That’s so funny

It's so much fun when people learn this!!!!

I am aglee :)

😘🧡🫂🧡😘🧡🫂🧡🫂

Oh no oh fuck :(((

100% of the manuscript is translated (in draft form), including author's notes, content notes, acknowledgments and author's bio - hurrah!
Now I need some motivation to revise revise revise. and revise. and build up the footnotes and the glossary.

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Génial, y’a plus qu’à changer de nom, prénom, date de naissance et adresse

Before Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams were Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, Quinn founder Caroline Spiegel booked the budding actors for her audio erotica app. She reached out to their teams after seeing the trailer for Crave's "Heated Rivalry." HBO Max hadn't even made its distribution deal for what would become the hottest romance on TV.

Storrie and Williams' "Ember & Ice" is the most-listened-to series to date (for a total of 39 million minutes). For the first time, the original included two leads; all others feature the actor as protagonist and the listener as the object of desire.

‘Ember & Ice’ has surpassed 39 million minutes of listening.

It’s the platform’s first dual-lead original, and its success is opening the door for more multi-voice actor projects.

The Quinn founder reached out to Hudson and Connor as soon as the HR trailer dropped.

🔗: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Oh nooooo
Fuck!

I just realized that next year the Ray Wars will have gone on as long as the Thirty Years’ War

I’m going to lie down now

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

Mais jusqu’où iront ces injustices ?!

To be clear - bc I wasn’t - this is for b2b transactions
But yeah

My dad’s plan, I meant

Yup same
When I had to initiate a huge bank transfer for a house purchase (acting for a friend) I had to go to the bank to fill up paperwork for it and pay the fee bc it was too big to do in bank app of course

Ouais sauf que ça s’applique même aux entités en franchise de TVA, par exemple mes factures, que l’état ignorait donc avant

I think it grew out of wondering “how to make taxes easier and more just”, not only or mostly how to prevent fraud, but yeah. Outlawing cash is not a good idea, period, imo

U yeah I was shocked when i learned that, like I think not even a cheque is allowed
But I have not checked in details if it applies to all/any transaction

WHAT

agree

I mean I agree it would be way easier and could be generous if the lower threshold is high enough, but I tried to explained many times why outlawing cash is bad and how totalitarian it would all be and he, a lifelong leftist, is not budging that it would work 🤷🏻‍♀️

my dad has a totalitarian masterplan I can never convince him is inhumane where to prevent BIG fraud he thinks we should outlaw cash wholly, suppress all the various taxes & replace them w/ ONE (marginal) tax rate applied to all money coming into a person's account above a generous threshold/month

I would feel the same yeah. They've outlawed a LOT of cash transactions already, I believe that like, any payment over 3K now *has* to be a bank transfer, but maybe that applies only to certain types of payment (I heard about it for like real estate purchases, which are done at a notary's)

I don't actually know if you can still pay in cash, uh.

ION I filed my taxes and tho i still owe nothing (i made 11k in 2025, turns out), i still jumped up quite a bit (had an abysmal <3k year in 2024, so); that feels good. This year so far I haven't made that much at all but if all unfolds as "it should"🤞🏼I might end up higher (still <20k tho probably)

to be clear i don't believe the entirety of each invoice is reported to the government? possibly only the VAT? but I haven't finished my reading. I got informed by an email from the IRS saying i need to tell the gov/IRS *which* 3rd party I'm using before Sept, is how i discovered the whole thing.

like what do you mean every private company out there is now having their invoices reported straight to the government? how is that correct? sure it'll make fraud more difficult, a laudable goal, but it feels, um, disproportionate to me, and, like, liberticidal? vaguely totalitarian? am I wrong?

ofc it's an added expense (not for everyone; these certified services have free tiers for indies, artists, freelance and small companies), and much added data security risks, and there's no state-run alternative either. I dunno, I'm just very uneasy about the whole thing. I'll comply ofc but yeah :(

sooo i just discovered that France is making electronic invoicing mandatory, using 3rd party 'certified' vendors which will of course mandatorily report VAT stuff & other shit to the government. I'm not like, clever or informed or anything, but it feels super invasive & surveillance-state like to me