Effie Seiberg

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SFF/middle-grade fiction writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Dadjoke teller. Bagel the Dog's human. Sentence-fragment lover. #MECFS She/her.

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Wheelchair users are not exclusively paralyzed. There isn’t reliable data for it, but many, many of us are ambulatory (can walk sometimes, either for short periods or on good days). When you accuse someone of faking because you saw a leg move, you’re not taking into account a variety of conditions.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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Things I've been asked about: 1. No, that BS floating around about reporting Heritage to the IRS is nonsense. It's a waste of your time. 2. The push is to get bird flu vaccines to frontline farmworkers. That's the ballgame.

Hey I'm doing a virtual reading with some cool folks on Thursday, and giving away some short stories! @swsworlds.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social @worldsofnaomi.bsky.social @mcneilauthor.bsky.social @samtasticbooks.bsky.social Register for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...

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Wed July 17 (tomorrow) in San Diego, CA, I'll be reading at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore: dosd.com/events/2024/...

In-Store Event-- Clarion Presents Nalo Hopkinson at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstoredosd.com Check out In-Store Event-- Clarion Presents Nalo Hopkinson at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego on July 17, 2024 and get detailed info for the event - tickets, photos, video and reviews.

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I didn't have to pretend. The USPS is a genuine Public Good. I did fan art for it. I Love the USPS.

Trump was so evil that people had to pretend to stan the U.S. Postal Service for three months

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I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.

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a snippet from the draft!

And that's The End written on my spy vs spy romantic fantasy, Letters for Burning! It needs another edit, but all the pieces are slotting together the way I want them to, now. 🦾

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not an original observation by far, but: one of the most useful things about project 2025 for the left is it's a way to organize people against Christian nationalism, and beyond this election, because they are not going anywhere

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Because whatever happens in November, we're going to need people in the coming years. Find a group of folks and plant some roots for a few years. See what happens.

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This is a really good time if you're not already connected to local groups and organizations organizing around particular issues to find ones in your communities that could use your talents and skills.

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YOU TRULY LOVE TO SEE IT: “In a precedent-setting contract negotiation, the editorial union for Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag has successfully bargained for protections against generative AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/mash... #1u #unions #labor

Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contractwww.niemanlab.org Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.

Most cool writers you know have created queer media of some kind.

also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Someone here likened Project 2025 to the DNC email hack of 2016 because they both involve the slow drip of bad news for the party and, while that’s true, Project 2025 is so much worse. Read it now before they wise up and take it down: www.project2025.org

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Projectwww.project2025.org Presidential Transition Project The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective conservative Administration based on four pillars.

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On Monday I'll be in conversation with @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social to discuss Lady Eve's Last Con, the queer jazz-age-space-heist-rom-com you've been looking for. PW called it "compulsively readable and totally delightful." They're right. Tickets are free: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/rebecc...

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@captainawkward.bsky.social this reminded me of your potato/ginger replacement, only worse.

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Less than 3 weeks until A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience is published! Preorder here: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

Did you know if you do an image search for "snake in a hat" you get delightful pics like this:

I hear today is #WorldSnakeDay Snakes are beautiful animals, deserving of our appreciation and respect. This is a Kirtland's snake, a small Midwestern snake endangered or threatened (like many snakes) across most of its range. #snakes #SciArt

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

This is a very good essay and you should read it.

Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

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

I have been waiting for a locksmith for 2.5 hrs and have not yet even gotten the "30 min til arrival" call. I keep not starting big projects bc they would be really difficult with interruptions. By now I could have finished one. Gah.

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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.

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Polls are messy and 538 is not perfect, but as it stands: 1. Biden wins 53 of 100 simulations to Trump's 47. 2. Biden's average lead in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan (which are must-win states) is greater than Trump's lead in Nevada. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-electio...

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?projects.fivethirtyeight.com 538’s 2024 presidential election forecast model showing Democrat Joe Biden’s and Republican Donald Trump’s chances of winning.

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My Birdverse novella YOKE OF STARS is officially out today!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke... Please spread the word if you are so moved.

Yoke of Stars - Tachyon Publicationstachyonpublications.com “Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.” —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first ...

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This seems like a grim natural experiment to show that access to mental health services isn't going to neutralize access to guns when it comes to controlling violence

Jesus, both of Thomas Matthew Crooks' parents are licensed professional counselors. "The AR-15 rifle Crooks used was one of more than a dozen registered to and legally purchased by his father, with whom he often went to the shooting range, officials said." www.wsj.com/us-news/myst...

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This is the move

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This week's Story Hour is going to be fantastic! @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social returns (ask to see his new book cover) and nominated-for-everything @rachaelkjones.bsky.social makes her Story Hour debut! Behold the verdure! Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Authors #StoryHour2020 www.storyhour2020.com

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every day I feel like I'm losing my mind as people look at a statistically tied race where one guy is a felon with deeply unpopular positions who ALREADY LOST THIS EXACT RACE and are like "he is 100% for sure going to win"

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When Nora Met Nettle 📷 Kathy Street