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2025 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50% in the past year, with young adults ages 18-29 experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. See our report with @aspendigital.bsky.social & @gca.bsky.social: innovation.consumerreports.org/2025-Consume...

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

Empty Bottle celebrates its 33⅓ anniversary and its place in Chicago’s live music community This week, the venerable venue marks the occasion with a slate of 11 show dates that show the breadth of musicians who have graced its stage, including The Hoyle Brothers, Osees, Melkbelly, Whitney an...

Nice look at a Chicago staple - I saw one of my favorite shows ever here (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2003).

Empty Bottle celebrates its 33⅓ anniversary and its place in Chicago’s live music community www.wbez.org/music/2025/1...

Multiple new apartment complexes in my community are luxury apartments. Two new construction condo communities by me cost 150k more than I paid for my single family home 8 years ago. Who are these expensive properties for?

Chicago North Spring Fling Writers Conference 2026 April 16-18, 2026 downtown Chicago and online. Registration now available!

Chicago North Spring Fling Writers Conference 2026 registration is now available!
Workshops, agent pitch sessions, blogger bookseller meet and greet, book signing, gala, charity auction, networking! #Authorsky #romancewriters
www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling

Learned a new word, thanks.
Also, this is the bad place

Current mood:

I don't want to "like" this for obvious reasons but it did make me laugh

Big yikes who is buying EA games (read downthread)

I was online the entire day. In fact I'm still in touch with one of the people I chatted with half that day on a message forum. In 25 years, we've never met in person, but that was a memorable bond.

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.

Remember when Trump announced a multimillion-dollar secret deal with CEO David Ellison?

And then — shocker — Trump approved Ellison buying CBS/Paramount.

Now, Ellison wants to take over CNN/Warner Bros.

This media merger must be blocked as a dangerous concentration of power.

And to think, I (naively) sought out #Eurovision this year for a break in everything else happening 🫠

Came to the comments for this

SHAMELESS: Donald Trump is slapping his name on infrastructure projects across the U.S. funded by President Biden’s historic 2021 infrastructure law that Trump opposed and tried to derail. (NYT)

I still use this in my editing - for probably 10 years that's been bookmarked.

Crowd noise manipulation happened during Eurovision this year when a certain country's delegate performed - one several other countries protested their involvement in. Attendees of the live show shared their own recordings with more booing than cheering.

Oh man I forgot it's Tuesday not Monday. For once i thought i finally could join! ...

Participating author from Milwaukee with love romance weekend 9 6:10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. meet me on North signing Wauwatosa Public Library Stephanie Jayne Stephanie J Scott image of author and book covers

From #Milwaukee with Love is coming this weekend!
I hope to see some #RomanceCon readers at this free book crawl Saturday 9/6 - I'll be at Wauwatosa library with a bunch of authors. The 2 romance bookstores & lots of shops in between will host authors. Info, maps, schedule: www.thewellreddamsel.com

Nah. He doesn't have it in him. Severe narcissist plus broken brain

Aw this is a bummer.

It's all connected: It Happened One get away free prequel with email list Midwest mavens three book series lady in the camp a day in the loaf a bowl out of love same town as Beauty and the grease

Who says lighthearted romance can't say something bigger?
My series involves 2 billionaires: one a coward who ends up bested by a group of tween campers, the other gave up his wealth to offer business grants to a struggling town.
My full series is out now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG34KKN5

J used to buy from Korean retail sites back in the day... maybe an option? Their large is like our small.

I’d also recommend listening to the Bigger Loser ep of Maintenance Phase.

When I was filming @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social Aubrey @yrfatfriend.bsky.social was rewatching TBL as research. It was yikes on bikes, cruelty as spectacle.

I truly believe the makers of TBL did not see fat ppl as human

Pusheen is smiling while laying on the keyboard of a laptop.

When your cat decides it's time for your break 💻🕑

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

I didn't know Amazing Race was still going until I recently listened to an episode of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast where Will Forte discussed when Val Kilmer temporarily lived with him and they'd watched the show together, which caused me to look this up. That's a weird rabbit trail.

Take action against book bans in the United States at www.bookbanpetition.us

All eight of this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay panels are now up on YouTube for anyone who missed them or wants to watch them again.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Virtual program this Saturday:
I'm in this group and love their programs!
#romancewriter #amwriting

If you cannot convince people that the government kidnapping people off the streets and conducting a takeover of the capital is full fledged fascism, they are never going to be convinced. Not until the boots are kicking down their front door.