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New Writing the Other Webinar: Writing Revolution - How To Create Believable Resistance Movements with Helen Gould

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The burden of Trump is 100% on white people and finding an excuse to make it anyone else's problem is, whether or not you want to believe it, deflection of culpability. Your whataboutism is bullshit.

Whiteness did this. Period.

Raising chickens is more expensive than grocery store eggs, but also, bird flu is endemic in wildlife at the moment.

Asking people to do this with zero safety precautions or knowledge is a great way to get more people infected and raise the chance that we get a human transmissible version.

Squeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

February 17, 2025 Today is Presidents Day, a somewhat vague holiday placed in 1968 on the third Monday in February, near the date of George Washington’s birthday on February 22, 1732, but also traditionally including A...

February 17, 2025

Indigo bunting

Niagara Ontario.

#birds
#bunting
#nature
#photography

@annaleen.bsky.social I have finished The Terraformers and I love it so much.

Tell USBE to Vote for Local Control — LET UTAH READ Tell Utah State School Board (USBE) to overturn the statewide book bans on the Damsel and Like a Love Story, and affirm the power of local school districts to govern themselves.

Utah friends, oppose the continuing book bans in our state. Fill out this form and tell the USBE to stop the bans.

Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:

reps.fyi

Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!

Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️

(thank you @gregpak.net!)

good morning happy Sunday everyone needs a distraction right now so here is a free story about magic, stories, kings, trickster gods and how in India, whatever is true, the opposite is also true

podcastle.org/2019/09/24/p...

From a source inside the National Cancer Institute:

“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”

Donate to Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven, organized by Novelette Booksellers UPDATE: Wow. Words cannot express how grateful we are to everyone. We me… Novelette Booksellers needs your support for Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven

I wanted to share this with y'all in case anyone would like to help out a queer-owned bookstore in Nashville -- this is one to the bookstores I buy from whenever I'm in Nashville. Any help would be appreciated 🏳️‍🌈📚💜

www.gofundme.com/f/help-prese...

Of course they're racists, sexists trashcan fires of transphobia and homophobia and bigotry. They've been telling us exactly what they intended to do with their slogan about returning to greatness for DECADES.

Or did you think their halcyon nostalgia was over strong unions and a 90% tax bracket?

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

Don’t make me tap the sign.

so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?

YouTube video by FuckYeahGoodOmens Terry Pratchett about writing near 75% of Good Omens (from ArmadaCon III, 1991)

Was recently pointed out to this video of Sir Terry Pratchett saying that he wrote 75% of Good Omens
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Thought it'd be of interest to the TL

This is not going to go well for those that are suffering from disorders that already get very little attention. #MCAS #MECFS #LongCovid #POTS #EDS #ADHD

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I'm reading Ruby Finley to the 7 year old and we are both enjoying it greatly. 😍

Queer your eReader. Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery/thriller, and romance. January 25th, 2025.

Get ready for QUEER YOUR EREADER tomorrow!!

So many books will be free to download across multiple platforms!!

@divinationhollow.bsky.social is hosting the event!

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#booksky
#queerbooks
#lgbtqiawriters
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🌈📚

You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.

We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.

It's great, I love it.

When I was researching FEED--the first of a series of novels about pandemics and their effects--I ran across one of the most frightening concepts I had ever seen in non-fiction. It held that humanity has been living in the anthropocene--the human age--but was approaching the pandemicene.

Me: (forced to play Taboo) Enemies to lovers.
Friend: That could be anyone.
Me: Enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to—
Friend: Magneto and Professor X?
Me: THANK YOU

Good old cappy boy giving Hitler a proper slog to the nog

Personally this is my favorite thing that Captain America ever did but to each their own I guess

I do... because of Bluey. :)

Heading to #SWCOLT tomorrow.

I do think it's a great idea to have physical copies of important texts around. Perhaps sharing copies between friend groups.