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The most succinct and accurate description of the Old Web I’ve seen to date.
Honorable mentions:
* Starling House by Alix E Harrow
* The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
* Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
* Kill the Beast by Serra Swift

Favorite books/series of the year

* Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
* The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
* The Wedding People by Alison Espach
* Tainted Cup / Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
* Witch King / Queen Demon by Martha Wells
* Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
* Throne in the Dark / Summoned to the Wilds / Eclipse of the Crown by A.K. Caggiano
* Road of Bones / Kingdom of Claw by Demi Winters
* Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Here is my year end book reading wrap up:

I read 50 books this year.
1 non-fiction, 49 fiction. 5 were rereads, 14 were sequels. 35 unique authors, 6 male authors, 29 not-male authors.

The vast majority of my reading has been in the last three months which leads to this very lopsided graph

Amazing what icon designers come up with to make AI logos look even _more_ like assholes.
I’m not saying these are necessarily related events but, in the one month since I’ve deleted all gacha games from my phone I’ve read 18 books. Seems better.
every year I discover a new facet of my personality turns out to have been formed from reading Animorphs as a kid
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

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car owners will truly be out here screaming "removing 10 street parking spots in order to bring thousands of new people in via a useful bus route that locals will use daily is oppression and will destroy this neighbourhood and all its businesses"

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

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