Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.

Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.

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Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality, health care 4 all. BLM. Long covid 12/21, meh. smallbeerpress.com (closed to subs) & LCRW. Don't let the bastards grind your vote down. bookmoonbooks.com

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Ok @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @halduncan.bsky.social could you please put a play on of Carl MacDougall's "The Six Travellers"? The four Scottish accents, one English, one Italian should be great fun.

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It's been A Week, if you care to dial it down & chill, look at my large adult sons 💚🐻

hey if you need an everything cleanse, here are bears just catching fish and vibing in alaska -- right this moment on the live bear cam there are 4-5 furry bears chilling, snacking etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Yo...

Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2024 powered by EXPLORE.orgwww.youtube.com **Chat rolls are on 7am - 9 pm PT from Monday through Sunday. Brooks Falls is on solar power and will be live whenever we have enough sun. Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. Find out the best time to watch live and learn more about Katmai and its brown bears on Explore.org @ https://goo.gl/fhMmQy. EXPLORE is the largest live nature cam network on the planet. We bring nature to you, raw, unscripted, and unedited. Enjoy the natural world as it unfolds in real time in front of our cameras. EXPLORE.org takes you from Kenya, Africa to the riverbanks of Katmai, Alaska and everywhere in between. Visit the full multicam experience: http://explore.org Facebook: http://goo.gl/SFRAfX - Twitter: http://goo.gl/n03NNU Be sure to visit and subscribe to all your favorite EXPLORE channels: Live Cams & Highlights - @ExploreLiveNatureCams Documentary Films - @ExploreFilms

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Well shit.

In Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the dystopian timeline begins Saturday, July 20, 2024. Tomorrow.

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I'm 55 today! If you want to celebrate with me, go buy yourself or someone else a book at your favorite indie bookstore—happy to make recommendations if you want one.

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I'm team AOC. The Democratic ticket cannot be rewritten today, practically, unless the candidate is Kamala. And the people pushing to change it do not want Kamala Harris instead.

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It was a delight to handsell copies of this special post-Dobbs edition of @reckoningmag.bsky.social at Readercon. You could buy a hard copy if you're interested, and for Mona Robles's amazing Mayan vulva monster cover art, but it's also available to read for free: reckoning.press/our-beautifu...

Our Beautiful Reward | Reckoningreckoning.press A special issue on bodily autonomy, edited by Catherine Rockwood, on the occasion of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Winner of a 2023 Utopia Award for Rimi. B. Chatterjee's "A Question of Choice"! Video ...

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#YallMasking - My festival crew managed to take Covid precautions including masking outside of our camp for a six day music festival ✨ we had several camp members with long covid, medically fragile kids, and chronic illness and worked to keep each other safe while still raving hard and looking 🔥🔥🔥

I haven't read this interview, just the research where Sister District's (sisterdistrict.com) found more Republicans vote the whole ticket — a huge advantage in down ballot races. They focus on Get Out the Vote in swing districts if you can support: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/meanwhile-...

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In Canada, 2 people have died & 9 hospitalized w/ listeriosis after consuming plant-based milk alternatives. Recalls were issued for 18 beverages sold under the Silk & Great Value brands. Listeriosis is a bacterial infection commonly caused by Listeria monocytogenes www.cbsnews.com/news/silk-gr...

18 Silk and Great Value brand plant-based milk alternatives recalled in Canada amid listeria deaths, illnesseswww.cbsnews.com Citing suspected links to a listeria outbreak, Canada's health agency has issued a recall notice for 18 plant-based drinks sold under the Silk and Great Value brands.

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I’ve got a small collection of original comics art, but not much that’s truly impressive, so it’s always wild when I get to see something historic. A while back a friend asked me to make high-res scans of some pages he was selling. I still flip out that I actually got to handle these.

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This angers me. Deep, seething anger. I’m familiar with it, specially coming from these conservative sources. However, I’m equally angry by the arguments condemning this. The ones that only see us immigrants as a benefit to your country. We are not utilitarian goods you feel grateful for being here

Happy to be testing negative here after short flyby through Readercon smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

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Hot take but virtually nothing in life is a pure 0 or 1 binary. Not gender. Not biological sex. Not race. Not culture. Not in humans, not in nature, no where. It's spectrums all the way down.

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Fantasy can transport you. I'm not just talking about settings; I'm talking about feelings. I'm talking about the stories @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social and @rachaelkjones.bsky.social read for us. Beautiful, intense, dangerous, and even hopeful. You can still watch! www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

Story Hour (feat. Michael J. DeLuca and Rachael K. Jones) | Michael...www.facebook.com Michael J. DeLuca reads "Grace in Orangeland" and Rachael K. Jones reads "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me." Hosted by Daniel Marcus.

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become a leftist! every time you’re right about something it sucks! Join us

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With many people getting COVID from the summer surge, a reminder that the CDC's isolation guidelines are inadequate. It's best to isolate until you test negative on multiple tests. If you can't stay home the whole time, wear an N95 mask to stop the virus spreading to others.

Tonight, Harvard Bookstore: Kelly & Paolo!

On my flight! Tonight I'm at Harvard Bookstore with Kelly Link. 7pm. Tomorrow I'm at Politics & Prose in Washington DC.

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I've got two pieces in a Routledge book: The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies. One has a lot of personal history and the other is an 1990s interview with beloved old friends, one of whom is no longer living. Sold to Microsoft to train AI? I can't.

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studieswww.routledge.com The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions...

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35,000 public service workers receive student debt cancellation. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Statement from President Joe Biden on $1.2 Billion in Student Debt Cancellation for 35,000 Borrowers | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov Today, my Administration is canceling student debt for 35,000 people through Public Service Loan Forgiveness, bringing the total number of Americans who have benefitted from our various debt relief ac...

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Some insurance plans will still pay for up to 8 rapid tests each month; I'm not sure everyone is aware of that. Walgreens makes it easy: www.walgreens.com/findcare/cov... I ordered & within an hour or two was told my cost ($0); if it turns out to be full price, you can easily cancel the order.

Order No Cost COVID-19 Tests with Insurance Coverage | Walgreenswww.walgreens.com Self-test in the comfort of your home with COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits available at your local Walgreens.

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this Prime Day, cancel your Audible subscription and join Libro.fm, which costs the same but which supports your friendly neighborhood indie bookstore 😌📚

Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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it doesnt matter but I forget if I shared this one already. N o one else will read it anyway. Have a great day.

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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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Friendly reminder! The open submission window for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology's limited demographic call opens July 16 for 1 week followed immediately by the one-week general call. Must be a Tanith-influenced or Tanith-inspired author. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Submission Managerduotrope.com Submit to Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (a project of Essential Dreams Press). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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Never mind that OTHER sale… Now until Friday, our three great anthologies from our press are 25% off with the automatic INDIE PUBS RULE code! That’s right! This discount is automatically applied at checkout to these great books. Read short stories by amazing authors. Support our indie press. 🖤👻📚

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1. #H5N1 #birdflu in cows update: #USDA reported 3 new herds in Colorado today (Colorado had already reported 2 of them). About 40% of the herds in Colorado have tested positive at this point. The cumulative national total is now 161 herds in 13 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

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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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Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

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#Readercon panel notes - "The Persistence of Enchantment," a conversation between Greer Gilman and Sofia Samatar. @readercon.bsky.social

“The Persistence of Enchantment,” Readercon 2024 | Victoria Janssen victoriajanssen.com

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We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...