Stacia Seaman

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I play with other people's words. Editor, writer, proofreader, reviewer, lover of books. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

If you'd like to help with my partner's medical bills: https://gofund.me/8309166a

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What the hell is wrong with people? Walkers don’t imply a single thing about the user’s cognitive status—OR about their age. Why should mobility issues prevent someone from being president?

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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What Wole said. If you'd like to listen to 4 African writers of science fiction and fantasy, flung all over the world, discuss what it's like to dream up the Afrocentric worlds we do, come join us on Saturday! Registration link is here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey y'all. Join me, @suyidavies.com, Tlotlo and Ivana for a discussion on Afrocentric futurisms. We'll talk African speculative fiction, thematic resonances in our recent books, class, climate and African philosophies in SF, plus more! Register here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tordotcom Publishing Presents: A Roundtable on Afrocentric Futurisms. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.macmillan-publishers.zoom.us Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tordotcom Publishing Presents: A Roundtable on Afrocentric Futurisms. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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You *know* it’s bad for Jill Ellis when you get Carli Lloyd and Syd Leroux agreeing on something. USWNT

innocenceproject.org/texas-sets-o... "Mr. Roberson would be the first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby hypothesis unless the courts or Governor Greg Abbott intervenes."

Texas Set Oct. 17 Execution Date for Robert Robersoninnocenceproject.org Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby hypothesis unless the courts or Gov. Abbott intervenes.

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Well, that was fast. Injunction granted in Netchoice v Fitch, Mississippi's age verification, deanonymization, and mandated censorship law: netchoice.org/wp-content/u...

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You gotta love a match in a major tournament coming to a screeching halt as the VAR official tries to explain the offside rule to the head match official

To put this into perspective, I could not have visited the library as a first year uni student because I was 1000 miles away from my parents and didn’t turn 18 until the summer before my sophomore year

New Idaho state law for entering a public library. Fear of knowledge is the new normal.

How THE FUCK is that not also a card?

I know there's a lot of math and maximizing event scores and so on, but if I'm on the selection committee, I'm going 1-5 on the team with #6 as the alternate. 🤸‍♂️

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Just got an ad that was like "tired of shuttling your kids to all their friends' houses and extracurriculars? Try Uber for Teens!" and hear me out but what if we just had good public transit instead

On that other site I was on a list called Does Not Lick 9V Batteries, and that makes me happy

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I’ve been shouting about this to #Romancelandia. Project2025 folks think sex is only for procreation. I challenge you to write a romcom where the married (have to be) hero says to his tradwife, “Mother,” because that’s her name now, “it’s time for our seventh child.” & then we cut to black.

and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.

Books with simple language can be extremely difficult, and books with difficult language can be quite simple. This isn't changing the level of difficulty, it's eliminating the art of storytelling.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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I certainly hope they got consent from the authors/estate holders for this bowdlerization, or that they have confined themselves to out-of-copyright works.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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folks gonna miss this from just the headline, but someone should point it out: the lack of live fact-checking by the moderators *was part of the agreement* by the campaigns. It's not just that CNN /didn't/ live fact check it. It's that they /weren't allowed to/.

Earlier this week, CNN's political director David Chalian said a debate “is not the ideal venue for a live fact-checking exercise." Moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash stuck to that model Thursday night, despite multiple falsehoods claimed during the debate.

CNN debate moderators didn’t fact-check. Not everyone is happy about it.www.washingtonpost.com CNN’s political director said earlier a presidential debate “is not the ideal venue for a live fact-checking exercise.” Jake Tapper and Dana Bash stuck to that.

QUEEN 🐐

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting

Former Uvalde school police chief, officer indicted in 1st-ever criminal charges over failed response to 2022 mass shooting | CNNwww.cnn.com A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers de...

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RIP: Kinky Friedman’s oddball magnetism and “fearless Texas chutzpah,” as his friend Taj Mahal once described it, in both his writings, stump speeches, songs, and interviews, cemented him as a media darling

Kinky Friedman, Proudly Eccentric Texas Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 79www.rollingstone.com Kinky Friedman, the proudly eccentric Texas singer-songwriter and folk hero, has died at age 79

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ComedyCentral. com, had been home to clips from every episode of “The Daily Show” since 1999, and the entire run of “The Colbert Report,” but as of today, the site is gone

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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Look at that same day service. In America, it takes 18-24 months at least.

BREAKING: Bolivian general who appeared to lead a failed coup is arrested after an attorney general opened an investigation against him.

Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt failsapnews.com Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.

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Just a reminder of what Starmer thinks "isn't nice enough". Apparently Tennant should be so much more polite about someone who wants to legislate someone from his family and people like them from public life.

Oh fuck off you spineless coward.

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really feel like Alito & Thomas shoulda recused on this one

The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' *past* acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

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The AI trend of “we took this art and expanded it beyond the artist’s intent because *more* of a thing means better” - showing what’s “out of frame” in a shot from a movie, or turning a six word short story into a novella - speaks to what art actually is: knowing what isn’t necessary.

Was listening to a Sixty Minutes segment on AI. The host made it do a short story based on "for sale, baby shoes, never worn" and could not shut up about how good the result was even though it was pure soulless drivel. Think a big key to this racket persisting is not knowing what real writing is.

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Netflix was roundly mocked for releasing their ridiculous shark film as 'Under Paris' instead of the obvious Shark de Triomphe. So they've just released these alternate posters, which I love. #UnderParis

In June 2023, there were at least a couple of days where the 24-hour average temp for the entire state of Texas was 90F/32C degrees. In South Central Texas, it was over 100F/38C. It's never not hot here in the summer.

I don’t care what the temperature reaches as long as it’s not hot in the morning or after dark. Whatever the heat is up to during business hours is none of my concern.

The first person I thought of was @spicedrum.bsky.social and OBSSE chats (this was last century, so about 30 years).

If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites.