Rich Gombert

It's the Johnson shutdown.

Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers

Some 300 swimmers looped through downtown Chicago in the first official river swim since 1927, a milestone made possible by decades of cleanup, starting with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Act in the 1970s. buff.ly/QiC1WZD
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I'll be there.

I lost interest years ago. It just became to repetitive.

Is that still on?

2025 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Finalists Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fictio…

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And Schumer is helping to push it over the cliff.

It was delayed. Putin was busy...

I had a Gardner's Blueberry.

I just read this. Great book.

Good book!

I just started Rivers of London last year. I'm really enjoying it. ( Trying to only do a book a month).
I especially like that it's set in an area of London I've spent time in.

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Books 58. Storygraph is missing some. It's difficult to keep Storygraph and GoodReads up to date.

#booksky
My January

CD or MP3 versions of new book seem to be impossible to get.
Only streaming options. 😠

Hear me out booksky.
Create a tool to save the posted book, picture or text, to a tbr pile list.
Perhaps a special tag?
Then we could add it to Storygraph, or just save it as a document.

I enjoyed this book.

Things are bleak right now, but guys please stop gazing into the palantir. It’s just what Sauron wants….

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

I do not see a single felon in the photo.

This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago.

In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists.

Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.

She should’ve been elected president. Alas, she lost, as Congress has now confirmed.

2024 Reading report
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Happy New Year!

Kate, Nick, Rich, Matt, Kelly & Roxie, Chris, Olivia & Sophie.

The fam