Meredith Spies (they/them/theirs)
@meredithspies.bsky.social
Queer Trans Nonbinary Writing Cryptid
I write MM and MX romances and mysteries
On Unceded Muckleshoot, Duwamish, and Puyallup Land
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies (all the places to find me&my books including my direct shop)
I write MM and MX romances and mysteries
On Unceded Muckleshoot, Duwamish, and Puyallup Land
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies (all the places to find me&my books including my direct shop)
Pinned
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@aclu.org has an app that lets people record *and upload* police misconduct videos. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to help your workers with videos of ICE misconduct, or help you set up one of your own. www.cnet.com/news/privacy...
ACLU app lets Android users secretly tape the police
The free app records video and audio, hides when requested and lets users send backup copies of recordings to the ACLU for safekeeping.
www.cnet.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@aclu.org has an app that lets people record *and upload* police misconduct videos. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to help your workers with videos of ICE misconduct, or help you set up one of your own. www.cnet.com/news/privacy...
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hey for pride this year can we not label trans authors as "problematic" for daring to write smut featuring trans characters? this includes in ways you don't personally enjoy! grow the fuck up.
June 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
hey for pride this year can we not label trans authors as "problematic" for daring to write smut featuring trans characters? this includes in ways you don't personally enjoy! grow the fuck up.
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via super_uw on ig, legal fund for counter protesters arrested at the anti-trans rally in seattle today
May 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
via super_uw on ig, legal fund for counter protesters arrested at the anti-trans rally in seattle today
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Seattle's police can now use pepper spray for crowd control, and they wasted no time in doing so. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Arrests made at heated ‘Fascist Family Values’ protest in Seattle
A crowd waving transgender flags and signs denouncing the "Trump Fascist Regime" gathered in counterprotest of a "Mayday USA" event. It quickly turned violent.
www.seattletimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Seattle's police can now use pepper spray for crowd control, and they wasted no time in doing so. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The Revolution will not be televised
but a livestream seems unavoidable.
but a livestream seems unavoidable.
April 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Revolution will not be televised
but a livestream seems unavoidable.
but a livestream seems unavoidable.
On the 'zon and wide, including my direct storefront, my complete Science of Magic series is on sale for 99 cents each (so that's four ebooks for the price of one basically!) Links at my tree below.
If you like some science to your magic, I got you...
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies
If you like some science to your magic, I got you...
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies
April 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
On the 'zon and wide, including my direct storefront, my complete Science of Magic series is on sale for 99 cents each (so that's four ebooks for the price of one basically!) Links at my tree below.
If you like some science to your magic, I got you...
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies
If you like some science to your magic, I got you...
www.linktr.ee/meredithspies
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I'm horrified.
Yesterday, I found out that the WA Asian Counseling and Referral Service office (ACRS) was notified of the cancellation of their Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (CINAS) grant.
ACRS is vital and this funding must be restored.🧵
Yesterday, I found out that the WA Asian Counseling and Referral Service office (ACRS) was notified of the cancellation of their Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (CINAS) grant.
ACRS is vital and this funding must be restored.🧵
March 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I'm horrified.
Yesterday, I found out that the WA Asian Counseling and Referral Service office (ACRS) was notified of the cancellation of their Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (CINAS) grant.
ACRS is vital and this funding must be restored.🧵
Yesterday, I found out that the WA Asian Counseling and Referral Service office (ACRS) was notified of the cancellation of their Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (CINAS) grant.
ACRS is vital and this funding must be restored.🧵
Between the Lines, a contemporary MM with a bit of mystery and featuring second chance small town romance with opposites attract and childhood sweethearts, is on sale for 99 cents across all the platforms inc. my direct site.
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/betweenthelinesMM
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/betweenthelinesMM
March 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Between the Lines, a contemporary MM with a bit of mystery and featuring second chance small town romance with opposites attract and childhood sweethearts, is on sale for 99 cents across all the platforms inc. my direct site.
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/betweenthelinesMM
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/betweenthelinesMM
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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There are no words in the English language sufficient to describe how heartburstingly angry I am at the 8 traitors who just sold us all down the river.
It is our job as Americans to make sure they can NEVER appear in public life EVER again.
Die wretched and alone, unloved by your country.
It is our job as Americans to make sure they can NEVER appear in public life EVER again.
Die wretched and alone, unloved by your country.
March 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There are no words in the English language sufficient to describe how heartburstingly angry I am at the 8 traitors who just sold us all down the river.
It is our job as Americans to make sure they can NEVER appear in public life EVER again.
Die wretched and alone, unloved by your country.
It is our job as Americans to make sure they can NEVER appear in public life EVER again.
Die wretched and alone, unloved by your country.
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LIVID
This is assault. This is inflicting permanent trauma on children. This is deep evil.
May every single person who passed this never know peace.
This is assault. This is inflicting permanent trauma on children. This is deep evil.
May every single person who passed this never know peace.
Republicans in West Virginia passed a bill that would allow health care providers to “visually or physically examine a minor child” for the purpose of identifying their “biological sex” without the “consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...
GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent - LGBTQ Nation
And that was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
LIVID
This is assault. This is inflicting permanent trauma on children. This is deep evil.
