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zoeyorkwrites.bsky.social
romance author, Canadian, mom, Xennial (she/her) Newest book: The Rebound Plan writing as Ainsley Booth
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It's a grift! The public is being swindled by the Alberta government and private health care investors The news out of Alberta just keeps getting worse For-profits paid upwards of 2x as much for the same procedures performed in Alberta's public hospitals Public inquiry now. #abpoli #ableg

Then it’s extra stupid that Ian Hanomansing didn’t listen to his audience with more sincerity.

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi. Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

If you're feeling kinda down today, Stacey Abrams has a message for you I'm editing this week's episode with Rep Abrams and Princess Mabel van Oranje about Vow for Girls and it's so good. Out Friday.

Don't listen to Cross Country Check Up friends. Some of the chattering class will do it for us, and can give us the Coles Notes. #canada

I replied to @ianhanomansing.bsky.social over on Threads a couple of times about tomorrow's planned NPR/CBC crossover show. That was before I heard that Kevin O'Leary is being given a platform. IAN. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????

Just in case they aren't filtering out gmail addresses, I did my part. (One of these is a little fib, can you guess which one?)

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

I waited like a year to read this after hearing good things. Don’t be like me. Read this NOW.

“No employee is required to report outside their department chain of command” should have been the universal position of every agency since Jan 20 considering how it is, you know, the law.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Ahhhhhhh

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

Take advantage of advanced polls so that you don’t have to worry about getting snowed in on election day!!

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

I dare say @maritstilesndp.bsky.social gave off the same hopeful, optimistic, energetic “we can do better” vibes that i fondly associate with Jack Layton. I’d love 4 years of more positive politics in Ontario. #onpoli #onvotes

I fear this is just stage one. Next they’ll claim they have to sell off this land because we “can’t afford” to maintain it.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

It is not everyone’s job to do this; also, not everyone is suited to this. But in the name of democracy, it will be some people’s role, and I think we need to remember to understand the why of it when we find it infuriating.

There’s romance authors who can craft a tale — and then there’s romance authors so brilliant they can make you sigh that “Scaling fish is SO romantic … Wait, what did I just say????” That book is Forbidden by the incredible @authormsbev.bsky.social. #Romancelandia

Suddenly, Sports Romance Con is two weeks away! I'm looking forward to connecting with readers and fellow sports romance writers in Minneapolis. (I'm signing as Ainsley Booth at this event). www.sportsromancecon.com

THIS NOT LIKE US IS SLAPPING! 🗣️ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