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Whenever I teach my adult education class about writing and publishing children's books, the question about publishers or other writers stealing ideas or works comes up. I've told them this rarely happens and sharing work to get feedback is an important part of the process. 🧵/1

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runforsomething.net has a list of candidate resources that will help you run for office. One of the biggest reasons we’re in the mess we’re in right now is because not enough good people run for office and take active roles in campaigns. Be the example and @runforsomething.net

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I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

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From my new romance novella, mature ex-rock stars meeting ten years after their band broke up and rewriting their most popular song and their pasts.

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I BELIEVE IN US.

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

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Have to read a book for my book group and it's boring so I'm listening at 2.5 speed. It's the chipmunks!

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Trump take egg. No brain on drugs.

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someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

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You know how you get that feeling when you're walking in an area that's abandoned and dark and your instincts kick in that something's fucked up and you need to get the hell out of there before the terrible thing happens and you're supposed to listen to that? That's how I feel living in the US now.

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USA: "The US government may destroy more than 160 million COVID-19 tests. Here's how to claim your free at-home kits before they're gone." 🔹Free home test: covidtests.gov click on the blue button (Order Free At-home Tests) 🔹Toll-free phone number: 800-232-0233 www.cnet.com/health/claim...

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I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

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Jeff Bezos may have nixed this ad from the Washington Post, but it looks good to me. Share it. And call your reps to say NO to Musk Capitol Switchboard: 202 224 3121. Thanks @commoncausenc.bsky.social

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If we live long enough, most if not all of us will become disabled. By age, pandemics, illness, climate catastrophes, organized abandonment, interpersonal or state violence, and working ourselves to injury/death. Disability injustice & defunding social support & healthcare are bad for you too.

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

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I'm glad someone is making this point. But any pushback is good, especially if it highlights Trump's betrayals, to embolden Dems and the people to fight back. I think the shortage matters more than the price, as it's a really easy way to explain how the billionaire coup hurts everyone.

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You can download most of your books in the .azw3 format, and there are tools online to convert those to epub or even pdf. You've got 1 week to do it.

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I repeat…

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They are after disabled people in every way they can find. This is a good thread on wheelchairs in particular. Mari has a lot of experience.

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I saw someone else posting their sedecordle results today, which reminded me it's been a very long time since I played it. And now I can't find who it was. Barely, but I won! Daily #1099 0️⃣9️⃣⬛1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣⬛1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣⬛0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣⬛2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣⬛0️⃣8️⃣ sedecordle.com #sedecordle

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🧵 on the economics of tuition at public universities. Your regular reminder that the solution to ~every problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - including now the drastic cutting of federal funding & loss of foreign students - is to fund the damn public universities like we used to: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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According to the NYT, liberals have simultaneously been dangerous cancel culture wokeists chilling free speech, but also cowardly NPCs afraid to say anything that might hurt someone's feelings. The throughline, of course, is "the left is bad because they aren't open bigots spewing slurs."

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When they tell you they’re fascists, believe them.

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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

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Gaza: Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israeli-forces-used-80-year-old-palestinian-human-shield-killing-him

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours

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As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

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You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

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You mean to tell me I had to go back on Prozac because of all of waves hands THIS and now they're coming after Prozac?

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