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Beer, hockey and smart-ass remarks
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Still seeking these dice.
Behold as I try to find someone who has a set of Charm Person Dispel Dice and would rather not have them anymore. I can trade other dice, or buy them. Ping me if that's you?
December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Still seeking these dice.
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Yes, as always, please feel free to read my books from the library and also!
if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓
if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓
Years ago I wiped all amazon links from my website. I’ve now unpublished my indie titles there for good (bc: “Ask This Book” feature🙄)
For now please buy my books via Kobo or Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/SG_Wong
or borrow from libraries 🤓
All titles can be ordered from indie bookshops too 📚
#booksky
For now please buy my books via Kobo or Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/SG_Wong
or borrow from libraries 🤓
All titles can be ordered from indie bookshops too 📚
#booksky
Books by Sandra SG Wong: Writer Author
Books by Sandra SG Wong include the Lola Starke series, In the Dark We Forget, and featured short stories. View all by this writer and author
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December 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yes, as always, please feel free to read my books from the library and also!
if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓
if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓
@margueritekenner.bsky.social can you DM me when you have a spare moment? Not too time-sensitive but I have a British contracts question for which I am g happy to reimburse as needed…
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
@margueritekenner.bsky.social can you DM me when you have a spare moment? Not too time-sensitive but I have a British contracts question for which I am g happy to reimburse as needed…
Enthusiastic second for nasal barrier sprays! These work, folks.
Since masking is being discussed, I wear a mask most places. I also use a nasal barrier spray and because I have mast cell fuckery that continues to not be diagnosed as anything, I take a lot of antihistamines. I don't get sick often anymore. Because I mask.
We were at the emergency vet yesterday.
We were at the emergency vet yesterday.
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Enthusiastic second for nasal barrier sprays! These work, folks.
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Minneapolis/St Paul! If you have Muslim neighbors please particularly make sure they are aware, there's a lot of halal markets on the list of affected stores.
Just throw away everything www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
Gold Star Distribution Inc., Issues Recall of Certain FDA-Regulated Products in Three States Including Drugs, Devices, Cosmetics, Human Foods, and Pet Foods
Gold Star Distribution, Inc. (Gold Star or “the Company”) is recalling all FDA regulated products listed in this press release due to the presence of rodent and avian contamination.
www.fda.gov
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Minneapolis/St Paul! If you have Muslim neighbors please particularly make sure they are aware, there's a lot of halal markets on the list of affected stores.
It’s raining steadily here and temps are dropping 30+ degrees (f) to well below freezing in a few hours tonight.
These are textbook black ice conditions; everyone be careful out there!
These are textbook black ice conditions; everyone be careful out there!
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s raining steadily here and temps are dropping 30+ degrees (f) to well below freezing in a few hours tonight.
These are textbook black ice conditions; everyone be careful out there!
These are textbook black ice conditions; everyone be careful out there!
Easiest assignment ever!
December 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Easiest assignment ever!
Do you know how NOT difficult it is to wear a mask on an airplane? Seriously… it’s not hard, folks, and protects not only you and your family but also reduces potential vectors crossing states/countries.
Yes to both. I'm begging all of you to please wear masks when traveling.
People were sneezing and coughing all over my flights on the way back, and we can all do better to look out for each other.
People were sneezing and coughing all over my flights on the way back, and we can all do better to look out for each other.
Because of the Trump admin’s antivax stance this years flu shot (which you still should get) isn’t a very good match for what’s circulating. All the more reason to also wear a mask.
December 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Do you know how NOT difficult it is to wear a mask on an airplane? Seriously… it’s not hard, folks, and protects not only you and your family but also reduces potential vectors crossing states/countries.
Hey @dinajames.com !
"Family completes 115-year-old quilts"
A very touching story about a century old quilt and the enduring love of generational fiber arts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVl...
A very touching story about a century old quilt and the enduring love of generational fiber arts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVl...
Family completes 115-year-old quilts
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hey @dinajames.com !
So the DB and I are home from travels.
The cats are thrilled to see us.
However this means Gwen Kitty is determined to sleep *directly* on my head as I attempt to nap.
I am not as enthralled as one might assume, but I feel bad for leaving her so cannot evict her from our bedroom as usual.
*sigh*
The cats are thrilled to see us.
However this means Gwen Kitty is determined to sleep *directly* on my head as I attempt to nap.
I am not as enthralled as one might assume, but I feel bad for leaving her so cannot evict her from our bedroom as usual.
*sigh*
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
So the DB and I are home from travels.
The cats are thrilled to see us.
However this means Gwen Kitty is determined to sleep *directly* on my head as I attempt to nap.
I am not as enthralled as one might assume, but I feel bad for leaving her so cannot evict her from our bedroom as usual.
*sigh*
The cats are thrilled to see us.
However this means Gwen Kitty is determined to sleep *directly* on my head as I attempt to nap.
I am not as enthralled as one might assume, but I feel bad for leaving her so cannot evict her from our bedroom as usual.
*sigh*
@andrewjack.bsky.social this says we need to collab on a Pacific-based something!
Related to conversations about fantasy adventure and colonialism: one thing that is very interesting about D&D's medievalism is that its default geography -- frontiers, large areas of wilderness, etc. -- is not particularly what medieval W. Europe was like.
