It really looks like it could be one, tbf.

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

This is great news for Maryland. Surveillance pricing is just another way to gouge consumers and fatten the pockets of the greedy corporations.
I hope other states follow suit. In the meantime, don’t shop those places. Small business when you can.
#SheShed

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Their hilarious sales pitch begins, "Shibe Park team - noticed Shibe Park hosted over 3,000 fans during events. When did the AC last get checked before summer events?"

Email reads: Subject: hello Shibe Park team From morgan.stone@airvia.info Thu, Apr 16, 12:10 PM Shibe Park team - noticed Shibe Park hosted over 3,000 fans during events. When did the AC last get checked before summer events? A nearby historical landmark we inspected nearby had filters months overdue, airflow had dropped before summer events. Just want to make sure your units are good to go before summer. What's the best number to call you? Morgan Stone | Commercial HVAC Specialist Air Power Solutions

Okay, it's not just writers getting inundated by AI-generated fake emails offering services. Check this one out I just got at my SABR email from a supposed HVAC service company offering to check out the systems at Shibe Park.

(The last game at Shibe was in 1970 and the park was demolished in 1976.)

Something went seriously wrong with the creation of this PDF...?! The names of the editors used to be right underneath the title. WTF...

An excellent cat.

They’ve truly got no brain cells left.

Once I get through the first book perhaps I’ll run a poll on what I should read next…?

Book length post, worth the read.

Bookstore Romance Day is an unalloyed good in the world ! But it doesn’t happen by magic, and Billie needs our help right now.

One of our editors at SABR just pointed out we ought to retire the phrase “men in blue” now that women umpires are (finally!) coming to the major leagues.

I added: the phrase is also anachronistic because the umpires so rarely wear blue!

Topps Faces Lawsuit from Authors Over Unpaid Royalties - The Authors Guild A lawsuit filed last August in New York County Supreme Court, William H. Keith Jr. et al v. The Topps Company, Inc. et al, accuses Topps, the company best known for sports memorabilia and trading card...

It would have been nice to mention Writer Beware, since I was the first to report on this lawsuit (back in February) and in much greater detail writerbeware.blog/2026/02/20/a...

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A person with long dark hair, a pencil in their mouth, holding a red book

I never bought that Sarah preferred her family over Jareth, tbh… Chapter 8 of #ACOTAR gives Labyrinth vibes

#romantasyreads
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Screencap from Instagram of Cover Love showing the slivers of five book covers

Cover Love web page

Mystery of the Bitten Peach

Wow! The cover of my upcoming book from Neon Hemlock , Mystery of the Bitten Peach, is featured in Cover Love this month from NetGalley! (And currently in the lead for favorite!) Art by Jenn So! Netgalley members can vote at bookish.netgalley.com/

Ugh, Bluesky is really struggling today? Images not loading, taking forever to refresh, posts not going through... Every other site seems fine so it's not my connection.

Finished chapter 7 of #acotar Chapter 7 of #ACOTAR and our three-way dynamic is like, Lucien: You’d be prettier in a dress. Tamlin: But she’d rather try to kill us in pants. Feyre: *GRRRRR*😡 #booktube #romantasyreads

Chapter 7 of #ACOTAR and our three-way dynamic is like,
Lucien: You’d be prettier in a dress.
Tamlin: But she’d rather try to kill us in pants.
Feyre: *GRRRRR*😡

JFC

Finished chapter 7 of #acotar Chapter 7 of #ACOTAR and our three-way dynamic is like, Lucien: You’d be prettier in a dress. Tamlin: But she’d rather try to kill us in pants. Feyre: *GRRRRR*😡 #booktube #romantasyreads

Chapter 7 of #ACOTAR and our three-way dynamic is like,
Lucien: You’d be prettier in a dress.
Tamlin: But she’d rather try to kill us in pants.
Feyre: *GRRRRR*😡

Quick history:

It was bought by a company seemed to turn into a NTF cyptro company, and they emptied everything before putting it up for sale.

So Naomi apparently had wordage in her original contract, and leveraged that to buy it all back.

FOLKS!!!!

@naomialderman.bsky.social has bought Zombies, Run!

Yes, the old app a bunch of us used to all exercise together to and do our mini events is back in her hands!

Small thing, though. The banks apparently were empty 👀

So there's a couple of things to do to help out (mini thread)

everybody asking please consider this your content warning. incredibly evil

Life comes at you fast

A failure of the modern educational system! 🔥

i dunno maybe it's because i'm in Minnesota and we kicked out Al Franken for squeezing his constituents' asses and now have a woman senator who is *currently holding the senate floor to save the boundary waters*, but you got a man with baggage? you can toss the man!

WISCON 48 Guests of Honor! Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed! wiscon.net; WisCon logo pictures of Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed

A little birdy told us that Premee Mohamed and Darcie Little Badger are going to be speaking at a feminist science fiction and fantasy convention...The bird is us! WisCon is the convention. Memorial Day Weekend, May 21-25 2026. Online. Exciting! @littlebadger.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com
#WisCon

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike

May 1st, National Strike

No work, no school, no shopping

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Looks like you’re not too active here yet, but I’m waving hello for when you are later! 😎

👀 40 Senate Democrats just voted to block a proposed sale of weapons to Israel.

Just 7 Democrats voted to approve the weapons (along with every Republican):

Blumenthal
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Rosen
Schumer

40-59, @sanders.senate.gov resolution to block the sale fails.

In fact the chatbots are programmed to keep you engaged and dependent…