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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

You can safely assume that my position in just about any circumstance is "age verification mandates to access speech in any guise are unconstitutional and overburden the protected speech of adults, including the rights to anonymity and privacy"

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 17m

A very good development. SOOO many people get scammed by these guys. Nice to see some sort of progress being made.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In the most significant action against brutal scam compounds in Southeast Asia to date, US and UK officials have sanctioned the alleged operators of more than 10 scam centers in Cambodia.

146 entities linked to the Prince Group have been sanctioned—and $15 billion of crypto seized

Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

www.wired.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 4h

Colorado: Open enrollment for Medicare starts today and runs through December 7.

Learn more about how to sign up, switch plans, or check important changes to your current plan for 2026 coverage ⬇️

Welcome to Medicare

The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.

www.medicare.gov

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 4h

Impersonation alert! Writers, if you get an email from someone recommending you contact literary agent Annie Bomke at either [email protected] or [email protected], it's a SCAM. Both emails addys are fake. Annie's real domain is abliterary.com writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

The Impersonation List - Writer Beware

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/editing/marketing sc...

writerbeware.blog

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 4h

Same!

M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 4h

It would be nice if I knew what I want to be when I grow up.

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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 7h

Coat
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102647

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 7h

6/ To put it another way, we should be on offense, not defense. We need to go where outbreaks start, not wait until they reach our borders. That’s the power of the CDC’s global work. And that's also what’s at risk right now.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 7h

5/ Almost every U.S. case of MDR-TB starts overseas, so stopping it abroad helps protect us here at home. And that's true for every disease.

People travel, and unfortunately, so does disease. So cutting these programs isn’t just shortsighted, it’s actually a threat to our national security.

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 6h

1 year ago, I published the book that brought me through grief & my cancer journey.

THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.

Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

The Nightward

Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia’s scifantasy debut novel—the first in a duology—in which Caribbean mythology meets The Wit...

www.harpercollins.com

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing like finding a typo in a book that just had 20,000+ downloads...

#self-publishing #writerlife

Fortunately, it was an easy fix. And hopefully most readers will skip right past it. (I have a theory that readers really only pay attention to typos when they're not liking the book.)

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 12h

Quiet Moment of the Day:

Some days are rougher than others. You get tossed to and fro. You hit a lot of bumps. You wonder if you should keep going...

... keep going. Good things are coming your way.

#QuietMomentOfTheDay

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 9h

I'm enjoying the new T.S. album, but since she doesn't need my promo, here's another recent song I've liked:
Priscilla Block: You're Breaking My Heart (Cecilia)

Esp. the line about Jolene-ing again. Haha.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHu...

Priscilla Block - You’re Breaking My Heart (Cecilia) (Official Audio)

YouTube video by PriscillaBlockVEVO

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 12h

At this stage, anyone using the regurgitron to generate their synopsis or their ideas, still less their text, is knowingly collaborating with copyright thieves, and if they are tradpub, knowingly breaking the contract clause that agrees it's all their own work. Dishonest people gonna dishonest.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 11h

In other news: Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

Book News: Angry Robot Acquires New Juliet E. McKenna Novel – The British Fantasy Society

britishfantasysociety.org

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

I'm bringing this up because if you're newer to this game than I am and thinking, "Is it just me, or is this kind of miserable?" . . .

. . . yeah. It's kind of miserable. If I didn't enjoy writing short fiction as much as I do, I think I would have given up by now.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 22h

"Smart" features on .... ANYTHING lol.
Appliances (why?!), my car, watches, computer programs, ANYthing that even hints at it being a/i, and especially any home device that can listen and connect to everything. No siri, no Google home.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 22h

Aspen at Ceran St. Vrain today #nativeplants 🌿

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

The news about lead in pea protein makes me wonder if the cause of the increased heart disease in “grain free formula” dog foods (which rely on pea protein) is lead related.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 1d

The Jungfrau peak catches the last rays of sun over the Lauterbrunnen valley. 🇨🇭 📷

A large snow covered peak on the left glows orange. To the right a glacier carved valley sits in shadow.

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

My local library even has a seed library— you take seeds out, and bring seeds back from what you grow!

That’s also a super handy thing in developing seeds that can stand up to local climate change!

So, gardeners, go ask your library if they have one or could start one! 🌱

Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 1d

Often when I talk to people who haven't stepped into a library for a long time, they think library = books. And yeah, library = books. I love books. But we also have ebooks, for free! DVDs, Blu-ray, streaming video, audiobooks, eaudiobooks, online classes, we've got it all.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 1d

Galleys are in! This spine design is A+.

Galleys of my next book, "True Color." You can see the front cover (a tan field with 12 multicolored...tabs? Cards? Books? Hard to tell!) and one book up on end so you can see its spine. The spine has six colored lines separating my name and the title, and I love it.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Read what you want to read and don't worry about what you "should" read. Your time is finite, books are awesome and there millions more than you can possibly read in a lifetime, there is no reason to self inflict literary suffering.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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