I’m reading my memoir of being 21 (I’m 65 now) in a writing workshop in San Francisco. One youngster said, “it’s amazing to think of this stuff happening within living memory.”

Or on you

It definitely has a “rats deserting the sinking ship“ vibe.

At first I thought it said “infected with a mind.”

Ha ha

Had a wonderful time at the Sacramento Book Fair. The crowd was huge, the event super well run, the venue comfortable.

It’s the normalization of genocide.

The hidden power keeping wages low — NPR For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it’s everywhere, and a new book argues it’s key to un...

We don’t hear nearly enough about monopsony. I read the emails when I worked in antitrust. I saw the clauses in work agreements when I worked with translation agencies. It’s everywhere, and it costs workers huge amounts of money.
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Hail if I know

Same here.

It is training me to edit before posting, I have to say.

Happens a lot at my house.

Reading this, I started out confused, then horrified, then scared, then WTF? Then the giggles started. It’s so bad. This can’t be real. It has to be made up. It’s so bad.

Thanks, #LateNightWrite Here’s my first novel Criminals, which somehow got to 20 reviews on Amazon. 4.6! I should check in more. It’s a very queer thriller. Well, sort of thrillery.
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Thanks for including the translator.

My favorite ever bumper sticker was one that said:
Smile! God loves you!*
[Tiny print] * Some restrictions apply

So much makes sense now

Alison Hart and other at Poppy’s Cafe in Stockton CA for reading with Charrelle Jackson, Anara Guard and Myntube Tiaterrice.

#booksky Wonderful time reading in Stockton’s litcrawl with @mumblers.bsky.social authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith and #AlisonHart (on left). I read for #JanStites and #RaudseppaJaan (who couldn’t make it, alas). Pic is the reading before us: poets Charrelle Jackson, Anara Guard and Myntube Tiaterrice

Almost three years till the election and I’m already getting scolded.

I think I see a burger, but what’s that next to it?

Israel-Lebanon agree on ceasefire. So that means Israel stops blowing up Lebanon? Or is it like Gaza, where Israel keeps on murdering people?

The key word there is “feel.” If you don’t wanna do it, don’t do it. You might pay a price, but it’s the only way things ever change.

So, he was like, “Come on, family! Let’s hit the road! I need to study my raccoon penis!”…?

Their name

I’m thinking about going to this #AlisonHart reading. Apart from the event itself, it’s also on #WaverlyPlace, home to the oldest Chinese temple in the US.

#booksky #MumblersPress
Had a great time at Stockton’s Miracle Mile Literary Crawl. What a fun, chill crowd. So well organized by #TuleburgPress.

If you used Fuckaduckimab and died, discontinue use of Fuckaduckimab.

The chant means “Russia out!”, right?

In the next panel, Trump pulls the man’s brain out of his head. In the panel after that, he eats it.

That bizarre interchange is strangely mesmerizing. I can’t begin to guess what’s going on in her head. Speaking as a fellow Californian, I’m 100% behind you.