Sarah Avery

@sarahavery.bsky.social

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Mythopoeic Award winning fantasy writer, escaped academic, beginner permaculture gardener, Gen X Army brat, DC area local, she/her, https://SarahAvery.com, https://www.patreon.com/SarahAvery

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If you think a registered Republican white male AR-15 owner was motivated by a single Biden line in a private donor speech and not eight years of Trump's constant calls for violence, you have rocks for brains.

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Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.

My mother caught measles at age 2, before there was a vaccine. She survived, though she went on to develop three autoimmune diseases after the post-measles immune system reset. Her sister, age 7, died of measles encephalitis. Please vaccinate! www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

Isolation, extreme fatigue, lingering misery: What it’s like to survive measleswww.washingtonpost.com Measles is back, after vaccination largely eliminated it from the United States. Survivors describe having one of the most contagious diseases on Earth.

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The one thing we have working for us right now is that Republicans are such monsters they fundamentally misunderstand how to properly capitalize on Biden’s weaknesses.

The kids are talking about how they learned from #CathrynneValente ‘s novels always to read the acknowledgements. Dan and I are feeling victorious as parents. Valente’s entitled to feel victorious as an author.

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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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This is the kind of shit that just reaches into my chest and gives my heart a sharp and brutal squeeze.

I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were "filthy and evil."

Lovely detail in the novel I'm reading: a foreign-language soap opera whose title is translated as Cruel Romance Personage. Immediately, my brain set it to Sade's "Smooth Operator." Now my whole family is sashaying around the house singing it that way. Thanks, @marthawells.bsky.social ! #murderbot

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Me: I didn't study for this test. The devil on my shoulder: You can see that person's test. No one would know. No one would be harmed. The angel on my shoulder: Honesty is a passing grade. Do your best. The AI in my pocket: Try adding cayenne pepper to your asthma inhaler to keep away ghosts.

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Ooof. Please help if you can. That's horrible

I made this gofundme to help a dear friend keep her house. If she doesn't pay the first advance in threes days her house will be seized. If you have the resources please consider helping. If you can, please share widely. This is heartbreaking. 🙏 gofund.me/8705ee2c

Help Christina Keep Her Home, organized by George C. Cotronisgofund.me My dear friend Christina is in immediate danger of losing her house to a wrongful debt… George C. Cotronis needs your support for Help Christina Keep Her Home

An appreciation of @marthawells.bsky.social Murderbot Diaries, and some excitingly false explanations for how I broke my ankle. #sff #AmReading #murderbot www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

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When admins bring in consultants from these types of firms, they've already decided to cut programs and simply need someone to put a "data-driven" veneer on it. Before hiring a consultancy, admin should be required to publicize the firm's other higher ed clients and the outcomes *they* experienced

As the 21st century progresses, we're not going to need the population to have *less* knowledge of physics. Or high-level math like the programs just cut at WVU. How do all those 1's and 0's keep getting squished into smaller and smaller spaces? It's done by people who know physics. And not b.s.

When the normal lifespan for a human is 150 and the normal lifespan for a housecat is 60, then the AI's can take a break from their homework and have fun making art.

I DON’T WANT TECH TO MAKE BAD ART I WANT TECH TO MAKE MY DOG LIVE SIXTY YEARS

Took Chapter One Out For a Spin in Public A blog post about finding out how my work in project plays with an audience. Man, that's the stuff. That's what public readings are really for. #sff #balticon #wip #fiction www.patreon.com/posts/105264...

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"It’s also a mistake to think of the simultaneous rise of white Republican abortion politics and the Satanic Panic as two separate phenomena. They’re the same thing, based on the same lie about our neighbors..." www.patheos.com/blog...

Why the Satanic Panic happened when it didwww.patheos.com Two recent posts over at the Anxious Bench are intimately, if accidentally, connected. The first of these is by Philip Jenkins, whose wide-ranging

Favorite find on my research day: A joke political party in Hungary that's every bit as brilliant as Lord Buckethead and Vermin Supreme. Made me laugh until everybody in this Starbucks turned to stare (I regret nothing!). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungari...

Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I just got 100% more interested in watching the Christian afterlife unfold.

I walked past preachers in town saying that on the day of resurrection ALL creatures would return, and I've been thinking about this: 50 *billion* chickens are killed each *year*. Can you imagine the arrival of that many traumatised chickens. Nothing else is going to go to plan.

A milestone for the WIP & the process that got it here. You know the Twain quote about writing a long letter because he didn't have time to write a short one? I'm taking the time to write a short book. It's a different game. #AmWriting #sff #fantasy #fiction #wip www.patreon.com/posts/104445...

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My incredibly sick friend is getting amazing medical care from gifted doctors & surgeons. Too bad the 🇺🇲 healthcare system means that because she isn't able to get out of bed to work she can't afford co-pays on painkillers etc. Got $5 - $10 you can spare her tonight?

Friends, I need help. I have been battling cancer & other medical issues this year. I need to cover more pharma co-pays & groceries tomorrow. I need $95. If you can't donate, would you repost? Paypal [email protected] Venmo@coco-pazzo Cash App $CocoPazzo

Where can you find me at Balticon? A bunch of delicious panels with lots of clever people. Here's my schedule. #sff #balticon #fiction #conventions www.patreon.com/posts/104013...

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On dreams, my creative process, and holding two very different projects in my head. #AmWriting #fiction #sff #fantasy #dreams www.patreon.com/posts/dont-c...

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From the quoted article. Holy shit this is bad.

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A.I. Foraging Tools Generate Mushroom Misinformationwww.citizen.org A.I. is being deployed to help beginner foragers identify edible wild mushrooms, but distinguishing edible and toxic mushrooms requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emul...

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In light of SCOTUS allowing Idaho's ban on gender affirming care stand during litigation, I'd like to point out that the organization behind these bans--Focus on the Family's Family Policy Alliance's Statesmen Academy--was just recently boasting about and fundraising on its role in passing them. 1/x

They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye, and knucklebone, Charlie Brown.

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss, Charlie Brown.

Just in case the world doesn't end by morning, my parents would say during the Cold War, you have to do your algebra homework. A post about eclipse conspiracy theories, apocalypses, and why I'm NOT writing as if there's no tomorrow. #AmWriting #fiction #sff #fantasy www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

Younger Kid and I spotted this plant in a concrete retaining wall’s drainage hole. It made us feel hopeful all out of proportion. Younger Kid named it Jim. One of these photos has better composition, but the other makes Jim look like a character in a musical who’s about to burst into song.

The indie music scene in New Brunswick, NJ, is legendary, and the Melody Bar was its epicenter. What does it mean to my novel's main character to be a child of that scene? A Patreon post. #AmWriting #AmResearching #sff #fiction #fantasy #NewJersey #IndieMusic www.patreon.com/posts/proble...

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"One day, robots will do surgeries. We'll have to make sure we get it right. Until then, we've attached a circular saw to a Lego Technic toy and let it 'practice' on random citizens on the street."

“‘This technology is coming whether we like it or not, so we’re going to make sure that we get it right,’ [Mayor] Adams said in a statement. ‘If we do, our streets can be safer.’” 🤦🏿‍♂️

New York City to Allow Driverless Car Testswww.govtech.com City officials said Thursday that they would begin to permit operators to test drive autonomous autos on New York City streets, in an announcement that divided street safety advocates.