KG Anderson

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journalist, ex-Apple, science fiction author, cat person, Seattle-based

My new novel "The World's Shattered Shell" is available for purchase from the usual online shops, collected by the publisher Water Dragon here:

https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/worlds-shattered-shell/

A philosophical-romantic adventure beyond the end of the world.

#bookstodon
#fantasy
@bookstodon

Here's my Pinterest board to remind us, including myself, to write characters who aren't skinny. I'm a fat writer/artist myself and yet, like most of us, I still have some internalized fatphobia. #amwriting

https://www.pinterest.com/kunstkabinet/write-characters-who-arent-skinny/

(The board's dominated by conventionally attractive femme women because it's hard to find anyone else, though I do look for butch models. I can find some fantasy costuming. Science fiction? Forget it, we don't exist in the future. It really sucks!)

900+ WRITE CHARACTERS WHO AREN'T SKINNY ideas | plus size, character inspiration, hardy

Oct 1, 2022 - character inspiration board to help remind all of us to write characters who take up space (fat, curvy, plus size, stocky, plump, hardy, you name it). See more ideas about plus size, character inspiration, hardy.

Pinterest

I just got a comment on an older AO3 fic that made my day.

Never feel weird about commenting on older fic!!!!

#AO3
#fic

California has implemented some new permanent COVID-19 regulations. The regulations require that employees shall receive training regarding COVID-19, must be informed of COVID cases in the workplace, and be protected with air filtration through MERV-13 or higher filters. Regulations like these implemented at the state or national level would help to ensure safer workplaces, events, and commercial environments.
https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/10-key-things-new-calosha-permanent-covid-19-regulation.html
10 Key Things to Know About the New Cal/OSHA Permanent COVID-19 Regulation

By now, California employers are familiar with the state’s COVID-19 safety protocols for the workplace. After several years, however, Cal/OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) is being replaced by…

Fisher Phillips

Important PSA and story fr @keribla:

I went to #Mexico and got drugs.

Specifically ...went to pharmacies, got pills & tested them.

Turns out, some are selling oxy & #Adderall over the counter – but the pills are actually fentanyl & meth.

https://latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-02/mexico-pharmacy-fentanyl-laced-pills-meth

Some Mexican pharmacies selling pills laced with fentanyl, meth

Pharmacies in several Mexican cities are selling counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl and meth and passing them off as legitimate pharmaceuticals.

Los Angeles Times
It will astonish absolutely none of you to learn that Karen Brenchley has Things to Say, and is taking to Medium to say them... https://medium.com/three-minute-reads/becoming-invisible-at-40-1f8a505d444c
Becoming Invisible At 40 - Three-Minute Reads - Medium

Malls are for teenagers. I get that. There’s nothing like that sense of freedom you have when you’re under twenty, hanging with your friends, and walking along in a mob between all those glittering…

Three-Minute Reads
Just saw the animated film The Amazing Maurice—it's on the level with a Studio Ghibli film. Terry Pratchett (who wrote the book it's based on) would have been delighted.
If you’re annoyed by those floaty prompts on websites to sign into them with your Google Account, you can turn them off for your Google account! Link: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/permissions
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Hospitals reach capacity AGAIN due to #COVID XBB.1.5 (#Kraken variant), which initially took root in the Northeast where it currently makes up nearly three-fourths of cases, and has the potential to become the new dominant strain. 💉🧫 #CovidIsntOver https://www.wired.com/story/kraken-covid-variant-xbb15/
What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant

XBB.1.5, aka the Kraken, is sweeping the Northeast US and dodging immunity. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to panic.

WIRED

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease