My daughter is a year and a half and I really love being a dad, but as she starts to grow I have noticed that there are things I "have" to learn. I know and will teach her how to change a tire and how to cook and to juggle and I read with her and ... all the things that all the dads here celebrate.

But there's so much more! I am working on slight of hand so i can reliably pull a coin from her ear. I definitely need to learn some good jokes for kids. 1,000 dinosaur facts? How to do the Carlton? Silly tongue twisters?

What other wildly unimportant dad things should I definitely be learning?

There has been a lot of "it got pushed back" going around about the EU packaging rules, and I think it is going to catch people out, so here is the plain version.

The relief that was announced applies to EU-based companies. If you are selling from the US or UK into the EU, the August 12 authorized representative duty still applies to you. Same date, no reprieve.

It also helps to separate two things that constantly get mixed up. The country registrations already existed and are separate from anything new:

Germany has run LUCID since 2019, and there isn't a small seller exemption, so even occasional shipments put you in the scope. You register in LUCID(free), then buy a packaging license from a dual system based on the volume you actually ship. France works differently, through an eco-organism, so you need a French representative, an eco-organism membership, an ID number, and the Triman sorting logo on your packaging.

What August 12 adds is an EU-wide regulation requiring producers outside the EU to appoint an authorized representative in the countries they sell into.

Two things worth knowing. First, the marketplace asking you for a registration number does not mean they are handling it. Amazon will ask, and will block your German listings without a number, but the duty stays with you, including on FBA. Second, this is cheaper than the panic suggests. LUCID registration is free, a small shop's packaging license often runs in the tens of euros a year, and providers who bundle the authorized representative role publish prices in the low hundreds per country per year. It is an annoying afternoon, not a four-figure bill.

Practical order that saves money: work out which countries you actually ship to, sort those registrations, then get an authorised representative for the same countries. If you only ship to one or two, this gets small fast.

Not legal advice, just what I have pieced together from the regulation and the registries. Happy to answer questions.

Somewhere around the end of Oathbringer I gave up trying to hold every character, House, and random single scene side player in my head and started keeping actual notes. Some of it I love doing, some of it I have completely abandoned. Curious how everyone else handles it. Do you keep a document, a wiki tab open, a mental map, or do you just let it wash over you and accept that the story will fill you in(or not)?

Reading or re-reading The Expanse and want to look up that character you can't quite place, only to find spoilers right at the top of the first wiki article you choose? I made a free, spoiler-free* wiki for The Expanse and also several other sci-fi and fantasy series.

How it works:
You pick the series, set how far you've read(Nemesis Games, chapter 20), and every wiki article and timeline is filtered to exactly that point. Characters and events you haven't encountered yet simply don't appear.

>!The Ring gates, Naomi's secret, the Empire growing...!< Every reveal, all hidden until you get there. It’s built on shared community wikis and has chapter-level precision for spoilers. Totally free, no account or signup needed.

*This is in testing and is not perfected (not for lack of effort). If a spoiler/leak ever slips through, every page has a one-click report feature and I try to fix them fast. You can also post issues to the thread but please be sure to use spoiler tags*

StoryFlow

On AI, what is and isn't involved:

- There were previously two AI generated summary sections that have been removed, so there is not generative AI used here.

- The article texts are the communities own words, shared under CC BY-SA and with attribution. This is not generating wiki content, this is filtered human-written content. 

- The spoiler filtering is mechanical, not generative: each paragraph is tagged with which chapter it's drawn from, and hidden until you've read that far.

Reading or re-reading Harry Potter and want to look up that character you can't quite place, only to find spoilers? I made a free, spoiler-free* wiki for Harry Potter and also several other sci-fi and fantasy series.

How it works:
You pick the series, set how far you've read(HP & The Goblet of Fire, chapter 20), and every wiki article and timeline is filtered to exactly that point. Characters and events you haven't encountered yet simply don't appear.

Every reveal, all hidden until you get there. It’s built on shared community wikis and has chapter-precision for spoilers. Totally free, no account or signup needed.