May every single person who passed this never know peace.
This is assault. This is inflicting permanent trauma on children. This is deep evil.
May every single person who passed this never know peace.
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Three updates:
1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
February 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Three updates:
1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
It's always a great time to support queer authors and queer stories, but now is an especially great time. Check out Queer Romance is Resistance promo on Bookfunnel and support, find, and enjoy new queer centered stories and support the indie author community.
books.bookfunnel.com/QueerRomance...
books.bookfunnel.com/QueerRomance...
February 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's always a great time to support queer authors and queer stories, but now is an especially great time. Check out Queer Romance is Resistance promo on Bookfunnel and support, find, and enjoy new queer centered stories and support the indie author community.
books.bookfunnel.com/QueerRomance...
books.bookfunnel.com/QueerRomance...
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It's always a great day to buy books from queer indie authors!
Faraway Places is out today! M/X sci fi romance. Approx 53k words, HEA.
"Ev Solis had dreamed of quitting their job, but not quite like this..."
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/farawayplaces
Faraway Places is out today! M/X sci fi romance. Approx 53k words, HEA.
"Ev Solis had dreamed of quitting their job, but not quite like this..."
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/farawayplaces
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's always a great day to buy books from queer indie authors!
Faraway Places is out today! M/X sci fi romance. Approx 53k words, HEA.
"Ev Solis had dreamed of quitting their job, but not quite like this..."
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/farawayplaces
Faraway Places is out today! M/X sci fi romance. Approx 53k words, HEA.
"Ev Solis had dreamed of quitting their job, but not quite like this..."
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
www.books2read.com/farawayplaces
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Knowingly or not, liberal columnists and publications have contributed to a moment where the worst, most hateful actors feel emboldened, where they can thrive.
Mainstream media paved the way for Trump's anti-trans policies | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: Years of questionable coverage manufactured consent for Trump’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care
xtramagazine.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Knowingly or not, liberal columnists and publications have contributed to a moment where the worst, most hateful actors feel emboldened, where they can thrive.
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🏳️🌈 #LGBTHM is here! 🎉 Catch up on some of our LGBTHM episodes:
🎙️ Recording LGBTQIA+ history
🎙️ The legacy of Maurice Dobson
🎙️ A brief history of drag kings
🎙️ Going to school under Section 28
🎙️ Being northern, working class & gay in the 1900s
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/4jrA1HZ...
🎙️ Recording LGBTQIA+ history
🎙️ The legacy of Maurice Dobson
🎙️ A brief history of drag kings
🎙️ Going to school under Section 28
🎙️ Being northern, working class & gay in the 1900s
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/4jrA1HZ...
February 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🏳️🌈 #LGBTHM is here! 🎉 Catch up on some of our LGBTHM episodes:
🎙️ Recording LGBTQIA+ history
🎙️ The legacy of Maurice Dobson
🎙️ A brief history of drag kings
🎙️ Going to school under Section 28
🎙️ Being northern, working class & gay in the 1900s
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/4jrA1HZ...
🎙️ Recording LGBTQIA+ history
🎙️ The legacy of Maurice Dobson
🎙️ A brief history of drag kings
🎙️ Going to school under Section 28
🎙️ Being northern, working class & gay in the 1900s
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/4jrA1HZ...
If you like M/X sci fi with romance, then I got you. Available on my direct shop one whole week before you can find it anywhere else on Feb 7th.
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com/l/ftnkc
Ev and Tobit have never met in person. When they do, it's the start and end of something big...
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com/l/ftnkc
Ev and Tobit have never met in person. When they do, it's the start and end of something big...
February 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If you like M/X sci fi with romance, then I got you. Available on my direct shop one whole week before you can find it anywhere else on Feb 7th.
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com/l/ftnkc
Ev and Tobit have never met in person. When they do, it's the start and end of something big...
booksbymeredith.gumroad.com/l/ftnkc
Ev and Tobit have never met in person. When they do, it's the start and end of something big...
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Trump hands oligarchs the keys to the castle.
JUST IN: private citizen and oligarch, Elon Musk, takes control of government computer systems, locking government workers out of federal computer systems.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
JUST IN: private citizen and oligarch, Elon Musk, takes control of government computer systems, locking government workers out of federal computer systems.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Trump hands oligarchs the keys to the castle.
JUST IN: private citizen and oligarch, Elon Musk, takes control of government computer systems, locking government workers out of federal computer systems.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
JUST IN: private citizen and oligarch, Elon Musk, takes control of government computer systems, locking government workers out of federal computer systems.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Full text, per government source:
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POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities.
That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.
That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.
January 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities.
That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.
That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.
This is book one of my first "big" series. It's ongoing (book seven this summer!) and I'm still just damn proud of it because it was written on my terms with an editor who believes in my work.
Books2read.com/mediumatlarge1
Also direct at booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
Books2read.com/mediumatlarge1
Also direct at booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is book one of my first "big" series. It's ongoing (book seven this summer!) and I'm still just damn proud of it because it was written on my terms with an editor who believes in my work.
Books2read.com/mediumatlarge1
Also direct at booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
Books2read.com/mediumatlarge1
Also direct at booksbymeredith.gumroad.com
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.