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Emily Swaim
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Covid-cautious Midwestern writer. Nonfiction writing can be seen on Business Insider, Healthline, Vox, and Rover. Working on my fiction book REVEN - stay tuned for details.
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It's Day Number 5 of #Aceweek, so I'm making yet another #bookquotes post for REVEN, a queer retelling of Peter Pan starring ace/aro Wendi.

#booksky #booktober #selfpublishing
Halfway through the #Aceweek campaign! REVEN is a steampunk YA fantasy with an ace/aro protagonist. There is no spice, but there is a lot of drama.

#bookquotes #booksky #booktober #selfpublishing
A third #bookquotes post for my #Aceweek campaign for REVEN, a steampunk Peter Pan retelling with an ace/aro protagonist.

#booktober #booksky #selfpublishing
In honor of #AceWeek, I'm kicking off my marketing campaign for my fantasy book REVEN, which stars an ace/aro protagonist. Let's start off with an old-fashioned #bookquotes post, shall we?

#booktober #booksky #selfpublishing #yafantasy
#TBBChat

If you asked Wendi her favorite food, her official answer would be her mother’s homemade soup, full of nutritious vegetables and protein. But really, the answer is her nanna’s sugar biscuits. Wendi will brawl strangers in a dark alley for those biscuits.
TBB Chat Q2: What is your MC's favourite food?

Quote post and include the tag #TBBChat so others can find you.

No links or covers. Save the self-promo for the outro.

#TBBChat #BookBazaar25 #Writing #Writesky
It’s rough out there
The cats have good taste. You all really should be reading Blackblood; it’s a fun ride. #booksky
You should read their favorite book, imo
#booksky #readingcommunity
This was validating to read. Thank you.
The irony is that as far as I can tell, the original headcanon poster was 100% fine with Frankie being canonically cis, as were most of the commenters. As with most internet drama, 1% of the fandom is causing 99% of the problems.
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Cannot be stressed enough that very few people "demonize" ICE as much as factually describe what their agents do on a daily basis. I'm sorry if you're upset that "masked men roll up in unmarked vans and kidnap people at gunpoint to ship them off to random foreign countries" sounds, you know, scary.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): "This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong...This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP; stop!"
"Your political opponents are not Nazis."
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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1000%

Democratic politicians need to just keep drawing the through line over and over. "There are tariffs because Trump is scared of everyone who isn't white, and that's why your farm is going to go under. ICE killed off this Hyundai plant, and that's why you don't have a job."
More content restrictions makes the AI’s job simpler (fewer data types to scan) and thus less expensive.
It’s not even a commercial designed for humans anymore. Ads have to cater to computer algorithms in order to even appear on screens, and half the comments below the ads are bots. With agentic AI, soon a lot of the actual purchasing could be done by computers, too.
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“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
I knew a guy who weaponized gifts like this. He bought his animal-loving wife an expensive fur coat, then threw a conniption fit when she had the audacity to cry about the dead minks used to make it.
Wait where are you seeing that you need two comorbidities?
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Pretty sure autism counts under the developmental disability category.
That sounds like an infinitely better option than rallying behind the California camp crasher. If we’re fortunate enough to have another election, the next Dem candidate needs basic empathy.
I’m reading this now. It’s fascinating to see the parallels between LGBT activism today and social movements from over a century ago.
THE INTERMEDIARIES covers the time period leading to the Nazi take-over. I have been keeping time with current developments like a doomsday clock. We are getting damn close to ‘midnight’ (1933). We need to know our enemy’s moves to fight them. Book at discount:

www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-interm...
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace
Buy a cheap copy of The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace. Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's ...
www.thriftbooks.com
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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 14
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.

This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
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#SaveSpeech

Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points.

Tell em to say NO to:

SCREEN ACT
KOSA
IODA

www.congress.gov/members/find...

CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
Speaking as someone who used to have waist-length hair - the Rapunzel look can be a real strain on your neck. She shouldn’t have to carry all that extra weight around solely for aesthetic appeal.