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Aimless Thoughts: Thanksgiving

     There’s an inside joke my coworkers have about me, which they’ve always been good about explaining to new hires. Basically, they use me as a thermometer. You know it’s cold if Max is wearing long sleeves. I think it’s overstated, personally. They’re not wrong that I’ve got an unusually high cold tolerance. They’re not wrong that I’ve spent a lot of time outside in short sleeves while it was actively snowing. But that’s only because a lot of the light snowfall we see these days happens when it’s barely below 32. You better believe I wear more than that when I shovel, when there’s high wind, etc etc…      It always gets me thinking about the cold. You ever think about how cold the universe is? The universe is so fucking cold that most of the plainly visible regular matter out there is held in literal balls of fire and it’s still cold . Industrialization has ushered in an exceptionally hot era of Earth’s history, but even during an ice age our world go...
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Sources for Annie Oakley video

 YouTube appears to be hiding my recent video because I linked all my sources in the description so I've moved them here. Keep in mind when I say "sources" this isn't in the strictly academic sense, this is just literally any place I might've gleaned one or two sentences worth of information. https://issuu.com/ibuildmagazines/docs/indiantrader0620/s/10736397 https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2013/09/25/pinehurst-relives-days-annie-oakley/22142950007/ https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/03/13/annie-oakley-a-woman-to-be-reckoned-with/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-world/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-annie/ http://www.annieoakleycenterfoundation.com/faq.html http://gehio.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-darke-county-poorhouse-cemetery.html https://www.musicals101.com/variety.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20120305215558/http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2006-05/annieoakley.html https://www.new...
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Faction Paradox: A Somewhat Sloppy Beginners' Guide I Wrote on my Work Breaks Last Week

Faction Paradox has garnered a reputation among Doctor Who fans as the series’ most obtuse, inaccessible spin-off. This isn’t entirely unfair, it’s been saddled with some awful marketing over the years and it’s certainly plenty alienating at times. It’s kind of hard to explain to people, even close friends who know I’ve followed it closely since high school. After carefully considering things for a while I've come up with the following post, which is split in two parts: an introduction to Faction Paradox, the fictional setting and an introduction to Faction Paradox, the series. The latter is the more important matter, in my opinion, but the former is also obviously really important to a newcomer. So, ah. If you want to imagine the world of Faction Paradox it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a look at how Eccleston and Tenannt used to describe the Time War. Before it actually appeared, it seemed like this impossible mythical clash between factions of gods who could change all of h...
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