Heather Massey
@heathermassey.com
Science Fiction Romance author, geek, suburban mom.
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Heather Massey
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· Aug 13
An Update for My Readers — Heather Massey - Bold Sci-Fi Romance
First, a recap for new visitors: Greetings! I’m a science fiction romance author, former SFR blogger, geek, and suburban mom. I wrote about sci-fi romance for eight years at The Galaxy Express . I co...
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An update for my readers and new visitors!
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Your Money. Your Power. Shop Local this Holiday Weekend!
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November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Your Money. Your Power. Shop Local this Holiday Weekend!
neighbors4change.com/your-wallet-...
neighbors4change.com/your-wallet-...
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Want to know about the proposed data center in Hanover Va? Here is an interview with our own N4C Editor Colleen Bohlman and local realtor Chris Elliott. Link to full Urube video:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wykx...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wykx...
HHHunt Data Center Explained: Why Wyndham & Short Pump Should Care
YouTube video by Chris Elliott - Richmond, VA Real Estate Agent
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Want to know about the proposed data center in Hanover Va? Here is an interview with our own N4C Editor Colleen Bohlman and local realtor Chris Elliott. Link to full Urube video:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wykx...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wykx...
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“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
For your convenience, here’s a 2026 #VA-01 Democratic primary event roundup!
Disability Visibility: A Roundtable Conversation with Tim Cywinski
December 6 at 3pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...
Disability Visibility: A Roundtable Conversation with Tim Cywinski
December 6 at 3pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For your convenience, here’s a 2026 #VA-01 Democratic primary event roundup!
Disability Visibility: A Roundtable Conversation with Tim Cywinski
December 6 at 3pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...
Disability Visibility: A Roundtable Conversation with Tim Cywinski
December 6 at 3pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...
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108,000+ people in #VA01 may be impacted by Wittman’s votes to cut healthcare access and subsidies. We already have over 41,000 people with no healthcare, and he voted to make it all worse! (Data from the genius analysis of @charlesgaba.com.)
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
108,000+ people in #VA01 may be impacted by Wittman’s votes to cut healthcare access and subsidies. We already have over 41,000 people with no healthcare, and he voted to make it all worse! (Data from the genius analysis of @charlesgaba.com.)
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If you've donated to Native Organizer Alliance and want to keep giving, you can check out some of the groups I've uplifted in previous years in this newsletter edition from last year:
Must-Reads and Some Ways to Support Native People This Weekend
"Colonialism has been destroying worlds for hundreds of years."
organizingmythoughts.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you've donated to Native Organizer Alliance and want to keep giving, you can check out some of the groups I've uplifted in previous years in this newsletter edition from last year:
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
I’m a fan of Robert Englund from his “V” days and finally caught up with Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022). It follows his career from being a theater actor to the mega star of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
This is a fantastic documentary. A+ recommended!
This is a fantastic documentary. A+ recommended!
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I’m a fan of Robert Englund from his “V” days and finally caught up with Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022). It follows his career from being a theater actor to the mega star of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
This is a fantastic documentary. A+ recommended!
This is a fantastic documentary. A+ recommended!
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if at any point since 2020 you've found yourself thinking "wtf is happening?!"
remember that going "back to normal" as encouraged by our overlords instead of addressing the world as it actually is only solidified everything we're dealing with daily and it won't stop until we stop pretending.
remember that going "back to normal" as encouraged by our overlords instead of addressing the world as it actually is only solidified everything we're dealing with daily and it won't stop until we stop pretending.
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if at any point since 2020 you've found yourself thinking "wtf is happening?!"
remember that going "back to normal" as encouraged by our overlords instead of addressing the world as it actually is only solidified everything we're dealing with daily and it won't stop until we stop pretending.
remember that going "back to normal" as encouraged by our overlords instead of addressing the world as it actually is only solidified everything we're dealing with daily and it won't stop until we stop pretending.
This interview with “newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond" is an interesting analysis of her campaign trajectory. A big factor in her win seems to be her experience running a campaign & union organizing. I want to focus on one thing she said. 🧵
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This interview with “newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond" is an interesting analysis of her campaign trajectory. A big factor in her win seems to be her experience running a campaign & union organizing. I want to focus on one thing she said. 🧵
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
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Our USDA Secretary who doesn't even know what the cattle cycle is
What a time to be alive
What a time to be alive
Brooke Rollins on spiking beef prices in November 2025: "There's a lot of reasons for that. The Biden-Harris administration had a war on cattle because they talked about climate change and cattle, um -- it was crazy."
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Roughly 12 miles south-southeast of Charlottesville,
and 55 miles northwest of Richmond.
and 55 miles northwest of Richmond.
Tenaska's 1.5 gigawatt gas plant proposal in Fluvanna County will now have all three planning commission votes in January.
