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You should all go read The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com - both for the amazing writing AND surprise gorgeous illustrations

Get all yer kiddos enrolled to vote by Monday April 7. www.aec.gov.au/enrol/

hope everyone has a kickass sandwich of some kind this weekend

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

New from me. Would really love if you shared with your loved ones, colleagues, or anyone who has expressed they'd like to do something but are not sure what x heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...

I have finally finished my handwoven twill blanket that I started last year. The widest piece I’ve woven yet! I filled it and brushed it by hand and it is thick, soft a luscious! #weaving #handwoven #twill #4shaft #purewool

Recreated the meme With a real flag

hello i have a glass shop. it's mostly jewelry but also game tokens. you can buy things from it and i will mail them to you. shares would help me out :) nora.jewelry

Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD. The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare. torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...

If interested, this is the children's book I was referring to. Also available in print UK, NZ, US (do not buy via Amazon, please). It would have been a bit ironic if Meta had stolen this one, too. www.hachette.com.au/karen-wyld-j...

okay gang. I know a lot of you have concerns. I’ve heard whispers of a trap, even an ambush. and I get it. these are difficult times. even *I’m* nervous. but guys. if we put all that worry aside, and we take this chance, and it pays off… we get a free wooden horse.

Two things: 1) My dad used to use the foil papers in cigarette packages, folded in thirds, as bookmarks. So I think of him every time I use a hold slip this way. 2) Run, do not walk, to read The River has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com, which is at once intimately familiar and exquisitely strange. 💙📚

1/ A week ago I had a heart attack. Certainly wasn't on my 2025 bingo card but it seems years of healthy living means jack shit when you've got a hitherto unknown genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. Luckily got to hospital just in time and had a stent put in. I should be okay with a daily

Just read The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com and immediately wanted to re-read it. The physical book is a complete work of art, from the gorgeous cover illustration to the contrasting textures on the dust jacket to the illustrations and adornments on each page. Poetic prose is 11/10. #booksky

Last day today to get my ebook WHAT YOU WISH FOR for FREE: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #ebookweek25 #booksky 📚💙

Don't blame me

now might be the time to mention The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge, the first two books in my Endsong trilogy, which were heavily-inspired by Bas Lag and Ambergris

this is, like.... a fucking perfect joke