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
@andrewjack.bsky.social this says we need to collab on a Pacific-based something!
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This is a lovely thread and the cat was fine and came home so read on with impunity!
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is a lovely thread and the cat was fine and came home so read on with impunity!
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Also: boarding an airplane (especially little airports where you may have to deal with stairs along the jetway) can take a lot longer than disembarking. We always try to pre-board (note: without wheelchair) because -to copy the gate agent’s spiel- we ‘need a little extra time to get on board.’
My mom does this. She’s legally blind, and managing leading her and holding onto luggage and getting through a terminal and not losing things is too much for my dad to manage on his own. This is the only way they can get help, so that’s what they do.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Also: boarding an airplane (especially little airports where you may have to deal with stairs along the jetway) can take a lot longer than disembarking. We always try to pre-board (note: without wheelchair) because -to copy the gate agent’s spiel- we ‘need a little extra time to get on board.’
Are there people who game the system? Odds say yes.
Are there seemingly able-bodied passengers who really aren’t? Most assuredly.
Is it MYOB day every day? Oh hells yes.
Are there seemingly able-bodied passengers who really aren’t? Most assuredly.
Is it MYOB day every day? Oh hells yes.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Are there people who game the system? Odds say yes.
Are there seemingly able-bodied passengers who really aren’t? Most assuredly.
Is it MYOB day every day? Oh hells yes.
Are there seemingly able-bodied passengers who really aren’t? Most assuredly.
Is it MYOB day every day? Oh hells yes.
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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
MMR is classified as a lifetime vaccine but antibodies can wane after several decades. For those of us who got the vaccine several decades back, a blood draw and titer test may be worthwhile to check immunity!
I got that a couple of weeks ago! Per @rahaeli.bsky.social’s admonitions to talk with one’s doctor when of a certain age, I did, and he did the titer test with my blood draw. Zero immunity to measles. 😬 Gimme that good stuff, right in the arm!
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
MMR is classified as a lifetime vaccine but antibodies can wane after several decades. For those of us who got the vaccine several decades back, a blood draw and titer test may be worthwhile to check immunity!
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If you have a neighbor or loved one detained by ICE or need help with a federal agency, contact my office at (773) 799-8219.
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you have a neighbor or loved one detained by ICE or need help with a federal agency, contact my office at (773) 799-8219.
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Attention, #IL03!
We have received reports of DHS agents back in our communities. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights and not spreading misinformation.
We have received reports of DHS agents back in our communities. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights and not spreading misinformation.
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Attention, #IL03!
We have received reports of DHS agents back in our communities. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights and not spreading misinformation.
We have received reports of DHS agents back in our communities. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights and not spreading misinformation.
Also: request the book from your local library!
Reviews are great! Also, tell everyone you know about books you have enjoyed. People are more likely to buy a book vouched for by someone they know, so tell your friends and family and social media followers!
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Also: request the book from your local library!
Paging @kristadb1.bsky.social
Made pizza tonight!
Half margarita/half pepperoni, and bbq chicken.
There’s no feeling quite like cooking for family and friends.
Half margarita/half pepperoni, and bbq chicken.
There’s no feeling quite like cooking for family and friends.
December 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Paging @kristadb1.bsky.social
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BTW...you can get shingles IN YOUR EYES. Imagine that.
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
BTW...you can get shingles IN YOUR EYES. Imagine that.
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Edge is out today! Yay!!
Picture it. Chicago. Homicide cops. A tainted drug hits the streets, and bodies fall. Can Det. Harriet Foster and her team stop it?
#chicagomystery
#detharrietfoster
Picture it. Chicago. Homicide cops. A tainted drug hits the streets, and bodies fall. Can Det. Harriet Foster and her team stop it?
#chicagomystery
#detharrietfoster
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Edge is out today! Yay!!
Picture it. Chicago. Homicide cops. A tainted drug hits the streets, and bodies fall. Can Det. Harriet Foster and her team stop it?
#chicagomystery
#detharrietfoster
Picture it. Chicago. Homicide cops. A tainted drug hits the streets, and bodies fall. Can Det. Harriet Foster and her team stop it?
#chicagomystery
#detharrietfoster
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Since Bookshop.org is still offering free shipping + 20% off future orders...wanna check out my shoppe?
I've got contemporary psychological thriller, crime fiction short stories, and a genre mashup series (alt history + ghosts + magic) 🤓
I've got contemporary psychological thriller, crime fiction short stories, and a genre mashup series (alt history + ghosts + magic) 🤓
Sandra SG Wong Bookshop
Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the critically-acclaimed Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone thriller and Anthony Awards fi...
bookshop.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Since Bookshop.org is still offering free shipping + 20% off future orders...wanna check out my shoppe?
I've got contemporary psychological thriller, crime fiction short stories, and a genre mashup series (alt history + ghosts + magic) 🤓
I've got contemporary psychological thriller, crime fiction short stories, and a genre mashup series (alt history + ghosts + magic) 🤓
‘What Child Is This’ and ‘Where the River Meets the Sea’ from John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
‘What Child Is This’ and ‘Where the River Meets the Sea’ from John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album