My choices now are

Mastodon
Lemmy
Kbin
Actually edit the novel

For the chess rule, you may need an x before and a + after.

Very good luck with all of that!

We’re just along for the ride. The people profiting from this have all the money and aren’t going to change their mind because they think they can buy a solution for just themselves.

So, like the knowledge that we all die one day no matter what happens, it just has to be something you live with. Until you don’t.

The Finnish song Cha Cha Cha is awesome. It should have won Eurovision!

If you can afford it, I found that the Pimsleur technique taught me how to speak well better than anything else I tried. I’ve forgotten the Spanish I know because I didn’t keep using it, but it got me to a decent adult conversational level in about a month at half an hour a day and I was always speaking ‘adult’ sentences right from the start, both copying then making new ones.