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FDA is supposed to protect us from unsafe and ineffective medicines and vaccines.
And yet 🫠...just like at CDC, it's the political appointed leadership holding the agency hostage...
FDA is failing in its mission as it turns a political hammer to the covid vaccines.
A few points in next post 👉
Sometimes I wonder what the timeline would look like right now if he *didn't* miss
I vaguely remember reading someone with great support for the pun being related to "eye" and how it was also used as "to see/look".
Perhaps the speaker would even point to their eye(s) ?
total dad joke, I'd believe it
4-panel comic, set in 1750 BCE, four women discuss the newest invention that prevents pregnancy with almost 100% success, "a flexible rod covered in the purest copper that is inserted into the body" -- Final panel: 8 mos later, the lead woman of four heavily pregnant women writes in clay, "Ea-Nasir, I am very displeased with the quality of copper sold me..."
real ancient history~
Word cloud that shows most significant words are along: ancient history, ancient literature, mythology, religion, poetry, Mesopotamia, ancient Near East, Sumerian, archeology, feminism, fantasy, fiction (retellings) & non-fiction, and things on a to-read list
Nerdily just started an online catalog of my books as they went on my new shelves. I present you a word cloud of the 1st "studies shelf"
Soon, very soon I suspect, all three of these characters meet again🖤
aah, I love them
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
such sweet sorrow.
"Rococo" ~🍰
"So they know you're spoken for, pet."
If you know you'd love gothic sapphic stories but you're not yet obsessed with Nevermore webtoon
you're doing it wrong
Is that why that's happening?? how is it always like this I learn these things
📚 Enjoying some GL on Webtoon (/Lezhin 🔞) in 2025:
▪︎ 💀 Nevermore (Kate Flynn & Kit Trace)
▪︎ ☕️ Girlfriend Manual (@Saefira [Merlin])
▪︎ ☣️🔞 Love Thy Neighbor (Willow)
▪︎ 🎭 Blindfold (Mashersan)
▪︎ 🔐 Lipstick Devil (rinucomics)
▪︎ ✂️ Papercut Dreams (moonbun00)
Still very early in their relationship yet, but go read Girlfriend Manual by Saefira on WebToons !
If only I could give this soft fire more hearts 💖
📚December 2024 included big feels:
💖 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H
💘 In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
❤️🩹 The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on... - Thenmozhi Soundararajan
+ Misc. shorts on dramas of ancient deities ..& evil cows?
and a few other books, still in progress !
and Nikki* Marmery for Lilith (started here, finished reading later)
📚 November 2024:
🌌The Lotus Empire (×2) - Tasha Suri
🌀Women's Work: 20K Years... Elizabeth Wayland Barber
🤨Gender in the Ancient Near East - Budin
🌳Lilith - Nikki Marmery
🏳️🌈Burning my Roti: Breaking... - Sharan Dhaliwal
❄️Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
🐎The Scythians - Barry Cunliffe
[...]
Hey y'all 👋🏾
This is the Melanin Library, an online database of books written by Black authors. We've been about supporting Black authors since day one and will die on this hill, shouting at folx to read more Black authors 👏🏾
So if you vibe with that, say hi ✌🏾
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huh. I'm realizing that outside this list of authors I consume many books but I mostly rest at 3 books each author (whether in FR or EN).
Authors I've read 5 or more books(/stories) by:
Ray Bradbury
Tony DiTerlizzi&Holly Black
Robin Hobb
Victoria Holt/Phillipa Carr
Yumi Hotta
Franz Kafka
Ursula LeGuin
Anaïs Nin
Edgar Allen Poe
Terry Pratchett
She-who-shall-not-be-named
Paul Stewart&Chris Riddell
Tasha Suri **newest!**
Sarah Waters
An author from ancient times once wrote of one woman's mons venus was like "black lapis lazuli" and now I want to find that in triangle jewelry?!
irl, it may be more "midnight blue" with silvery flecks
It's totally giving celestial goddess vibes
Today I was reminded by Illumicrate that I already purchased 3 versions of The Lotus Empire by @tashasuri.bsky.social like a mad bookart completionist. TBD as I teach abroad over the next few years 😆
A year or so later, I reread this and really wished I still knew what element I was referring to.
This is gonna hurt so unpleasantly today
edit: "Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan" by Ruby Lal
📚 Back-to-back (mostly)women
-🦉Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri
-🌬Thorn, Intisar Khanani
-🇲🇦The Unbroken, CL Clark
-🇫🇷The Faithless
-🇲🇳She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
-🏴☠️He Who Drowned the World
-🇮🇳Empress, Ruby Lal
-♀️? Dancing at the Edge of the World, Ursula LeGuin
-🌴Lilith, Nike Marmery
A long room with three dark ceiling beams and two sconces. Yellow street lighting and indoor blue lighting casts purple all across pale brick walls and pale valance curtains
accidentally giving spoopy hookah bar vibes?
Well, I have fought my bad health and malfunctioning testing program to finish the new Fallen Hero: Revelations demo! Now it is time to experience what might happen if you end up stuck inside your puppet body. Nothing bad I'm sure. Read all about it on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/113872...
Hero Forge figurine of Priya, a young Temple Elder woman in crimson and yellow, crouching over and stabbing the paler woman lying beneath her in peacock green, white, and gold sari. Priya's face is twisted & ugly with torment as she feels compelled to drive this thorn blade into the heart of her (now, naturally, angry and betrayed feeling!) belovèd, Empress Malini
The ugly face you make when you stab your belovèd
