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When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

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when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic

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Finished a fiction book about the Boston Massacre tonight. Reading non-fiction about mob violence during pre-revolution Boston next. Just felt like it for some reason....

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LIBRARY HUMANS -- A week ago the US Board of Geographic Names was required by EO to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico & Mount Denali. Today the LoC announced a tentative decision to change these names in LCSH vocabulary & are giving us TODAY ONLY to provide comments ([email protected]).

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I have three ebooks on sale for $2 each in the US today! POLARIS RISING and ECLIPSE THE MOON are on sale everywhere, but AURORA BLAZING seems to be Amazon only. Romance… IN SPACE! <3 Buy links / 3 chapters: PR: https://miha.li/PR AB: https://miha.li/AB ETM: https://miha.li/ETM

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I have an extremely important deadline for work on Monday, and I have spent too much time this week rereading various NaNo drafts. I think it's a coping mechanism. In related news, I still quite like my novels from 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2020.

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All I want it to have completed my to-do list without actually doing any of it.

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As a former resident of Johnstown, this is a headline.

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Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

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This week on the blog: Coins! Contrasting historical coinage with the vision of ancient coinage presented through 'gold' in fantasy fiction. What were coins used for, why did much economic activity remain non-coinage and what do you use when you aren't using coins? acoup.blog/2025/01/03/c...

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Hey @tkingfisher.com timesca.com/kazakhstans-...

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If you want to read the follow up to The Space Between Worlds for FREE here is your chance: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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If you're wondering, "Did I do enough today?" You did. If you're wondering, "Did I do enough this year?" You did. You're here. You're at the finish of the year, the day, the hour. The bad news is that as you are still breathing, you have to do it all again. But that's the good news, too.

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This is a long shot but if I sell 80 more cppies of my book in ANY format (ebook, audiobook or hardcover) by the end of the year, I'll hit a milestone 😁 Want to help me out and buy a copy for your cool millennial niece/best friend/college roommate/romance loving mom? bit.ly/buthowareyoureallynovel

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#amwriting A friend of mine used to enjoy writing in elementary school. One day, she wrote a little story about... I don't know, I think it was rabbits?... and the teacher mocked her in front of the entire class, and threw the story in the trash. 🧵 1/15

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One of the best books ever written is The Monster at the End of This Book.

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Cached US Kindle giveaway: 11 copies of Those Beyond the Wall @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social, which I have, which is why there are 11 copies this time. If you read it let me know what you think please. The title keeps making me think of Omelas. #KindleBookGiveaway

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#Oathbreakers is "historical writing at its finest." - @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. A top-10 new release in history from Amazon Books. It's got swords, sex, witchcraft, demons, betrayals, one irritating dude named Bernard, and the fate of Charlemagne's empire hanging in the balance. Out today!

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What's that? BYE FOREVER, I GUESS is a Booklist Editor's Choice for 2024?? That is THREE best of lists for this little book about wrong number texts, friendship breakups, and finding the people who love you for you. 💖 www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Edi...

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Since 2010, I have been writing a unique gift guide. It's for people who need to buy a present for someone they loathe. Here's this year's! naomikritzer.com/2024/12/09/g...

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Hello GoodReaders! Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for Oathbreakers. 25 copies! Sign up today. #Booksky 💙📚 #medievalsky www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

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Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. it’s “Noises Off” and the only human is Tim the beleaguered assistant stage manager played by Mark Linn-Baker

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So tomorrow's #CyberMonday and this bundle remains on sale through then. 36 #ebooks, #YoungWizards & #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms fantasy, DRM-free, free replacement guarantee, etc etc. I'm going to bed soon, so if you want to help me buy groceries while I sleep, go for it. 😄 ebooks.direct/products/ebo...

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Here And Now And Then was so good!

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I don't want Michigan to win, but I want Ohio State to lose even more.

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I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

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I'm up on The Opera in my pneumoniac FFVI playthrough and reading @sebsational.bsky.social's great book on the music of FINAL FANTASY VI—& a paragraph of his finally unlocked the dramaturgical question of "how would you stage Maria & Draco" for me: You make the entire sequence an opera

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Things you don't want to hear your plumber say: "Oh that ain't good." At least he thinks he can fix it without taking the wall out...

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OVER HALF WAY TO OUR GOAL! Come on, nighttime social media users, can you Give to the Max for an animal rescue non-profit that specializes in animals that need extra help? #GTMD24 www.givemn.org/organization...

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I knew all about Robert C. Baker thanks to "Nugget Man" by @paulandstorm.bsky.social

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