Good platelets donation today. No beeps from the machine, just a smooth procedure. Also avoided most of the baseball fan traffic on the GO due to time of day, so I had a seat to and from home.

Lenn and Jarek may feel as different from one another as their respective book covers, but they are more alike than they will admit. "Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/161264/fat... Available until All Souls' Night. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

This is why the Black Panthers' social programs had the motto "survival pending revolution." Because if you don't build up an alternative way to keep people in the most precarious situations alive and thriving, then who is your revolution for?

For my latest mini-bundle, I considered a couple factors - What books of mine haven't really been featured in bundles - What goes together thematically This was basically one of the smallest options I floated in an earlier blog post.

In case folks don't know, you don't actually have to yeet windows 10 for shitty 11 this month. Pass it on! And comments off bc this is not an invitation to rec linux

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Delve into a two-fer of social upheavals, love, tragedy, liberation, and timeless messages of hospitality and rising to the occasion. "Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/161264/fat... Available until All Souls' Night. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

Are you in the EU? Then check this out: There's a proposal to scan ALL of our private digital communcations, including encrypted messages and our pictures. This basically means mass surveillance of all EU citizens and severely undermines our rights + democracies. fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

Delve into a two-fer of social upheavals, love, tragedy, liberation, and timeless messages of hospitality and rising to the occasion. "Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/161264/fat... Available until All Souls' Night. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

Delve into a two-fer of social upheavals, love, tragedy, liberation, and timeless messages of hospitality and rising to the occasion. "Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/161264/fat... Available until All Souls' Night. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

Currently waiting for the announced apartment quality of life inspection. So, that's how my morning will go.

On a positive note, CBC's Ombudsman found a segment on a 2023 anti-LGBTQ+ rally did not violate CBC's journalistic standards The review concluded that yes, you can interview trans people about the impact of discrimination against their community without giving equal airtime to "the other side"

Big sale on *all* my books coming up! Mark your calendars for the indie author halloween hauntfest & the Stuff With Fantasy Free Fall events on October 3rd - 6th 🎃

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Ever wondered what stories are being told elsewhere? Help us raise funds to translate non-colonial African languages books into English! https://ko-fi.com/africantranslationproject You can check their art shop for my zine! You can even donate your own art to the shop! Any reblog helps too!

91 years. All of them Good.

One thing about "followers" and "friends" designations on social media. It's been pretty eye-opening that quite some time after deleting FB and Insta, the only people I have known to voice any concern were elderly aunts who wondered how they were supposed to wish me a happy birthday.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

I'm about to have my celebratory release day drink with my partner so I won't be responsive for a bit But you should definitely go grab #ChoicesAnthology & if you ask me questions I'll almost certainly answer them later tonight/tomorrow

Farm fact: the South is famous for clayey red soil, but a lot of it is actually... sand. Like beach sand. See the yellow on the map here. Why? It IS beach sand. That's where the shoreline was during the Cretaceous.

The book club scams I recently reported on keep evolving. I received a scam email this morning from someone praising one of my stories. The email was totally written with AI, with genAI also summarizing my story and career. Ironically, the name the scammer used is Cashin. 1/

Decided to try Sweetango and Rave apples while temporarily available nearby. I strive to find the most memorably tart apples available, but one needs a change from Granny Smith every so often.

Now that I am back home, I'm just getting some paying work and minor necessary tasks out of the way before I get back into revisions. I did commit a couple last night while I remembered what I thought should change.

This is the happy news I needed today 😀📚🌈

I heard something about Sapphic September? Isabel and Liviana have that sweet love, while also being crucial to the progression of the story, in "Prince Ewald the Brave".

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right now I’m most in need of electrolytes 💧, respirators 😷, and socks🧦. pls help me stay safe!!

Cat chases own tail; news at 5

THREE HOURS LEFT! get my nebula-winning spooky fantasy and 2 dozen other great books for a steal!

Curiously that looks like my armoured fighting sword with my gauntlets on my medieval chair😊

Pulling from the archives - the sword on top is indeed the sword from the cover of The Redemption of Jarek. It is more or less the style of sword he uses during his last fight--except Jarek's is proper sharp and meant to kill.

Alright, posting this here since i did a little looking here, and i gotta get some management done on credit cards. 200 in rent 200 in credit card payments 100 for extra just in case. Im still in the process of looking for work, so if anyone can help, id be grateful! ko-fi.com/laikalgagari...

Glad to be going home tomorrow. Though, I admit that I will miss petting the warm fuzzy kitty tummies.

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I wonder how many videos from Instagram were not cross posted and should be reshared.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t know that all of your parcels get delivered by Canada Post if you live in rural Canada. The big couriers don’t go there. They drop them off at the post office and letter carriers take them the rest of the way. Ending home delivery cuts them off.

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

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The U.S. sent an E-3 early warning aircraft, four F-16s and four KC-135 tanker aircraft to “precisely identify and intercept” the Russian aircraft. Russia’s military activity is routine, but it was the latest in a series of Russian flights that many see as a test of U.S. and NATO readiness.

🇺🇸✈️ U.S. fighter jets scrambled to intercept Russian military aircraft near Alaska. Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets flew in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, which is international airspace bordering U.S. and Canadian airspace, — CBS News

These walking path quotes do go hard.

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I had to pull myself together because I once again managed to see myself in media which is definitely not written about me, a person like me, or a person with a life particularly resembling my own.

Okay, compromise: peanut butter and banana shake, to go with a sandwich breakfast. Will indulge in this once as the budget allows.

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