DeborahJRoss
@deborahjross.bsky.social
I write and edit sf and fantasy. Fierce ally of People of Color, LGBTQI+ folks, immigrants. Child of pogrom survivor. Red Diaper baby. 25+ years kickass martial arts. When I'm not writing, I play classical piano, knit for charity, and hike in the redwoods.
Do You Know What Time It Is? If You're On Mars, Now You Do. To begin with, the rate of time is affected by gravity... #astronomy #science #clocks
Do You Know What Time It Is? If You're On Mars, Now You Do.
Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, built with atomic clocks, GPS satellites and high-speed…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Do You Know What Time It Is? If You're On Mars, Now You Do. To begin with, the rate of time is affected by gravity... #astronomy #science #clocks
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states.
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Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states.
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Rave reviews for my collection.
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
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“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
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December 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Rave reviews for my collection.
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
Short #BookReview: Baking as a Magical Art: Some of my favorite story elements: an intrepid young heroine, weird forms of magic, and baking. @authorTKingfish #WizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking
Short Book Review: Baking as a Magical Art
The Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking , by T. Kingfisher I don’t know how I missed this delightful fantasy when it first came out, wi...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Short #BookReview: Baking as a Magical Art: Some of my favorite story elements: an intrepid young heroine, weird forms of magic, and baking. @authorTKingfish #WizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking
Short #BookReview: Baking as a Magical Art. Some of my favorite story elements: an intrepid young heroine, weird forms of magic, and baking. @authorTKingfish #WizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking
Short Book Review: Baking as a Magical Art
The Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking , by T. Kingfisher I don’t know how I missed this delightful fantasy when it first came out, wi...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Short #BookReview: Baking as a Magical Art. Some of my favorite story elements: an intrepid young heroine, weird forms of magic, and baking. @authorTKingfish #WizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking
Reprint: The Moral Ambiguity of Xenotransplantation. Policymakers feared that human cells [of a human kidney grown in a pig] might spread through the animal’s body – even into its brain – and in so doing blur the line between human and animal.
Reprint: The Moral Amgiguity of Xenotransplantation
Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that? Whi...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reprint: The Moral Ambiguity of Xenotransplantation. Policymakers feared that human cells [of a human kidney grown in a pig] might spread through the animal’s body – even into its brain – and in so doing blur the line between human and animal.
Rave reviews for my collection:
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
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December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Rave reviews for my collection:
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
DMV Threatens To Ban Tesla Sales In CA. DMV told the electric vehicle company that it broke state laws by misleading consumers about its self-driving capabilities. buff.ly/3wL5Apq
DMV Threatens To Ban Tesla Sales In CA
Tesla has 60 days to modify or remove any deceptive marketing language, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
DMV Threatens To Ban Tesla Sales In CA. DMV told the electric vehicle company that it broke state laws by misleading consumers about its self-driving capabilities. buff.ly/3wL5Apq
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents the ‘divine feminine’ beyond binary gender. A goddess representing the ultimate “She,” Kundalini is best understood as nonbinary. Perhaps if we can wrap our heads around this idea, we can cultivate a more inclusive empowerment.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents the ‘divine feminine’ beyond binary gender. A goddess representing the ultimate “She,” Kundalini is best understood as nonbinary. Perhaps if we can wrap our heads around this idea, we can cultivate a more inclusive empowerment.
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China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 deserts. Because it is a monoculture, the Great Green Wall doesn't promote biodiversity in the same way that a more diverse mix of indigenous plants would. #ecology
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China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 deserts
Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall."
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December 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 deserts. Because it is a monoculture, the Great Green Wall doesn't promote biodiversity in the same way that a more diverse mix of indigenous plants would. #ecology
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Short Audiobook Review: Harper Lee's splendid early stories. Witty, richly detailed, and courageous. Every one of them is, in its unique fashion, a gem. #LandOfSweetForever @HarperAudio
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December 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Short Audiobook Review: Harper Lee's splendid early stories. Witty, richly detailed, and courageous. Every one of them is, in its unique fashion, a gem. #LandOfSweetForever @HarperAudio
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Last month, the Administration released a proposal that could open federal waters off the California coast to new leasing for oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades. You can comment on it at:
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December 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Last month, the Administration released a proposal that could open federal waters off the California coast to new leasing for oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades. You can comment on it at:
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
Last month, the Administration released a proposal that could open federal waters off the California coast to new leasing for oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades. You can comment on it at: buff.ly/T3roNkh
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December 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Last month, the Administration released a proposal that could open federal waters off the California coast to new leasing for oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades. You can comment on it at: buff.ly/T3roNkh
#Grayhair may have evolved as a protection against #cancer. By switching off cell division, senescence pathway prevented the mutated DNA from passing into a new generation of cells, thus lowering the likelihood of those cells forming cancerous tumors.
