Melodie

I am.
Totally.
Buggin.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clever-cle...

I ended up buying 8 books (at least 1 of them is for my daughter!) from @paperbacksfrybread.bsky.social All of which I’ve been eyeing for awhile. #booksky

A white box over an image of an orange sunset on a lake. The white box has black text: "3 minute read. Dispatch from 'enemy' lines. How my alma mater's rival made me feel like family".

Particularly proud of this one
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White portrait card with text reading "three minute read. I quit education, but maybe you should. I joined the 44 percent of educators who quit the profession by their fifth year. What's stopping you?" Beneath the headline is a black line, then a circular image of a blonde Caucasian woman in an orange collared top. On the right side of the image is a link to Melodie's Medium profile, along with the medium logo.

I quit teaching, but maybe you shouldn't:

medium.com/@melodie.pen...

6 years ago I had the immense privilege of hearing from Mr. Takei about his family's experience.

I am ashamed of my country.

Has that always been a short link? The doj website is there, but it's justice dot gov

Judge rules Walters, OSBE violated transgender student's rights in gender marker case A Cleveland County judge has found a vote by State Board of Education members in 2023 violated a student's rights under the Oklahoma Constitution.

❗️BREAKING-Judge rules Supt. Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma Board of Ed violated a transgender student's rights in gender marker case. #oklaed #Oklahoma

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It has now run through phase 1a/b and recently completed a randomized phase 2 in pancreatic cancer. Preliminary data that has been published is very promising.
The point I want to make is NIH funding made this happen. Discovery is important.
Don’t let them kill science in America!

Praxis

At a Lower Decks panel.

Q: “If they offered you a Star Trek police procedural, would you do it?”

Tawny Newsome: “yes but the first episode would be them all quitting being cops.”

Give this woman the keys to Star Trek now please.

It's giving "I declare bankruptcy"

Without the affable charm

In the time of revolution, it's not only okay to create and consume art, it is absolutely necessary.

"I use those phrases" in an argument about common phrases that may signal generated writing is not the flex you think it is.

The large language model is trained on...large amounts of language. Good writing doesn't need "in conclusion" to conclude a piece. The model doesn't 'know' that.

Set up dual monitors all by myself. #womeninstem

Let me be super explicit.
The DEI staff directives and the "name your DEI Colleagues or face adverse action" is absolutely the work of fascism. Naming your colleagues makes you responsible for the upholding of those power structures.

Been working on a poem about having to give the kids a bath during the revolution.

Oops I started reading On Tyranny this morning and now I feel a lot of dread.

But also..a lot of hope.

Kiddo went on a trip with his dad last week...it's been 8 days since I heard "hey mommy" and OMG it sounds so good 😍

Furnace went out, husband is working three hours of overtime, and the car was dead in an inaccessible spot.

But the furnace got fixed, husband is making overtime that will cover some of the expense...and the car decided to turn over today— the very day I needed it to work!

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

MRCP - Important Links

Trying to centralize my traffic...made my own tree of links for my bio!

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Hey #indieauthors
Go to your KDP bookshelf and remove your books from Kindle Select. Note the date your book is off Kindle Select.

Find a digital product platform...I'm trying out Gumroad.

Connect on other platforms.

I'll report back. The book of my novel remains exclusive until Feb 2.

Tomorrow morning, I already had plans to do some tweaks to my website. This is going on the list.

I'm seeing more and more of #booksky suggesting the only way to get ebooks from indie authors is by using Kindle.

Sounds like there could be huge interest in independent downloading sites (sending a PDF to a Kindle is very easy).

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna offer my books for digital download.

I'm thinking I will offer downloads of my book from my website. I downloaded it to my Kindle to see how the PDF looked before I sent out some arcs and it looked good..may be a solution.

Literally cannot get enough potato salad in my life.

Especially today, I've opened YouTube a bit to try to scratch the itch and the vibe is not what my brain is craving.

From a purely UE experience...reels is a nightmare. Too much reliance on the caption, which is impossible to read and will switch over to a featured comment (that I can't find if I tap on it). + The algo rewards these edging micro posts... It isn't engaging.

Dumond*

In the meantime Susie Dunonds's Looking for a Sign might scratch the itch! 😍😍 One of my favorite 2024 reads