KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!

tragically, this does not also include who is both gay and a firefighter and a baseball player

how can you not be incredibly gay about baseball

yep, and for my books in KU, if Zon finds a copy not in KU — even on a piracy site — that can create problems 🤞🤞🤞👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️

Daniel Murphy, go to hell and bake bagels challenge*

howie kendrick for the hall of "oh, that guy, now there was a dude"

players I watched as an adult are on here so I believe I'm entitled to financial compensation

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it's cool, guys, nimmo did his own research

also as a note: I have to pay for piracy monitoring. it's not just taking money — I'm actively paying a service to deal with it and boyhowdy do they find a lot

for free/cheap books...since I've been largely priced out of buying new trad books: library, stuff your ereader days, bookbub, ereaderIQ alerts, kobo/wide perma-freebies, arc teams, works in the public domain, etc.

That's changing a lot, particularly with the rise of indie romance bookstores (I have a spreadsheet of those!!!) but it's not like "support indie" is a panacea. Lotsa marginalized people make much better Zon money than they would otherwise. No ethical consumption, not a lot of ethical production too

the economics of small press and indie publishing are weird. Ex. I make twice off a paperback sold on Zon that I would from an indie bookstore and a lot of indie bookstores, in an effort to stay afloat, only stock big 5 trad pub stuff.

updating "you wouldn't download a car you shouldn't download a movie" to "if you wouldn't take jam off a table at a farmer's market (and then complain about said jam in the reviews), don't pirate a book"

he might be good at the plate tho

am I gonna say this for every trade or only the ones that remind me that we're in a cold mechanistic universe being eaten by its own entropy and no amount of acquiring a 35-year-old middle infielder will cure that

for what purpose. to what end.

okay but I would absolutely go to this show

we will agree to disagree about the taste, lol... also... oh no...I had not thought of that.. (the ring jellies I admit are gross and possibly a prank)

tal 🥹 (also... let's go with "sovereign")

always it's "is this the holiday with the crackers" and never "is this the holiday with the fruit slice jellies" 😂

every book akiva talks about is a book I kinda want to write 😅

this is acceptable, lol! I admit, I say "these people and their huts" (or whatever Cuomo said) thing a lot during sukkas

Did I make up a fake book in Breakout Year about a masked union agitator, a sweatshop worker, and a factory owners' son? of course I did

KD, is it midnight on a saturday and you're posting about jewish labor history? yes, obvs.

anyway, the jewish labor bund, the incorruptibles, and revolutionary yiddishland get into all of this

but it also isn't an accident that a bunch of people who had been generationally dispossessed and who'd had to set up, essentially, elaborate support networks would be able to effectively organize here.

This gave rise to things like the Jewish Labor Bund, among other orgs. And when mass emigration began as a result of late-empire pogroms, Jews took their labor activism with them. There's no doubt the US labor movement in New York fomented something remarkable...

But a generation or so later, the industrial revolution hit Eastern Europe and factories needed a great deal of labor, including Jewish labor. So previously economically disenfranchised (and largely dispossessed) people started to have economic leverage.

basically, the Pale was a political and economic boundary constricting Jewish movement that began in the 1700s or so. Jews couldn't engage in most industries...

just to add to this: the reason why a lot of these workers were known for being labor agitators is that they were labor agitators in the Pale too 1/whatever