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Trump’s federal hiring freeze halts onboarding of federal firefighting crews ahead of wildfire season | CNN The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters.

Dump’s federal hiring freeze comes at a critical time, when fire departments across the country would typically onboard thousands of seasonal federal firefighters in preparation for wildfires in the spring and summer. “It’s going to be really bad, really quick.” 🤦‍♀️

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Whoever was this reporter…. I’d like to buy them a drink. 🥃

Wonder how long it will take for this to bite 47 voters in the ass?

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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I know we're all here because Meta is a cesspool, but there's still good, fact-based content being created in some of their platforms. Sharing it here because Bluesky won't suppress it.

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we don’t need (and have no use for) a thousand people who think in lockstep - but refuse to work with those who aren’t; we need a few million who agree on just *one* actionable thing: in this case, “let’s fight fascism”

Current nonfiction: The Queen of All Witcheries by Jack Chanek

Current Fiction: Cities of the Dead by Alys Arden

Next nonfiction: Jailbreaking the Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen

Next fiction: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Current favorites are The Gothic Literature Tarot, The Eldritch Overload Tarot, and The Unofficial Schitty Tarot.

Though Deviant Moon is a long time fall back.

So happy to help!

I'm currently reading The Casquette Girls series by Alys Arden. I'm almost time with book 4 (5 isn't yet publishes). The further in I get the more it leans paranormal teen romance & the less it leans Gothic romance, but still a fun read)

I'm also peppering my reading with modern tales:

•The Poisoner by I. V. Ophelia
•The Crimson Debt by Rose Sinister
•Raise the Blood by b Nina Campbell

I haven't read any of these, so I can't vouch for them, but they look really interesting.

Bonus Poe poems:

•The raven
•Lenore
•Annabel Lee
•The bells
•A dream
•The haunted palace

Poe sub list:

•the gold bug
•the murders in the Rue Morgue
•The Fall off the House of Usher
•the purloined letter
•tell-tale heart
•The black cat
•The Cask of Amontillado
•The pit an the pendulum
•The masque of the red death
•Ligeia

•Frankenstein
•Dracula
•The Hunchback of Notre Dame
•Wuthering Heights
•Jane Eyre
•Phantom of the Opera
•just an obscene number of Edgar Allan Poe stories
•Dr. Faustus
•The House of the Seven Gables
•The Monk
•The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

My 2025 resolution is to (re)read all the classic Gothic horror/romance. Here's my list:

Okay, okay... Gothic major ghost--but mossy elk skull is a VERY close second!

One cannot possibly be expected to pick!

Tonight's draw. Nothing revelatory, but my gods this deck is beautiful.

#Gothic #GothicLiteratureTarot #ZenGarden #GothZenGarden #Tarot #TarotReader #Witchy #Witchcraft #Pagan

Prague as photographed by Karel Plicka in the 1940's looms out of the mist like a gothic fairytale. Skylines are rarely quite so beautifully gloomy.

I think you'll find lots of Gothic things are, totally unironically, beautiful. ;)

Also, we have extant examples of former chuds who saw the light and none of them required a come-to-Jesus talk, they got there on their own. We need to stop acting like leftists and centrists are required to parent the right.

if the end result of stupid is the same as the end result of evil - and neither evil nor stupid are interested in changing course - then there’s no point whatsoever drawing a line between the two

A majority of American “Christians” are now realizing that they don’t actually want the burden of being Christ-like.

They want to feel unlimited self-righteousness while cloaked in a comforting sense of moral superiority as they do cruel, hateful, unChristian things.

THAT’S their happy place.

"I'll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours!" We've seen this episode before.

😡😡😡😡😡😡

Remember, kids, if it looks like a nazi, acts like a Nazi, and smells like a Nazi, it's a #Nazi. #musk #4thReich

These are the exact reasons I encourage little to take an improv class or two, even if they never intend to perform.

And let's be honest: TTRPGs are improv games with occasionally shockingly large numbers of rules (for improve games).

Anyone who ever believed he wasn't fully in board with Project 2025 was buying all his other lies too.