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Melody asked me if there were any completely OTT books I wanted to recap. I suggested A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne. Find parts 1 & 2 at Heaving Bosoms, and part 3 is available now at Smart Podcast, Trashy Books or right here: bit.ly/672HBXover That's THREE HOURS of Leshen Schtupping. Enjoy!

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Transferred the @smartbitches.bsky.social Summer Reading Challenge to my bullet journal. Halfway through my first read (Katherine Center's The Love Haters) which will fill the bad weather plot slot.

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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

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can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them

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May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

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It is ON. Steve is ready!

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"Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choices. Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society." John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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Juneteenth has been a state holiday in Texas since 1980, largely due to the work of Al Edwards, Houston native & TX state representative for District 146. He spent 19 years building support for a Federal Juneteenth holiday & although he died in 2020, his dream became reality in 2021.

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In popular culture, menopause is typically associated with hot flushes. In our Menopause: What's Changed? exhibition, we invite visitors to drop a pebble if they experience any of these symptoms. And it turns out, hot flushes are much less common than brain fog or mood symptoms!

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I really need people to stop saying XYZ is “a distraction.” THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WERE GOING TO FLOOD THE ZONE WITH EVIL SHIT. It all matters! XYZ might not be your fight, but please stop acting like XYZ is not someone’s fight, and that their fight is less important than yours.

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Every day is a good day to subscribe to the work of independent trans journalists, but today is an especially good day. www.assignedmedia.org/support

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I may have called it the Friendship Museum.

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MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

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yes they are. they are christians and you have to deal with that

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Have you noticed how The Thursday Murder Club has become the aesthetic for Cozy Mystery, Perhaps UK? It's like when every book looked like 50 Shades, or before that, Twilight. smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/06/fift...

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When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

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This is SO TRUE. I think @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has talked about how American culture, especially White American Culture, is based on and focused on consumption. (If I have that wrong, Dr. M apologies.) Purchases are identity - this is why books are becoming decorative objects. ⬇️

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This seems to be the part that resonates: “There’s the social expectation of performing moral and ethical correctness especially online. Whether or not behavior is moral, ethical, or correct is irrelevant. The point is performance of correctness: like the correct people, like the correct things”

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👇 YES. I think about this a lot: folks have massive stores of rage, feelings of futility & powerlessness, like a giant cache of explosives. The fuse is often a minor thing but when that thing can be articulated, ranted about, and serve as a release, the reaction is overpowered by all the anger

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Y'all!! Resistance Summer School made @thecut.com !! This is a great piece about the new wave of post-grad, independent lectures being taught outside traditional structures. As I said in the article, we don't need to wait for elite permission to share knowledge! www.thecut.com/article/lear...

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This is suchan important point (and why I stopped doing book and pretty much all blogging)

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[golden girls theme] 🎶thank you for posting your cat show me some kitties/and where theyre at🎵

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Yes. Exactly.

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Consider the absurdity of telling someone who isn’t online that Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author, nuked her entire Instagram because people were digitally abusing her over a joke comment she made on a panel about Peeta, a 2008 character. And because Instagram’s UX sucks, don’t forget that part.

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“School Librarians Are the First and Perhaps Only Line of Defense in a School for Students’ First Amendment Rights” This week's book censorship news piece is a phenomenal interview with school librarians in South Carolina fighting the fight. bookriot.com/south-caroli...

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Opened the last pocket on the father’s day advent cargo pants.

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