Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

While communities face fires and floods, the powerful flirt with nuclear escalation. With COP30 on the horizon, the world must choose cooperation over chaos. No billionaire bunkers. No nuclear winter. A liveable planet for all.

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I was talking about my plan to go to Italy for a week and study at a language school. 15yo: "You're a grown-up, and you want to go to school voluntarily?" Me: "Yes, to learn something I *want* to learn." DH to 15yo: "One day,you'll understand."

I would like to give my sympathies to everyone who ever had to endure dental procedures. I've been lucky in that regard so far. Today I had to get something fixed unconnected to brushing (and flossing). Preventive measure. To me, used to 5 minute check-ups, it was torture. 😬

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29 Charlotte: So far, I’d preferred to stay in the dark about a few things if it meant I could spend time with Dad on a regular basis. Now I wondered what else I’d been unaware of, besides secret hiding places around our regular residences.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29 “Didn’t we tell you to back off?” Guy hissed. The ChronoOpportunist froze. Guy could feel the man’s accelerated pulse under his grip. “We won’t let you get away with it. Not now. Not ever.”

#TimTravelAuthors Day 29 Quentin: When you had two time-traveling parents working all kinds of odd shifts, now that all the kids had left home—that would be me and my older sister Nat, and our twin brothers—getting together as a family became tricky.

If you wrote, write, or are writing time travel, I'd be thankful if you joined next month! #TimeTravel

which = 🤷‍♀️ witch = 🧙‍♀️

Come join the November fun! (It's heavy on the US Thanksgiving theme, but the prompts are still fun!)

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 27 Charlotte, sweet summer child... I'm mentoring her, you see. But she's still too young, I can't tell her yet. Guy, Raoul, and I, we know the timeline isn't as fragile as the Agency will have us believe. Time travel is a tool for us to use. Not like the ChronoOppers™ though.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 27 We had to write an essay about that, too. What we'd do if we could change the timeline and why that wasn't a good idea. We're the good guys and the ChronoOppers™ and the baddies, and you don't change the timeline and you stick to the rules. Everyone knows that.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 27 I'm intrigued. When we were kids, Mom and Dad never talked much about work. They took all four of us plus Maddie (still a puppy then) on a 5-minute trip after Nate and I found the time machine, but that was it. I study history now, and the time machine is still there, so...

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 25 “I’m sorry.” Maddy wagged her short tail as Theo petted her. “I didn’t mean to scare you. But think of it. Tomatoes at King Francis’s table. Just because some European navigators had made it to the Americas and back doesn’t mean everyone suddenly ate tomatoes and potatoes.”

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! This month with extra servings of "thanks"! (I'm thankful for all of you!) #WritingPrompts #WritingQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingCommunity

Informed debate based on reliable information is a cornerstone of any healthy democracy. False or distorted information online can spread faster than ever, shaping opinions and undermining trust.

So DH woke up sick this morning, meaning we couldn't drive to Cologne and back (~1000km) today to pick up 15yo. Fortunately there were still tickets available for the Eurostar, and strangely, First was cheaper than Standard. So 15yo is now dining (not wining though) in a luxurious first-class seat.

Rooks and Ruin trilogy by @melissacaruso.bsky.social (honestly all her work, but that’s what I read first). Super unique and creative magic systems, and characters that feel very alive and relatable even with their unique skills/magic. Her pacing is also top notch. Great reads! Highly recommend!

Been too long since I did a big silly ancient history 🧵so let's bring an old one back over from the Bad Place: It's time for ::air horn:: Publius Ventidius Bassus, the coolest Roman you have never heard of and the only person to walk in a triumph first as captive, then as triumphing general. 1/

Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙

Looking through old postcards I bought when traveling as a kid/teen, and look what I found, @andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social !

