Um, they've already been doing this for YEARS without the IRS doing a damn thing. If they claim they're just starting now, they're lying.
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Um, they've already been doing this for YEARS without the IRS doing a damn thing. If they claim they're just starting now, they're lying.
Context is important.
Those who voted for the Nazi simply expected that "the economy" would still function for those who felt the same and have the same complexion, just because. Sucks to realize that if you're not an uber-wealthy cishet white man who can funnel millions to the GOP, they don't give a rat's ass about you.
Actual threats: 1. Climate change 2. Fascism 3. Income inequality 4. Using AI to deny medical claims (It's also gobbling up already-scarce water, raising people's electrical bills, and oh yeah, A KID OFFED HIMSELF BECAUSE OF IT) 5. RFK Jr (food/water safety, vaccines) 6. ICE/concentration camps
Going in the right direction, though.
A tried and true formula is: introduce your characters in shorthand, then ask, âWhen [inciting incident happens], can [protag(s)] prevent/do [thing(s) they either really want or really donât want] before [time crunch or thing protag(s) donât want to happen]?â Hereâs what I did for Undertaken:
Another editor should have eyes on it at some point, but the first editing passes need to be done by the person who knows it best: you.
Jamaica Inn or The Scapegoat (which is kind of like The Return of Martin Guerre, which means you might also recognize the general plot from the episode of The Simpsons that told the principalâs backstory). Whatever you do, donât read Rebeccaâs âsequelâ, which isnât by DuMaurier. I made that mistake.
If you enjoy⊠Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays ⊠then youâre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
I know a lot of folks with Parkinsons, and it tends to affect your ability to do things physically as it progresses. Cognitive ability is rarely impaired until you're really far gone, that's the frustration of it for folks suffering from this.
Also, Canada being a Commonwealth Country (linked to the UK) means it's easy in terms of paperwork to travel to any of the other Commonwealth countries around the world.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me â such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
He's not even doing this dictator thing right. If he knew Orwell's 1984, he'd want to call it the Ministry of Peace.
This is also a good reason for certain people to stop dismissing audiobooks. Listening to audiobooks is READING.
My only real hope in all of this is that the regime will crumble under the staggering weight of its own stupidity.
What a ridiculous person.
Anyone who claims any kind of crime is inevitable has either committed that crime or knows someone who has. It's not even a "tell"--it's a freaking billboard by the side of the highway.
I recently saw a vid where an avid consumer of audiobooks said he had some difficulty understanding some words the narrator was saying and discovered that there was a transcript available. So he thought, "That would be great to include with all audiobooks." You know--a BOOK.
If you're pronouncing it duh TREE tiss rather than dee TRITE uss, that's just a US/UK difference in pronunciation. Both are correct. What I wonder is if the audiobook reader correctly pronounced Mr. Teatime's name (tay AH tih may).
Do NOT let gender-critical/transphobic people try to push Terry Pratchett as on their side. Sir Terry was ALWAYS supportive of the trans community in his fan base.
Previously, the GOP blocked immigration reform so people like them could hold deportation over their workers' heads while exploiting them, getting maximum labor for a minimal cost. They thought that would continue because they didn't read Project 2025. We SAID this would happen. They didn't believe.
Everything he does is for an evil reason.
30. Robin is first on the scene when there's a tragic death on the Ferris wheel during the town's Mardi Gras carnival. #FantasyIndiesAugust #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #fantasy #amwritingfantasy #paranormal #vampires #undead #ghosts #mardigras #funeraldirectors #westernPA
30. Next on the TBR, I've got 21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, and These Truths by Jill Lepore. I may also do the Iliad. We'll see. #SFFChat #writing #reading #amreading #books #tomcox #rfkuang #jilllepore
That's some peak grandmothering.
They've also made it easier to get the healthcare you need, so when you do get sick, you're more likely to recover quickly than in a system where it's like pulling teeth to get anything at all.
Or just White Nationalist Theocracy. You can't actually separate the White Nationalism from what they're doing. The racism is deeply entrenched in every part of it. The "religion" is always carefully tailored to support that.
I know two people with Halloween birthdays, and it's Halloween ALL YEAR LONG for them.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
You don't let invaders have their way. Russia has to go, now, plus return all of the kidnapped children AND pay reparations to rebuild Ukraine.
New Hampshire really leaning into that, "Live Free or Die" motto, evidently.
There are actually a load of teams called The Wanderers. Itâs generally a name for a club that doesnât have their own pitch or stadium to play in, so they wander about to other clubsâ venues to play their matches.
They continue to completely ignore the memo telling them that a massive number of progressives were BORN INTO conservative families and REJECTED the right-wing indoctrination they grew up with. Your hair and eye color are in your genes but your politics is not.
I once lived in a 7 story building with 28 apartments and there were only two washers and dryers for the whole building. Insanity.
I haven't seen the rest of it, so I'm honestly mystified about how ALL OF THE OTHERS don't get it!
Reporters, please, keep close tabs on all Congresscritters and other government officials and report on the first time one of them travels overseas to access vaccines or other healthcare if at all possible. I'm sure that, as much as they want us plebes to die, they have no intention of doing so.
I doubt that most of his cabinet or White House staff could pass it either.
Or mocking a disabled reporter, or being a Russian asset, or calling Nazis "very fine people", or calling POWs "losers", or kissing up to dictators, or saying that we had airports during the Revolutionary War, or saying that he might date Ivanka if she weren't his daughter, or bending over for Putin
28. Snippet: Reprieve Phyllis goes to the Easter Eve vigil service after a series of vampire deaths has rocked the town and taken the lives of more than one of her teachers. #SFFChat #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasy #paranormal #vampires #funeraldirectors #westernPA
28. I've generally stuck with fantasy, but I do have several non-fantasy YA novels mapped out, and while I usually write long-form (novels/series) I recently came up with ideas for a speculative short story and an SF short story. #FantasyIndiesAugust #writingcommunity #fantasy #specfic #SF #YA
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Itâs simply ludicrous. Imagine what GOP members of Congress would have said if Obama, Biden, or Harris had laid off National Park workers who kept the parks cleaned up and instead deployed National Guard units to do that work? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
DO THEY WANT TO BE SEEN OR NOT?
