E. P. Beaumont
@epbeaumont.bsky.social
Novelist, playwright, shapeshifter. Greedy reader and occasional reviewer. Multidimensional independent currently haunting the general SFF/H/R neighborhood. Career goal: Good Ordinary Human, Good Kin.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Measles is not going away unless we get mandates enforced and end personal/ religious exemptions.
Text from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
Text from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Measles is not going away unless we get mandates enforced and end personal/ religious exemptions.
Text from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
Text from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Remember when Cassidy talks about giving people money to purchase their own healthcare that he is a liver surgeon, who performed procedures that cost $50,000-100,000.
No one can go buy that. That’s why insurance exists, and why it has to be affordable.
He knows this. He is just willing to lie 🤷🏻♂️
No one can go buy that. That’s why insurance exists, and why it has to be affordable.
He knows this. He is just willing to lie 🤷🏻♂️
They still haven't figured out health care
@cheetah.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com on today's big votes www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-hou...
@cheetah.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com on today's big votes www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-hou...
Concepts of Health Care Plans → Humiliation Trying to Pass Them
They still haven’t figured out this health care thing. Don’t hold your breath.
www.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Remember when Cassidy talks about giving people money to purchase their own healthcare that he is a liver surgeon, who performed procedures that cost $50,000-100,000.
No one can go buy that. That’s why insurance exists, and why it has to be affordable.
He knows this. He is just willing to lie 🤷🏻♂️
No one can go buy that. That’s why insurance exists, and why it has to be affordable.
He knows this. He is just willing to lie 🤷🏻♂️
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Worth AGAIN noting that this is not the first time ChatGPT has allegedly urged users to die by suicide.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Worth AGAIN noting that this is not the first time ChatGPT has allegedly urged users to die by suicide.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Someday I will understand the logic behind "a book has made all the money it will ever make in the first week and after that we will ignore it as a weird little corpse till the end of our rights" but right now it just seems incredibly antithetical to what books are.
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Someday I will understand the logic behind "a book has made all the money it will ever make in the first week and after that we will ignore it as a weird little corpse till the end of our rights" but right now it just seems incredibly antithetical to what books are.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
The executive orders Gish Gallop tactic is frustratingly effective and yet I keep thinking it would solve so many problems at once if we just impeached him and also the Supreme Court.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The executive orders Gish Gallop tactic is frustratingly effective and yet I keep thinking it would solve so many problems at once if we just impeached him and also the Supreme Court.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
The Boshin War was the means by which Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs imposed their vision for Japan at the point of a gun.
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan - D-Scholarship@Pitt
Bakkalian, Nyri A. (2017) The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)
d-scholarship.pitt.edu
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Just saying that if any other contracted group blew their budget by even 5%, much less this 13-20% (not sure which numbers were approved) their contract would be at minimum up for review and most likely not renewed.
A police union contract should be treated like every other contract.
A police union contract should be treated like every other contract.
Genuinely don't think there has ever been a more entitled group of shitheads ever.
Minneapolis police blows budget by $19.6 million; council leaders call it ‘mismanagement’
Police Chief Brian O’Hara says it’s costly to replenish the ranks, since new hires need training while existing officers still rack up OT.
www.startribune.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just saying that if any other contracted group blew their budget by even 5%, much less this 13-20% (not sure which numbers were approved) their contract would be at minimum up for review and most likely not renewed.
A police union contract should be treated like every other contract.
A police union contract should be treated like every other contract.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Getting behind on bills can beget a cycle of debt and anxiety.
Please help make sure @popelizbet.bsky.social, someone who continually invests in the wellbeing of their local and online communities, doesn’t get caught up in it.
Please help make sure @popelizbet.bsky.social, someone who continually invests in the wellbeing of their local and online communities, doesn’t get caught up in it.
stalled at $175 please help 💸 💕
I missed three days of work unpaid for holidays and we need at least $500 to catch up the bills and be able to pay next month's bills pn time paypal.me/popelizbet or cashapp $popelizbet #MutualAid 💸 💕
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Getting behind on bills can beget a cycle of debt and anxiety.
Please help make sure @popelizbet.bsky.social, someone who continually invests in the wellbeing of their local and online communities, doesn’t get caught up in it.
Please help make sure @popelizbet.bsky.social, someone who continually invests in the wellbeing of their local and online communities, doesn’t get caught up in it.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Life has already taught them that lesson and in the worst ways. What they need is a reminder that kindness, compassion, generosity and charity still exist without strings attached and its okay to want and not just need, it's okay to have joy. Give back, pay it forward, spread good tidings and cheer.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Life has already taught them that lesson and in the worst ways. What they need is a reminder that kindness, compassion, generosity and charity still exist without strings attached and its okay to want and not just need, it's okay to have joy. Give back, pay it forward, spread good tidings and cheer.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
And also don't be an ass, if a kid has a specific request, don't disregard it because you think a kid should be grateful for just anything and you want to be the one to teach them that lesson.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
And also don't be an ass, if a kid has a specific request, don't disregard it because you think a kid should be grateful for just anything and you want to be the one to teach them that lesson.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
I have needed & still need a lot of help. I grew up poor & know what a huge difference kindness can make in one's life and I try to pay it forward as much as possible.
So this Christmas, Be an Angel! There are angel trees, toy drives & food drives happening and if you have the means, be an angel.
