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Image of cover of book Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher, reviewed by Amelia Dudley in the Newtown Review of Books.

"This novel is not just for fellow plant biologists or anyone else fascinated by poisonous plants.. It’s hilarious and charming and heartbreaking."
Amelia Dudley reviews T Kingfisher's Hemlock & Silver:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/t-kingfisher...
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A small reminder from your feline friend 🐈‍⬛🤍

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

I know if you have a video channel they will hide your stuff for "adult topics" or whatever, but absolutely everywhere else, this needs to stop, because people have muted terms for a freaking reason, and people saying "unalived" gets around them.

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you... A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...

If you intend to keep using Windows, you can remove the "AI" garbage and telemetry with Windows 11 Debloat.

It also works on Windows 10, because Windows 10 ALSO has Copilot.

A bit of joy 😸

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” – Jo Maugham (@goodlawproject.org)
https://goodlaw.social/icp3

As discord suffers a massive data breach of people's personal data and ID documents congrats to the UK Government for bringing in the undercooked law that made it absolutely inevitable this would happen, repeatedly

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders? Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

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The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

I got a DM for a free unicorn and took it in exchange for a post. Ponycycle did not get their moneys worth hahaha

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Huge news: YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION is getting a home with Tor UK! @panmacmillan.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who has supported the book this last year!

The new edition will have:
✨ A beautiful new cover!
✨ FINALLY AN AUDIOBOOK!
✨ A chonky 10,000+ new words of story at the end!

This is awesome! I’m especially excited for the audiobook, will it be Casey again?

I think everybody could use some good news today.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

“This movie’s brought to you with limited interruptions.”

Wow really you’re limiting the interruptions that’s so cool of you I mean originally the service I paid for had no interruptions which arbitrarily changed while the price of that service has increased several times since but no, thanks a lot

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

some racist lady threatened to punch me in the mouth last week. Her punk ass is still here. So let's be so serious about who gets protected by these "no violence" decrees and who Bluesky tells to get fucked

Weird how the government so often uses its power to force striking employees back to work and so rarely uses it to force companies to pay those employees what they’re worth.

I want them to make a special prize that just says GO FUCK YOURSELF in Swedish and Norwegian around the rim.

Evergreen

1. Did the post contain a question?
2. Do you know the answer because you have relevant experience/training/expertise (ie you're not guessing/googling)?
3. Did you READ THE THREAD, including other replies and additional context from the OP?

If no to ANY of the above: do not advise!

Sooo I was at a coffee shop and the girl in line behind me decided to ask if I’d heard about Jesus.

In the United States.

In 2025.

“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”

Reblog by @aerialworms · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 15864  ❤️ 18633 · That is awful! If you're looking for a gdocs-like replacement, Ellipsus @ellipsus-writes is an explicitly queer friendly, anti-AI equivalent with online syncing and sharing…

For those not in the know, I've been informed by credible sources that Google Docs is now culling material written and saved there that does not meet political or community standards (i.e. NSFW fanfics have disappeared from people's Google Docs storage!).
www.tumblr.com/aerialworms/... #Writersky

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned