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[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Everything i posted is fact. You can download the application form yourself. If you use the auto filler, you are required to fill in that information. What i googled was for what would happen if you don't use the auto filler and don't provide that information.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Everything i posted is fact. You can download the application form yourself. If you use the auto filler, you are required to fill in that information. What i googled was for what would happen if you don't use the auto filler and don't provide that information.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I was hoping that would be the case, but everything I googled said "if you cant reach out to your ex-spouse, no problem, just get the info from their friends or family!" Like, thanks, anyone close enough to him to know that info hates my guts and will definitely tell him and give him my contact info.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just finished John Scalzi's The Moon Hits Your Eye, and quite liked it.

Others I've loved include:

Air by Geoff Ryman

The Seep by Chana Porter

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

 

Why?

If you're in the US, you should know this because if you want to apply for a passport, you'll be required to provide information about your parents such as birth dates and places. If you're divorced, you will have to provide the same info along with marriage and divorce date, even if it was decades ago. So if you have access to that info, make sure you record it somewhere safe for Future use.

If you're not in the US, you should know because this information can be difficult for people to get if they never knew one or both parents, or have a bad/non-relationship with them. Or if they had a contentious divorce or an abusive partner. Which is another reason why just leaving the country can be difficult for people who are already marginalized.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hello, I'm the other lemmy who doesn't hate Stranger Things.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I didn't realize storygraph did this, as it's my first year with them. Thanks for sharing.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Is Janet's birthday.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

There's a decent amount of overlap in those populations.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Nonfiction: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

Fiction: Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable.

The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls--but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

Almost finished with this one and enjoying it far more than I expected to.

 

Acrylic on wood, 26 x 20 inches.

Thanks to everyone here who convinced me to keep the lemons. I'm really happy with how this came out.

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This dog has been roaming the neighborhood for at least 3 days. No collar, the police are aware and unable to get it, animal control won't try until tomorrow. Pic has been posted to a missing pets facebook group.

It's below freezing. I tried bringing out food and water, but it won't let me anywhere near. Is there anything I can put out to help this dog through another frozen night, assuming it comes anywhere near my house again?

Edit the following morning: I never saw it again, but a neighbor saw it this morning, so at least it survived the night. Hopefully the pros can take care of it today.

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This TV movie was funnier than it had any right to be. I don't normally enjoy slapstick, but I laughed out loud several times. Also nice and short.

 

Acrylic on wood.

Not ready to share the whole painting. I added these lemons because the composition needed something to balance it and i was really happy with how they were coming out.

Last night, 2 am on my way to the bathroom, I glance at it in the dark and realize these lemons are life-sized - while the rest of the painting is double that. And they're in the foreground. So now I have to repaint them.

 
 

Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20"

I started off painting an owl, and worked on it long enough without seeing improvement so I wanted to abandon it. But I could see this little critter lurking under the owl.

It's fantastic when I only have my reading light on at night.

 

oil on canvas, 2022

Note: a number of her works depict nudity.

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