Anne

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most of my time is spent on the pachyderm, same username at wandering dot shop. My blocks include but are not limited to Nazis, terfs, content farms, and cryptobros.

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The clearest possible example of why I will crawl over broken glass to vote this fall

Boebert looks to replace Haaland at Interior Department if Trump wins sourcenm.com/2024/07/17/b...

Boebert looks to replace Haaland at Interior Department if Trump wins • Source New Mexicosourcenm.com Boebert said she would reverse Haaland-led efforts, like expanding Bears Ears National Monument, and she spoke in favor of expanding coal and “drilling” projects.

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Just a heads up this program ends July 31 so get yours asap

Residents without health insurance or people whose health care plans don’t cover all vaccine costs can get a free COVID-19 vaccine through the CDC’s Bridge Access Program. • www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pro...

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I'm not saying that someone should get badge ribbons like this printed and leave them lying around the Worldcon venue, but then I'm not saying they shouldn't...

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on the anniversary of billie holiday's death, i implore you to read james baldwin's review of "porgy and bess" which is basically about her passing and is very possibly my favorite essay of all time www.commentary.org/articles/jam...

On the Horizon: On Catfish Rowwww.commentary.org The film version of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess is appraised here by the novelist James Baldwin. _____________ Grandiose...

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Yoke of Stars is out now and I did the cover and you should buy it

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there is actually a *superb* point lurking in here about Glasgow Worldcon getting away from the old 'programming is the people who know people saying what they want to do' and going for a much more bottom up inclusive approach that has learned some lessons from the last mess

This is an awful lot of words to say: "He was asked to fill in the same form as other people but couldn't be arsed." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin falls foul of Glasgow sci-fi event’s strict ruleswww.theguardian.com Author’s efforts to take part apparently stymied by application protocol, but he still plans to attend Worldcon

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"though admirably egalitarian" has killed me "officially, the rich and famous should be no different than the poors. on the other hand, like, come on."

This is an awful lot of words to say: "He was asked to fill in the same form as other people but couldn't be arsed." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

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tired: dave weigel inspired: spike spiegel (yes i know they're not pronounced the same shut up)

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Prime Day is a great day to order from Bookshop, which does online ordering and delivery for indie bookstores. You can pick your favorite local store to support or use this link to support Minneapolis’s all-volunteer Boneshaker Books: bookshop.org/shop/bonesha...

And I also remind you that BOOKSHOP DOT ORG is still doing free shipping until tonight, and that supports indie stores, as well. So go on, get after it. Books are cool. Books are your friend. Books make you A BETTER HUMAN and contain CURSES and HEXES against your many foes. Probably. Whatever.

Boneshaker Books Bookshopbookshop.org Boneshaker Books is a volunteer-run, radical bookstore based in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. We aim to...

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If you get covid, test every day after you test negative to catch the rebound. I was neg for days then got a whisper of a pos line. I started avoiding people, and in 18 hours I got sick and turned big positive. Everyone I know who got this variant has rebounded from 3 to 11 days afterwards.

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I like no one even tries to pretend Biden isn’t mentally there anymore. The case is just “Biden must go because he won’t recognize the intrinsic wisdom of us, the media class, which has never been wrong about anything and believes he’s unelectable”

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Worth thinking about how long Tolkien goes on in Return of the King about despair being a weapon, and presenting defeat as a forgone conclusion being a deliberate and effective tactic

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When Bob Dole was the nominee everyone had a tight five about how he was the oldest a man has ever been and he was younger than both nominees are now

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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with alt text because 🥲

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Tbh this is why I think we need to stick with Biden. I don't want to valorize him here, like those corny pictures of Trump protecting people while they sleep and shit, but I think Biden grasps that he can absorb a lot more flak while proposing this stuff than any replacement could

well, Biden just called for term limits and an enforceable ethics code for SCOTUS and a constitutional amendment to end immunity for presidents and other officeholders so I guess its officially the public vs the Business Plot 2.0 at this point

Biden is the lesser of two evils which means there will be LESS EVIL, why is this hard, is this the next bootstraps and bad apples?

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quadruple NASA’s budget as long as none of it is allowed to go to this fuck we cannot cede space exploration to one of the worst people alive

lol of course its transphobia *MUSK CITES CALIFORNIA TRANSGENDER NOTIFICATION LAW FOR HQ MOVE

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Despite many sad (worried, angry, wistful—and, yes, even one or two gleeful 🙄) comments to the contrary, AMMONITE IS NOT OUT OF PRINT. It's available wherever books are sold. Want more specifics (and a look at its covers through time)? Here you go. nicolagriffith.com/2024/07/16/a...

Ammonite—available wherever books are soldnicolagriffith.com Despite many sad (worried, angry, wistful—and, yes, even one or two gleeful) comments to the contrary AMMONITE IS NOT OUT OF PRINT. It's available wherever books are sold Here are some more specifics.

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Pants is shocked, shocked I say, that you may not have hydrated, taken any meds you need, eaten something, and taken a moment to breathe. Look how concerned she is for you. You should do those things so she can relax.

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I guess Kyle was tenacious and Jack was the d

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Your periodic noodge to say I have a book out, and two very large dogs that need to be kept in kibble. This might be the last book in this series, but if you want more Fergus down the road, I need numbers to show (-:

Ghostdrift a book by Suzanne Palmerbookshop.org The fourth and final installment of the Finder Chronicles, a hopepunk sci-fi caper described as Macgyver meets Firefly, by Hugo Award-winner Suzanne Palmer Fergus Ferguson, professional finder, always...

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it was always sort of waiting in the wings, though, the admin’s been much tougher on big business and big industry than any dem admin in decades, with hindsight, it’s not really surprising that congresscritters who cash checks for a living would get some pushback

Watching Biden turn into the actual dark horse anti-establishment candidate was not on my bingo card, but here we are.

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Another thing you can do - and this isn't possible for everyone but the opportunity can arise for anyone - is refuse to be interviewed by any NYT reporter and explain it's because you don't trust they will report fairly and accurately due to their trans coverage.

I strongly support people cancelling subs. They can also read and share media criticism (like mine, TransLash, Erin Reed, etc), they can write in to complain even if they've already canceled, they can tell their family and friends and slow down and explain the whole thing to the. Plenty of stuff.

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which was part of the point all along (the other point is school segregation)

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Documents and experts indicate multiple irregularities in the charter school company co-founded and formerly run by Mike Miles, the Houston ISD Superintendent.

Mike Miles Moved Texas School Funds to Colorado Through a Possible Shell Corporation Without a Paper Trailwww.texasobserver.org An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas.

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As a 501c3 corporation, the Heritage Foundation is not allowed to participate in politics, much less publish manifestos. Download the Project 2025 pdf from their website & attach it to IRS Form 13909 and challenge their tax exempt status. Here's their EIN # 23-7327730 And instructions (email!)

IRS Complaint Process - Tax-Exempt Organizations | Internal Revenue Servicewww.irs.gov If you suspect a tax-exempt organization is not complying with the tax laws, you may send information to the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.