Kaetrin
@kaetrin.bsky.social
She/her. Reader/listener & reviewer of romance at Kaetrin's Musings & Dear Author.
Loves HEA, cake, reproductive freedom, gender affirmation, kindness, not necessarily in that order. Progressive liberal leftie.
Loves HEA, cake, reproductive freedom, gender affirmation, kindness, not necessarily in that order. Progressive liberal leftie.
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oh look, the perfect intersection of my interests (women's sports) and my expertise (the romance genre).
This is a great overview, and the short answer to that headline? YES.
This is a great overview, and the short answer to that headline? YES.
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
oh look, the perfect intersection of my interests (women's sports) and my expertise (the romance genre).
This is a great overview, and the short answer to that headline? YES.
This is a great overview, and the short answer to that headline? YES.
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Remember when my asshole senators said they were ending the shutdown because of the promise to get this vote
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Republicans Block Bill That Would Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Remember when my asshole senators said they were ending the shutdown because of the promise to get this vote
Vale Sophie Kinsella. 💔 Such sad news. May she rest in peace. #romancelandia
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Vale Sophie Kinsella. 💔 Such sad news. May she rest in peace. #romancelandia
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The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation.
Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!
Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation.
Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!
Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!
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It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
Australia’s social media ban won’t stop cyberbullying
A technical fix can’t solve a social problem.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
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I look forward to news.corp’s new found care for teenagers applying to all the trans kids.. *oh wait, I am being handed a note…*
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I look forward to news.corp’s new found care for teenagers applying to all the trans kids.. *oh wait, I am being handed a note…*
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BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
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Just so we are clear. The judgement he is talking about is demanding us to accept people being bigoted, transphobic shit heads
No.
Fuck off Newsom
No.
Fuck off Newsom
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just so we are clear. The judgement he is talking about is demanding us to accept people being bigoted, transphobic shit heads
No.
Fuck off Newsom
No.
Fuck off Newsom
Oh fuck all the way off Gavin
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Oh fuck all the way off Gavin
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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Rep. Jim Himes tells MS NOW the two survivors of that controversial boat strike did not have a radio, contradicting GOP claims:
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rep. Jim Himes tells MS NOW the two survivors of that controversial boat strike did not have a radio, contradicting GOP claims:
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
And yet Taylor...
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And yet Taylor...
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#writingcommunity Carina Press/Harlequin dropped the ball for the release of the #HeatedRivalry TV series.
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
a woman is asking a man what he is doing
ALT: a woman is asking a man what he is doing
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#writingcommunity Carina Press/Harlequin dropped the ball for the release of the #HeatedRivalry TV series.
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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“He’s always at work from six to two, so she’s good in the morning,” said McAtee. “And then dinner comes and nighttime is horrible because she just screams for him. She looks for him. And I don’t know what to tell her.”
Bring dad home: Great Falls man arrested by ICE may have to leave daughter, pregnant fiancé • Daily Montanan
ICE agents swarm into possibly detain British man who has a child and is engaged.
dailymontanan.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“He’s always at work from six to two, so she’s good in the morning,” said McAtee. “And then dinner comes and nighttime is horrible because she just screams for him. She looks for him. And I don’t know what to tell her.”
So Pantone's colour of the year is (essentially) white?
Very on the nose given *gestures at everything*
Very on the nose given *gestures at everything*
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So Pantone's colour of the year is (essentially) white?
Very on the nose given *gestures at everything*
Very on the nose given *gestures at everything*
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“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Rep Adam Smith told me, calling it “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Rep Adam Smith told me, calling it “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Review at Dear Author: Lips Like Sugar by Jess K Hardy - another winner dearauthor.com/book-reviews...
REVIEW: Lips Like Sugar by Jess K Hardy
Dear Jess K Hardy, Mira Harlow runs “Glazed and Confused”, the local bakery in Red Falls, the town closest to Bluebird Basin. She’s a single mother, with a 14-year-old son, Ian an…
dearauthor.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Review at Dear Author: Lips Like Sugar by Jess K Hardy - another winner dearauthor.com/book-reviews...
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You cannot match the size and resources of these organizations that are abandoning trans youth and sacrificing trans lives, but you have one advantage they do not: an ability to maintain a relentless focus upon them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
You cannot match the size and resources of these organizations that are abandoning trans youth and sacrificing trans lives, but you have one advantage they do not: an ability to maintain a relentless focus upon them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
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Oh, my favorite read of 2025 is on sale!
amzn.to/48wucLh
amzn.to/48wucLh
Good Spirits: A Magical Paranormal Holiday Romance with an Irish Ghost, Unexpected Connections, and a Christmas Carol Twist (Ghosted Book 1)
Good Spirits: A Magical Paranormal Holiday Romance with an Irish Ghost, Unexpected Connections, and a Christmas Carol Twist (Ghosted Book 1) - Kindle edition by Borison, B.K.. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
amzn.to
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Oh, my favorite read of 2025 is on sale!
amzn.to/48wucLh
amzn.to/48wucLh
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Alex, give me "Why do voters thinks 'both sides' are corrupt for $600."
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Alex, give me "Why do voters thinks 'both sides' are corrupt for $600."
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Anyone who says "not your grandma's romance" has not one single solitary clue what their grandma was reading.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Anyone who says "not your grandma's romance" has not one single solitary clue what their grandma was reading.
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War (Crimes)
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War (Crimes)
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I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics