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Fixed it. #ourpoopisnotforsale

The President of Heard & McDonald Islands has vowed to impose retaliatory tariffs on USA umbrella imports.

VOLTAIRE - 'Let us read, and let us dance, these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' Dead right !

This turned out to be as much about the art and craft of writing Absolution as about the novel itself. Hopefully some usefulness for beginning and intermediate writers.

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“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” -John Waters.

Laurie Santos, Yale’s resident well-being expert and teacher of the most popular course in the university’s 300-year history, reveals what it means to live a good life—and shares some books that might help us get within reach of one.

Looks like To The Best of Our Knowledge replayed this piece recently... yeah, zippo Lovecraft influence. www.ttbook.org/interview/go...

You can become a member of the National African American History and Culture Museum. support.si.edu/site/Donatio...

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Thank you @chenoweth.bsky.social and company.

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On World Theatre Day we look back at our blog ‘Witty above her sex’: Restoring Shakespeare’s Women to the Record’. Why not become a member for access to all our publications. #WorldTheatreDay #WomensHistoryMonth womenshistorynetwork.org/witty-above-...

On the blog “Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class”. womenshistorynetwork.org/beyond-norma... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist

Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically. #UniteAgainstBookBans www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

Latest episode of my podcast -- clocking in at exactly 6 mins and 66 secs, as always -- has just been posted. Here I answer a listener question about horror zines, and share a kind of 'starter kit' for the uninitiated. 6m66s.com/ep-8-a-horro... [W/ thanks to my sponsor, "Soylent Pudding" 😁]

Meet the first computer programmer. Women's History Month: Ada Lovelace open.substack.com/pub/sonsofli...

#FridayReads Just finished THE BOOKSHOP: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BOOKSTORE by Evan Friss, just started THE BOUNDARIES WE CROSS by Brad Parks.

List of 20 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. Planet eBook 2. Free-eBooks. net 3. ManyBooks 4. Librivox 5. Internet Archive 6. BookBub 7. Open Library 8. BookBoon 9. Feedbooks 10. Smashwords

Anonymous has entered the fight against fascism. They already took X down three times today. This should be fun to watch play out…

Stand Up for Science day nationwide. Find events at the link. standupforscience2025.org

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Have fun, guys