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23 Enemies? I don't have enemies. Theo is harmless, he only throws a book when it's historically inaccurate. 🍅 🐶 Maddie's vet certainly isn't an enemy. *shrugs* Time. Time is definitely my enemy. ⏳ ~Quentin

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23 Maelle here. Charlotte's still at the stage where she doesn't question anything that our Agency school teaches.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23 The time protection agency network was founded to protect the timeline against the ChronoOpportunists™ (we call them ChronoOppers). Every child at the Agency learns about how they stole/will steal in the future part of the primary source that powers time travel. ~Charlotte

15yo just sent me this from the "Duckumenta" exhibition. It's a duckified François I. I saw an older version of that exhibition many years ago when it was still called [the German equivalent of] "Duckburg is everywhere". I hope I can see this one too.

Today's the day! My preordered copy awaits me in my local indie librairie.🇨🇵 And getting my 🇩🇪 copy on Saturday in Germany! No spoilers, please, @comedix.de! #Asterix

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Help, please: has anyone got a decent photo of the ivory comb from Grave Gamma, Grave Circle B at Mycenae I could have? #ancientbluesky

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21 I had to write an essay on that last month. I wrote that kids in the time travel program shouldn't be left by themselves until they've had proper training, and that there should always be an emergency time travel device at hand. I got an 18/20 so maybe they'll act on that?

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21 What I'd change? The software. So you don't have to wait for 24 hours to confirm Status Green. 12 hours tops. Would save the Agency a lot of hassle, not to mention coffee. ☕

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21 If I (Quentin) wrote the story, what would I change? Just one tiny little thing: I'd wrap that dratted leash around my hand and hold it tight. ❤️🐶

Tuesdays are a battlefield. Mars was the Roman god of war. The Germanic equivalent was Tīw or Tiu (Norse = Tyr). This is why today is called ‘Tuesday.’ And why it’s mardi/martes/martedì in the Romance Languages.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 19 🐶 My proudest moment? I ducked when Quentin's funny room-mate threw a book 📗 about tomatoes 🍅 across the room, which started my "master" Quentin's adventure. ~translated by dog-to-human translation software (no AI)~

Please don't poke fun at the French for what happened at the Louvre yesterday. We're as outraged as you are. Probably more. (And yes, I'm counting myself as French here.)

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 19 Quentin, Maelle, and Charlotte all agree that their respective proudest moments would be major spoilers, so I'm sitting this one out.

Die Tochter fährt ein paar Tage nach Deutschland zum Opa. Bestes Timing: Heute besorgt sie mir die Welt am Sonntag-Sonderausgabe mit Asterix. Beim Abholen nächsten Samstag kaufe ich mir das neue Album. Dank geht raus an @comedix.de, ohne den ich die Zeitung verpasst hätte!

My family lives in Germany, ~900km away. When my mom was still alive, I'd take the train with my daughter during fall break. Since my mom died, my daughter goes to my dad's. I took her to Cologne and my dad met us there. Today she's going alone to Cologne. I just put her on the train. 😢

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 17 You're weird. Who asks a 12-year-old for life advice? D'accord, if you insist, here's mine: Don't ask a 12-year-old for life advice. You asked for it.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 17 I can't even look after my own dog, and you want life advice from me? Well, I sure learned a lesson there. How about: Keep your loved ones close? Oh, and make sure you know who has the keys to your car.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 17 What life advice I would give? Coffee. Make sure you always have coffee available. That's the sort of life advice I'll give you when you barge in while I'm in the middle of monitoring a mission and haven't slept for over 24 hours. Get me some coffee, will you?

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Me, writing: After the incident, the princess was accompanied by an additional bodyguard. As she entered the school room, one guard positioned himself outside the door, the other inside. Also me, writing: The princess's teacher entered the school room through a side door. 🤔

Schon gewusst? Auf Seite 33 von #Asterix als Legionär meldet sich Hotelterminus im Hafen mit den neu ausgebildeten Legionären. Der Ägypter Tennisplatzis verwendet dabei eine Hieroglyphe, die mit "Euch sträuben sich die Augenbrauen" übersetzt wird. Eine Erklärung in 7 Teilen:

#TimeTravelAuthors I can't search hashtags any more either. 🙁 Will report it and hope they get it fixed.

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 15 (From Charlotte's diary) June 28, 1519 King Charles of Spain won the elections for Emperor against King Francis. Dad says they both gave the voters money to vote for them. Charles must be richer. He’s now Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.