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Honestly life-saving, what a gift

I got there through tags and length filters and realising a not-right fic was the right author because reading the longed-for fic made me read her others. Non-denominational blessings to AO3 and every fandom archivist 🙏 Also I'm really sorry about how much I like neotags in the 00s

Just spent 2 hours searching AO3 for a fic I read ~12 years ago and used as a 'if you write a chapter today you can read a chapter later' carrot and I FOUND IT It is 126,000 words and I haven't been this thrilled by anything in ages

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

There's a whole other 'you made WHOSE backstory' here, but meanwhile impressed by this capturing my already-existing mental image of this human man person

The post-credits scene of EBENEZER reveals the "what day is it" boy to be Oliver Twist, launching Phase 1 of the Dickensverse.

The Professionals! Beiderbecke Tapes! The One Game! Department S!

Best one yet #BantyParadise

Someone playing @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social and winning in every way!

friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating

Oh jeez. I've been thinking all day about seeing books like Harry Woodgate's, the beautiful Julien books presented like this. As if kids loving themselves and their families is shameful. As if a body can be wrong for just existing. We all know how much a fellow author can let us down but ugh

Hard recommend for watching the timeline instead of the match, half time has been especial lols

Note: I am not a tax expert, I do not use an accountant even during the year I had to calculate averaging (yike), I am just someone who makes a small number of beans via self-employed income and would like to have time to spend on what makes the beans happen not on taxes.

Support people to do that, and they know what the payment is as early as possible. A simple piece of education, making their lives and ours simpler. Yes, I know Making Tax Digital adds a whole new layer - but again: just help people to know their tax liability at a time that actually helps.

One point I do think it worth making: the Jan and June payments on account catch people out every year because they are poorly explained, and because we are encouraged to file our tax return in January by the deadline, not in April immediately at the end of the tax year.

These proposals would include vastly higher burden on individuals, and inevitably a higher cost as every month we have to say 'oh actually that advance I was expecting hasn't arrived' and they continuously recalculate. Any saving to HMRC in cutting late payments will be eaten by admin.

I've filled this in. It isn't very fun talking about how creative incomes are tiny and unpredictable, and some of the questions are silly ('don't know' is always ok when it's something it would be their job to figure out), but it feels worthwhile. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/