Deborah Beale

Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach As mentioned here last week, Scott Galloway argued that Americans have one way to reverse the violent overreach of the federal government: launch a one-month economic strike aimed at major tech and AI...

Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach www.openculture.com/2026/02/scot...

Resist and Unsubscribe

💙 📚 Resist and unsubscribe: all you need in a checklist for personal resistance to the tech bro fascisti, falling in line with Trump #ScottGallowayRocks www.resistandunsubscribe.com

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OV1 #DV1
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I find solace and hope in Amanda Gorman’s voice.

From her X account:
(@TheAmandaGorman)
“ ‘For Alex Jeffrey Pretti’
Killed by I.C.E. January 24, 2026, by Amanda Gorman”

“Please support Minnesotans by donating to www.aclu-mn.org/ways-give/ “

Peter Dinklage recites “For Renée Nicole Good — Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026” by Amanda Gorman at THE PEOPLE’S FILIBUSTER, on the steps of The Public Theater. 💙 NYC

#writing #wordchoice #handy #useful An emotional vocabulary color-wheel!

"The visual experience?" !Xabbu's gray simuloid swiveled to watch a flock of Furries push through the crowd, cartoon-voluptuous females with animal heads.

Published by Legend Books in 1996 An imprint of Random House UK Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV 2SA Copyright © Tad Williams 1996

Oh wow, last time I read Otherland I did NOT notice this sentence yet, because I didn’t yet know what furries were. That must’ve been in 2005.
But @tadwilliams.bsky.social knew—in 1996!

In general I’m SO impressed how well all his predictions & world building have held up over the last 30 years…! 😲

Four books on a white table: The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, To Green Angel Tower Part 1, and To Green Angel Tower Part 2, by Tad Williams

Haven't read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series? Start now! This New York Times-bestselling epic fantasy is about a castle servant who saves his kingdom from evil, and has defined Tad Williams as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time.

buff.ly/yLZ4bq3

As it turns out, Tad Williams was kinda onto something.

Special advice for the MAGA goons & monsters (can't you tell I've just been refreshing our feeds on X?)

A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight

#Minneapolis Today's Good News: State Legislatures Can Authorize Lawsuits Against Federal Officials For Violating The Constitution - yes we can go after the federal goons & murderers 💙
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and discarding millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

📚 💙 How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and destroying millions of books wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

Opinion | Behold Donald of Deliria!

A friend in the UK asked me what it's like here now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/o...

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 14. When I recovered I went out and did as below. This quote so very resonant. 💙📚🚀🏛️🌍🐙🦠

Himself, by Me
@tadwilliams
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Found (on Pinterest I think...) -- of interest to writers and book-lovers perhaps 📚💙🔍

After years of preparing I have finally decided it's time write a book.

A book.

...okidoki, that wasn't hard at all.

Opinion | Stephen Colbert Is Finally Free

This is deeply moving, and some kind of genius for sure #Colbert 💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

All through December, 'The Navigator's Children' is 99p at Amazon UK Kindle #TadWilliams #OstenArd 📚💙 www.amazon.co.uk/Navigators-C...

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“Nothing’s going to be handed to you. You have to fight like a dirty rotten dog.”
— Diane Ladd, 1935--2025 💙 📚 📖 🌍

“My father’s advice — ‘if you want an interesting life, bloody well go out and get one’ — was good.”
— Frederick Forsyth, 1938--2025 📚💙

“We were born astonished. We should never grow out of our astonishment.”
— Andrea Gibson, poet, 1975-2025

We had no choice. Random House refused to pay for Michael Whelan, too expensive for their tastes. Since when, they lost 100s of millions $$$ failing to buy Simon & Schuster. I laugh about that. Repeat: losing Michael Whelan was NOT us. 📚💙

Tad Williams' "Otherland" is basically about just that premise

Tech bros, Putin, Xi Jinping... See next tweet re their end game.

Wow - delighted & surprised that even #TheTelegraph is calling it ----
Trump is a narcissistic fascist. The West needs a new leader of the free world
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

#PSA 📚 📖 💙
#Anthropic #AI #settlement website, here anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Go there armed with your ISBNs...

Snakes alive! A boy with a serpent in the Appalachians: Hannah Modigh’s best photograph ‘I was told not to go to St Charles as it was too dangerous. I went and was struck by how free the kids are. They’re not afraid of the region’s rattlesnakes’

The photo had me looking at it for long long minutes.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I was actually working in a bookstore when Tailchaser's Song came out so I unpacked the box it was in and got the surprise of my life.

I went to the same high school as Tad Williams. he was 2 years older than me?