*This is in testing and is not perfected. If a spoiler/leak ever slips through, every page has a one-click report feature and I try to fix them fast*

StoryFlow

On AI, to be straight about what is and isn't involved:

The article texts are community fandom wiki's own words, used under CC BY-SA and with attribution. I'm not generating wiki content, this is filtered human-written content. 

The spoiler filtering is mechanical, not generative: each paragraph is tagged with which chapter it's drawn from, and hidden until you've read that far.

Two small areas with generated text(both labeled):
- There is an optional "what's happening now" recap that's auto-summarized
- Character cloud relationship blurbs are auto-generated

Reading or re-reading Wheel of Time and want to look up that character you can't quite place, only to find spoilers? I made a free, spoiler-free* wiki for Wheel of Time and also several other sci-fi and fantasy series.

How it works:
You pick the series, set how far you've read(The Great Hunt, chapter 20), and every wiki article and timeline is filtered to exactly that point. Characters and events you haven't encountered yet simply don't appear.

>!Min's viewings, who's secretly a Forsaken, the Black Ajah.!<Every reveal, all hidden until you get there. It’s built on shared community wikis and has chapter-precision for spoilers. Totally free, no account or signup needed.

*This is in testing and is not perfected. If a spoiler/leak ever slips through, every page has a one-click report feature and I try to fix them fast*

StoryFlow

On AI, to be straight about what is and isn't involved:

The article texts are community fandom wiki's own words, used under CC BY-SA and with attribution. I'm not generating wiki content, this is filtered human-written content. 

The spoiler filtering is mechanical, not generative: each paragraph is tagged with which chapter it's drawn from, and hidden until you've read that far.

Two small areas with generated text(both labeled):
- There is an optional "what's happening now" recap that's auto-summarized
- Character cloud relationship blurbs are auto-generated

Malazan is the series most punished by normal wikis: you try to look up one name to remember who they are and why you remember them and suddenly, minefield of spoilers.

So I built one that doesn't. It's easy: Tell it where you are — "Memories of Ice - Chapter 19" — and every page (Anomander Rake, the warrens, the Bridgeburners, Dragnipur) shows only what you've read up to. The convergences stay convergences. Nothing is spoiled.

StoryFlow

Every cross-link also remembers your progress - click any name and that article is filtered to your spot. Built on the fandom wiki + a chapter-precise spoiler layer from the books. Totally free, no signup required. This sub runs the most spoiler-careful rereads anywhere, so I'd love your read on whether the gating holds up, what else you'd want, and what you think

https://reddit.com/link/1u2jyy5/video/x3thtskqtj6h1/player

Re-reading the Cosmere (or partway through your first Stormlight book) and tired of every wiki nuking you with a spoiler reveals the second you try to look someone up? As a lifelong reader who has attempted to dodge spoilers since I was reading the Redwall books, I always wanted a reference tool that would let me actually dive in without ruining the rest of the book.

In that quest, I made a fully spoiler-aware Cosmere wiki: You tell it how far you are, e.g. Words of Radiance - Chapter 12, and every article, infobox, and link rewrites itself to only what you've read. Characters you haven't met don't appear; Kaladin's titles fill in book by book; no deaths are ever ruined for you.

StoryFlow

It's built on top of the Coppermind (Huge thank you to everyone there. It's the best wiki on the internet and this project never gets started without it) with a chapter precise spoiler layer on top. It's free, there's no sign up or account needed.

Would love this sub's feedback on where the gating or anything else feels right or wrong or missing.

https://reddit.com/link/1u2jt3z/video/lj8j1r1ksj6h1/player

My wife and I had a baby a year and change ago and we have slowly been rekindling our bedroom life. Because of the baby, there are foam letters in our shower that I have started using to leave sexy/playful notes for my wife.

The problem is that I only have one of each letter and one set of 0-9 so messages have to be workshopped. Some examples:

"U R HOT"

"I WANT YOU"

"MY FACE, UR LIPS"

What are your best sexy shower messages using each letter/number only once?