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Please get your MMR titers checked or get a booster. PLEASE.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

Oh, hey, the Velveteen vs. Omnibus #1 ebooks are now available for purchase: subterraneanpress.com/velveteen-vs...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Always repost

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Saw the first dragonfly of spring this morning. I have no idea what it’s living on since it’s the ONLY insect I’ve seen so far.

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Our #sciencefiction and #fantasy #ebooks are #DRMfree. When you buy them, they're yours. And if you lose them, or switch platforms, we'll replace them for free. Find out more! ebooks.direct/pages/buy-yo... (Not available in the UK due to Brexit... so sorry.)

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Our Whole Store #ebook bundle is on sale at Black Friday prices—because everybody can use a break right now. (And maybe some comfort reading!) 36 #DRM-free #ebooks w/our lifetime replacement guarantee, all for $39.99. Grab yourself a bargain! (Not available in UK, sorry...) dduane.link/EBDWholeStore

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"We cannot get out. Drumps. Drumps in the deep. They are coming—"

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

There should have been only one!

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Aurora wants to know have you taken your meds today? Well? ...DO THAT.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Hey, Brian got kicked out of the Carter Library by Trump and crew. If you’re in the area or can pre-order, show some love?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Oh my god, if this works it would redeem the whole damn week.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

www.gofundme.com/f/help-olivi... Sarah is one of my friends who was looking out for me and making sure I made it through the last week, and her kitties also need help.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Wild Coast Raw, the company responsible for the tainted food which is causing indoor-only cats to die of bird flu, is deleting comments on their Instagram about the topic. So they're killing pets and trying to cover it up. Cool.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

A leafy shelter from the chilly spring showers 🌧️🌸 #arttag

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Status report, "OK, Let's See How This Goes" dep't: After thinking it over for a while (and hearing a fair number of folks say "I've got all the ebooks, how else can we contribute?"), I've added on a Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com/dianeduane. Thanks to all the kind people who suggested it! 💖

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone demanding NOW NOW NOW: if Hochul takes action to remove Adams before March 26, NYC gets a snap special election that Andrew "sexual harasser and COVID murderer" Cuomo will win instead of a primary and a general election. This is, actually, a bad fucking outcome.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Tired of dealing with billionaire booksellers who're making it harder for you to access #ebooks you've paid for? We've got an answer. "Buy your ebooks direct from the authors... and own them for good!" dduane.link/EBDOwnYourEb... #indiepub #ebooksky

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

In the last month, I’ve gotten some of the worst news we could get about our former kittens, not once, but twice. Mini Moo & Miso both developed FIP, a deadly mutation of the usually benign feline coronavirus. Moo in early January, & now Miso. We will always support our adopters through this— (cont)

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

In MD: ONLY ONE YEAR OLD, has a long lifetime to spend w/a furever family, but needs a rescue to pull her! If you can foster her, it would be lifesaving! FOSTER: [email protected] RESCUE: [email protected] REPOST: just hit the repost symbol and maybe save her life!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile: immediately adopting “the mad king and his scheming vizier” as the perfect way to discuss these two without having to utter their names. 😏

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Do I know any folks who are very familiar with loans/mortgages? I'm trying to help someone and I need more information than I can scrap together at the moment since my stupid brain is doing stupid things. If you don't, please reskeet. This is urgent. My demons are opinion.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Your regular reminder that measles has a r0 (basic reproduction number) of 12-18, which means that in an immune-naive environment every infected person will infect 12 to 18 people around them: it's one of the most infectious diseases out there. Get a MMR booster or get your titers checked, ASAP.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Potentially relevant info for folks!

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

And since someone said their doctor wouldn't do a Tdap under 10 years: go to CVS and tell them "I was outside picking up some trash in the yard a few days ago and I jammed a nail in my thumb, it healed right up but someone said I should get a Tdap shot since I don't remember how long it's been?"

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Please please please please please do not feed your pets raw food right now, period. There is no way for it to be safe at the current moment and it is unlikely to get better in the forseeable future.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Happy Chocolate Day; Have some old-skool Honey Badger memes from @tkingfisher.com

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

You all know what to do

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submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

If you live in NYC, TODAY is the last possible day to register as a Democrat so you can vote in the primary elections in June against Adams. You can NO LONGER update your registration online and MUST physically hand-deliver to your Board of Elections by close today. vote.nyc/page/party-a...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

How many online thesauruses (thesauri?) and not ONE of them has an entry for "ink", as in the stuff that comes out of a pen. WHAT.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“Excluded” is also one of the words, as is “victim”. That would eliminate every DNA report I’ve ever written in my 25 year career. (per the list at gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...)

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

@diane.dianeduane.com Another link you might find interesting. arxiv.org/html/2406.02...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

People might want to pass this around if it's not widely known... "Animal shelters, rescues, and veterinarian clinics around the U.S. are ...telling pet owners to check their pets' microchips after learning a major microchip company is no longer providing services." www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Friends, may I point you at these #ebook bundles? We could use some sales just now. 🙂 And if you’re not interested, might I ask you to reskeet this so that others who might be interested can see? Thanks! ❤️ www.tumblr.com/dduane/77511... #ebooksky #booksky

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

As the ceasefire appears to be breaking down, please remember my friend and brother Mohamed. He hopes only for a farm that is not in the Al Mawasi camp.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This thread is hilarious but also infuriating because it proves that actually, police do know how to treat a crowd without blinding and beating people

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

#SuperbOwl Because she really is. #YoungWizards ebooks.direct/products/owl... #ebooks #booksky

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Despite the horrors, I have bills and prescriptions, and I'm staring down the barrel of some dry months. If you're in need of an experienced fiction editor (line and developmental), or sensitivity reader/cultural consultant (Fil-Am, Filipino, trans FtM, and general queer guy experience), hit me up!

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

That gator is rocking that hat!

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments