Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...

This book pretty much wrecked me at the first names scene. Harder actually watching these two characters ACTIVELY working against themselves every time any sort of vulnerability is displayed.

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Good Housekeeping website (?) has done an article on "fairy porn" (??) which recommends one of my books (???) with specific detail indicating that the writer has read the book BUT NEVERTHELESS repeatedly misgendering the MC to make it into MF (?!?!) www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

Just an FYI for people who may be new to the book banning stuff, when your books are banned it does not mean you’re on “the right side.” It means that your art (and probably you too) is being targeted by right wing extremists for erasure. It means you are being silenced. It’s NOT GOOD.

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wish this had turned out to be hyperbole wapo.st/4iyuDZW

Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, has largely flown under the radar for her past vaccine advocacy. But the reporting has missed her promotion of hydroxychloroquine, vaccine skepticism, anti-mask narratives, and supplements. But we’ve got you covered.

In its short life, the CFPB has returned billions of $$$ to folks victimized by: 1. Predatory payday & auto lenders who discriminate against women & minorities; 2. Banks that illegally charge active military exorbitant fees; 3. Widows & orphans who have lost access to funds & credit.

Went to see Wicked (movie) tonight. Just after Popular, the fire alarm went off. Had it been an actual emergency we’d have died bc people had zero hustle leaving the theatre. And the staff let everyone stay indoors and create chaos. After the fire department cleared the building, we waited ⬇️

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“Digital artbarf machine” Sir, I salute you bc that’s pretty much the best summary anyone will ever come up with for this mess. Also, those 4 bros probably read a summary of 48 Laws of Power, licked the cover of the Muskrat bio, and decided that they too could be mediocre lazypantses

Corruption and moral depravity at the highest levels of Trump’s picks. How on brand.

if you were ever casually like, "would i like a romance novel?" this one is A FUCKING BANGER and you can have it for $2.

Thank you for all your texts, DMs, and tags about Linda McMahon being tapped for Secretary of Education If you want a sense of how Linda treats kids, here’s an excerpt from my book RINGMASTER: archive.is/GMwyh

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

Recommended @deannaraybourn.bsky.social Veronica Speedwell series to a friend who binged them all on audio in like 2 months and is now mad at me that the next one isn’t out until 2025 So….success! 😜

Call your senators and demand they block his nomination.

Proper bean hygiene is very important 😜 🫘 #toebeans #cats #catstagram #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #murdermittens #shakespearekitteh

This is BANANAS

This one hurts

harold is AN BABY what the actual hell is this

Corrain went with the Janet Dailey fauxpology maneuver? She tried a DAILEY? Really?!

A pregnant woman in North Carolina had her parental rights to her baby in utero terminated because she committed a crime while pregnant. The reason? Life begins at conception. People capable of becoming pregnant are truly just incubators for the state. ncnewsline.com/2023/10/18/n...

Interrupting the current farce in the House are Jewish Voice for Peace activists staging a protest to demand a ceasefire in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda. (Photo from CNBC reporters on scene)

If you cannot use the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot use the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. These aren't just efforts to ban trans people from public bathrooms; they're an effort to ban trans people from public life.

"On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

It’s also Ada Lovelace Day, an international day for blogging about #womenInSTEM ! So I’ve made a longer post about Hildegard von Bingen, botany, natural history and medicine here: 🐡🧪 #histsci #ALD23 #AdaLovelaceDay

an eye opening thing to learn was that the reason golden era simpsons is so packed with songs is apparently because the writers earned little-to-no residuals from the actual episodes, but *did* get sizable residuals from ASCAP for any songs in episodes that they had a songwriting credit on.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced on Sunday night that he has chosen Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List and a former labor leader, to fill the vacancy left in the Senate by the death of Dianne Feinstein. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/u...

One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.* Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*

I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...

Shout out to this portion of the PubLunch article on AI use by publishers #authors #WritingCommunity #kidlit

This is how Rome fell! They stopped wearing suits on the floor of the Senate and let people just come to work wrapped in bedsheets. After that, it was pretty clear that the writing was on the wall. (gift link) wapo.st/3RuGVHN

This thread is horrifying, and not the first time I've been enraged by Sheryl's stories from eviction court. Important reading. 👇

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

ok last reskeet of this thing bc tomorrow i will be posting about something else lmao

It's the first Friday of the month, which means I'm back on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books recommending 5 new queer romances out in September! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2023/09/sept...

I guess I’m here now! Hi!