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Don't know where this "writers' site" crap came from but it sure as hell isn't in the prospectus.

The Best of The Week

Annual "Holiday" celebrating penguins and drawing attention to their threatened status.

"We love penguins for lots of reasons: They walk around in tuxedos, they have a cute waddle, and they’re unique! And to show that we care, we observe National Penguin Day on January 20. While this day celebrates the penguins, it’s also a time to think about saving them. Many penguin colonies have been lost to climate change and it’s estimated that half the population of emperor penguins will vanish by the end of this century. We can start to help these endangered creatures by focusing on environmental issues."
—National Today

Yes, we all love penguins; they're comical-looking flightless birds, fun to watch. They are native to cold southern shores, so seen on the coasts of Antarctica, the southernmost parts of South America and even New Zealand. The only

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I really do love music and I ought to prove it by writing about it more. If you could only see my drafts. The 10-arms length list of musical ideas, from people to albums to individual songs, that I've felt compelled on some level to write about and just haven't...

But the writeups in this node are so grossly insufficient. And some other adverbs and adjectives that I won't bother

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Ask for help; your friends will thank you for it.

Asking for help is the hardest thing I ever have to do. My father modelled being self-sufficient, taking care of my own shit, being self-reliant. He grew up being "mother" to his younger siblings. He came home from school to cook a meal, organise house-cleaning, doing laundry. He survived this, toughened up and it made him who he was. A hard act to follow.

It's easy to say that we should be self-reliant, not dependent on others,

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News for Noders

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.