The Barbarienne Snowman ☃️
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Book production queen. Occasional writer. Amateur jeweler. Spoonie. I post pictures of my cats and food. I love to RT art, but only if it has decent alt-text.
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🦖TRANS RIGHTS OR I BITES 🦕
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I say it all the time:
FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ABILITY TO WRITE.
People who don't understand this will never be any good as fiction writers.
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FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ABILITY TO WRITE.
People who don't understand this will never be any good as fiction writers.
13/x
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This needs to be made clear.
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This needs to be made clear.
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“Many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."
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This is good news, if you need some today
Huge props to Women Help Women. What a victory! msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is good news, if you need some today
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Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.
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It's possible. It just takes political will.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's possible. It just takes political will.
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Lady, I expect that your grown-ass adult husband is capable of getting down a box of Frosted Flakes without trying to jump my bones, and I promise I have not the least interest in a man out with his wife and baby.
Who the fuck hurt you so bad that you can't function like a normal person?
Who the fuck hurt you so bad that you can't function like a normal person?
Every day I say married couples are the problem. So I guess married men can’t talk to any strangers in public at all when they are with their spouse. YIKES.
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Lady, I expect that your grown-ass adult husband is capable of getting down a box of Frosted Flakes without trying to jump my bones, and I promise I have not the least interest in a man out with his wife and baby.
Who the fuck hurt you so bad that you can't function like a normal person?
Who the fuck hurt you so bad that you can't function like a normal person?
Does this woman know how much she's either telling on herself, or telling us what shitty "friends" she has?
Two weeks ago a male friend of mine was in town on business and stayed overnight at my house. His wife was rightfully unconcerned. We ate take-out Chinese food and he slept on the sofa.
Two weeks ago a male friend of mine was in town on business and stayed overnight at my house. His wife was rightfully unconcerned. We ate take-out Chinese food and he slept on the sofa.
Here’s her response video yall.
I think she’s… going through it.
I think she’s… going through it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Does this woman know how much she's either telling on herself, or telling us what shitty "friends" she has?
Two weeks ago a male friend of mine was in town on business and stayed overnight at my house. His wife was rightfully unconcerned. We ate take-out Chinese food and he slept on the sofa.
Two weeks ago a male friend of mine was in town on business and stayed overnight at my house. His wife was rightfully unconcerned. We ate take-out Chinese food and he slept on the sofa.
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"Ask my permission before talking to my husband."
Respectfully, eat an entire bicycle. No ketchup.
Respectfully, eat an entire bicycle. No ketchup.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Ask my permission before talking to my husband."
Respectfully, eat an entire bicycle. No ketchup.
Respectfully, eat an entire bicycle. No ketchup.
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Infantilization of grown-ass men.
Every day I say married couples are the problem. So I guess married men can’t talk to any strangers in public at all when they are with their spouse. YIKES.
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Infantilization of grown-ass men.
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The thing about the Princess Bride is that when you're a kid you think the movie is about Buttercup and Westley, but when you're older you realize it's about Inigo Montoya. They just give us a reason to meet him.
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The thing about the Princess Bride is that when you're a kid you think the movie is about Buttercup and Westley, but when you're older you realize it's about Inigo Montoya. They just give us a reason to meet him.
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Cassandra is right. Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian Muslim, is the hero of the Bondi Beach antisemitic attack.
His father told BBC Arabic: "Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience and humanity."
His uncle said "He made us proud - our village, Syria, all Muslims and the entire world."
His father told BBC Arabic: "Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience and humanity."
His uncle said "He made us proud - our village, Syria, all Muslims and the entire world."
Say his name. He put his own life at risk and spared shooting the son in this father son team of virulent murderers. Not All Muslims who follow their faith are terrorists nor crazed nationalists.
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Cassandra is right. Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian Muslim, is the hero of the Bondi Beach antisemitic attack.
His father told BBC Arabic: "Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience and humanity."
His uncle said "He made us proud - our village, Syria, all Muslims and the entire world."
His father told BBC Arabic: "Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience and humanity."
His uncle said "He made us proud - our village, Syria, all Muslims and the entire world."
