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Seven months. That's how long ago my last post here went live. After that, I dropped off the Steem world. Why? Well, that's complicated, but I'll try my best to explain. I was deeply involved in a Discord

Hello everyone. This is a reminder on the closure and shutting down of your vornix.blog on 1st June 2019. If you plan to migrate your wordpress blog, now is the time to start looking for a new host and

OCD DAILY - Issue #285 Welcome to the 285th issue of @OCD Daily! Issue #285 highlights content from nine (9) Steem Content Creators! The OCD team continues its search throughout Steem to find you the

A month or so ago we were offered two bearded dragons, complete with vivariums. Their current owner had little time to care for them properly and although we don't have much spare room in our house, we

Hello and thank you for checking out the weekly Micro-fiction Contest. Your challenge is to produce a short story within the tight word limit of 250 words. If you're familiar with the #fiftywords contest,

As @ocd is getting ready to start curation again and there will be a new way announced to add quality and original content authors to it we are adding a last chance for the community to recommend themselves

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Steemit Inc launch Wallet App, and add dogfood to the menu. Steemhunt's HUNT Token IEO goes live. DLux launches XR app STEEM.Events. And the Stewards of Terra Mater return. Steemit Inc launch Wallet App

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The Steemhouse representative at Anarcapulco will be me, @michelios . In fact, I’m already here, in Acapulco, killing time on the beach until the conference. I didn’t publish much on Steem in the two years

Welcome to the Micro-fiction Contest in which participants write short stories of 250 words or less, and have a chance to win a reward of 2 SBD. If you have participated in the #fiftywords contest in the

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