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Want to break out of your reading bubble? Is it time to reclaim your time from doom-scrolling? We have a fix! Join BookSwell’s new ⛰️🌴🌊📖Reading Local ⛰️🌴🌊📖 journey, and encounter authors from down the block. Subscribe at www.bookswell.club/subscribe/ #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #authorevent

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"The Frighteningly Uncertain Superposition of Whether Insurance Will Cover a Medical Appointment" an American Horror Story

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We added Reggie Myles as a special guest to WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month on February 26, 2025, 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #authorevent #literaryreading #bookdiscussion

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This is a very quiet little announcement that Broken Mirror is now available as an audiobook for the first time on the Spoken platform. I'll have much more to say about the creative, technical and ethical considerations that went into it. For now, I'm happy it's out! ihave.spoken.press/p/k52SbLZgGRY

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Meet Jenise Miller at WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month on February 26, 2025, 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #authorevent #literaryreading #bookdiscussion #literature #WestHollywood #book #author

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Meet Angela M. Franklin at WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month on February 26, 2025, 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #authorevent #literaryreading #bookdiscussion #literature #WestHollywood #books

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The SPSFC now has an account on Bluesky! I wonder if anybody is talking about us here.

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This interview was so much fun and intellectually satisfying. With MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME, @rasheed.bsky.social wrote a vibrant, sexy, soul-stirring queer historical epic.

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New #podcastepisode: Rasheed Newson, television writer and producer and author of My Government Means to Kill Me, discusses the fallout from the HIV/AIDS crisis, in conversation with host @codysiscowrites.bsky.social www.bookswell.club/podcast/20-r... #bookdiscussion #BlackHistoryMonth

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Come to WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month on Feb. 26 at 6:30 pm PT online. Participating writers: Angela M. Franklin, Jenise Miller, Pam Ward, and Romaine Washington. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #authorevent #bookdiscussion 💙📚

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Some light social satire from Cixin Liu's Deaths End. An excess of conscience or duty "is seen as a mental illness called social-pressure personality disorder" Lately, Americans are doing a great job resisting this affliction.

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Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest, bleak as it is, has been some comfort this week. "The only constant in a world of tremendous change is the swift passage of time." #sciencefiction #scifi #futurism

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Ask yourself: who benefits from political blame games? During an emergency, the only things we and our leaders should focus on is the response and getting aid to people who are suffering. Anything else is a distraction or an attack.

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Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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If this exists, I want to read it. If not... I'll add it to my never-going-to-get-done goals. Comparative analysis of public perception, morality, personal empowerment, and friendships in the novel, theatrical, and film adaptations of #Wicked.

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@jahennrikus.bsky.social Many thanks for a valuable webinar on goal setting and time management for writers. I'm going to incorporate your tips into my planning. 🗓️🗒️

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Hey Spec Fic authors and readers: sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror. Join us at LimFic.com. We're building an alternative spec fic book community/directory that's also queer friendly (gay owned) and progressive. Help us grow! Authors: www.limfic.com/membership-a... Readers: www.limfic.com

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If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

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Meet Jen Cheng, current West Hollywood City Poet Laureate and author of Braided Spaces (2023). WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly Wed., Dec. 11 · 6:30 - 8 pm PST RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #authorevent #literature #WeHo #drag #dragqueen #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ @jencvoice.bsky.social

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Not a single American who has been alive over the last 20 years has any question whatsoever about what the internet is going to do with the information provided to it below

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Sharing this again because I've added new people recently. Let me know if I should add anyone else. go.bsky.app/CqUujDq

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2024 social media culture is 1/3 trolling, 1/3 painful earnestness, and 1/3 people having fun. At the center of that pie chart is #FreeLuigi.

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The Los Angeles Public Library and the Library Foundation are thrilled to announce the next open call for creative Angelenos to apply for the LAPL Creators in Residence program: lapl.org/creators ⁠

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Since yesterday I was talking about Gates McFadden’s struggles to get behind the camera opportunities, it’s time for me to share a story about the Doctor and how she’s one of the reasons I’m a Professor. 🧵 (Here’s us at the 2024 #StarTrek convention #STLV)

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The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

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Fuck I think we totally forgot that part in Dune Pt. 2 about not falling for charismatic violent folk heroes fueled by vengeance who look like Timothee Chalamet in a hoodie

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People celebrating Luigi Mangione, the health care CEO assassin, need to understand that vigilante killings are not celebrated or in any way condoned in the United States. We are a civilized country that values the lives of its citizens.

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The screws in the lower spine of the suspected shooter Luigi Mangione may explain a lot.

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So, apparently, Luigi Mangione, the health care CEO killer, is against preexisting conditions and [checks Twitter] sex toys.

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Luigi Mangione and Altoona McDonalds are the names of main characters in a Eudora Welty short story and nothing you can say is going to convince me otherwise.

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Meet host Glen Alen, 3x Emmy Award-winning makeup artist at WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly Wednesday, December 11 · 6:30 - 8 p.m. PST RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #authorevent #bookdiscussion #literarycommunity #literature #WeHo #drag #dragqueen #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ

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You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

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Meet Aaron Jay Young, a portrait photographer whose work is a vibrant exploration of the human essence of his subjects, at WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly Wed., Dec. 11 · 6:30-8 pm PST West Hollywood City Council Chambers RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @aaronjayyoung.bsky.social

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Tune in for the 2025 return of homo-centric! Photo is from a 2010 Facebook post about the original LGBTQ+ series that was hosted by Echo Park's Stories Books for nearly a dozen years. Looking forward to sharing news soon!

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Meet Manuel Betancourt, a Los Angeles-based queer Colombian writer and film critic, at WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly. Wed., December 11 · 6:30-8 pm PST West Hollywood City Council Chambers RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @bmanuel.bsky.social #authorevent #LGBTwriters

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Coming up next week! Register here:

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The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, they are not covered by it. In other words, the intolerant aren't deserving of your tolerance.

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