Viola Smart

Viola Smart

@smartvpants.bsky.social

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Romance writer, teacher. Posts a lot about The Sims 4 lately. Public schools are vital to a functioning democracy. Currently learning how to mom. Find some of my free books on Wattpad. 🏳️‍🌈💉🎭 Others on Kindle. lnk.bio/smartvpants

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This is one thing that's hard for people living under modern licensing to grasp. Folks just adapted books and didn't really bother with rights in this era. The most popular play in America second half of the century, for instance, was ALL THE DIFFERENT adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

10. The novel disappeared from the 1850s to the 1870s. It was kept alive by the stage, and none of that money was going to either Shelley or Bentley. No such thing as subsidiary rights at the time. By the 1880s, it was definitely out of copyright, and reprints began. 10/?

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Me, doing the Wordle while trying to get my 12 mo old back to sleep. 🎶 "When you wait, you can play, sing, or imagine anything."

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

If you think an 18 year old can fully consent to a sexual relationship with an employer, you need to educate yourself on consent.

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Well this is grim

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Heartbreaking, yet practical signage at Sherman's Bookshop in Bar Harbor, Maine! #kidlit #barharbor #indiebookstore

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

It's not a sleep regression; my 1yo really wants me to get a jump on the Wordle.

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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin. We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

🚨 Voting Rights Victory in Wisconsinwww.democracydocket.com Read about the latest voting rights victory in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission.

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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.

I'm not even reading news articles if I can tell from the thumbnail that they used AI art. No intentional clicks to AI.

Brutal.

Residential fireworks should be illegal.

If these assholes behind us set our woods on fire I'm gonna break his fucking leaf blower.

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Happy fourth

It's the same playbook. Of course the ideal solution would be get a time machine and not nominate the crypt keeper, but that time is past.

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

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

I saw a Cybertruck today. It looked like a PS1 model in a PS5 world.

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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...

Nintendo won't use generative AI in its first-party gameswww.tweaktown.com Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has revealed that the company currently has no plans to use generative AI in its games due to IP rights concerns.

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He loves that shit.

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Official act. Immune.

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bringing this here because i've had it

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Nothing below 3T needs pockets. What are they gonna keep in there, choking hazards?

Are there any Sims challenged where you make aliens and try to breed blue into the population? How about a blue, green, and purple guy and see which one can make more heirs?