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A graphic saying that if you buy Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders in audiobook via Libro.fm, your purchase will directly benefit booksellers facing emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs.

Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.

So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰

libro.fm/binc

It's also on sale for $2.99 w/ Canadian e-book retailers (at least with Kobo and Amazon) so now's the time to get on the Asunder train! (Do you like body-sharing? Do you like weird and compelling worlds? Do you want to fight the gods? Try Asunder!)

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

So sorry for your loss ❤️

My view of The Sparrow is that I would only reread it if I wanted to feel like I’ve been punched repeatedly in the gut, and it’s been a while since that’s been a feeling I’ve sought out (I remember less about the sequel)

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

DHS funding bill faces new Senate hurdles after another person killed in Minneapolis Some Democrats who voted for recent funding bills said they'll vote against any DHS bill without restrictions on enforcement operations. The deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday.

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING.

202–224-3121

Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

Still, call your senators and tell them NO FUNDING FOR ICE AT ALL and stress to them that they must vote NO to any "reforms" like "training" and body cams that would give more money to ICE. NO. DEFUND AND ABOLISH. THAT'S IT.

You can find your senators here: reps.fyi

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Good morning to everyone but especially our friends in Minnesota bravely organizing a general strike & protest in -20F weather.

In their honor, no wishlist posting today. Please check out standwithminnesota.com for ways to help them! 💕

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’ Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it

It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again.

Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

I don't want to share a photo where the child's face isn't blurred out, but that image of that 5 year old boy in his little beanie and backpack being taken out of his home in Minnesota by ICE will haunt me. What are fucking doing. Anyone arguing this is a good thing should be tried at The Hague.

If someone tries to tell you that what’s happening now is only about capturing undocumented people, just, no.

Among many things that are happening, they are stealing our children, shipping them across the country, and imprisoning them.

Liam is FIVE.

This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.

I do use the notes app but that's obviously out for you (c'mon, phones!) - but I've also used the Google Docs app on my phone if that's an option for you

Every time I see someone say "why are people afraid if they aren't breaking the law" I want to force them, Clockwork Orange style, to read 100 articles about people who were legal immigrants! with work permits! with no criminal history! who were kidnapped by ICE.

Anyway donate to this guy please

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Hey I'm posting this again to keep it rolling. I'm a Kobo reader now and I really appreciate Kobo plus

I don't think I say it now! And I didn't think I said it before! But apparently I did then, maybe it was because I subconsciously was trying to be an ambassador of Canadian culture

I definitely heard the "[statement], hey?" phrasing from Brits (and Australians too) when I was backpacking in Australia (which was also the time in my life when I first realized that I actually did use "eh?" all the time because people started pointing it out)

This is a brilliant book. Absolutely one of the high points of what you can *do* with fantasy.

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!

Loose-leaf tea

You need to be willing to plant trees knowing you will never sit in their shade

Everyone’s been doing hockey romance recs — and good thing! — but I’d like to also take a moment and point out that there’s a ton of great Asian-Canadian contemporary romance writing happening right now too!

Wow. None of my boycotts have ever gone anywhere. But Target is hurting and now Spotify reversed itself. (I was one of the people who quit Spotify and told them why.) Still though, annoyed Goya and Walmart aren’t bankrupt yet.

Oh fun! I hope they all have good free skates

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.