Author Kris Julian (She/Her)

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

“This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text.” — Imani Gandy

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

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"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

2/ you know what? I can't fault that.

I lost track of where I was but my mom still reads them faithfully. I asked her why, once, when every book is the same formula but different case. 'They're like family. The world is crazy outside the books, and inside, I know exactly what I'm going to get. The predictability is a comfort." And 1/

I just want an autochef 😔

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop. Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform. Panel 2: Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself Panel 3: Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but… Panel 4: Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

Violating the constitution is "bucking tradition"? What the fuck NPR.

One of my first forays into the romantic suspense genre was the JD Robb In Death series, where a major part of the world building is the "urban wars"
Most of my teenage and adult years have been slow walking toward that and here we are. Are we there *yet*? No. Not quite. But we're sure getting there

Do you know just how loved you are? The stars rush across the universe just to be near you. The four winds sing of you with delight, and the old gods gift you with the old stories filled with magic and majesty. You are a gift just because you exist and I am so fucking glad I'm here with you.

We have not called for this. We do not need this.

Donald Trump is pitting sovereign states against one another in effort to consolidate his own power at the expense of our constitutional rights—

An egregious abuse of power.

He is pushing us closer to authoritarianism.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Jeremy Wentworth has been in love with Chloe Fong for as long as he can remember. Maybe it’s time he mentioned that he’s actually a duke?

The heroine is clipboard-dependent.
The hero has no idea what he's doing.
/jb

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I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target

But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

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Just calling me out today. 😂

I freaking loved this book. It is all of the things she says and more. Go buy and read it!

I think a tie-in physical item is great in theory - but why of all things is it *mayo*??? Give me a candle, or chocolate, or something I actually want to consume. And also no, I don't want my book to smell like garlic. As others have noted, if you're going to give me scents, give me the hero's scent

ok but honestly I did not need to spiral today on the fake cultural construct of virginity and how you would even begin to quantify this for an AI, I mean the chances are good bro that the average LLM has categorical training data on kinks you can't even spell

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I'm not saying election interference or dirty elections are not in the range of outcomes next year. I'm just saying don't shrug and concede that it's a done deal. It makes the whole thing so much easier for them.

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Wait the *text* is scented too? I thought it was just a tie-in mayo - which is weird enough.