Wendy Sparrow
@wendysparrow.bsky.social
Author of books, lover of HEA, dog person, happily-married mom of 2, disabled, Fibro, EDS, agoraphobia, PTSD, OCD. Bi She/her
Sci-fi rom series on KU: How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH7HSKWH
Sci-fi rom series on KU: How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH7HSKWH
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Sometimes, you just really need cozy reads. Sci-fi romance for fans of Galaxy Quest, Doctor Who, or Lower Decks. Fated mates, alpha heroes / heroines, paranormal abilities, a few grumpy-sunshines and close proximity...even an accidentally married. #Booksky #Ad #Romance
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH7L35JM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH7L35JM
In many instances, romance is one of the most progressive and open-minded genres out there...and it can be intelligent as hell. The amount of information I've learned from reading romance is impressive. I've also walked in a lot of different shoes because romance tends to be a very personal POV.
…or you could read wider romances and see that there are authors doing that already, yes. Also that. Uh-huh, even that. Yep, including those things.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In many instances, romance is one of the most progressive and open-minded genres out there...and it can be intelligent as hell. The amount of information I've learned from reading romance is impressive. I've also walked in a lot of different shoes because romance tends to be a very personal POV.
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Literally gave the worst internet trolls the keys to government
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Literally gave the worst internet trolls the keys to government
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Since 1988, every year on December 1, communities have joined together to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to honor the lives affected by the epidemic.
This week, the current regime announced the United States will not commemorate World AIDS Day.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
This week, the current regime announced the United States will not commemorate World AIDS Day.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Since 1988, every year on December 1, communities have joined together to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to honor the lives affected by the epidemic.
This week, the current regime announced the United States will not commemorate World AIDS Day.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
This week, the current regime announced the United States will not commemorate World AIDS Day.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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Yes, it's disrespectful af, but it's also SO verbose. They really expect people to use the time and energy to type/write that whenever needed? What clowns.
Just call us the t-slur at this point. I’d respect that more. www.erininthemorning.com/p/bbc-now-ca...
BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yes, it's disrespectful af, but it's also SO verbose. They really expect people to use the time and energy to type/write that whenever needed? What clowns.
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For "reasons" we've been thinking about the Lloyds Bank Turd: the biggest fossilized human poo ever found (it's from Viking York).
It's 8" long and 2" wide. We asked AI what else is that size...
"A large cucumber, a deck of card or a thick smartphone", apparently. 😬
It's 8" long and 2" wide. We asked AI what else is that size...
"A large cucumber, a deck of card or a thick smartphone", apparently. 😬
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
For "reasons" we've been thinking about the Lloyds Bank Turd: the biggest fossilized human poo ever found (it's from Viking York).
It's 8" long and 2" wide. We asked AI what else is that size...
"A large cucumber, a deck of card or a thick smartphone", apparently. 😬
It's 8" long and 2" wide. We asked AI what else is that size...
"A large cucumber, a deck of card or a thick smartphone", apparently. 😬
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The ultimate mobile library ~ the Camelback library in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, run by translator/publisher Dashdondog Jamba
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The ultimate mobile library ~ the Camelback library in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, run by translator/publisher Dashdondog Jamba
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
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All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
Town rallies behind ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ after Iowa officials target him for public art | The Independent share.google/Fov2eHBSHl80...
Town rallies behind ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ after officials target him for public art
Locals made T-shirts for ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ and started a petition to drop the charges
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Town rallies behind ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ after Iowa officials target him for public art | The Independent share.google/Fov2eHBSHl80...
Stranger Things! Stranger Things! Stranger Things! Woo hoo!
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Stranger Things! Stranger Things! Stranger Things! Woo hoo!
Authors, what are we thinking? Are "dammit" and "damn it" different enough that you can use them in the same books without it just being sloppy about consistency?
I did. I used the separate "damn it" for more quietly sincere uses. I think I even pronounce them differently.
"Damn (very short pause) it."
"Dammit!" (rushed together)
"Damn (very short pause) it."
"Dammit!" (rushed together)
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Authors, what are we thinking? Are "dammit" and "damn it" different enough that you can use them in the same books without it just being sloppy about consistency?
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I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Important editorial question:
Are you a damnit or a dammit person?
And a ballpark on where you live if it's cool? (Hemisphere, country, coast...whatever feels comfortable...planet. Actually, if you say anything other than Earth, that would be more distinctive than might be wise, so say non-Earth.)
Are you a damnit or a dammit person?
