John Helps You Write Better
@awesomejohn.bsky.social
Writing Coach, Developmental Editor, Guy who knows things about things. I help writers write better since 1997. Team Butts all day. Also many other teams if you'll have me. Voted best second partner in a potential polycule.
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Live, laugh, behead a billionaire
December 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Live, laugh, behead a billionaire
Been awake about 30 minutes and I might have already reached my limit on social media today…
February 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Been awake about 30 minutes and I might have already reached my limit on social media today…
So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.
I think we should bring back the Age of Sail.
February 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I think we should bring back the Age of Sail.
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Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org
Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.
www.immunize.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
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A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume
Some courses being offered ⬇️
Some courses being offered ⬇️
January 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume
Some courses being offered ⬇️
Some courses being offered ⬇️
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Similarly, releasing a zine last year netted wayyy more income than any online work I did. It was my best paying writing job of 2024 and I got to do wherever I wanted. It's not on the internet outside of my gumroad and when it is it'll be in a free archive. Great!
January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Similarly, releasing a zine last year netted wayyy more income than any online work I did. It was my best paying writing job of 2024 and I got to do wherever I wanted. It's not on the internet outside of my gumroad and when it is it'll be in a free archive. Great!
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For no particular reason, here’s a list of pro bono immigration lawyers in various areas in the United States.
www.justice.gov/eoir/file/pr...
www.justice.gov/eoir/file/pr...
www.justice.gov
January 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For no particular reason, here’s a list of pro bono immigration lawyers in various areas in the United States.
www.justice.gov/eoir/file/pr...
www.justice.gov/eoir/file/pr...
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This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
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Love yourself like RPG designers love Capitalized Words.
June 6, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Love yourself like RPG designers love Capitalized Words.
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Crypto is just Mary Kay for boys
December 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Crypto is just Mary Kay for boys
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I think it's really beautiful that a piece of transfeminist writing firmly committed to epistemic JUSTICE for ALL transfeminine people is so popular in our community and that this popularity has propelled it to a level of visibility in a cis space that would normally be denied through epistemicide
It's lower now but apparently I cracked top 5k last night
Hell of a thing to wake up to
Hell of a thing to wake up to
January 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I think it's really beautiful that a piece of transfeminist writing firmly committed to epistemic JUSTICE for ALL transfeminine people is so popular in our community and that this popularity has propelled it to a level of visibility in a cis space that would normally be denied through epistemicide
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99,000 ducks to be culled in NY. It will take the farm at least a year or two to re-open, if they can. The owner said, “It was like Covid for ducks. Everything ended."
Other reporting from USA Today notes avian flu has infected > 138M poultry in all 50 states since 2022.
search.app/DdwgyX2Mh5Rc...
Other reporting from USA Today notes avian flu has infected > 138M poultry in all 50 states since 2022.
search.app/DdwgyX2Mh5Rc...
LI’s last duck farm forced to shutter and euthanize nearly 100K birds due to outbreak of contagious bird flu
It's a fowl day on the East End.
search.app
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
99,000 ducks to be culled in NY. It will take the farm at least a year or two to re-open, if they can. The owner said, “It was like Covid for ducks. Everything ended."
Other reporting from USA Today notes avian flu has infected > 138M poultry in all 50 states since 2022.
search.app/DdwgyX2Mh5Rc...
Other reporting from USA Today notes avian flu has infected > 138M poultry in all 50 states since 2022.
search.app/DdwgyX2Mh5Rc...
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again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded
it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded
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IMPORTANT!! 🚨
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
IMPORTANT!! 🚨
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
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Heads up for the Weather Community!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
January 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Heads up for the Weather Community!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
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The amount of gaslighting that’s going to occur over the next few weeks in an effort to convince you that we aren’t seeing the rise of fascism and white supremacy will be considerable.
Be gentle with yourself. Stand firm. Don’t allow others to make you question what you know to be true.
Be gentle with yourself. Stand firm. Don’t allow others to make you question what you know to be true.
January 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The amount of gaslighting that’s going to occur over the next few weeks in an effort to convince you that we aren’t seeing the rise of fascism and white supremacy will be considerable.
Be gentle with yourself. Stand firm. Don’t allow others to make you question what you know to be true.
Be gentle with yourself. Stand firm. Don’t allow others to make you question what you know to be true.
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Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it.
And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over.
You can just not post it.
And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over.
You can just not post it.
January 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it.
And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over.
You can just not post it.
And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over.
You can just not post it.
This makes me think of @battlekittenbbk.bsky.social
Here is a great article on feather colors if you'd like to learn more. academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-ma...
How Birds Make Colorful Feathers | Bird Academy • The Cornell Lab
As one might expect from the amazing diversity of colors and patterns exhibited by more than 10,000 bird species found in the world, birds can see color. The colors in the feathers of a bird are forme...
academy.allaboutbirds.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This makes me think of @battlekittenbbk.bsky.social
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For folks that are interested, I'll be streaming Alan Wake 2 on Twtich in about 15 minutes. And fundraising for the survivors of the LA fires! www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin
I am not watching one single thing produced by or orchestrated by that administration. That's their propaganda. Why would I make it easy on them?
Inviting everyone to join me on Jan 20th in doing one thing you love, and one thing they would hate.
Joy & spite, y'all. Joy and spite.
Inviting everyone to join me on Jan 20th in doing one thing you love, and one thing they would hate.
Joy & spite, y'all. Joy and spite.
January 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For folks that are interested, I'll be streaming Alan Wake 2 on Twtich in about 15 minutes. And fundraising for the survivors of the LA fires! www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin
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January 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
official units of measure:
fuckton
shitload
asshaul
bitchpassel
cockheap
pissgob
jizzbatch
wankmound
fuckton
shitload
asshaul
bitchpassel
cockheap
pissgob
jizzbatch
wankmound