27. I've been trying to find comps, but it's hard. Two books I want to read to see if they ARE comps are: Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix #FantasyIndiesAugust #writingcommunity #fantasy #paranormal #vampires #ghosts #moriticians
IN HIS FINAL BOOK, MLK SAID WHITE AMERICA WOULD RATHER THROW AWAY DEMOCRACY ALTOGETHER, AND EMBRACE "A NATIVE FORM OF FASCISM," TO PRESERVE THEIR POWER. WE ARE LIVING IN THAT PROPHECY TODAY.
What every Dem Governor, AG, DA should be saying loudly. Let's put up informational flyers, hand them out to ICE, etc. so they have to think twice before they decide to kidnap someone off the street.
They really want tons of people to die.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm either going to eat really well or have angst coming out of all of my orifices.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
Missouriâs gerrymandered GOP government keeps ignoring the will of the people. That will come back to bite them sooner or later.
But also, humans writing prompts donât seem to be able to convince them not to just make up things like nonexistent human body parts and fictional medical studies that end up in the citations.
Replace Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett and Schumer with Chris Murphy and we might get somewhere.
LOL
The only "unrest" is being caused BY TRUMP.
Looks legit. No notes.
Fortunately, my editor thought it was hilarious when I suggested this could be an alternate ending to her novel. #writing #writingcommunity
Still true.
I also love that they're SO WORRIED about having to explain same-sex couples to their kids when they see them in public or on TV and in movies, but now they're posting this in classrooms, which means EVERY SINGLE TEACHER could potentially have to explain what adultery is to their students.
Thread.
The lack of self-awareness is staggering.
26. The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt, he falls. #SFFChat #writingcommunity #poetry
26. In the first Rest in Grift book (Undertaken), the newspaper editor tells the protags about a legend amongst the coal miners about "knocking" noises in the mine being from beings called Knockers, warning miners when a collapse is imminent. #FantasyIndiesAugust #writingcommunity #paranormal
"We're rolling out a new, more intuitive product experience" it says on the help page to which I have now returned about six times in increasing bafflement.
Yup. The reason we don't have universal healthcare is that racists didn't want it to go to any Black and brown folks. WE DON'T HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE BECAUSE OF RACISTS.
What a good doggo!
Or more likely with this bunch, from 15th century England, from a writer who was also into throwing women into water to see if they float and could therefore be put on trial as a witch.
That's part of an editor's job, but I get the impression that these days, once a publisher knows a particular author's name on a book sells product regardless of the content, they don't really care about making the story the best it can be. The goal is to get it out there and make money.
This is not who we are. We must join together to call this out, to make more people understand what is happening and work to stop it. #BlueCrew #Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether #StayWoke #NoMoreAuthoritarians #ProtectOurRights
How is the festering pustule that is Farage still have any power or sway when it's his fault that the UK is screwed by Brexit for decades to come? He's just another Putin puppet and it seems that the UK has no interest in doing anything about that, including stripping him of any power or relevance.
Yay! That part always seemed like stupid nitpicking to me, just an excuse to disenfranchise people who aren't perfect at following directions. You can only vote if you're perfect? How is that not bigotry?
Except when it's fascism. But yeah--not socialism at all.
Well, yeah, that will happen when it makes up human body parts and fake papers in citations. Then you have to hire back the people you fired for AI and get them to fact-check the slop the AI produced. DO NOT USE AI OF ANY KIND FOR ANY PURPOSE. It is never worth it.
I wonder if anyone has studied this and whether there is a predictable percentage of people on any large mailing list who will fail the don't-hit-reply-all test at any given time.
Right? So tired of people claiming that it's impossible to walk around Philly without being murdered. We still have tourists. I just showed someone from the St. Louis suburbs around my neighborhood today and she loved how we could just WALK to stores and restaurants from our home. Great weather too.
A âwe were wrongâ correction would be nice.
He wasn't a businessman. He was a petty crime boss making money by refusing to pay workers, tanking businesses on purpose and writing them off, and laundering money for other mobsters and the Russians, plus the pageant and modeling stuff that was mainly prurient and thinly-veiled human trafficking.
Don't forget the right to treat women like cattle whose only job is to breed.
They preached for decades about how evil the Antichrist was and when he showed up with an orange spray tan and a combover they fell over themselves to bow down and worship him.
If you only have one of those, I admire your restraint.
The SCOTUS said Biden couldn't forgive student loans, but this complete violation of the First Amendment PLUS Donnie just being allowed to act like he's a king whose word is law is just A-OK. Make it make sense.
I was so looking forward to this man being the Veep, and Harris being our POTUS. Donnie confessed to Elon messing with the voting tallies. We need for EVERY SINGLE ELECTION to be thoroughly audited to prevent such skulduggery. But that can't happen until the fascists are thrown out. Catch-22.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Narrator: Yes, that is their goal. This is what they want to happen to further plunge the country into being a hellscape.
They resent that fact instead of being grateful. The Senate should never have existed, since it was designed to mimic the House of Lords. Same for all of the state Senates. People deserve representation, not land.
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
They donât ban Anne Frank unless they plan to repeat history.
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Harrisburg Republicans hate the whole Philadelphia region and never miss an opportunity to screw us over.
