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Avid reader, mostly fiction: speculative, SF, literary. Cats, Crochet, PoFi, Switch games, makeup esp eyeshadow, thunderstorms, pub quiz.
American living abroad since 2015. Remote since 2016.
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I am a fan of four seasons. I miss snow.
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Amazon worked for years to artificially depress the prices of self-published ebooks as a loss leader to sell Kindles. Now that the Kindle market is fairly saturated, they're using their near-monopoly market power to force ebook prices up and lower writer royalties.
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They are available through every major ebook retailer.
When you pay for a professionally published ebook, you're paying for the time of about six to ten generally underpaid skilled professionals. The paper and printing of a paper book are the smallest part of what goes into producing it.
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You can use a tool like Calibre to load books to your Kindle that you purchase elsewhere. Same for Kobo or any ereader. đ
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Youâre giving them a lot of credit with âplanningâ and âwar strategyâ.
My orange cat does more planning in his war strategy against the repeated incursions of the red laser dot and the crumpled post-it note.
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I donât think Iâve made in total, before taxes, over 30 years, even a quarter of what he lost in a *month*.
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If you need to cite the specific section of the Code of Virginia, itâs § 38.2-3449.1. Prohibited discrimination based on gender identity or status as a transgender individual.
This is the law of the land in #Virginia.
Gender-affirming care is protected here.
law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/38.2-...
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If the little Likes Gremlin in you thinks maybe if youâre the only one who screenshots and reposts his garbage then youâll get a following of people snarling at him thru your platform I beg of you: drown that gremlin in a butt of malmsey wine
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Tbf it was less dramatic than any of the videos of immigrants or lawmakers being assaulted and hauled off by masked, unidentified men.
The flair was that the old white guy told the young white guy where she was going. Most relatives of the detained need to wait for days.
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Holy shit.
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She did not win. She was racing against a bunch of cis men.
They're trying to push her out of competing at all.
www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2524145...
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Another list of orgs that materially support trans people:
www.autostraddle.com/this-trans-d...
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