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Delete your 23&me data ASAP www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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2018 Smithsonian Magazine Article “It felt really important for us to say that we believe LGBTQ people are beloved children of God, not in spite of their identities but because of who they are — who God created them to be.” -Mariann Edgar Budde www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

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SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Wyatt is a steamy and sweet friends to lovers romance.This novel features a cowboy and a veterinarian, enthusiastic consent, emotional vulnerability, processing grief after losing a parent, and being brave enough to share how you really feel. #books #reading #booksky #romance #luckyriverranch

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My top 5 📚 of 2024: Elatsoe by Darci Little Badger Behind You is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States by J. Albert Mann Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, & Desire Edited by Alice Wong

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Listening to the hobbit and forgot about this description of Smaug. “His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.” J.R.R Tolkien

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Shared a little bit about myself and why I am inspired by Bilbo Baggins on my first Substack post! open.substack.com/pub/laurenex...

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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

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I have adored reading The Apothecary Diaries. Any manga you would recommend that have similar themes? I enjoyed the political, medicinal, and social topics illustrated throughout? #manga #booksky

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Do I have a #giveaway for you #BookSky! I have FIVE copies of this beautiful new version of Thunderpaws - perfect for adults and children!😍 To enter: follow me and @thunderpaws.bsky.social, repost and tag a friend. Worldwide giveaway, closes 9/12/24. Don't miss out on this amazing book!

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CNN convened a panel of transgender youth to get their thoughts on the Supreme Court and the 2024 election. 10-year-old Violet: "My self is not an opinion. It is a fact."

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Just finished This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and I want to celebrate aging! I love how my confidence and creativity have grown with age, and that I enjoy the gray in my hair. What do you celebrate about aging? #aging

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Massachusetts last year made phone calls from prison and jails free. It also wiped charges for other forms of communication between incarcerated folks & their loved ones. You can see how hugely important it is for people in this piece. 1/2 boltsmag.org/massachusett...

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“According to a survey by the Association of Health Care Journalists, roughly half of working-age adults have health insurance that provides insufficient coverage and leads to delayed or skipped care.”

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I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

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Love the emphasis on universal design, public transportation, work conditions, and food markets. “The sooner we trade the self-sufficiency trap for a more reciprocal, communitarian, age-integrated, mutually interdependent point of view, the closer a truly all-age friendly society becomes.” pg. 180

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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

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Kash Patel has openly expressed his plans to “come after” journalists he doesn’t like. He is for retribution, not justice. This is from my book, #RoughBeast:

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Just in case you weren't aware of what's happening:

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gofund.me/f1685d29 Please donate – and if you can´t, please share!

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#fossilheads

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As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

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its always 'get people working'. it's never - make childcare affordable - run better transport so people can get to jobs - raise attainment for people of all backgrounds - improve healthcare for long term sick - make workplaces accessible - champion flexible working So it never works.

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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

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Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

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A decade ago, California reduced some felonies to misdemeanors, saving $800 million that went to treatment for mental health and addiction. Now, by reclassifying some offenses as felonies again, those resources could be drained to cover rising prison costs. boltsmag.org/califor...

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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

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This sticker reminded me of the lyrics to the Arthur Theme Song “Open up your eyes, open up your ears Get together and make things better By working together Bridge: It's a simple message, And it comes from the heart. Believe in yourself, For that's the place to start!”

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No $poilers…

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I learned if you have a water leak, check in with your local utilities company. My city utilities have a form I can submit to remove costs based on a leak (once it has been fixed), to reduce the additional water bill costs from the leak.

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A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...

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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.

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