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Hey so… someone with an active measles infection went to the Shakira show at Metlife last week and now the NJ department of health issued a warning to everyone who went….. just a reminder to everybody who’s going there to see Beyoncé this week, plz be careful. ✌🏾😷

I’m tiiiired of everything being an ad. You can’t even watch a movie anymore without “this movie contains product placement”

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Holy shit, the petition to ban the so-called "conversion therapies" in the EU has reach the threshold in the 7 countries needed and obtained more than a quarter million signatures in the last few days!
This needs to reach a million signatures by Saturday!
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

South East Asian book recs!

These are all fantastic.
📚💙 📚🌏 📚🏳️‍🌈

I see techbros on the daily telling me I won’t be able to survive without gen AI and I’ll be left behind without it - like does that fear-mongering work when you say it in the mirror to yourself or something? I promise you’ll survive without gen AI lmfao. You have a brain!!

Yup! Also tailors and seamstresses are your friends and can help you hold on to your clothes longer if they need repairing or altering!

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

Illustration of Noon from They Bloom At Night underwater, surrounded by monstrous fish. They're a Vietnamese teenager with black hair with white roots, wearing a shirt and shorts and a key around the neck. Noon is turning fishy, with fins and scales and textures on the skin. The background is dark green water, with a bright red surface. Noon and the fish have bright red lighting from the top and cool cyan light from the bottom. signed layaroseart.com in the corner.

Noon from They Bloom At Night by @nvtran.bsky.social !! fantastic YA horror I read recently

#theybloomatnight #art #transrightsreadathon

the autistic struggle of looking for meal ideas for picky eaters and it’s just recs for toddlers

An update for Kobo users: As you know, we've been busy collaborating with our friends at Kobo, and we're now thrilled to share that an exciting new solution for reading your NetGalley books on your Kobo device is on its way! Details coming once a few technical pieces are in place, but rest assured that an even more streamlined Kobo reading experience will soon be available. Thank you again for your support of NetGalley & Kobo—more to come!

In case you isn’t on IG and are a NetGalley user! #booksky

urban fantasy with no conspiracy to keep magic secret whatsoever, it's like, you can just look it up and get reasonably accurate info about all of it on wikipedia, but there's a cultural disinterest where most people just don't bother looking into it

I observed the same thing this past week 🫠
As I've said before, if you want indies and trad authors to rely less on Amazon, you need to put your money where your mouth is and buy them elsewhere.
My books are at all major retailers and in libraries.

Text: All about the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon. How to sign up, participate, dates, and more!

Text: Mark your calendars. This year the Trans Rights Readathon will be Friday, March 21st through Monday, March 31st! This year is longer than the last two years.

Text: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

Text: The TRR isn't just reading, it's action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level. We have three core goals: Uplift. Amplify. Support.

The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon starts on March 21st and runs through the 31st. The goal of this event is to Uplift, Amplify, and Support trans authors, trans stories, and trans communities. 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍

Support Patreon creators through desktop browser! Don’t make purchases or sign up for subscriptions through iOS! Creators see NONE of that extra price hike and you are feeding giant companies extra money. Support smart! 🌱

I’ll be honest, I think the reason I’m a chronic liker of posts and stories etc is just because I really like clicking buttons

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I don’t normally believe in the afterlife but the idea that she might be there is helping me through it 🤞🏻🩷

thank you, it’s the worst 😭🩷

thank you so much 🥹🥹🩷 I almost hope I will, I don’t want to ever forget her and I’m so scared I will

thank you. 🥹🩷 I loved her so so much, and still do. I don’t know where to put it now, but she really was so cherished 😭 thank you

thank you so much 🫶🏻🫂 it’s so painful

thank you 🩷🩷🩷

thank you 🩷🩷 yes, losing her was (& is) awful. people have been lovely so far but I’m always worried they’ll wonder why I’m grieving so hard for a cat but it hurts just as much as losing a person.

thank you so much. 🩷

thank you 🫶🏻 today was a tiny bit easier than yesterday but definitely not easy, and I hope it gets a tiny bit easier everyday. 🩷

That is such a lovely idea! I don’t have a computer but I might do the same thing on my phone.