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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I’ll be at @readercon.bsky.social next Saturday and Sunday, in the dealer’s room selling @reckoningmag.bsky.social and some @stelliform.press titles (including limited copies of THE JAGUAR MASK which isn’t officially out for 2 more weeks!) when I’m not on programming. My schedule:

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Massachusetts' millionaire tax has already brought in $1.8 billion for schools and roads. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.npr.org/2024/06/12/n...

Massachusetts' millionaire taxwww.npr.org Massachusetts voters passed a new tax on people with incomes over a million dollars and got more money than expected - but it might drive some wealthy people and business away.

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I gotta say, FEDERAL SANDWICH is the best idea I've heard in a long time, and I'm ready to start doorknocking on this issue. Where's my clipboard and trusty stzck of pens?

POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

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lmao @newyorktimes.bsky.social

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Masking at cons is SO GREAT, y’all, for real, I haven’t gotten con crud in four years AND I AM A VENDOR, I AM BREATHED ON BY LITERALLY EVERYONE, strong recommend! It’s so good!

Side note, covid or not, I'm never going to another con unmasked again. I can't believe I just accepted getting sick *every time.* I was just letting all those people breathe into my mouth.

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reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Last day to book!

Registration is open until 5pm NZ time tomorrow (Friday) continuity2024.zohobackstage.com.au/Continuity20...

Continuity 2024 - The Concontinuity2024.zohobackstage.com.au 2024 National Science Fiction Convention

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An interview with me, by Sin in Linen! www.sininlinen.com/blogs/news/p...

Pillow Talk with Kathleen Jenningswww.sininlinen.com Kathleen Jennings, designer of Sin in Linen’s Darker Academia pattern, gets under the sheets with us for some Pillow Talk. Join us for a sneak peek into Jennings’ fascinating creative world.

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

Just in case you've missed this fabulous piece of art: Sweet Dreams quilt handmade by Tanya Duncan www.32auctions.com/organization...

Sweet Dreams quiltwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Sweet Dreams quilt' hosted online at 32auctions.

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New study by Linsey Marr: “We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 & pulled it through masks. After 1hr we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.” #MasksWork

Stability of Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 on Masks and Transfer to Skinpubs.acs.org The potential for masks to act as fomites in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested but not demonstrated experimentally or observationally. In this study, we aerosolized a suspension of SAR...

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i can't believe how much i had forgotten this

Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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Don’t fuck your fans

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Happy

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Anyway, if anyone wants book recommendations right now, tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for.

Finally read S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland and it’s so fucking good. Oyeyemi’s Parasol Against the Axe is weird & gorgeous. Spufford’s Light Perpetual is everything I wanted it to be. Buehlman’s The Daughter’s War broke my heart. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Lima is a wicked delight.

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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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I wanted to vote in 2004: naturalization took too long. I loved going with our kid to these when they were small. This is the first I've been to for a bit & I mostly lay on grass. There're good+bad things about this place but these people put in the work to come here & I love to see them celebrated.

Went to the Naturalization ceremony in downtown Northampton today because my kid wanted to go & it was wonderful.

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Mae West, 1934

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I’m so thrilled to have this story in this anthology! It’s cyberpunk stripped down to the rivets.

"Labelscar" by @adeniro.bsky.social, Embodied Exegesis A trans mom has her debt injected beneath her skin by a chaser. A haunting literary exploration of debt, trans motherhood, and awful warehouse jobs. This is one of those stories that will stick in your head and make you cry days after reading.

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"Dior paid a supplier $57 to produce bags that retailed for about $2,780. ...workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clocK... safety devices... were removed so workers could operate them faster." bUt WoRkErS CaUsE iNfLaTiOn www.businessinsider.com/dior-italy-l...

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

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The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is expanding, in violation of international law and to the indifference of the administration.

"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...

Anti-settlement group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure in 3 decadesapnews.com An anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

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Drove by this guy on the way home from Book Moon. Guessing he was around 600 lbs. Definitely the biggest bear I’ve seen around here. Just before this picture was taken he was on his back, bent forward, grooming his own butt fur like some giant house cat.

Someone else immune to prosecution

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If you're in the UK, reading the press coverage of the general election, and thinking 'yay, it's going to be like 1997 on Friday', take a moment to remember 1992. If you don't recall, find someone who does. Go out and vote tomorrow. Every vote matters. Tell your friends and get them voting too!

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GIMME THE JAB www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Combined COVID-flu vaccines are coming: Moderna jab clears major testwww.nature.com First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses than single-target shots. First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-...

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The July calendar art tanaudel.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/j...

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This weekend!

I'm going to be at Continuity in Wellington NZ this weekend! continuity2024.zohobackstage.com.au/Continuity20...

Continuity 2024 - The Concontinuity2024.zohobackstage.com.au 2024 National Science Fiction Convention

politics against the people

For the first time in decades, the RNC won't allow cameras/media into its platform meeting. Further evolution of the Trump-era RNC's aversion to the press - they see only downsides for transparency, though this hasn't prevented damaging stories when reporters dig in www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

In a shift, the RNC will decide its platform behind closed doorswww.semafor.com The decision to skip the usual cameras comes as the party is in a difficult debate over abortion.

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