So this Christmas, Be an Angel! There are angel trees, toy drives & food drives happening and if you have the means, be an angel.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have needed & still need a lot of help. I grew up poor & know what a huge difference kindness can make in one's life and I try to pay it forward as much as possible.
So this Christmas, Be an Angel! There are angel trees, toy drives & food drives happening and if you have the means, be an angel.
So this Christmas, Be an Angel! There are angel trees, toy drives & food drives happening and if you have the means, be an angel.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Here are a few of the mini paintings I've done, these are 3in x 3in. The first two were not easy in mini form 🤣 There was more paint in my mouth than on the canvas...don't ask. 💀
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Here are a few of the mini paintings I've done, these are 3in x 3in. The first two were not easy in mini form 🤣 There was more paint in my mouth than on the canvas...don't ask. 💀
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
New floral! The photo does not do it justice because the metallic gold and peacock effect in the petals was not captured.
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New floral! The photo does not do it justice because the metallic gold and peacock effect in the petals was not captured.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
What a time to choose to eliminate social research.
Almost as if universities are conspiring with the technofascists and religious fundamentalists in charge
Almost as if universities are conspiring with the technofascists and religious fundamentalists in charge
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What a time to choose to eliminate social research.
Almost as if universities are conspiring with the technofascists and religious fundamentalists in charge
Almost as if universities are conspiring with the technofascists and religious fundamentalists in charge
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
We've found the single domestic copy for sale. It's $175. You've helped us get books before, and I use those books literally every trimester. If the book fairy would like to wave their magic wand, it'd be a huge deal.
PayPal.me/thelionmachine
PayPal.me/thelionmachine
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We've found the single domestic copy for sale. It's $175. You've helped us get books before, and I use those books literally every trimester. If the book fairy would like to wave their magic wand, it'd be a huge deal.
PayPal.me/thelionmachine
PayPal.me/thelionmachine
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
oh man, what if I livetweeted a reread of Hillsborough's Shinsengumi book? Y'know, for the laughs? Just think of what a will to comedic power could do in making an unflinching propensity to laugh be part of the germ of humor importance.
because omg, this book...
because omg, this book...
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
oh man, what if I livetweeted a reread of Hillsborough's Shinsengumi book? Y'know, for the laughs? Just think of what a will to comedic power could do in making an unflinching propensity to laugh be part of the germ of humor importance.
because omg, this book...
because omg, this book...
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Today's been a banner day for testing everyone who's ever said, "there's no way I could respect FIFA any less than I already do."
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today's been a banner day for testing everyone who's ever said, "there's no way I could respect FIFA any less than I already do."
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Hey, Senator Bill Cassidy. Great work. So many future grieving parents have you to thank for their trauma.
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
CDC Panel Of Vaccine Skeptics Votes To Delay Hepatitis B Shot For Most Babies
Public health officials warned that the decision by advisers picked by RFK Jr. will result in more infants being infected and experiencing lifelong liver diseases.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hey, Senator Bill Cassidy. Great work. So many future grieving parents have you to thank for their trauma.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
My marginalia in *that* Shinsengumi book is...well, basically 200 pages of this kind of frustrated gesticulating, or yelling about mistranslation or misrepresentation or verbal sleight of hand that jams yet another Nietzschean buzzword into the prose.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My marginalia in *that* Shinsengumi book is...well, basically 200 pages of this kind of frustrated gesticulating, or yelling about mistranslation or misrepresentation or verbal sleight of hand that jams yet another Nietzschean buzzword into the prose.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
Even if not worried abt health consequences, these measles outbreaks are expensive. A small outbreak costs 6 figures. Each hospital stay $58k! The west TX outbreak cost us $12 million! Vaccines are effective and they are also cheap in comparison to outbreaks!
Latest from: @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Latest from: @amymaxmen.bsky.social
While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains - KFF Health News
Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state to state. It’s a contentious question, because the findings may determine ...
kffhealthnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Even if not worried abt health consequences, these measles outbreaks are expensive. A small outbreak costs 6 figures. Each hospital stay $58k! The west TX outbreak cost us $12 million! Vaccines are effective and they are also cheap in comparison to outbreaks!
Latest from: @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Latest from: @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
I used democracy.io to write to my Senators and Representative to fight S.3283, the Exclusive Citizenship Act that could strip citizens living abroad of their citizenship for having another. My fellow Americans, please do the same.
Democracy.io - Contact your Members of Congress
Democracy thrives when people’s voices are heard. Send a message to your legislatures using EFF's simple new tool.
democracy.io
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I used democracy.io to write to my Senators and Representative to fight S.3283, the Exclusive Citizenship Act that could strip citizens living abroad of their citizenship for having another. My fellow Americans, please do the same.
Reposted by E. P. Beaumont
It took a few months, but in his National Security Strategy, Trump has officially revived the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that appropriates to the US the 'right' to rule over the Americas and seize land at will. Gift article.
www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
Not the 51st state but a vassal state: What Donald Trump’s national security strategy envisions for Canada
Released Thursday, the 2025 National Security Strategy is also a window into the dramatic shift in America’s official world view under Trump.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It took a few months, but in his National Security Strategy, Trump has officially revived the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that appropriates to the US the 'right' to rule over the Americas and seize land at will. Gift article.
www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
www.thestar.com/news/world/u...