This is...sort of brilliant.

Hello my lovelies, it’s my birthday! 🎉 If you’d like to help me celebrate, my wish is that you share this GFM from a family friend. They’re at 50% and I’d love to get them to 60. gofund.me/e2e913ca5

smashes buy link!

And for goodness' sake, listen to @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social and others who have spoken out about Freydis. They are not a Latine author. They are a white person who pretended to be, playing digital brownface, took awards intended for Latine authors, and somehow ... still releasing books.

Can you donate to help this ai-free, pathway-free platform that amplifies the voices so often overlooked in media?

#Romancelandia, we absolutely must show up for industry heroine Vivian Stephens—legendary editor, first to pub categories by Black authors with Black characters, founder of RWA. (please share)

Ok fans of KJ Charles' Band Sinister, look at my one true love, Dr. David Martelo. 😍

great tips here for anyone involved with libraries

Aliette is an amazing, powerful, ingenious writer, but more importantly she's an amazing, kind-hearted person who deserves all that is good in the world, and instead she's in a tough situation. If you can afford to help her out at all, please do so. gofund.me/0835f91c

Comment in r/Seattle detailing why it took a few more days for the Washington AG to file the suit wrt the trans EO. A huge thank you to all the people in the AGs office that made this happen.

The great writer @aliettedebodard.com is going through an awful situation, so a bunch of us put together a funding link to help. (I’ve been asked not to add to what she’s said here.) Do give whatever you can, and please spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/helping-al...

FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string. So put this at the end (after a space) instead: &udm=14 Fuck you #google. #AI

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

That said… I’m currently at a balance of $5.97. I’m not out of food *yet* and don’t anticipate any *urgent* need for money within the next few days, but after that I’m in trouble. I presently have no other income besides begging online. Can anyone please help me? My payment app links are in my bio.

I'll add, for anyone (like me) with social anxiety, esp. around the phone: they don't argue with you! They listen and record your comment. If they agree they will probably reassure you! If they don't, they just log you and you hang up. That's it. We can do this. ❤️👊

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.

fuckyouphoria

I also got force added to the new Microsoft with AI plan, but if you go in and hit cancel you get the option of going back to the $9.99 no AI family plan. Highly recommend.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Mexico has launched an app for Mexican nationals in the U.S. (legally or no) that has an emergency button you can tap to alert the closest consulate if something happens or you feel in danger from immigration. Please share.

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

🏳️‍⚧️TRANS FOLX! 🏳️‍⚧️ Today is the last day to update your IDs under the Biden administration. if you want to update your paperwork in the next 4 years, now is a great time to do it! here is a state-by-state guide on name change laws, driver’s license & birth certificate gender change:

This is well-deserved success for a really good children's writer. Donaldson's books are excellent - warm, charming, light-hearted. They're also an absolute pleasure to read aloud. Children's light verse is an old tradition but not one that a lot of people do well. Long live the Gruffalo.

just had to turn off copilot yesterday. shut up and let me type, microsoft. (I turned off clippy back in the day, too.)

Just a heads up for peeps, if you bought a Neil Gaiman audiobook from Audible, they are allowing refunds for them with no questions asked and no matter how long ago you bought them. I don’t even have an active subscription and they gave me credits back for two titles purchased in 2020.

I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”

I may use this metaphor when I introduce my no-AI policy this semester…

This always bears repeating

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This, all of this. The new dishwasher doesn’t even have a delay start button because we’re supposed to do it with the app 🙄

Look at this number. Look at it. Look at the pages upon pages upon pages we have to read about trans women ruining women's sport. Look at the anger, the fury, the relentlessness of it all. Now, look at that number again. Under 10. 19,000 teams. Not athletes. Teams.

This is a great book! And the audio was also very cool, with the interstices done as if recorded by accident. (Tho they are very quiet)

new fealty kink just dropped (the king. on his. his knees. help)

Fantastic story, keep reading until the end

I love this

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Sorry, we don't talk nearly enough about how good Mia Hopkins is.

Bumping the PSA because someone else who needed it found it recently and it's been a good bit: if you are diagnosed with Dupuytren's/Ledderhose, read this thread and get to an oncologist who does radiotherapy treatment AS FAST AS YOU CAN.

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Look, I'm gonna say it again: how do you think people are going to find out about your stories if you DON'T say anything? Magic? Psychic powers? Oh, maybe the story will FLY through their WINDOW and land on their DESK! Yell about your stuff! And other people's stuff! Readers do not have ESP!

getting the band back together 😎 www.loyaltybookstores.com/comfortreads2

Good morning

Hard agree!! Love this series

This whole thread! 😂 Like and repost to vote for the tournament seeding…