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Laura J Mixon
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It’s fascinating, how complex it is. It feels as if it should have a long history packed inside it.
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Laura J Mixon@laurajmg.bsky.social |
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SFF writer, opinion slinger, MSc environmental engineer. Genderqueer motherbeast aligned with women. Spousal unit & Hatch chile lover. Bedbound with ME/CFS. They or she (mostly they). Be excellent, my moops—to each other and your own fine selves.
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Laura J Mixon
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It’s fascinating, how complex it is. It feels as if it should have a long history packed inside it.
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Laura J Mixon
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LOL! I mean it’s beautiful, but wow. What does it mean?
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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If you actually want to see anything like a curtailing of these robber barons owning your whole life you'll bring back the only president of my lifetime who actually took them on where it hurt them and has vowed to raise their taxes
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Shiv Ramdas
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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century
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Aaron Sojourner
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Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣
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Gareth L. Powell
@garethlpowell.bsky.social
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One of the great things about working in a bookshop as an author is that you can ensure your books are face-out on the shelves...
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Laura J Mixon
@laurajmg.bsky.social
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Perfect! 😂
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Katharine Kit Kerr
@kitkerr.bsky.social
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from Jimothy C. on FB
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Laura J Mixon
@laurajmg.bsky.social
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Holy moly!
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jenn brissett
@jennbrissett.bsky.social
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Trump is a monster. The people around him are monsters. The people who follow him are monters. Please don't believe a word they say because monsters always lie. And most definitely don't give that monster power because he will do what monsters always do which is to destroy everything in its path.
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus
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It’s fun that when right wing parties win it’s reported as reflecting the views of the people, but when left wing parties win it’s reported as politicians dragging the country to the left. Loud right wing extremists are not the majority, in Australia or the UK, we mostly just want more fairness.
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show
@skiffyandfanty.bsky.social
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TONIGHT at 7 PM Central on Twitch, we'll host a new episode of our SF at School subshow!
Our guest: Ada Palmer.
We'll check the Renaissance, being a historian, and their connections to SF/F/H!
Hope to see folks there!
www.twitch.tv/alphabetstre...
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Laura J Mixon
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Venmo’d and boosted. Hang in there. Sending best wishes. ❤️
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Laura J Mixon
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Mutual aid request: Pumpkin has a serious chronic illness and is in dire straits. Please help me spread the word, and consider pitching in if you have a nickel to spare. Thanks, my moops.
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Pumpkin
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hi, i just realized i don’t have enough for rent and i’m over due on some bills and i cannot afford all of my meds right now
if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it. sharing is very helpful too. and if not that’s ok too
goal: $2,300
venmo: GalaxyLost
venmo.com/u/GalaxyLost
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John Chu
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Today is the day to post something from Independencer Day: the Musical (aka 1776).Here is the cautionary "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" (props to the guy whose One Job is to nail the high Bb at the end)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxaA...
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Jonathan Bernstein
@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social
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One thing: as people have said, many have known someone who declined rapidly. But we’ve *also* someone who was cognitively aces but gets treated as an idiot because of physical and/or superficial issues. And…
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/
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Gom Jabbarbarienne
@thebarbarienne.bsky.social
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I'm a huge fan of the 3M V-flex. I order boxes of 50 directly from their legit resellers. I have a larger face than typical (I'm fat and of a jowly age). The nosepiece is bendable, and works well on my caucasian nose.
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Liam Hogan
@liamhogan.bsky.social
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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...
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Rachel Esselle
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There are so many times I felt alone in a struggle... but the second I shared something was wrong, I was enveloped in love. If you’re struggling tonight, tell someone. Hell, tell me! You don’t need to go through it alone. Let someone in. ❤️ You are more loved than you know.
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Popehat
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
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Popehat
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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Sergio 📷🔭🌲
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Finally had a few days with clear skies, so while i'm getting on it again, leave this photo i made of Altaír, the brightest star of Aquila, the eagle constellation. A very young star, "only" 16yl far from us. Wish you an stellar weekend ahead!!✨📸🔭
#astrophotography #photography #nature
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Cat Randall
@catrandall.bsky.social
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It's not as if things are "broken," no matter what CNN says. It's that right wing people are deliberately making it this way all over because they hate humanity and everything good about humans, and they don't love anything.
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Paul Krugman
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Jason Furman, 2022 (singled out only because he was admirably explicit): if unemployment stays low, inflation “will still be about 4% at the end of 2025.” www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
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emptywheel
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I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Nina Metz
@ninametz.bsky.social
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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR
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The Conversation U.S.
@us.theconversation.com
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Converting abandoned, post-pandemic office buildings into residential apartments is making our cities better Read more from an architect:
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Laura J Mixon
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This illness is such a scourge. Very sorry you’re being left to your own devices at such a desperate time. ❤️
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Laura J Mixon
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Agreed.
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It's ME(Jaime)
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Yes, it's this. It doesn't arise from overt malice, but the assumption that everyone must share their experiences, background, and point of view or else they're stupid/wrong/foolish/being disingenuous. Often seem surprised to be confronted with new ideas, not angry.
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Laura J Mixon
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Ha! Don’t I wish. If you ever discover one, you’ll make a mint, lmk. It only ever appears for me in the rearview mirror.
#PEMLagReallySux
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Laura J Mixon
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What a cutie!
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evilrooster
@evilrooster.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, their walls are built of cannonballs.
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Johanna Taylor @ 🏠👻
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Your honor, with all due respect, we’re halfway there, and living on a prayer
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Laura J Mixon
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Your honor, with all due respect, love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Fun fact:The last time a Business Plot to destroy US democracy was underway, The Times also pretended it wasnt- they have wanted this since 1930
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Laura J Mixon
@laurajmg.bsky.social
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Thanks!
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Charles Johnson
@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
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On Independence Day the New York Times publishes an op-ed telling people voting is pointless and they shouldn’t do it. Absolutely un-fucking-real. This rotten organization is just blatantly trying to put Donald Trump back in the White House now.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
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We unlocked another stretch goal overnight! Now all tiers with a patch set will get a sticker sheet of the patch designs and the sheet will be available for a $7 add-on! Next up, more upgrades to both the soft & hard cover edition of the book.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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I wish to apologise to Sir Keir Starmer for calling him a shaved stoat penis. I was wrong and most humbly beg his pardon. As the evidence below has clearly shown, this was a false allegation and he is not a stoat penis
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Kameron Hurley
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Write a good take. Share the good take. Use the good take as the mic drop. You've said what you've said. Plant the stake in the ground and move on. The very real purpose of these convos, to paraphrase, is to exhaust us and keep us from doing our work www.goodreads.com/quotes/32287...
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Kameron Hurley
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We were told in early days of web we had to waste our lives refuting every take. Best thing I ever did was write a GOOD take that could resurface into every convo about subject. This take continues to circulate in discussions about war and gender in video games aidanmoher.com/blog/feature...
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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...but you're ENGAGING with that NYT op-ed, aren't ya?
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Laura J Mixon
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fury… rising…
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Pwnallthethings
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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote
"But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...
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Pwnallthethings
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Anyway, billionaires spend a lot of money on depriving their opponents of the right or will to vote, and they aren't opening their wallet out of the kindness of their hearts. It's because it does, when all is said and done, matter quite a lot
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Greg Pak
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Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.
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