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Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

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The US World Cup team went down to its worst defeat since the 1990s after opponents Belgium said they were fired up by a “sense of injustice” following Trump’s interference in the game. After the fourth goal, Belgium posted on social media “Overturn this”.

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Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? ["Current WIP" is a stretch but this is the series after Nerezia..!] "Earth shouldn’t rumble deeply when someone slammed a shovel into it."

Under Gaza’s relentless bombs & famine, Nurse Hammam risks everything to heal injured. Yet, his heart bleeds; his family has nothing, his family is homeless & he can’t save his disabled brother, Abood. Fast fading between duty & survival, please donate for medicine & food chuffed.org/project/1844...

This is one of our favorite little indie presses, and they have really great novellas and shorter reads! Give them a browse 👀

If you want to make me feel buzzed with possibility, that it is possible to outsmart what is oppressing you, to reclaim bits of life you thought you had lost, to get the kind of haircut that signals to everyone that you are DONE hiding... Try A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen

Try The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed

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Stand with Trans is the organization that helped us find a new healthcare provider for my teen when we were summarily dumped by Michigan Medicine just two weeks before the intake appointment we had waited over a year for. standwithtrans.org

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I need to order cat food and some staples for me. Just basic food stuff I can’t really afford right now. Anything is helpful. I still need to raise about $275. Thank you and I’m sorry to ask again.

Stephanie Bolster's Long Exposure weaves disaster into disaster, environmental & manmade in kind. I'm captivated by her ability to thread through, so precisely, how we've let each other down. app.thestorygraph.com/books/46384a...

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Workers need to know signs of heat illness, because once it’s severe it may be too late. Every supervisor is responsible. It’s their duty to make sure workers aren’t killed by heat at work. Call 911 for serious symptoms in yourself or a coworker, no matter what the boss says. 8/

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I have a little favour to ask. If anyone has read Cold Blooded but hasn't reviewed it on Amazon, I'd really appreciate any review. I need two more reviews so I can apply for something exciting. Thanking the universe and the awesome folks out there in advance 🙌

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MY NEXT BOOK! If your problem with James Bond is: 🔸️too much a man 🔸️not at all transgender 🔸️only sometimes in the 1980s ...then you might enjoy my new spy/crime thriller. Preorders available soon!

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Hey #booksky! What are some of your favorite novels with asexual and/or aromantic main characters?

- Demon Engine by Marten Norr - Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver - The Flame that Sings by Cedar McCloud - The Traitor & the Wretch by Jasmine Walls and Rowan MacColl - Far Removed by C.B. Lansdell - Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo (novella) There's more but character limits 😅

Always happy to. The last book that really took me by storm is DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr. Sea horror, pirate heist, queer as hell and with great worldbuilding and character works. Just an all around stunning book

A vital piece of trans allyship is actually in supporting children's rights to bodily autonomy from the out. Someone is complaining their child wants to cut their hair short or grow it long? Point out that it's the child's hair. Why shouldn't they have it how they want it? Why is that parent upset?

It's bad enough that AI feeds on the stolen works of all of humanity history to produce slop that starves actual artists living now. And that data centres are poisoning the global and local environments. And that even forcing it into every aspect and app of our lives, it will *never* be profitable.

The norms around authors not responding to feedback their work gets--because it's gauche and can be combative and self-destructive--really don't account for marginalized authors and especially multiply marginalized ones having to basically stay quiet and not say a word about torrents of bigotry.

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my former place of employment got seriously angry when i told them that i believe llms are nothing but a scam targeting ceos guess who's laughing now, bitch?

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RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

Highly recommend getting DEMON ENGINE. But also pay if you can afford tip them!! this books is worth it and we wanna be giving good money to small queer presses💜

I vouch heavily for Corrupted Vessels

A few more days to grab some queer books on the cheap! We've got everything, from novellas taking a few hours, to reads that will take over your life~! Everything is a dollar or cheaper, or buy them all for fifteen 👀 traumbooks.itch.io

This is a weirdly narcissistic mindset I see among conservatives. This idea that people take a firm moral stance not because of their principles but because they secretly know how to cheat. Its a mix of paranoia, projection and an inability to believe someone can be ethical without an ($) incentive.

I have no words for how magical and liberating the Dyke March was!

Another round of praise for the pope means we will once again remind that the Catholic Church hierarchy — including the papacy — is a major part of the escalating genocide we face. The church's ban on all trans healthcare throughout its massive (and growing) networks is devastating to trans lives.

you can't be a cheerleader for Israel for years and years and then, after the genocide in Gaza, pretend like this has been a morally neutral position. people like Scott Wiener should be hounded out of public life, there should be consequences for politics with a genocidal body count.

The organization of society around the fiction of immutable and hierachal sex is a mistake, hope this helps

Inspired by the encouragement of this year’s fantastic judging panel - Sarah Moss, Yomi Ṣode, Romalyn Ante, WN Herbert, & Michael Mullen - we’re delighted to be releasing our longlists for the very first time ahead of shortlist announcements in mid-July. Congratulations to all the longlisted poets!

Do you like polearms? I have drawn quite a few of them! Feel free to reserve one! They are a flat $50!