribbler posted a reading of one of my stories earlier today!

Thanks, Scribbler!

A bit of an unexpected surprise, but I got a message yesterday from Spaniard Kiwi that they had translated ten of my stories into Spanish.

I'm glad to see there are people still working on bringing stories to folks who don't speak English!

Crêpes: https://www.deviantart.com/spaniard-kiwi/art/Crepes-874124314

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Raya and the Last Dragon - or Raya and her Trust Issues - is a decent but unexceptional CG animated movie from Disney. The movie features vibrant and striking visuals, but a cast of essentially two characters plus a bunch of character shaped props.

It is a movie whose moral is that it is only by extending trust can we expect trust in return wherein the ENTIRE PLOT is driven by people backstabbing those who were foolish enough to trust them.

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While this is a bit off-topic, I know a lot of you will be happy to hear that the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation was illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

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Ack! I forgot to make a blog post about this yesterday!

Today is Ponyfest 3.0, another online pony convention.

And like the last convention, I'm doing a panel! Specifically, a panel with Tumbleweed.

The topic?

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Ninety is a nice, round number, and the nineties were a rather nice decade.

In this set, I started reading GaP Jaxie’s The Third Wheel, a series of five AU fics set in the same world, plus I read a smattering of other stories.

Today’s stories:

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I actually wrote this the same day as I finished up Read It Later Reviews #88. It’s been a long time since I actually got ahead on review sets. It’s crazy! What’s next, me actually publishing another story?

Today’s stories:

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