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oh jesus christ, bari weiss.

all the art!

Today is Election Day in the 7th congressional district in Tennessee. Vote for Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn. Tell anyone you know who lives there to get out and vote. This is a must-win step toward taking back Congress and saving democracy.

wow our local macy's is doing a sensory shop. sunday morning, they will open before regular open hours for sensory shopping. low lights, no music, and Santa and Mrs. Clause doing sensory santa visits. we'll probably take advantage of that.

i've read this and its a delight. highly rec!

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did i spend money this weekend? yes. at a local chinese restaurant for dinner on friday. thrifting today (and got some nice stuff! a beautifully lined london fog jacket for the hubs fr 15 bucks!) but also aldi for groceries, so you know. failed there.

This is an interesting as heck thread and my take from it both as an adult educator and as a parent of a disabled child is a little bit agreement--a lot of adults don't want to engage!--and my kid, while at grade reading level, is in an intervention course. He gets assistance with essays but

if you're shopping today, try to shop indie and local.

this is just gutter racism

We feed you. They hunt us.

Parade times! I'm here for KPDH, the broadway snippets, and about the 1/3 of ppl I recognize. I'm getting old!

99% of Discourse could be avoided if people simply accepted that multiple things can be true at the same time, and often are. The universe isn't divided neatly into heroes and villains. Humans are messy and complicated. Everyone always thinks they're the good guy, no matter how awful they are.

he is correct. its also destroying nature with its gas guzzling, and may be making people sick, also not great!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

one of the things about doing Thanksgiving at my inlaws which, while we have our problems, (like how they treat my autistic kid), they aren't republicans and won't be praising Trump. Trashing him more likely. None of them, not even extended fam. So thats one problem down.

I cannot stop fucking screaming about how gdamn awful this admin is. JFC! immigration and tax have always been separate. resident has a separate meaning in tax law. So immigrants here with a work visa can't get credits? Also white supremacist af aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh apnews.com/article/trea...

nothing makes me and the hubs fight more than furniture placement. oh you are moving your home office to another room? time to fight over the fact that im a klutz and can't have cables floating around without me daily faceplanting

i assume the beef with accounting is because its becoming a more women-dominated field. also maybe they don't want anyone to find their little tricks in hiding money.

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

very little alexander hamilton so far in this american revolution show... ah episode 5! John Laurens!!!!!

For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity! Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤

There are coincidences, and there are trends, and then there's this. This is erasure.

people really do be out here trying to make everything a romantasy when there are romantic fantasies and these things are not the same. a romantasy has to follow an HEA convention of romance. a romantic fantasy does not.

really irritated with how they keep saying "Indian lands" and "Indian tribes" when not quoting primary sources in the Ken Burns docco. we have better words for this that are more accurate. First Nations. Native lands. Native people. Or hell use their tribe name! "Creek lands he stole" there you go.

A conclusion to a series! (esp valid for all you completists out there!)

oh no this looks good (my TBR keeps getting longer)

really love now that instead of marketing me on a story, i just get sold on pretty cover art and sprayed edges. the precis was halfway down the email. 🙄

putting together a playlist for this NaNo draft and it has scenes in 2010 and somehow Carly Rae Jepsen ended up on it (not 2010). She is reading romance novels and has a stack of them. Knew she was a real one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNa...

good thread, esp for my fountain pen using friends

omg this reminds me of that Worldcon story that was nominated for a Hugo but because of the files shenanigans its votes weren't tallied correctly or whatever. it was overwhelmingly sad and beautiful and this is just horrific. absolutely a travesty.

Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.

In the Netherlands in the 17th century, bakers announced the arrival of fresh bread by blasting on a horn. In this painter in the Worcester Art Museum, Job Adriaensz. Berckheyde portrays himself as a baker surrounded by his wares. #earlymodern

shaheen's whole thing about how ppl were asking her to reach across the aisle. sure, jeanne. which people? your pals on the Hamptons? your GOP pals across the aisle?

I know it's really about control, but the way these evil monsters talk about banning books to save the children out of one side of their mouths, and downplay an actual pedophile out of the other is rage inducing

there aren't 30 million undocumented ppl and many immigrants live in multi gen households not 2 ppl who need a big ass ugly mcmansion for themselves and their beanie baby collection and a big ass lawn that offers nothing

Tired of lying awake at 3 am raging about how shit everything is? Like to have something to read instead? How about a bundle of great fiction about authoritarian regimes and heroes who stick knives in evil systems? 📚🪐 #Booksky itch.io/b/3348/burn-...

This is the best tea, esp if you have a cold or sinus issues. It is delicious. The peppermint helps with nausea, the eucalyptus helps with the sinuses and it just tastes good (I add a titch of honey). you can order it online! churchillsteas.com/products/bal...

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

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I just ordered a proof for book 9, guys. A project 25 years in the making. So many rewrites. So much growth as an author. Even the characters' and place-names have changed. A finished series, on its way. Start the legend: books2read.com/PathofEndles... mcburnell.itch.io/a-path-of-en...

gorgeous i was like oh we have this in cincy??? its on loan to baltimore right now.

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

had a great and easy call with the IRS today to remove a penalty for a taxpayer. the guy went above and beyond and was efficient af and fuck the GOP for trying to stop our tax agency from being the most efficient it could be. this dude, and every fed employee, deserves to be paid.

took a bunch of baby food and toddler snacks to the food bank today. they were quickly taken. if you can, remember baby food and toddler snacks if you take food to a food bank (donating $$ directly also helps! since the food bank can buy discounted and in bulk, and they know their users)

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