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Speech, Sex, and the Slippery Slope of Censorship YouTube video by Woodhull Freedom Foundation

When law meets activism, freedom has a fighting chance. This Sexual Freedom Month, join @myadultattorney.bsky.social & Brad Mitchell for a live discussion you won’t want to miss.

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Writing desk, complete with bowl of cherries, looking out a window into green leafy trees.

Poster reading “Is that a cowboy or a cowgirl? —Honey, that’s an outlaw.”

Vernon, BC is located north of Kelowna, between Vancouver and Calgary.

Really my brief stay at this wonderful residency. ♥️ www.caetani.org

If you haven’t read Garrard’s novel, you are missing out. Last summer, I listened to the audiobook twice. That’s right: it ended, and I started it again immediately.

Ok I’m a fiction writer now?

Banff 🤩

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

Why thank you, Ethan! The feeling is mutual. I most admire your talent and your dedication. I’ll send you something one-of-a-kind here one of these days. This is the friendliest kick in the pants to do so!

Seat Fillers Needed - June 14th - Constitution Avenue - DC - talent gigs - craigslist T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat.....

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I think Greta Thunberg is the best example of how there is no way of protesting that will satisfy the scolds. It'll either be called too aggressive or a self-serving publicity stunt.

Please, for the love of God

I once famously asked my friends if “All I Want for Christmas” was performed by Hanson.

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now.

This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence.

Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys

46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll

to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

🤩 cooool

Ok I’m a fiction writer now?

The Poetry Marathon 2025 was THE BEST creative exercise I’ve ever done. 24 poems in 24 hours (or a 1/2 marathon option). ~340 participants globally.

I wrote some things I’m polishing & really proud of, and the hour 21 “write a poem about your favorite vegetable” prompt gave me this silly series.

I’ve been commissioned to write a Western! My dozen+ years obsessing about frontier brothels is paying off. (What irony that it’s a fiction assignment—my least-flexed muscle. Light a candle for me, y’all.*) More details to come, but suffice to say I am EXCITED! Yee-haw 🥂🤠🃏

*I have my main and sub characters, all their respective little plots and big plots… three acts (I think), a love story, the protag’s main conflict and existential struggle, the philosophical questions about Westward expansion … I mean… all I have to do now is write sentences? Right? Write?!

I’ve been commissioned to write a Western! My dozen+ years obsessing about frontier brothels is paying off. (What irony that it’s a fiction assignment—my least-flexed muscle. Light a candle for me, y’all.*) More details to come, but suffice to say I am EXCITED! Yee-haw 🥂🤠🃏

…live Joni encounter, so it’s quite possible my poet is doing some mythmaking 🔮😉

Thanks! It’s been fun to watch it evolve over time—how her music/stories accompany me as I navigate relationships. But really, using the “bitchy adjunct” persona to pelt Lotharios and idiots w/ the info is my fave part

Bummer—I’d love to know how you think these Joni Jam performances compare to each other. There were moments at the Bowl when she had a lot of accompaniment, of course, but at some points she was really belting it!! More than I’d seen in some JJam videos. But also I assume it will likely be my sole…

No the missing exclamation point is not intentional. I was awake for 24 hours at that point with 3 more poems to go 🙃🤣

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The Poetry Marathon 2025 was THE BEST creative exercise I’ve ever done. 24 poems in 24 hours (or a 1/2 marathon option). ~340 participants globally.

I wrote some things I’m polishing & really proud of, and the hour 21 “write a poem about your favorite vegetable” prompt gave me this silly series.

Walter Cronkite, who was described as the most trusted man in America, once said:

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.

Hi Ann! I’m just finishing the audiobook (thank you for doing for the 1980s and 1990s what @michellemercer.bsky.social did for Blue and Hejira). Wondering if you were at Hollywood Bowl! I’m working on a Joni book of my own (though in an experimental/hybrid form).

Happy #indiepressday! Some of my faves:

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