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I make things. Mostly tea.

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Aliette de Bodard 's avatar Aliette de Bodard @aliettedb.bsky.social
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Oh hey also In the Shadow of the Ship is out Sept 1st (US)/Sept 3rd (UK)

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f/f Weary paladin/guilt-ridden magistrate onboard sentient spaceship gone full-on creepy Gothic

Guess I never showed the UK cover so here it is lol.

Art: Dirk Berger

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If they want to have a contest and excitement, have members of the public imagine the best thing we can do with the money we get when we start taxing billionaires like they’re baristas, and first prize gets to choose a billionaire to get a deep audit.

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...so that I can use it to mark the potatoes. (In part to make it impossible to not hear the word said in a particular way when looking in their directions.)

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I think I want a durable plant stake (something that will last many seasons) that either has the word "samwise" as the designation or a picture of that most wonderful hobbit.

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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it’s gonna be a slow rollout as everyone works through this huge document to find all its buried horrors but oh boy oh boy oh boy when the labor union organizers get to this one things are gonna get lit on actual fire

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Dropped Waterstones an email after they sacked an employee (TillyLovesBooks) for standing up to a transphobe and supporter of far-right politics. If you’d like to do the same, it only takes a minute: www.waterstones.com/help/contact...

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Amber's avatar Amber @amberchicago.bsky.social
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This, absolutely this! There's still time to go back to masking in certain circumstances. Just cos you acted one way yesterday doesn't mean you have to act the same way tomorrow. Your risk calculations can and should get updated. Your risk reduction behaviors can and should get updated.

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GIGAHERTZ THE SPACE ROBOT's avatar GIGAHERTZ THE SPACE ROBOT @jhohos.bsky.social
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Something else I just learned we can do that we won't is all Federal Agencies are immune from local building codes, so the USPS could build multi use high density apt buildings for low income ppl as long as there's a post office on the property

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Scott Mullin's avatar Scott Mullin @scottmullin.bsky.social
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We stayed at an Airbnb with a massive gas leak and the owner kept blaming the previous occupants for making "ethnic food". We ended up calling the gas company, which found 3 major leaks while we were packing up to escape. The way Airbnb handled it we couldn't leave an honest review

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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*had to come see the context for this one, and found further laughter*

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Inner Worlds's avatar Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social
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Several crowdfunders running at the moment for rad SFF magazines - I hope they get loads of support because they fully deserve it! 😊 But if you have anything left over I'd *really* appreciate a few more subscribers as we've lost a couple of people recently and our margin is very small 💸

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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I may have been wrong about losing that one.

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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....going to have to find a new turmeric supplier. This is a sadness.

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R.C. Murphy's avatar R.C. Murphy @rcmurphy.bsky.social
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Also while I'm listening to my AC run 20 hours a day, go buy some stuff so I can afford to pay my summer power bill that's already at $250.

rc-murphy-designs.printify.me/products

(Some items pictured below are discontinued.)

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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States like Florida with inhumane, racist policies and laws targeting undocumented immigrants have already seen shortages of farm workers. In NC I shared lamb meat with Latino friends and neighbors and in return heard community news including what they got from migrant workers passing through.

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hammancheez's avatar hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social
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in addition to being bullshit currency for techbros, bitcoin mines seem to be literally cooking the brains of people living within aural vicinity

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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Tomorrow, because Asia is in the future. But... yes, it's still a book birthday.

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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In news of this, at the end of yesterday it looked like everything survived except for one tomato from the "where did you come from and why did you take this long to start growing" set.

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Love discovering that things I weren't sure were helping were actually helping because I am having a stretch of time where I can't afford them and the things they were helping got so much worse. (Pain management is such a... pain.)

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The idea and willingness will be here when you are ready. *glees, a bit*

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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That being said, that would be really awesome. (And if you'd be interested in something-resembling-but-not-exactly-a-trade, could work up a custom tea for you?)

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(A combination of the way bluesky deals with replies (that I am not used to as yet) and being too tired and hot to remember to poke comment to see what it is attached to meant I had not realized the original was to rahaeli.) (Which led to almost melting from embarrassment this morning.)

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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...I'm not the only one who wanders through their plants, checking to see how they are doing with wind, congratulating them on how well they're doing and encouraging them, right?

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That's an amazing offer. *has a certain level of awe for things created by actual people, especially in crafts has enough knowledge of to understand*

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Jonny Morris's avatar Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social
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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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so say we all. (or so should say we all.) *is too tired to finish that part of the grumble, though*

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One of the reasons I was delighted to discover that one of the drawers I got to keep was well suited to ink storage was a fear of losing things to more haphazard storage. *probably doesn't write enough for the inks one has*

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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I need everyone to stop with AI. Like I found a cool perfume company and then they started sending emails about how they're going to use AI to design new product and let people design custom product and it is the middle of a fucking heat wave and I am so tired.

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Finished the first journal that is entirely filled with post-THFKAMT today and that was... an odd feeling.

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Stephen Blackmoore's avatar Stephen Blackmoore @sblackmoore.bsky.social
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The only thing the GOP knows how to do is punish people for the crime of being poor.

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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*grumbles in late stage capitalism, among other things*

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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I appreciate that and may take you up on it at some point. (At the moment I'm mostly glad that I can manage housing and food (with the occasional short month because sometimes self care yarn or ink is more important than beyond maintenance food.)

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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*keeps fingers crossed never lets one go that long*

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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*eyes ink drawers with a mix of glee and foot-to-foot-shifting guiltishness*

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, part of the aftermath is being back where medical care of any sort is more a luxury than I like. Hopefully I will find ways to change that, but it's definitely uphill.

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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That looks comforting. (And the colour gradation is very eye-comfortable.)

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Kameron Hurley's avatar Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.bsky.social
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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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I've been looking at a number of their inks with the dual thought of "but I don't need more inks" and "and also I do not need other ink company fixations"...

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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Universe heard you but something was lost in translation?

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It's been added back into the diagnostic list. "Is this just one of those days when All of This is weighing so heavily that I can't breathe or is it something more ickily health related."

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SageNatural's avatar SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social
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*can imagine* Anything you really loved when it was finished?

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