Trina Talma

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Writer, jewelry artiste, mother, grandmother, cat toy. No guts, no story.

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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This was just 10 days ago. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Stop telling us the political rhetoric is becoming too violent if you’re too cowardly to mention who, exactly, is making it so.

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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I’m an actual pacifist. I want all guns banned. I just need the left to do less “violence is bad even when it happens to Trump” and more “this is the world Trump wants the rest of us to live in.”

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In my local paper, a conservative columnist writes of the Trump event: "My heart breaks that his family and all those who love him had to witness that." C'mon, Rob. NOBODY loves that man. He doesn't even love himself.

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Thoughts and prayers

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The absolute highlight of the trip was seeing Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle at the Museum of Science and Industry, which I managed to miss when we were there last year. I wouldn't even have known about it except I heard about it on the Atlas Obscura podcast a few months ago.

I made a new friend in Chicago this week. She's large but quiet.

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My superpower is the ability to get sleepy when I'm physically or psychically stressed. It's probably a good thing that I don't drive.

Beyond kingdoms and empires: aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essaysaeon.co A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.

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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

I would do this more, but as it turns out, I don't have any friends. (I do still write the occasional Goodreads review and more often review the books I've read on my tumblr, but virtually nobody follows me there anyway.)

We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

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Just watched an absolutely panicked local news segment about lead in baby snacks and it ended with "But will the FDA listen??" ... Yeah probably but the Supreme Court is dismantling the regulatory state, shame you couldn't mention that bit you Sinclair fucks

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so hey question: where's he getting counterfeit bills

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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I wonder if spiders are ever like "eugh there's something stuck in my web that I don't wanna eat; now I have to move out."

I *think* I just started my next novel. Maybe.

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Probably worth contemplating that well-scrubbed white American conservative Christians may be the most evil group of people in the history of mankind, when it comes down to the final tally of human suffering.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.