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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

When anyone asks what’s wrong with my generation, gen X, I always tell them that we all read Stephen King when we were too young to read Stephen King…

Yellow lab sniffing purple flowers on the green bank of a creek.

Refreshing Refocus

Being terrified was starting to give way to being really angry.

just feels like five or six dragons could really turn some shit around these days

Death of the Author: a novel by Nnedi Okorafor in hardback with the dust cover removed to reveal a secondary title art for Rusted Robots: a novel. The covers both feature teal and orange fabric patterns with a dark silhouette outline of a woman on the first and a robot on the second. The book sits on a patio sofa with a blurred background of foliage, fence and blue skies.

"...creation flows both ways." Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor twisted around in my mind and felt like creativity reawakening. Thank you to @roundaboutbookshop.bsky.social for bringing this outstanding reading experience to my attention.

“I just don’t understand why I can’t sleep” she said while staring at the little glowing box of doom in her hand

Hardback copy of My Year of Running Dangerously: A dad, a daughter, and a ridiculous plan by Tom Foreman featuring two running shoes dangling by their laces. The book is wedged into a tumbleweed type plant with a backdrop of red rock. Sunset light filters through the skeletal branches onto the book.

I enjoy reading about distance running while wandering very slowly along the trail. #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

I'm trying to work out if I'm more concerned about artificial intelligence or organic ineptitude.

Which direction would I travel? @roundaboutbookshop.bsky.social #booksky

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

The best way to tell if someone is your soulmate out of 8 billion people is if they are the third person you date in your mid-to-late 20s

Bravo, well said.

Subscribing made fun 😉 Done ✅

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I had been hoping to find a way to show my support for the Novavax option as it is the only Covid vaccine version my body seems to tolerate. Comment submitted.

More Libby & My Public Library 2025:
The Obelisk Gate by @nkjemisin.bsky.social , I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger, Artificial Condition by @marthawells.com, The Woman in Me by Brittney Spears, Starling House by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, A Short Walk Through a Wild World by Douglas Westerbeke

The library has been a wealth of mental health this year:
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown, Winterwood by @sheaernshaw.bsky.social, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Waiting To Be Heard by @amandaknox.com, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins

A Kobo reader is displaying the cover of All Systems Red - The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells featuring a helmeted & armored human like figure. The ereader is propped up on floral sheets and a multicolor knit blanket with a yellow lab sleeping in the background.

Escaping the current world for an hour or two... thanks to my local public library and @libbyapp.com. #booksky

4) And while you usually can't tell the true effect of a protest until long after it's over, today's actions have already made a major impact where we most needed it right now: on people's morale. That in itself is a win.

Yes, yes and yes.

Protest signage side one says Hand in Hand, United we'll Stand with smaller verbiage listing: healthy air, food, water - trails - food banks - libraries - child care -health clinics. Second side of cardboard sign features a sunshine format with COMMUNITY at the center with shining beams extending out that read: Education - Science - Healthcare - Human Rights - Housing - Public Lands

Let's learn from history so we don't repeat it. #HandsOff2025

I think once people stop waiting for one person or one big galvanizing moment to "save us" and realize this is gonna take a lot of work from a lot of people for a long time we will maybe get somewhere.

Books of a similar orange-red color pallette are fan-stacked three high next to pencils in a jar and a pencil sharpener shaped like an old camera. Top cover shows a monocled rabbit head with the title The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa in a colorful pinwheel pattern. Badging on book indicates it was a National Book Award Finalist.

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa was outstanding and will get a re-read or two: "Why do you want your daughter to adapt to an artificial reality? - Because the alternative is death. - The alternative is resistance, but you're too busy reading novels..." #booksky

Don’t forget your local independent bookstores. Many will offer an extremely diverse selection of perspectives. They also tend to have the pulse of local community efforts to push back against tyranny.

- friendly neighborhood bookseller

Trump enacts a 1790s law to target 'alien enemies' for detention and deportation In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.

Correction: Only a screenshot above, here's the link:
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...

From the npr article linked above it appears it's gone beyond rhetoric: "President Trump has filed a presidential action invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a seldom-used law that gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation during wartime."

Thanks for the purchase reminder.

it’s only cloture if it comes from the Clôture region, otherwise it’s just sparkling capitulation

Wyden's office returned my call, affirmed his No vote on cloture today and his support of the Murray/DeLauro CR as well as alerting me to an upcoming local town hall. Excellent interaction!