Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year.
We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
               
            
            
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            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.
               
            
            
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            Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations  are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
               
            
            
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            if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
               
            
            
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            Every word rhymes with every other word if you mumble enough
               
            
            
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                                            People displaying banner over a bridge reading "ICE targets color not crime" and an American flag on either side.
                                                
    
    
    
    
            #BostonBridgeBrigade at #SavinHill #Dorchester #Boston with "ICE TARGETS COLOR NOT CRIME" banner over I-93 North at morning rush hour on 7/24.  Visibility to thousands of vehicles and tons of honks in support! @universalhub.com
               
            
            
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            They don't all have to *like* my story, but that they cared enough to argue? It was a kick in the pants that maybe I should go back to this writing thing. (Not that I have. But I should.)
               
            
            
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            When I took a writing class last year and started writing again for the first time in *mumblety* years, my proudest moment was watching people passionately argue about decisions I'd made.
               
            
            
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            nouns. nouns are gone. no noun where they went.
               
            
            
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                                            SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            Software Engineer. Queer. Unitarian-Universalist. Mentor. Tenor. Progressive.
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Because America could have good things 
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                                            πΌ Skating away upon the thin ice of the new day βοΈ
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            I'm the sort of person who, when asked to pick one word that best describes themself, goes quiet for a very long time trying to come up with a reason why that word should be 'capybara'.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            aka Skyler. Full-time dad, part-time musician, all-time weirdo. He/him. Got no patience for bigots, grifters, snake-oil shills, and their enablers. Love a good hug, a bad pun, and beautiful tales about ugly things.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic βΒ and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book.
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            I follow human beings (at walking pace, from the shadows)
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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                                            No, the Iditarod was not created to honor the delivery of diphtherial serum to Nome.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
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