Kristen Meston

Stayed up until 5 am to finish the final Edinburgh Nights book, Secrets of the First School by T.L. Huchu. Many years spent with such an interesting array of characters and amazing world-building. No tears but some definite heartbreak by the end. This will be a series I revisit regularly.

I wish Tara and Johnny had the power to banish him.

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Seeing our fascist veep dampens the ice dancing joy.

We're still stuck at 1 percent of Hailey's goal.

Can we get it to 10 percent today? 🏳️‍⚧️💖

Done!

Folks - independent media is having a bit of a moment, thankfully.

Here's a few websites that you should subscribe to, either for free or as a paid subscriber. All are owned and operated by the writers who make it happen.

The easiest way to rein them in is by zeroing out their funding for good.

Yeah, I don’t love a company who constantly screams “Amazon is pricing small bookstores out of business” to then go and choose a music platform that doesn’t pay the majority of its artists.

It’s really good! It has some subtle running jokes through each season too and great returning characters.

This won't fix everything, but it's a start. It’s not only ICE and CBP, but an endless list of federal agencies that are currently able to weaponize your private data. It's past time for Congress to get serious about ending our privacy dystopia. I'll be at it until we do.

how much unchecked influence over society & government do they have to have before we quit saying billionaires and start saying oligarchs

Went to my haircut yesterday at a local shopping complex and told my stylist that I was surprised at how much parking was available compared to normal. Her reply? ICE was here yesterday.

This Democrat wants amnesty and a fast pass to citizenship for every immigrant in the country who is not a violent felon. She also wants every ICE and Border Patrol employee to have to look for a new job and to be replaced with citizenship concierges who meet new arrivals at the border.

We have all been on this end of a game like this. Sorry.

Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

I look forward to adding this to my collection of books that makes my husband worry.

Love the colors of the neon signs at Pike Place Market in the rain after dark!

Irish poverty, ditching a wife and kids, Franco/fascism.

The thing I hate the most in publishing right now (from the consumer side) is the cheap quality of paperback covers. The cover should not curl or constantly look like it is covered in gooey fingerprints!

It’s more faithful to the monster than most other adaptations but it does take a lot of liberties with other characters.

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"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Does he really think there was any reader left out here thinking “I still just want to hear his side before I make up my mind”? That ship has sailed, dude. Your next book will probably sell in the low thousands of copies. You are through.

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Fantastic!

It sure makes one skeptical of any action or statement she makes, especially as they all diverge from her former wishy-washy center positions on everything.

We’re still about $10k from having February’s bills covered.

Word of mouth is the life blood of small business! Even if your tea cupboard is stocked, just letting a friend know about your fave little shop is what keeps our doors open! 🍵❤️

We actually got a hit in the last year or two for our business. Worth a quick check if you’re in Washington state!