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GET TO WORK OR STOP TEXTING ME FOR FUNDS.

Grab your tinfoil hats because we gotta look at the big picture here. TFG wants Gaza for development of property and for development of an US/Israel owned version of the Suez Canal that diverts through Gaza, instead of Egypt. This has been the plan by both parties all along. #gaza

the five love languages are cats, cakes, a stately manor home in the English countryside, teaming up to catch the murderer and putting down my book so I can talk to you.

2nd question of the day- who the fuck is even letting the prepubescents into these government buildings to make these demands and “changes”? If they are barring congress, why aren’t they themselves getting barred? Have MAGAts really infiltrated every one of these branches for easy takeover?

How’s Oklahoma going to get all their Trump bibles for the schools if USPS isn’t taking shipments from China? Since they are printed over there and everything… 🤪 #usps #tradewar

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

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The explore page on UberEats is now all videos advertising individual dishes. Maybe I’m antiquated but WTF? I’m not so upset over the demise of TikTok that I’m going to doom scroll take-out orders. Just give me a list of the damn restaurants and let me look at the line item menu like a sane person.

Very recently, I was talking to people about the lack of a good outlet for ebooks, and I cannot tell you how utterly delighted I am by this news. It’s awfully nice to be utterly delighted about ANYTHING at the moment. bookshop.org/ebooks

Both my wife and I are neurodivergent and egg sandwiches are an easy ‘safe’ food. With the cost of eggs skyrocketing, how keen do you think our landlord would be on us having chickens in our 3rd floor walk up? Just 1 or 2 of them, nothing crazy! 🤪 #eggprices

No but maybe they should eradicate the military of all who don’t fall back &fall in line, because firing a bunch of weapons trained individuals who are already used to assembling &protecting against tyranny wouldn’t backfire at all. How big can the MAGA army be if it’s only white, male and xtian?

For some reason BlueSky thinks I’m super interested in fungus, owls, &vintage comic strips- all of which I didn’t realize were so prolifically posted about- but what I’m really trying to curate is a feed of bookish gals, budding/successful authors, recipes,& feminist politics. Who should I follow?

One month in Salem, MA and it’s the best decision we could’ve made.

#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th.

LGBTQ youth are calling crisis hotlines in record numbers Fears have escalated with the Trump³⁴'s anti-LGBTQ actions and the release of his J6 goons onto our streets Image below has hotline numbers that can help We have to stick together. We must remain visible. We can not obey in advance

Here we go …

Someone should bring Blockbuster back. #nonetflix #broligarchy

Amazon went from a discount book seller to being integrated in every aspects of our lives from affordable shopping to entertainment to Telehealth and car shopping. Feels kinda like that forcibly downloaded U2 album, like we have no choice, but thankfully there is other, better, music out there!

My last hold-outs on Amazon are my subscribe & saves (working on moving the ones I can to Thrive) and book pre-orders. Found my local bookshop through bookshop.org and am happy to report prices were about +/- $2 from Zon. Easiest switch by far. #shopsmall #booksky #booktok

Saw on Substack the need to put a Dem candidate for ‘28 in the spotlight NOW to openly campaign against the idea of another 4 years of Trump- because we all know where this is going- and I couldn’t agree more. We need someone young, relatable, moderate, and openly opposed to the broligarchy. #2028

3 places I will not be going for these next 4 years: 1. Back and forth 2. Above and beyond 3. Out of my way.

Deleted TikTok, will not be joining TrumpTok, have almost phased out all Meta apps. Plan on using new found free time to read, write, create, &most importantly- migrate all my Amazon related purchases to other less monopolized resources. We need to hit their bottom lines &make them hurt. #tiktokban

I wonder with the TikTik CEO spat or swallowed after penu-flecting to Cheezit-lter to make this ‘deal’ #tiktokban

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.