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Queer poly nerd fannish bookish parent. Co-owner of my favorite bookstore. Madisonian for lyfe. they/them.
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Today I listened to the entirety of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. I don’t have words, but El Akkad sure does. It was a tough and emotional and clear -eyed indictment of Western liberalism and the horrors Israel is inflicting on Palestine. His journalist experience shines.

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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

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This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.

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The worst thing about the backlash to cancel culture is that no one remembered the most important thing we canceled: the apocalypse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJG...

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I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

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This is a sleeper that's coming Tell Your Representative to Vote NO on the SAVE Act

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ok i appreciate everyone saying "opt out of the economy, stop buying books, go to your library" bc like YES libraries are awesome but umm as a queer author... please god buy books from (black, queer, trans, palestinian, indigenous, disabled) writers. from b&n or an indie bookstore is best!

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Madison, if you can, please join our community for tonight’s candlelight vigil for Sam Nordquist and Tahiry “Tokyo” Broom is at 6pm at Olin Park, hosted by Freedom Action Now, Freedom, Inc., and GSAFE www.instagram.com/p/DGRKap-PUv...

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Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

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what happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope? they kaleidescope

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Bisexuality was so new in 1995 that they hadn't yet invented bisexual lighting, and so were forced to light bisexuals as if they were b movie villains

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One of the fun parts of my life is randomly having people I can text “good luck on the Iditarod!” To

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Happy Valentine's Day! Love is an action and a practice and need not be romantic. Love fiercely, love humbly, love truthfully, love deeply. We all we got.

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You don't need to "earn" your "right" to create or experience a life you like & value. If you can read these words, you have the "right" to recover. It's your trauma wounded nervous system & "parts" you have to convince that you're not "destined" for misery you somehow "deserve."

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all day every day

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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Do any of my pals who were around for HP fandom have opinions about someone named @/isthisselfcare ? My penguin rep is selling in her ‘Dramione-coded’ novel as the nerdy Ali Hazelwood. Is this gonna be a Cassie Clare sitch, or…?

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My horrible germ factories gave me a flu, which in my case inevitably transforms into my lungs trying to murder me and I have to take prednisone and not sleep for a few days. Ugh.

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In bookstore owner who does the bill paying news, HACHETTE IS GETTING ON BATCH this is the best news of the YEAR I have sent SO MANY BEGGING EMAILS

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Climate fiction fans (I just can’t call it cli-fi) I listened to a contemp fiction thriller set on a subantarctic seed vault island, a broken family with Secrets, a woman washes up on shore. Strong characters, pretty sad with moments of hope in the despair. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy.

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Did I tell you all that we are getting chickens? A veritable zoo over here.

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