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Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer, study hints
Aging comes with graying hair, which may be a sign of the body lowering its risk of cancer, a study suggests.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#Grayhair may have evolved as a protection against #cancer. By switching off cell division, senescence pathway prevented the mutated DNA from passing into a new generation of cells, thus lowering the likelihood of those cells forming cancerous tumors.
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Time moves faster on Mars, proving Einstein right and posing new challenges for crewed missions. Velocity and gravity cause time on different solar system bodies to tick at different rates when measured from Earth.
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Einstein was right: Time ticks faster on Mars, posing new challenges for future missions
Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed…
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December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Time moves faster on Mars, proving Einstein right and posing new challenges for crewed missions. Velocity and gravity cause time on different solar system bodies to tick at different rates when measured from Earth.
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Short Audiobook Review: Harper Lee's splendid early stories. Witty, richly detailed, and courageous. Every one of them is, in its unique fashion, a gem. #LandOfSweetForever @HarperAudio
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Short Audiobook Review: Harper Lee's splendid early stories
The Land of Sweet Forever , by Harper Lee (Harper) I listened to the audio version of this compilation of Lee's early short fiction and ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Short Audiobook Review: Harper Lee's splendid early stories. Witty, richly detailed, and courageous. Every one of them is, in its unique fashion, a gem. #LandOfSweetForever @HarperAudio
deborahjross.blogspot.com/2025/12/shor...
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All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
Rave reviews for my collection
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever!”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever!”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
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December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Rave reviews for my collection
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever!”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
“Two of my favorite Darkover stories ever!”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
Kindle: buff.ly/Zhsh2lM
Barnes&Noble: tinyurl.com/mv2prmp5
Everywhere Else: buff.ly/iIbsfhH
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
All of my books that are available through Smashwords are in their year-end sale. All are 50% off, except those with a list price of $0.99, which are free. buff.ly/1klUqrY
Long Ago, #Mars Had Massive Watersheds. Mars’s core is smaller, resulting in it cooling far sooner than Earth’s will cool. The slow dissipation of its magnetic field exposed the surface to intense solar and cosmic radiation, stripping Mars of its water.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Long Ago, #Mars Had Massive Watersheds. Mars’s core is smaller, resulting in it cooling far sooner than Earth’s will cool. The slow dissipation of its magnetic field exposed the surface to intense solar and cosmic radiation, stripping Mars of its water.
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Long Ago, #Mars Had Massive Watersheds. Mars’s core is smaller, resulting in it cooling far sooner than Earth’s will cool. The slow dissipation of its magnetic field exposed the surface to intense solar and cosmic radiation, stripping Mars of its water.
Long Ago, Mars Had Massive Watersheds — Now Finally Mapped
What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to…
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Long Ago, #Mars Had Massive Watersheds. Mars’s core is smaller, resulting in it cooling far sooner than Earth’s will cool. The slow dissipation of its magnetic field exposed the surface to intense solar and cosmic radiation, stripping Mars of its water.
CHP To Start Issuing Tickets For Major Traffic Law Change. California's Clean Air Vehicle decal program, which allowed #cleanair vehicle drivers to go solo through HOV lanes since 2000, ended Sept. 30 after Republicans in Congress voted not to renew it.
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CHP To Start Issuing Tickets For Major Traffic Law Change
In October, Congress voted to discontinue a 25-year-old program that allowed carpool lanes access and toll discounts.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
CHP To Start Issuing Tickets For Major Traffic Law Change. California's Clean Air Vehicle decal program, which allowed #cleanair vehicle drivers to go solo through HOV lanes since 2000, ended Sept. 30 after Republicans in Congress voted not to renew it.
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