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Assistant Public Defender 1997-2023 (ret.). Writes occasionally. Knows one or two guitar chords, nothing fancy. Trying to relearn the bass. Married with cat.

This story idea just popped into my head —

Donald Trump exists because he's a part of a Stanley Milgram/Philip Zimbardo-type experiment being performed by aliens upon the U.S. population ... and we have failed.

Because I don't want that idea in my head, I won't be writing it. So I give it to you.

2023--The year's reading in review

Agent Zigzag Ben McIntyre Nonfiction   Piranesi Susanna Clarke Fiction ...

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Anti-Abortion Lawyer Wants Names of People Who Donated to 9 Texas Abortion Funds

The funds are arguing this amounts to a “hit list" intended to scare folks out of helping abortion seekers.

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When writing science fiction, always Google your made-up planet name; 9 times out of 10, it's an existing yeast infection medication.

Tom Gauld offers an uncomfortable truth for those of you living with a #booklover

@bookstodon

What if we appease Donald Trump and hope he learns his lesson?
Gaiman: " If you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries. Are they voting to fund their libraries? Are they voting to keep them free? Then vote for those guys. They're probably the good guys. And by the same token, the book burners, the book banners, they're probably the bad guys."
https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/
“I will always be on the side of the libraries”: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is a fierce supporter of libraries. The author of American Gods, Neverwhere, Good Omens, The Sandman, Coraline, and so many more has had a lifelong love affair with reading. And he credits librarians for fostering his curiosity about books and learning at a young age. Gaiman spoke with I Love Libraries recently about libraries, comic books, book banning in the U.S., movies, and more.

I Love Libraries

@cstross libertarianism is evangelicanism for money-worshipping narcissistic atheists. they truly believe money makes them divine beings.

anything emanating from it, technolibertarianism, transhumanism whatever; they're all the same death cult. but because it's white-supremacist & patriarchal capitalism, the vast majority of peons in this country wont do shit.

so our future is literally in the hands of an unhinged oligarchy that believes money gives them superpowers & immortality