Katherine Villyard
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Award-Winning author, DBA, geek. President of Broad Universe. She/her. https://gravatar.com/katherinevillyard https://dl.katherinevillyard.com/bibliography https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
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So hey! LJ Cohen has made Litany for a Broken World pay what you will over on gumroad. You should check it out! I’ve read it and can confirm that it’s really good!

If you like multiverse scifi, but homeless shelter while oddly uplifting multiverse… oh, go read it!

ljcohen.gumroad.com

#scifi 💙📚🪐
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LJ Cohen is a novelist, potter, fiber artist, homestead farmer & relentless optimist. She was among the 1st wave of indies to qualify for SFWA membership. LITANY FOR A BROKEN WORLD, her 9th novel, is ...
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katherinevillyard.com
Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Dramatic-looking kitty lying on his back in a pose suggesting exhaustion, or perhaps an empty kibble bowl
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drmikewiser.bsky.social
As I get into the sexual selection and sexual dimorphism part of my evolution module, a reminder:

In Northern Cardinals, the males are bright red. The females are a brown/gray, with orange beaks.

So if you see two bright red birds snuggling together on wrapping paper or a card: they're gay.
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bookshop.org
PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.
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scalzi.com
What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels
erininthemorning.com
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
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sethanikeem.bsky.social
I did my undergrad thesis on the European witchcraze, and a key motivator in accusations and arrests was to seize the property of the accused

Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.

I say this for no reason …
kristinacooke.bsky.social
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
tedhesson.bsky.social
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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evensong.bsky.social
Tear gas is an abortifacient.

Republicans want abortions to be illegal but are fine with giving them to certain people without their consent.
katherinevillyard.com
It was definitely a “formative moment.” I’m not sure I learned the lesson she was trying to teach, though. 😉
katherinevillyard.com
(Mom, it’s not 1960 any more. They let women do OTHER jobs now!)
katherinevillyard.com
Yeah, even if you pay you are not entitled to see your adult child’s grades. Not unless you specifically made that a condition of paying.
cfiesler.bsky.social
I made the mistake on commenting on a random video I saw where someone was asking for opinions.

Anyway my opinion is that if parents choose to help their child pay for college, they are still not *entitled* to information about their *adult* child's grades. Apparently this is an unpopular opinion.
katherinevillyard.com
P.S. I have two master’s degrees, neither of which is in TYPING. She wanted me to go to college to be A SECRETARY. 🤦‍♀️
katherinevillyard.com
She told me I was a loser and would never amount to anything, and that if I didn’t either pay for college myself or get a job (without transportation) she was kicking me out of the house.

I got financial aid and told her that since she wasn’t paying, she had no say in my major or grades.

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My mother and I had a huge fight about that when I was 18. She decided that since she was paying she got to pick my classes. I didn’t attend. She opened my mail, wrote “GREAT GRADES KATHERINE!” on it, and posted it in the fridge. I told her tampering with the mail was a crime.

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skyladawn.ca
If you have books with INaudio (formerly Findaway):

- check libro.fm again--many books are gone
- if you de-selected any distributors and/or removed anything from your account, check those as well--did takedowns go through?
- has anyone gotten ANY response from their author support the past month?
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katherinevillyard.com
Do you want a book like Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles--vampire protagonists, historical backstory, queer characters--but maybe more multicultural and less morally gray?

Do you want a story about surviving prejudice, overcoming grief, and found family?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/vil...

💙📚🩸📚🪐
A picture of my audiobook cover with a Kickstarter coming soon logo and a QR code
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lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social
Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.