Bethany Rae 🇨🇦

When I read my completed manuscript through, trying to assess it as objectively as possible, I thought, hoo boy, I can only hope that the Iguana Books editor who is assigned to work on it is a genius. 4/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

The book is no longer a shining vision in my head, but a concrete thing, something apart from myself that can be assessed and used to gauge not the writing ability I aspire to have or wish I had, but that I actually have. 3/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

I'm finding out that having written a book for publication -- something I have wanted to do since I could write in complete sentences -- is a double-edged sword. I mean, sure, I wrote a book! But also... I wrote a book. 2/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

I've handed the manuscript of my first book, "Insupportable: Why We're Losing People to Lies & What We Can Do About It", over to my publisher Iguana Books for editing and production. 1/

#ThisIsHappening #FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks

I kind of wish I could have been one of Carney's communications people. I would have had some fun with this.

"President Trump, your impact on the world cannot be estimated, and your presidency will never be forgotten.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

Those definitely read as more Mrs. Claus than Mr. Claus outfits to me.

I've never seen any of the Star Wars movies.

(I think that's why I'm single, but I still don't intend to watch them.)

This is totally making me want to go grab an M.R. James volume off my bookshelves.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Jimmy Carter said,

"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."

Now you know how Bette Davis and her body double must have felt when this photo was taken.

Yo, quislings? This is what you can expect for toadying to Trump and his gang. #picktherightside #dontlickthefascistboot

a man in a green shirt is sitting in a row of white chairs with a sign that says lamilejes ALT: a man in a green shirt is sitting in a row of white chairs with a sign that says lamilejes

I feel like green shirt guy should be somewhere in this audience, to take the edge off things. #youmightaswelllaughascry

I feel like green shirt guy should be somewhere in this audience, to take the edge off things.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

MAGA will not be won over. People should concentrate on swing/sometimes voters/low info voters/new voters.

And what the person/platform that can win in, say, Central Ohio, will not be the same as what wins in Bushwick.

And that’s ok! Healthy and good, actually!

I kind of feel like if TFG sees this, it's going to give him ideas.

Shitty as it was that you got fired and as the larger situation is, I can't help being thrilled for you for this particular thing!

Americans, you don't have to take the firing of Stephen Colbert and the suspension of Jimmel Kimmel sitting down. Boycott CBS/Paramount and ABC/Disney. Pressure their advertisers. Protest and complain. These companies will go under without an audience/customers, and *you are that audience*.

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Every once in a while I post something referencing that glorious day we've all been waiting for.

I never specify what the event is, and no one ever asks me what it is. They know.

I have a too-full tin of cookie cutters for just about any occasion. A few days ago I decided to weed out a few. I was going to cull the clown because I'd never liked it, but then I thought, hey, it could be a killer clown for Halloween! and tossed it back in the tin. #HowIRoll #KillerClownForTheWin

YouTube video by ewjxn 1988 Diet Pepsi "Michael J Fox & Jami Gertz chased by a dog" TV Commercial

Your dilemma made me think of this old Michael J. Fox Pepsi commercial for the first time in decades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzR...

Last week, a white racist man was killed in front of his white racist ilk by a white man raised in a white racist family.

Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired.

Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.

I just looked up Mollie's Bluesky profile (in order to block it;)), and I can't stop laughing at this. I've never seen a clearer indication that someone knows full well that they're not very intelligent and that most of the people they meet are consequently quite dismissive of them.