!! URGE YOUR USA SENATORS TO SIGN TWO "DEAR APPROPRIATOR" LETTERS TO FUND LIBRARIES (Institute of Museum and Library Services, LSTA grants) BEFORE APRIL 14. Easy one-click method to contact and inform them, please share! 🙌 app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work.
GO GET YOUR MONEY.
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form
Surgery was unexpectedly delayed for a few days, so I'm still crowdfunding. If you have a few bucks to spare or even just a RT, it would really help.
More information available here, including whether your reps have signed such "Dear Appropriator" letters in the past and whether they have for FY2027 or not yet (if they HAVE signed you could still call or write to thank them, show it's important to you) : www.ala.org/advocacy/fed... THANK YOU!
‼️PLEASE USE LINK TO URGE YOUR HOUSE REP, **BEFORE OR BY MARCH 20** TO SUPPORT LIBRARY FUNDING BY SIGNING BOTH LETTERS TO HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, re: LSTA (Library Services + Technology Act) & IAL (Innovative Approaches to Literacy/school libraries)! app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of the head of a white unicorn sticking out from between what appear to be the metal bars of a cage. The unicorn is in about one-quarter profile facing slightly to the left and has messy bangs and a long spiral horn.
Chapter 38: The Pale Menagerie
Illustration 38/52
#WrensAria, a charming illustrated animal fantasy wherein a surprising number of injustices are addressed and made right (I did say it was a fantasy 😭🙃) Arriving soon!
List of 60 small tasks anyone can do (*caveat, written with USA's local and national government structures in mind) to help defend the freedom to read and first amendment rights of authors, students, and our communities in general. 🙌 bookriot.com/how-to-defen...
In response to ICE’s execution of Renee Nicole Good & violence against our communities, the 50501 Movement is demanding the immediate abolition of ICE & is joining its partners in the Disappeared in America Coalition to announce ICE OUT For Good, a nationwide mobilization scheduled for 1/10 & 1/11.
Okay, looks like the status of Project #BootTheBillionaires so far is gonna be:
1) Linux Mint (Cinnamon)
2) Vivaldi Browser
3) Kagi Search Engine
Will be paying $5-10/mo for the search engine but zero dollars for the OS, so that seems a fair trade.
This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.
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66 days and counting until ConFusion 2026!
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🥳 THANKS EVERYONE who wrote to a local/national US representative to save the Institute of Library & Museum Services to fund libraries & offer grants despite Trump's efforts to dismantle it, IT WORKED! Article: cloud.e.bookriot.com/vib?postid=6... (Legal appeal incoming, probably, so stay tuned. 🫤)
Interview with @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social coming as soon as I get 10 minutes. Probably tomorrow!!
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Bringing this up again to spread the word. People aren’t getting their SNAP (food benefits) come November 1st. This is disastrous.
This feeds poor, unhoused, and disabled people. Our voices are small and it’s hard to get people to notice our struggles. So many people will starve without SNAP
I know fundraising is rough, but if Larry C can pull in $290K in a month, I think Black woman led Black African translations could be given a few words by some of the big accounts after seven months of global pleas for help.
Know them? Can you ask? Send the direct link? They wouldn't listen to me.
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
Thanks for sharing on a deeply personal experience that is (for many) awkward to approach (fear of saying the wrong thing, mostly). I'll keep this in mind talking to you or family I have undergoing or recently finished w/ chemo. I am overjoyed to know you're here & living w/ eagerness & curiosity.
This is SO good.
Next time you've got a couple hours, watch this... it's all about what I'm trying to do with my storytelling.
I especially like her point about how these stories EXIST but we have been trained to ignore/minimize them.
Embracing new ways of telling story is one place to start.
❗It's Banned Books Week. If you live in the USA, support freedom to read by encouraging Congress reps to back a resolution. Use link to "Contact Your Member." www.congress.gov/.../house-re... H.Res 797 breaks down the onslaught of unconstitutional government censorship in school & public libraries.
Sometimes it's a job for a Dick.
Could you use a laugh? What about one with a bit of gently furious edge? This brother-sister audiobook on #Kickstarter is not yet funded. Please let people know. www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
Full disclosure, Trump Admin plans to misappropriate most IMLS funds for "Freedom Trucks" (patriotic propaganda, akin to Smithsonian changes). bookriot.com/imls-freedom... PLEASE keep speaking up for IMLS anyway? It will be easier to fix how it's been abused than to bring it back from elimination. 😬
If you called/wrote lawmakers to urge the USA's Institute of Museum & Library Services to remain funded, THANK YOU, this month saw two hurdles cleared! But this article also reveals hurdles (votes) pending. See next post for NEW online letter campaign link!✍️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Vote for Fiscal Year 2026 got delayed--please take a few minutes to send this form letter to your House rep asking them to fund libraries (via Institute of Library & Museum Services). Rural & tribal libraries are in particular danger of closing w/o action.😬 app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
“when we focus on everything that can go wrong, on just the doom and gloom narrative, it seems like there’s nothing that we can do – when in fact there are lots of things that we can do, both on the large scale and on the small personal scale.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #solarpunk #books
I am still so tickled that THE WORKING is in this 5 best #solarpunk books. Hope you'll read it. fyi, I donate all royalties to #climate #justice organizations.
Consider reading all these #books plus seeking out other #hope filled climate fiction.
👀 **IF YOU LIVE IN OHIO, look for petitions to put anti-discrimination measures on the ballot to update the Ohio constitution: one for the Right to Marry (including LGBTQ+ citizens), one for the Equal Rights Amendment. See OhioEqualRights.org for fuller explanation and/or volunteer opportunities. 😁
Well said, as ever! I have followed your socials since seeing you at ConFusion circa 2017 or 2018 & buying your cool urban fantasy about fey in Hollywood, BORDERLINE. I will keep you in my thoughts during your chemo treatment & recovery. You are strong, you are wise, & you've got this. 💙