And a ballpark on where you live if it's cool? (Hemisphere, country, coast...whatever feels comfortable...planet. Actually, if you say anything other than Earth, that would be more distinctive than might be wise, so say non-Earth.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Important editorial question:
Are you a damnit or a dammit person?
And a ballpark on where you live if it's cool? (Hemisphere, country, coast...whatever feels comfortable...planet. Actually, if you say anything other than Earth, that would be more distinctive than might be wise, so say non-Earth.)
Are you a damnit or a dammit person?
And a ballpark on where you live if it's cool? (Hemisphere, country, coast...whatever feels comfortable...planet. Actually, if you say anything other than Earth, that would be more distinctive than might be wise, so say non-Earth.)
My husband came to me and asked if I had everything I needed for green bean casserole...in all seriousness...like we were bunkering down for a natural disaster.
Admittedly, that's my favorite and, while not a natural disaster, it would break me.
Me: "No low sodium anything. You'll doom it all."
Admittedly, that's my favorite and, while not a natural disaster, it would break me.
Me: "No low sodium anything. You'll doom it all."
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
My husband came to me and asked if I had everything I needed for green bean casserole...in all seriousness...like we were bunkering down for a natural disaster.
Admittedly, that's my favorite and, while not a natural disaster, it would break me.
Me: "No low sodium anything. You'll doom it all."
Admittedly, that's my favorite and, while not a natural disaster, it would break me.
Me: "No low sodium anything. You'll doom it all."
BTW, if you didn't know caffeine can be effective as a bronchodilator to treat asthma, you're in good company. I told my asthma specialist I'd been treating my asthma for decades with caffeine because it had far fewer adverse effects and was more effective than meds. He had no idea. It was weird.
That was also why I was chewing caffeine gum. I use it to control my asthma, tachycardia, and OCD. But caffeine is only effective if it's in a liquid, powder, or gum/mint.
Instead, I spit both out while grumbling...only to have the pain in my neck and shoulder ease up minutes later. Dammit.
Instead, I spit both out while grumbling...only to have the pain in my neck and shoulder ease up minutes later. Dammit.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
BTW, if you didn't know caffeine can be effective as a bronchodilator to treat asthma, you're in good company. I told my asthma specialist I'd been treating my asthma for decades with caffeine because it had far fewer adverse effects and was more effective than meds. He had no idea. It was weird.
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Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
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You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
I swear we're just one big human rights violation now. But, the Olympic committee is giving Trump a faux-Nobel peace prize...so I dunno...I must be wrong.
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I swear we're just one big human rights violation now. But, the Olympic committee is giving Trump a faux-Nobel peace prize...so I dunno...I must be wrong.
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For the green bean casserole I used green glitter and once again it just kind of disappeared into the mix, but then I remembered I had gold dust spray I got for cookies last year and I sprayed it all over the top. Voilà, lots of shimmer
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
For the green bean casserole I used green glitter and once again it just kind of disappeared into the mix, but then I remembered I had gold dust spray I got for cookies last year and I sprayed it all over the top. Voilà, lots of shimmer
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Glitter Thanksgiving is a go!
First up is cranberry sauce - I used a combo of red and gold, and it’s hard to photograph but I assure you it’s very sparkly in person
Also I am already covered in glitter
First up is cranberry sauce - I used a combo of red and gold, and it’s hard to photograph but I assure you it’s very sparkly in person
Also I am already covered in glitter
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Glitter Thanksgiving is a go!
First up is cranberry sauce - I used a combo of red and gold, and it’s hard to photograph but I assure you it’s very sparkly in person
Also I am already covered in glitter
First up is cranberry sauce - I used a combo of red and gold, and it’s hard to photograph but I assure you it’s very sparkly in person
Also I am already covered in glitter
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this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
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What a lovely message. I left one to everyone who will be working tomorrow. Please don’t tell my sewer district; they don’t know about you.
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What a lovely message. I left one to everyone who will be working tomorrow. Please don’t tell my sewer district; they don’t know about you.
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I have no doubt that were Dred Scott or Korematsu to be heard before Roberts, his court would make the same decisions. Let’s hope they don’t have a chance to overturn Brown v Board of Ed.
Mitch McConnell did this to our country.
Mitch McConnell did this to our country.
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I have no doubt that were Dred Scott or Korematsu to be heard before Roberts, his court would make the same decisions. Let’s hope they don’t have a chance to overturn Brown v Board of Ed.
Mitch McConnell did this to our country.
Mitch McConnell did this to our country.