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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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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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press

Ha!

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Sarah Pinsker

I don't know this, will need to get for BKMN :)

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Bryan Camp

One Gary will always tells the truth and one Gary will always lies.

Ah, tomorrow's typos today.

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Ma🌵🌵hew *Interrobang* Wood

I remember having jobs in 1999 for 1/1000th of a second although we didn't land here until 2002 when it was just fallout from all the wild parties. Er, maybe.

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Paz Pardo

Disappointing. Will circle back when I attain that percentage.

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Bryan Camp

There must be parents in Gary who thought it would be great to call their kids Gary.

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Norb Aikin

Thought about it, or emailing, but don't have the energy and don't really want to engage. I did wonder if this kind of thing happens to lots of people so thought I'd post it.

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Ma🌵🌵hew *Interrobang* Wood

Can't get over Death being worried about Taxes.

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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

Thank you!

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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...

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Paz Pardo

Hi Paz, "Gavin Grant, Almost 100% Human Business Owner" is requesting to be listed as an owner of pazsays.com 's Business Profile on Google.

Paz Pardo | Writerwww.pazsays.com Paz Pardo writes plays and novels

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Saw a few of those in Madison, WI this weekend

Those are beautiful!

Just received this from Google — uh, who is this?

Self decorating frog apartments

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Currently there's free shipping at bookshop.org —take advantage & order something from your favorite independent bookstore!

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Catherine Rockwood

I believe it is time to down laptop and play outside. Or just quit/restart :)

Me: I think I will open that thing I was working on. InDesign:

thread!

Background: I'm a professional science educator. Here's my wholesome story of the day. I've been going to a personal trainer to get back into shape after a LOT of injuries/surgeries. Each week we chat about some nerdy science thing. He isn't a science guy, but is very interested in it all. 1/?

cops

people killed by police by year and state with linear trend 2013 - 2023

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Dominique Baker

Luckily covid has wiped it from our memories . . . !

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Dominique Baker

I like the scrolling ones you can also type into because scrolling to the last century takes a while

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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Esquire thinks my Midnight Robber is one of the 75 best science fiction novels of all time: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... Congratulations to everyone else, too!

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Timewww.esquire.com See if your favorites made our expanded list.

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Strange Horizons has been doing top notch work in fiction, criticism, and essays on the SFF fields for more than twenty years, and has been consistently passed over for the Hugo. I hope that this year, voters finally give them their due.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!