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Elizabeth Davis

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Author of I LOVE YOU, I HATE YOU, THE PLAYER NEXT DOOR, and TIME FOR YOU. Repped by Kimberly Brower @ Brower Literary https://linktr.ee/elizabethdavisromance

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have a new book coming out Step. 23rd! Full description at the link, but my elevator pitch to my writing chat was "what if a guy time travels to the present but he sort of sucks and has to learn how to be a feminist and also he looks like Robb Stark?"

elizabethdavisromance.com/time-for-you/

Time For You

No love like the present What happens when a twenty-first-century woman falls for a nineteenth-century man? It’s up to destiny in a witty, captivating, and totally unexpected time-travel romance. D…

elizabethdavisromance.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1h

“Women are cringe” —a reflexive bigotry that a kind of shocking number of people have mistaken for a politics.

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 50m

It is October 16th and Hobby Lobby is advertising *Christmas decorations* on Hulu

what is with these freaks

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 12h

“Orientalism in parties” is another one

You could get a dissertation out of that and opium alone

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 12h

Where lesser women would have retreated to write fanfic to get out of a terrible house party, Mary Shelley created an entirely new genre

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 12h

it is not ABOUT a party, but it was written AT one, so

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 12h

Where does Frankenstein fit in to this, I am obsessed

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 23h

"centered on narrative while avoiding the exploitation of sex workers" oh my god shut up, this is bad and you should feel bad about wanting it, stop trying to find magic words to make it not shitty

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 23h

I fully recognize this for the bait it's trying to be, but fuck it

setting aside the ethics of AI (which are bad enough) think for one fucking second about the damage "a partner who can never say no" will do the brains of the men who use it, and the bodies *and* minds of the people they fuck

Jeff Thomas @buildbackwetter.bsky.social · 1d

A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell he/his advisors think it's so clever by how often he says it, without ever once thinking of the implications in reverse (only by submitting to monarchy will the peasants be allowed to eat)

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 1d

ooof no I haven't, but I will put it on my list!

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 1d

I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT

these creeps are endangering people

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 1d

I think we just figured out how Silicon Valley techbros cooked their brains

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 2d

this whole thing smacks of gender, etc

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 2d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

As a feminist I’m maybe more invested than most in the idea that major figures of history cannot be neatly categorized as “bad, therefore nothing they did was good” or “good, therefore nothing bad they did matters.” But Columbus is an unusually unambiguous case. His only achievement was an accident!

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 3d

“More of a comment”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 4d

the *rage* conservative men in particular feel about women choosing to dress and style themselves in a way those women *enjoy* rather than catering specifically to the conservative male gaze is...illuminating

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

now

is he personally pro-life

almost without question

is this gonna be an area where we always disagree

for sure

but telling the US bishops they’re out of pocket for betting all their chips on Roe to the exclusion of guns and war and famine hits different when an American pope says it

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 5d

The thing that grosses me out is the extent to which people on the left will now jokingly use "cucked" like that is somehow scoring points on someone

I am begging everyone, please stop

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 5d

My most Kooky Old Lady coded activity is in the fall when I am going for walks I will grab a milkweed pod from my small prairie patch and scatter the seeds around the neighborhood, like a milkweed version of the Lupine Lady

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 5d

The fixation on Greta Thunberg is *so* odd to me. "The antichrist is a 22 year old Scandinavian woman who makes me angry because she openly cares about humanity" okay if you say so, bro

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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 5d

Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 6d

do I want to know why they think neurodivergence begins in the foreskin or nah

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 6d

^^^ uncultured minnesotan right here, folks

Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 6d

what

Screenshot fro NYT that says The Trump administration cabinet meeting has turned to speculation about the causes of autism. Vaccines, Tylenol and circumcision have been floated as possible causes.

“I’m addressing it the best I can as a non-doctor,” Trump said.

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Katie Shepard @katieshepardbooks.bsky.social · 7d

THICK paper ARCs can come to your house and make you cry when you enter on Goodreads through November 8.

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