Karen (B)

Thanks!

Oooh! Sounds excellent. Hoping for a US release.

Who did the cover? It's gorgeous.

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"Title card for Patreon post reading 'They Started With Trans Kids: The Salami Tactics of Gender-Affirming Care Bans' by Matthew Cortland, dated 02/16/2026. Features a scale of justice icon and the banner 'Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer — patreon.com/mattbc' along the bottom."

I'm sometimes asked why I focus on gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's because the regime chose to start there, and if they succeed, it won't end there.

New post on why this is the front line and what you can do before tomorrow's 5PM ET deadline.

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S2, around when/after Ilya starts therapy?

Oldies are from before I was born, right? right?

Took the same bus to work from the bus terminal. And sometimes my long hair would flop over the back of my seat into their personal space.

Don't even try him, he's not up for any bs today

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I found a FB post with her Venmo & PayPal info ($10 for the zine). Nothing on her website yet that I could see.

100,000 words of Cozy Hopepunk. 3 books in a boxed set with covers by Augusta Scarlett; volume 1 features Talia, a telepathic black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet. Volume 2 features genius engineer Miki, a smiling white woman, and Volume 3 features pilot and soldier Faigin, a stern black woman with gold inlays at her throat, part of her augmentations.

Awesome cover by Augusta Scarlett features a black woman in winter gear holding a futuristic rifle, pointed at the ground; she's looking down at a snowy landscape featuring mountains, distant spaceships, and an orbital elevator. The whole thing is in shades of blue, with purple in the title.

Check! It! Out! You can now buy my ebooks (indie and otherwise) via Bookshop, and support your local bookstore!

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So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it,

And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done.

And then to look the other way. To let her steal it.

I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday -

Crime.

re: finishing this year

At least you're having this conversation in February and not November

Let the zoo folks know that you found it, in case she gets in touch with them?

(I wonder if someone stole AB's bag at the zoo & then dumped all the things they didn't want.)

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And they are outstanding live!

.... or not.

So shadowy they're from another place entirely! Very stealth

This week: a friend sent a card in the mail, not even knowing that the days had been kinda crap. So win win.

Another time, a friend traded cars with me so I could use her van to move. She got my car tuned for me. And also replaced the windshield wiper motor when it broke before I got back.

Title: A Valentine’s Day experiment In an effort to test the efficacy of cupids arrows of desire. A placebo group is shot with regular arrows. Their injuries range from moderate to sever. Unexpectedly, romances struck up in hospital and lawyers’ waiting rooms create a "romance ratio" similar to that of magic arrows. However, once the cost of compensation claims is factored in, it is decided to discontinue.

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

That's second breakfast and lunch sorted, then

Far-ish suburb, more than halfway to Wisconsin from downtown Chicago

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These folks could really use some funds right now if you have any to spare. Reposts are helpful, too!

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Uh, isn't THE UNIVERSE the biggest thing in the universe?

Though there might then be follow-up questions

Also, they're full grown adults, years past the age of consent

Angela's work is wonderful, and I'm very much looking forward to this:

Exciting Firsts and Second Chances — The Haunt* Here we go, right? My very first indie/self-produced book* is finally out in the world - or on Amazon, where you’ll now find the author’s cut of Cinderwich in ebook…and now paperback!…formats. That’...

SPEAKING OF BOOKS...behold: I have dipped a toe into the waters of self-production, vis-a-vis an "author's cut" of CINDERWICH which is now available in paperback for just ten bucks!

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College athletes’ NIL deals would be exempt from public records law under Wisconsin bill An Assembly bill would establish regulations in Wisconsin regarding name, image and likeness deals. It would hide such deals from the public eye.

College athletes’ NIL deals would be exempt from public records law under a bill supported by UW-Madison and recently introduced in Wisconsin.

Universities have scrambled to keep such records private, citing "competitive interests."

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Good thread 🧵 about assistive technology now & in the future, via Star Trek (the current series, ST Academy).

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