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Writer. Editor. Killer of plants. Minnesotan currently located in Germany.
Current project: a rock-and-roll crime novel
Last project: The Ice Beneath Me - a two time honorable mention at Capital Crime Festival. 
Current status: MA student in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan 
Please bring chocolate.
Websitehttps://pattibuff.wordpress.com
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Literary Agenthttps://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/hannah-sheppard.html

By refusing to sell #mifepristone by mail even in states where it's legal, #Walgreens, the 2nd-largest pharmacy chain in US, is offering an object lesson for companies in bending down and licking the boots of America's aspiring fascists.

#Walgreens is dangerous to your health. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/walgreens-abortion-pill-access

Walgreens Caves To Antiabortion Republicans — Including In States Where Abortion Remains Legal

Walgreens says they won't distribute abortion pills in states where Republican officials are opposed.

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More of that sweet, sweet Free Speech that conservatives so cherish as guaranteed in the Constitution they so love. For all the discussion of cancel culture and infringed speech from the right, this is literally the specific infringement that the First Amendment forbids -- infringement by the State. (The 14th Amendment extends this prohibition to states, not just the Federal government.) I mean, the GOP is just crapping on the Constitution in plain sight, now.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content.html

Today marks the start of Women's History Month - let's celebrate the amazing contributions of women!

#WomensHistoryMonth

Art by: Karen Hallion

When my husband sends me the Wikipedia page of the people he’s meeting 1000 Km away

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My office today…
My student and I found this video of an octopus punching a fish when we were looking for research on interspecies gestural communication in fish and we could not stop laughing, so I put it on a loop. Plz enjoy.

19 February 1934 | A Czech Jew, Herbert Stein, was born.

He was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto together with his mother Gertruda on 6 September 1943. They did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Theresienstadt #ghetto #Czechia

Such a good reminder for writers: https://ilona-andrews.com/2023/poorly-and-stupid/

#writing WritingProcess

Poorly and Stupid - ILONA ANDREWS

In 1861 Charles Darwin wrote a letter to Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, who besides his many scientific contributions, also advocated the use of geological surveys and explained the cause of earthquakes. Darwin, of course, brought us the first version of the theory of evolution, fundamentally altering the entire field of biology and irrevocably influencing

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Things you can say when the evidence proves you wrong:

1. Wow, I had no idea! Thank you for clarifying.
2. I was wrong.
3. I didn’t know that but now I do and I’m smarter for it.
4. This just proves that you can be really sure about something and still be wrong!