Gravewriter Frog

Gravewriter Frog

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Author K.A. Silva: UF, romantasy, horror. Fiction editor, enby transmasc, he/they, occasional frog. Strange love celebrated, weirdness vindicated. Avatar from WENDIGOGO cover illus by Sally Jackson.
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At our Frogpatch & Toadplot. I've seen two lil toads so far and one was chilling in the Toad Café! (I set up flowers & solar lights in one low bed hoping the lights would attract bugs & then toads would eat them.)

Screw the zon. Buy from indie bookstores, publishers, and creatives! www.graythornpub.com

According to the report “peak shopping times – including the holiday shopping period – resulted in the ‘highest weekly injury rates’ for warehouse workers.”

Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers, Senate review saysapnews.com A report released by Senator Bernie Sanders says Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been “a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the company's fa...

Home | Graythorn Publishingwww.graythornpub.com Small independent publisher of fabulous fiction.

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You should consider reading my books if you like: gothic fiction, architectural horror, folk horror, weird families, monsters, capybaras, homunculi, labyrinthine hallways, abandoned amusement parks, bizarre magic, body horror, animatronics, cults.

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"Tell them it's bullshit. Tell them that The Bear getting submitted in the Outstanding Comedy Series is bullshit and category fraud and points to how inherently flawed and corrupt the Television Academy's voting process is." "The Anjin says The Bear should have been submitted as a drama series."

LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘Shogun’ tops all Emmy nominees with 25 and ‘The Bear’ leads comedies with 23, setting a new comedy series record.

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One of Meta’s policy directors is a Project 2025 author.

Remember when Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Pichai were repeatedly hauled before Congress over allegations of liberal bias? Now we have a major social platform solely controlled by one of Trump's biggest backers. I wrote about what it means for X and the election. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | What Musk’s Trump support means for Xwww.washingtonpost.com Conservatives long accused Twitter of liberal bias. What happens now that its owner openly backs Trump?

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Re-posting for Prime Day counter-programming. Buy some indie art from Bluesky creators instead instead! ⬇️

For Small Business Saturday (and every day), consider supporting independent arts, crafts and more direct from creators right here on Bluesky! I worked with @davis.social to make the #BlueSkyNightMarket feed; add it here to shop: bsky.app/profile/did:... Creators, check the flyer to participate!

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Elizabeth Roderick

Like, voting is so important even if just for this reason alone. People who aren’t involved with the judiciary often have no idea how important it is, and how society is dying from a thousand cuts because the right wing has focused on taking the judicial branch.

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"Pregnant person" is dehumanizing because it implies women and trans people are all humans. But "Host body" isn't dehumanizing because it makes it clear that neither women nor trans people are humans.

"host bodies" jesus www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' fives times while discussing anti-abortion bill | Creative Loafing Tampa Baywww.cltampa.com It wasn't a simple slip of the tongue, either.

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Seven years ago, Lily went to a suffragist's meeting--and was told to leave, lest her race befoul their cause. Now she's back, and she's ready to befoul.

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Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.

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I'm not going to lie to you, one of the main reasons we got the church is that when I looked up in the balcony, I said to myself "that would be a really cool place for a library." And so it is.

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Also, Starbucks is aligned with Nestle, which is a terrible company. Been boycotting both for several years. My sister (a big coffee drinker) and I use Equal Exchange, or buy from local coffee shops. Here's a list of alternatives: lakotalaw.org/resources/ne...

Buy These Alternatives to Nestle and Starbucks - Lakota People's Law Projectlakotalaw.org Lakota People's Law Project's list of alternative brands to buy if you have taken the #NestlePledge and #StarbucksPledge.

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Maybe THIS will be the dumbest thing I read today: Florida’s education commissioner announced Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a book of the month to “highlight the importance of American pride.” Can’t make this stuff up. H/t @ericcolumbus.bsky.social

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Alliance Defending Freedom is already coming after contraception, and repro + sexual health care generally, for teenagers (a Tennessee lawmaker referred to them in this story by their pre-2012 org name, Alliance Defense Fund) — great story from @tnlookout.bsky.social

Dept. of Health denying teens preventative healthcare, citing new p...www.newsfromthestates.com Tennessee public health clinics will no longer give teens access to routine healthcare — including birth control, sexually transmitted infection treatment and pregnancy tests — without parental consen...

