#yourmileagemayvary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #yourmileagemayvary, aggregated by home.social.
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“I’m disgusted to be a human”: What to do when you hate your own species
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The honest conversation about antidepressants I wish my psychiatrist had with me
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Do you need to know who you’d be without antidepressants?
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One of the hottest therapy styles is scientifically shaky — so why does it seem to work?
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/479186/ifs-therapy-risks-evidence
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Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
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The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025
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Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/468672/how-to-fight-generative-ai
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Think your AI chatbot has become conscious? Here’s what to do.
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Expelliarmus! How to enjoy Harry Potter while disarming J.K. Rowling.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/464352/harry-potter-jk-rowling-lgbtq
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@gjherbiet @cve @cloudflareradar True but remember that noone (except may be the NSA?) has a complete vision of the whole Internet and it can be quite different depending on the viewpoint.
For instance, this survey shows that DoH/DoT are more used under authoritarian regimes: https://digitalmedusa.org/projects/resolved-dns/ -
Happy Friday!
Today on the #blog it's another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my series offering off-beat #writing advice. Today's entry:
DON'T SHOW, DON'T TELL, CUE
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/07/ymmv-dont-show-dont-tell-cue.html -
Late posting but Happy Friday! Let's start the weekend out right with another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my #blog series of off-beat #writing advice.
Today's entry:
NO ONE WANTS TO READ YOUR GODDAMN MEMOIRhttp://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/06/ymmv-no-one-wants-to-read-your-memoir.html
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Happy Friday!
Today's blog post is another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my ongoing series of off-beat #writing advice. Today's entry:
YOU AREN'T FUNNY
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This week on the blog it's another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my series on off-beat #writing advice. Today's entry:
STOP BASHING POPULAR THINGS
... which I swear will have something to do with writing.
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Happy Friday! Today on the #blog we have another installment #YourMileageMayVary, my series on off-beat writing advice. Today is the final part of my trilogy on line-editing.
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/05/ymmv-edit-for-aesthetic-third-line.html
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Happy Friday. Today's #blog post is another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my series on off-beat #writing advice.
Today's entry: Write for Economy (Line Editing, Part 2)
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/04/ymmv-edit-for-economy-second-line.html
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@miramarmike yep, but note the "just" in what I said :) Both living in the moment *and* for posterity is important, at least for writing...but also in things like climate action. Anyway, #YourMileageMayVary as always.
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Happy Friday, peeps!
Today on the #blog we've got another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my series on off-beat #writing advice.
Today's entry is part one of a sub-series on line-editing: EDIT FOR CLARITY FIRST
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/04/ymmv-edit-for-clarity-first-line.html
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Hey everybody!
Today on the #blog it's another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my series on off-beat #writing advice.
Today: how and why you should be writing for audio.
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Hey everybody! Time for another edition of #YourMileageMayVary, my #blog series of off-beat #writing advice. Today's take is extra-spicy!
STOP USING SCENE BREAKS
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/03/ymmv-stop-using-scene-breaks.html
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Happy Friday!
Today's installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my blog series of off-beat #writing advice, is about how to structure your chapters.
Start with a Question, End with a Choice
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/03/ymmv-start-with-question-end-with-choice.html
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Happy Friday! Late posting because it's been a DAY.
Today's edition of #YourMileageMayVary is me imploring you to write a lot--like, a WHOLE LOT--of flash fiction.
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/03/ymmv-write-more-flash-fiction.html
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Happy Friday, y'all!
Today's installment of #YourMileageMayVary is taking a look why you should always, always, always be #writing to a word count.
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/03/ymmv-write-to-word-count.html
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Happy Friday! Today's #blog post is another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, my weekly column of off-beat #writing advice. This time we're talking about why you're doing description wrong.
DESCRIBE WITH ACTIONS
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/02/ymmv-describe-with-actions.html
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Happy Friday!
This week's #blog post is another installment of #YourMileageMayVary, this time imploring you to stop writing film dialog in your books and short stories.
MOTIVATE YOUR DIALOG
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/02/ymmv-motivate-your-dialog.html
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Happy Friday!
It's time for another entry of #YourMileageMayVary, my #blog series of off-beat #writing advice. Today's entry:
PLOT HOLES DON'T MATTER
http://www.kurtpankau.com/2024/02/ymmv-plot-holes-dont-matter.html