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at this point I think we need to work on the presumption that people *did* learn way back in 2016 that giving attention to bad faith actors only helps them and that those still saying "we must defeat them in the marketplace of ideas" are themselves bad faith actors not out to defeat the right at all
The whole “we must defeat them in the marketplace of ideas” liberal brain rot really need to die. People should have learned way back in 2016 that giving attention to bad faith actors only helps them.
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
at this point I think we need to work on the presumption that people *did* learn way back in 2016 that giving attention to bad faith actors only helps them and that those still saying "we must defeat them in the marketplace of ideas" are themselves bad faith actors not out to defeat the right at all
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Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78
Geary was one half of TV's most iconic couples: Luke and Laura. Their TV wedding in 1981 drew 30 million viewers to become the highest-rated soap episode in American TV history.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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I think this is on the nose. When we say "listen to Black people" we mean "give the same weight and consideration to what Black people say as you would to a white person talking about their view & experience, instead of treating us like ignorant, naive, or unreliable narrators of our own lives".
I think when Black folks say it, it means something very different from when White folks do. In the former we usually mean "don't discount Black experiences as untrue or inaccurate" and in the latter... yeah. It's magical negro thinking.
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I think this is on the nose. When we say "listen to Black people" we mean "give the same weight and consideration to what Black people say as you would to a white person talking about their view & experience, instead of treating us like ignorant, naive, or unreliable narrators of our own lives".
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Oh my. All the Christmas kittens
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oh my. All the Christmas kittens
This is the best way to decorate a tree.
Oh my. All the Christmas kittens
December 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is the best way to decorate a tree.
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Happy Book Birthday to SKULL X BONES, featuring space pirates, fantasy-world pirates, and in my case, ancient world alternate pirates! (Mine is called "Caesar at Sea", which gives you a clue ..). Anyway, me hearties, this is a really varied and interesting bunch of pirate tales, so give it a look!
Today is the release day for the next ZNB #SFF anthology SKULL X BONES! Don't forget to grab it as a gift for all of your SF&F pirate fans!
Kindle: amzn.to/48rReUR
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skull-x-bo...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
#fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #pirate
Kindle: amzn.to/48rReUR
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skull-x-bo...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
#fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #pirate
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Happy Book Birthday to SKULL X BONES, featuring space pirates, fantasy-world pirates, and in my case, ancient world alternate pirates! (Mine is called "Caesar at Sea", which gives you a clue ..). Anyway, me hearties, this is a really varied and interesting bunch of pirate tales, so give it a look!
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The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!
It should be illegal to put "gluten free" on anything that typically doesn't have gluten anyway.
I just saw a package for "gluten free potato chips."
How about touting your product as "Only three ingredients: potato, oil, and salt." JUST LIKE MOST POTATO CHIPS.
I just saw a package for "gluten free potato chips."
How about touting your product as "Only three ingredients: potato, oil, and salt." JUST LIKE MOST POTATO CHIPS.
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It should be illegal to put "gluten free" on anything that typically doesn't have gluten anyway.
I just saw a package for "gluten free potato chips."
How about touting your product as "Only three ingredients: potato, oil, and salt." JUST LIKE MOST POTATO CHIPS.
I just saw a package for "gluten free potato chips."
How about touting your product as "Only three ingredients: potato, oil, and salt." JUST LIKE MOST POTATO CHIPS.
I can deal with "Febarary," but "liberry" and "nukuler" will forever make me twitch.
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I can deal with "Febarary," but "liberry" and "nukuler" will forever make me twitch.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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US Weekly COVID update: Dec 15, 2025
🔸1 in 63 Actively Infectious
🔸772,000 New Daily Infections
🔸4,730,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸228,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸237,000 to 950,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Deaths
Source: pmc19.com/data/
🔸1 in 63 Actively Infectious
🔸772,000 New Daily Infections
🔸4,730,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸228,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸237,000 to 950,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Deaths
Source: pmc19.com/data/
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
US Weekly COVID update: Dec 15, 2025
🔸1 in 63 Actively Infectious
🔸772,000 New Daily Infections
🔸4,730,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸228,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸237,000 to 950,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Deaths
Source: pmc19.com/data/
🔸1 in 63 Actively Infectious
🔸772,000 New Daily Infections
🔸4,730,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸228,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸237,000 to 950,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Deaths
Source: pmc19.com/data/