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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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

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There's something for everyone to hate in Project 2025: hunting and fishing edition www.9news.com/article/news...

Donald Trump's plans for Colorado's air, land and waterwww.9news.com The policies include more access to the outdoors, limiting regulatory oversight and taking power away from the president.

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Project 2025 wants to put Hyun Sook and I, and anyone else who writes books they falsely scream "pornography" at, in prison. They want the teachers and librarians who shelve our books to be registered sex offenders. I know what books they consider "porn," because my book banners are on their board.

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.

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No one should be able to spend $45 million a month to get their preferred candidate elected. Absolutely broken system.

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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One takeaway from all the 🤷‍♀️polling🤷‍♀️ out today: Down ballot Dems absolutely can win & need every possible resource at their disposal. FWIW, we’re hearing this from Run for Something state & local candidates about their voter contact efforts too. Folks are 💯% fired up for them!

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New study: Liberal abortion laws do NOT lead to an increase in abortions.

Trends over 50 years with liberal abortion laws in the Nordic countriesjournals.plos.org Background During the 1970s the Nordic countries liberalized their abortion laws. Objective We assessed epidemiological trends for induced abortion on all Nordic countries, considered legal similari...

Share this article and the People mag one with conservative fam who think they won't be negatively affected at all by another orange felon administration.

under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

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Yup. Don't forget Trump just met with Viktor Orban who recently met with Putin (and I'm sure had a message from Putin for Trump). Vance was part of the deal.

QUID PRO VANCE JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putin for all the help in this and the last two elections.

JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putini-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io The GOP nominee may have picked the one American his second-biggest donor prefers over him. 0:00 /0:26 1× The pick of JD Vance, who outperformed Ohio’s last...

Hungary's Viktor Orbán meets Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lagowww.bbc.com The Hungarian prime minister is a key Trump ally and has publicly endorsed his re-election bid.

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Support an abortion fund to fight back against the GOP’s existing bans.

OF COURSE, THERE’S A BAN The GOP platform shows the party’s unrelenting extremism against abortion rights. The question isn’t if they want a ban. It’s: Do they think there’s already a ban in the 14th amendment that Trump can enforce?

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

Find an Abortion Fund - National Network of Abortion Fundsabortionfunds.org Abortion funds provide various kinds of support. Use our search feature. Find an abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

Anyone who thinks another repiglican administration "won't be as bad as all that" or "both parties are the same" can shut the fuck up. They absolutely do want to control, oppress, and harm everyone not white/cis/straight/male/cult xtian.

Remember also that JD Vance just last week was a featured speaker at a conference that promoted faith, family, and fertility. And he would like to track your periods. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Nursemaids of National Conservatismnymag.com At a conference on the future of the right, women are a resource for men.

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Texas has been under GOP control for 25 years. Every single statewide office held by Republicans. Texas ranks last in quality of life, worst in health insurance. Power goes out often; people die of heat or cold. The infant death rate is rising; women die giving birth. These are features, not bugs.

Anger grows as some senior facilities left without power for days: ‘It’s horrible what the state of Texas is doing’ | CNNwww.cnn.com As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors.

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“For many library workers, the material consequences of unchecked capitalism are the stuff of everyday life.” Emily Drabinski on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism: inthesetimes.com/article/publ...

The Library Is a Commonsinthesetimes.com A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.

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🫀🌲🍂NEW SHORT STORY🍂🌲🫀 🏹 dark fantasy horror 🗡️ girls protecting girls 🎋 a forest of spirits 🫂 two sisters 🪦 a deal made in a cemetery 🗝️ children outsmarting adults ❣️ 99c! 📖 book link: mybook.to/JeltBy 🖌️ goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...