Reading books about revolution hit different these days.

The book in question

It's been a minute since a book has made me so angry I was tempted to throw it across the room.

I might have, if I wasn't afraid of breaking my kindle.

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Another day, another set of inaccurate API documentation that completely screws weeks of architecture conversations by not marking required fields as required.

Why. Please, WHY?

I LOVE this. It makes debugging so much easier.

I'm in my Yellowjackets era particularly hard this year

What's the best friends to lovers you've ever read? I'm talking PINING.

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How Trump’s government-cutting moves risk exposing the CIA’s secrets | CNN Politics The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess the potential damage caused by an unclassified email sent to the White House in early February identifying some officers by first name and last initial,...

The CIA’s 7th floor is home to top leadership.

Some officers are quietly discussing how mass firings and buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.

I was raised in the church and taught to tithe by parents who gave generosity to those in need.

I've always had a 10% giving goal, but as a librarian, my salary never changed enough to bump it up often.

Now I have a job that gives me real raises, but I haven't kept pace. Time to change that.

I got a raise this year. John Scalzi reminds me that my money can do some good locally.

Time to search out some local organizations doing good DEI work in the very red area I live in.

I can't afford donations his size, but I can afford $25/month to a few places.

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Maybe we SHOULD merge with Canada. Unrelated to this observation.

Yeees such a good feeling! Unless you hit that point 30 minutes before a reasonable bedtime.

Absolutely

How amazing it is to be able to share something I loved as a kid AND to tell my daughter (who has ADHD and, at 8, is struggling with how much she resents it) that one of my favorite characters has ADHD like her.

Representation matters, in all forms

Introducing my daughter to the wonder that is the 1980s Anne of Green Gables. I knew she'd love and relate to Anne because they share an amazing imagination and sense of drama.

After the first 10 minutes I realized that Anne is so clearly ADHD that there are medical articles about it.

Yesterday I took 15 minutes of my Archives and Collective Memory course to explain the firing of AOTUS and the resignation of Deputy AOTUS. I’m not one who wades into politics in class lightly, but it was very important fo be honest about this from the standpoint of the profession.
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Thank you for this. I feel a little like bearing witness and explaining impacts to those who will listen is most of what we can do right now.

Combating misinformation one small audience at a time.

I got into contemp romance as a little balm for my stressed soul last year, and Emily Henry is one of my favs. Many of Christina Lauren's books have a similar vibe too

Plus I've read about a billion apocalypse books and watched a whole lot of zombie flicks.

I can chop wood and tell you how much of it you need to last a winter, butcher a cow, and grow a half decent garden. I can sew. Plus I know a whole lot of people who did the whole homestead thing before it was cool.

Also I'm real good at finding useful info in books.

Some nights just really call for cheesecake to follow the yoga.

YES. I'm dying. 😭

Oh no, I accidentally started the first book in a duology while still having 6 weeks on my hold for the second one.

Nooooooo.

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Fair points, all. I think about this a lot when people debate what 'counts' as romantasy, a genre that contains everything from romance-beat HEA books with fantasy window dressing to romance-heavy fantasy books to fantasy books with a side of romance.

It's okay to have them all.

These are technically classified as YA, but I had to google why. Apparently the FMC who acts like she's in her 20s is 16.

Pretty easily ignored, since I didn't realize it for the whole dang book. I like YA, these books just didn't feel like it to me.

I stumbled into the Merciful Crow duology this weekend and adored it. The end is particularly satisfying to the mood of the moment.

It's got romantasy vibes, but is heavier on the world and plot than romance, and has one of the coolest magic systems. Reminds me of Mistborn and One Dark Window.

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1000% the biggest thing it's doing, IMO, is finally convincing publishers that it's a good idea to publish fantasy novels by women.

I keep thinking I should try this show. How is it?