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Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭

People saying "but if we defined 'middle class' that way there would basically BE no middle class in America!!"

Me:

You work, then you recover from work. Rinse and repeat. No buffer. #NEISvoid

a cartoon: scruffily-drawn crow says "roses are red, violets are blue, I'm shit at rhymes, fuck the gender binary"

an old crow cartoon for you all

Like yes, it's delightful to watch Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter chew scenery at each other, but without spoilering too much... they not only used but stretched all of their acting chops in the latter part of the episode.

I just watched episode 6 of Star Trek: Academy and it is one of the best episodes of *television* I have ever seen. Not just of Star Trek - of any Television. Any.

I had 3 mono infections (not counting the one relapse) between the ages of 10 and 18. Have had various levels of post viral syndrome symptoms for the past 30 years. 🫠

I share your sentiment - no one should have to struggle like we have.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

Well this is absolutely my nightmare

Why do modern SFF authors insist on politicizing everything? Why can't we have swell, value-neutral SFF romps like The End of Eternity, Rite of Passage, and Fahrenheit 451?

Qasim Rashid, Esq. Jan 9 To Recap: •16 years and Republicans don't have a healthcare plan •17 years and Congress hasn't raised the minimum wage •54 years and the US Government hasn't ratified the ERA Meanwhile—7 Days and Zohran Mamdani got universal childcare for America's largest city ONE WEEK Stop letting politicians convince you that progress takes time. It takes leadership with the willpower to make it happen. That's it. Nothing else. Stop excusing mediocrity. Vote out these pathetic politicians. Vote in public servants like Zohran.

TO RECAP

• 16 years and Republicans don't have a healthcare plan
• 17 years and Congress hasn't raised the minimum wage

Meanwhile — 7 Days and Zohran Mamdani got universal childcare for New York City.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

substack.com/@qasimrashid...

#FindBetterCandidates #ZohranMamdani #VoteIQ

GET 'EM, MR. COMBOVER

Murderbot says, "Become Ungovernable"

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."

—William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi

Listen to Powell here.

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

As someone whose nervous system is often deregulated, (thanks AuDHD and a Autistic Burnout relapse) I can confirm this is soothing. It’s almost worth making a tick-tock account just to be able to download the longer video (first reply to the below).

Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.

Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

I love The PITT. Love it. We’ll be watching the season opener tonight (last night we watched the season opener of Will Trent). But some of the story telling is hitting people over the head and I will be *shocked* if the season doesn’t end with Dr. Robby riding his bike with the helmet on.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple

its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates

it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world

this is not a difficult call to make

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.

Two Americas.

I mean my guess was the point was to show how not OK he is because ER staff call them donor cycles…

But yea PA doesn’t have helmet laws which as someone who spent a lot of time in western PA as a kid, drove me nuts.

The trailer made me scream that!

The title is too long.

*loving not living. Wtf autocorrect 😞

Somehow, my Real Housewives Living self missed that this was a thing and I may binge it now…

Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?

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