Cynthia Armistead Newman (She/Her)

Book Review: Dead End (Crossroads Queen series) by Annabel Chase

Dead End by Annabel Chase My rating: 2 of 5 stars I got through eight books of this nine-book series. The main character makes the same very serious mistakes over and over again, but there was enough progress that I kept reading.…

Level up 2026 with the Calendar of Many Adventures Level up 2026 with the only Wall Calendar you can use as a Battle Map! Includes 12 5E Adventures (playable as a campaign or as individual one shot adventures). Extras include themed gift wrap and gree...

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Book Review: Diviner’s Bow by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Diviner's Bow by Sharon Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars I stretched this one out as long as I could manage it, because I was enjoying it so much, and I never want any of the Liaden Universe books to end. I love this series and its authors! The…

This is ridiculous. If you have domains controlled by Netlify, you should move them.

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana: Mahmoud Khalil Note from Juan Cole: I used to write letters to totalitarian governments on behalf of Amnesty International complaining about their detention of political prisoners for mere thought crimes. One of the worst offenders was Communist Czechoslovakia, which…

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana: Mahmoud Khalil

YouTube video by White Rose Resistance Marjorie Taylor Greene gets shut down

Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to push Russian propaganda about Ukrainian nzs, and is completely shut down by Holocaust historian and leading scholar on Ukrainian Nationalism in America, Dr. Timothy Snyder

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Location: Powder Springs, GA

#skyspace #interests [General]Cats, books, science fiction, fantasy, making music, TTRPGs, needlework

Statement on Independence of National Archives and Records Administration By replacing independent, nonpartisan leadership with a politically aligned appointee, this administration is attempting to undermine the integrity of our nation’s historical record and the mechanisms...

EveryLibrary is deeply concerned by President Trump’s decision to fire the Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, and the subsequent appointment of a political ally to oversee the National Archives.

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I learned something infuriating today!

Why do most women give birth (in the United States, anyway) while lying on their backs? Is it the most comfortable way to do it? Nope. It goes back to Louis the XIVth and his thing about watching his mistresses deliver his offspring. He didn't like having…

Have I?

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? There’s a WordPress Daily Prompt that I’ve never really noticed before. Today’s question caught my eye, though. Yes, I’m sure that I’ve unintentionally broken the law at some point in the past. Our ridiculous tangle of city, county, state, and…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I’m off to enjoy the rest of the evening with my husband. Have fun!

Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

If you’re wondering what you can do…

...about current events in the U.S.? Here's one set of suggestions. Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important

Nice!

A new article!

I created a new article on my professional site today, Useful skills for growing in tech. I'd love to get some feedback on it.

Bad Google!

I've had a Google account since 2004, when you needed an invitation to join. I had previously used an email on this domain, and I have been transitioning most of my email back to that for the past year or so. Current events have me looking at how I can get off Google Calendar and any…

Monday means crochet

I've only been crocheting for a little while. Apparently, February is National Hobby Month or something similar, so the leader of the Women's ERG at work asked us about our hobbies. Another woman and I mentioned crochet, and we found ourselves volunteered to teach. Every…

It has been a long day!

Yeah, 4:30 am was a long time ago, especially since it came after a night that was interrupted for an hour. I have a lot of trouble with hypoglycemic episodes in the middle of the night. I wear a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) because my sugar is volatile, and I have…

Boo!

Well, we tried to go to a house concert. We looked forward to it all week. I asked the host about the accessibility of the location, and she said she had a close-by place where we could park and easily access the venue and that the concert room itself had no barriers. None of that was true.…

I needed this tonight

How to get started on getting started "I signed up to volunteer with a tribe in southeast Michigan who need help transcribing archival documents" "I'm planning to start a monthly (themed?) karaoke night with my pals" "Working on a multi faceted project around police…

What a day!

I didn't even have time to read my personal email today until after work, when I usually do that before the workday starts. Despite meetings, I wrote and published a whole section of knowledge base articles. However, I wasn't able to crochet through today's meetings. I love my job. My…

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Schiff: Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their enablers? Because .. if they're going to raid the treasury... They don't want an FBI that's going to examine anything they're doing.

Project 2025 tracker

Remember Project 2025? Folks are tracking every promise they made and it's current implementation status. They are _well_ on their way to accomplishing their goal within 100 days.

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FROM CNN: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

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I feel like I need a news break. I do that periodically to stay sane. There's so much happening right now that I don't feel I can take such a break. It's frustrating. My anxiety level is pretty high, though. There's some really good material out there, at least. I try to be…