Having health insurance in the US means that you now have a part-time job haggling with your insurance company & advocating for your own healthcare. To that end, here's a tool that can help with filing claims to contest denial of coverage, created by the nonprofit newsroom @propublica.bsky.social
Screenshot of text that reads: The Worst Thing for a Writer to Be 8 hours ago Desperate. I'm not going to bury the lede here. The worst thing to be as an artist is desperate. Desperate for attention, fame, a sale, validation, anything. I speak from experience.
Today's Patreon post for writers is very personal but also something I think needs to be discussed more. The power imbalance in the arts causes desperation that negative impacts creativity. Read more at: www.patreon.com/posts/92517162
Children shouldn't have to be brave.
The vast majority don’t want book banning!
I feel like I need to do Civic Duty! But there is no Civic Duty for me to do!
It's so weird to be in a place in America that's not holding voting today. (idk why; a weird districting thing? I checked with the state board of elections, and I'm one of a few counties in the state w/o elections.)
Happy third anniversary of the funniest political moment of all time.
One of my favorite questions is: "What is something fun or interesting that did NOT make it into the book? Why?"
puppy left my lap, what's the freaking point any more
Oof, my heart to you! I hope things are better now, and please let me know if there's anything I can do to help!
Ann, I'm so sorry you've been through this all, but glad you've escaped. <3
Ann is good people (and a brilliant writer!), and while I'm so sad that she was in a horrible situation, I'm glad she's out--and I want to help support her independence.
<3 I'm so sorry.
Illustration showing short-haired woman happily hugging a book in the foreground, an indie bookstore in the background. Sign on bookstore says "Support Indie Bookshops" Animation shows heart above woman's head shifting around, and we can see people moving inside bookshop.
Thinking of buying books as gifts? Place orders at your local indie NOW, before holiday rush. Ordering/buying sooner helps indie bookstores + you get your shopping done sooner. Win-win!
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The right wing is banking on your dislike of Biden and assuming you’ll sit out all the down-ballot races as well. Don’t give them the satisfaction
In the 1930s, a landlord set the home a young Toni Morrison and her parents were living in on fire while they were in it because they were behind on rent. In September 2023, a landlord in Brooklyn did the same thing to his tenants: pix11.com/news/local-n...
I hope the poor little guy is well again soon! <3
Remember when everyone called it Rouge One?
Cross-posting on all my socials: if you're in the US, you can get at-home covid tests delivered at no cost again. special.usps.com/testkits
Check your state and local DHS too
One of my favorite things about travelling is trying new foods. One of my least fav things is realizing how hard it is to get those new foods at home.
I'm craving vepřo knedlo zelo, a Czech pork dumpling I had in Prague last year. Time to learn a new recipe! www.cooklikeczechs.com/vepro-knedlo...
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
A medieval painting of a skeleton rising out of a coffin with its hands raised like "hey guys what's up!!"
morning
True! It's the best financial choice! :D
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.
yehuda amichai's the diameter of the bomb is in my head today
I write books so I can afford to buy books and then every so often I also make poor financial choices and go on a trip somewhere that has cool graves (they're all cool).
He was the first person to take the telescope that everybody used to look for faraway ships and to think to aim it at the sky.
Sometimes all you need to change the world is to change where you're putting your eyes.
Two pages from Ursula K Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea manuscript. On display in the UK for the first time. At the British Library Fantasy exhibition. Go today with your extra hour?
@debbieohi.bsky.social is looking for invite codes to share with school librarians and people in kid lit
"AI writing is drivel, it sustains the appearance of an argument (or plot or theme) without the substance of one; it's rather like listening to a Donald Trump speech. The words follow one another like the pounding throb of a migraine but there's no message underneath it."
nailed it :D
I don't go out of my way to read reviews, but they don't bother me. This morning, I was tagged in two reviews. One of them said Night of the Witch (my most recent book) had a LOT of romance and it happened super quick, and the next one said the book had "hints" of a "slow-burn" romance.