It's part of PJM's Reliability Resource Initiative seeking to add electricity generation to the grid to power data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2611202...
It's part of PJM's Reliability Resource Initiative seeking to add electricity generation to the grid to power data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2611202...
County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid - Inside Climate News
Fluvanna County planners will vote in January to assess whether a proposal by Tenaska Energy fits its comprehensive plan.
insideclimatenews.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Roughly 12 miles south-southeast of Charlottesville,
and 55 miles northwest of Richmond.
and 55 miles northwest of Richmond.
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DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin: "We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Jen Kiggans and Rob Wittman are in fact 'toast.'" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/wedn...
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It is very frustrating that Virginia AG Miyares didn’t fulfill our request for an opinion on this unsettled area of law.
A year after the ask he denied it because of Henrico’s lawsuit. A lawsuit rendered necessary by the events of the last year.
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A year after the ask he denied it because of Henrico’s lawsuit. A lawsuit rendered necessary by the events of the last year.
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VanValkenburg blasts Miyares for declining to weigh in on gaming parlor dispute
State Sen. Schuyler VanValkenberg on Monday evening accused Attorney General Jason Miyares of ignoring his request for a legal opinion on the Roseshire for almost a year.
richmond.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It is very frustrating that Virginia AG Miyares didn’t fulfill our request for an opinion on this unsettled area of law.
A year after the ask he denied it because of Henrico’s lawsuit. A lawsuit rendered necessary by the events of the last year.
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A year after the ask he denied it because of Henrico’s lawsuit. A lawsuit rendered necessary by the events of the last year.
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MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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People need to understand how deeply eugenicist this is.
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
People need to understand how deeply eugenicist this is.
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
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I was recently on a panel on the harms of reckless data center growth (I was there for my job in environmental justice, not as a candidate).
No amount of 💰 from Big Tech is worth hurting communities. It’s why I've fought them so hard in Va, and why I will fight for accountability in Congress.
No amount of 💰 from Big Tech is worth hurting communities. It’s why I've fought them so hard in Va, and why I will fight for accountability in Congress.
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I was recently on a panel on the harms of reckless data center growth (I was there for my job in environmental justice, not as a candidate).
No amount of 💰 from Big Tech is worth hurting communities. It’s why I've fought them so hard in Va, and why I will fight for accountability in Congress.
No amount of 💰 from Big Tech is worth hurting communities. It’s why I've fought them so hard in Va, and why I will fight for accountability in Congress.
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I’m a public interest lawyer running for Congress and I need your help to fight for health care for all.
Please make a $10 monthly donation to get us through Election Day. No corporate pac, no aipac. Just us for justice.
secure.actblue.com/donate/salaa...
Please make a $10 monthly donation to get us through Election Day. No corporate pac, no aipac. Just us for justice.
secure.actblue.com/donate/salaa...
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/salaam
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’m a public interest lawyer running for Congress and I need your help to fight for health care for all.
Please make a $10 monthly donation to get us through Election Day. No corporate pac, no aipac. Just us for justice.
secure.actblue.com/donate/salaa...
Please make a $10 monthly donation to get us through Election Day. No corporate pac, no aipac. Just us for justice.
secure.actblue.com/donate/salaa...
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Imagine paying for Netflix every month, and then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Imagine paying for Netflix every month, and then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
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I'm proud to join 280 state lawmakers in urging congress not to pass any AI preemption laws.
As AI content become easier to create & spread, states will play an important role in curtailing the dangers. And we neither need nor want the federal government getting in the way of novel policy solutions
As AI content become easier to create & spread, states will play an important role in curtailing the dangers. And we neither need nor want the federal government getting in the way of novel policy solutions
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm proud to join 280 state lawmakers in urging congress not to pass any AI preemption laws.
As AI content become easier to create & spread, states will play an important role in curtailing the dangers. And we neither need nor want the federal government getting in the way of novel policy solutions
As AI content become easier to create & spread, states will play an important role in curtailing the dangers. And we neither need nor want the federal government getting in the way of novel policy solutions
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If you are on BBC live, you know what to do
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you are on BBC live, you know what to do
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
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Cool $10k journalism award opportunity for those covering immigrants, LTBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized communities!
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cool $10k journalism award opportunity for those covering immigrants, LTBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized communities!
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
Given that the American government seems to be barreling toward a dictatorship, I’m worried that Democratic primary candidates hoping to unseat a Republican - like in #VA-01 - aren't getting more support to boost their visibility. We lose nothing by pulling out all the stops!
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Given that the American government seems to be barreling toward a dictatorship, I’m worried that Democratic primary candidates hoping to unseat a Republican - like in #VA-01 - aren't getting more support to boost their visibility. We lose nothing by pulling out all the stops!
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.