Roanna Flowers (aka Petty Davis)
@roanna.bsky.social
Comedy novelist/gossip columnist for imaginary people. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Member of Armadillo Authors Society. Learn more at https://www.armadilloauthorssociety.com/
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I am the personification of Myrna Loy's side-eye while making a martini.
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Tucker was overjoyed at the Cheerios coming in. And the packaging got the full toddler treatment. Such joy!
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tucker was overjoyed at the Cheerios coming in. And the packaging got the full toddler treatment. Such joy!
Recently had the chance to sit down (virtually) and chat with author N.J. Knight about writing and community.
njknightbooks.substack.com/p/chapter-xi...
njknightbooks.substack.com/p/chapter-xi...
Chapter XI: How to Stop Asking for Permission
In Which Writer Roanna Flowers Talks About Creating Her Own Creative Community and Founding a Small Press
njknightbooks.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Recently had the chance to sit down (virtually) and chat with author N.J. Knight about writing and community.
njknightbooks.substack.com/p/chapter-xi...
njknightbooks.substack.com/p/chapter-xi...
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This is one that makes me want to flip tables.
NEEDING HEALTHCARE IS NOT A MORAL FAILING. HELPING PEOPLE IS WHAT WE SHOULD WANT TO DO.
NEEDING HEALTHCARE IS NOT A MORAL FAILING. HELPING PEOPLE IS WHAT WE SHOULD WANT TO DO.
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is one that makes me want to flip tables.
NEEDING HEALTHCARE IS NOT A MORAL FAILING. HELPING PEOPLE IS WHAT WE SHOULD WANT TO DO.
NEEDING HEALTHCARE IS NOT A MORAL FAILING. HELPING PEOPLE IS WHAT WE SHOULD WANT TO DO.
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James Van Der Beek is selling Dawson's Creek memorabilia to pay for his cancer treatment.
Imagine selling the tokens of your legacy for a chance to live.
Universal Healthcare. NOW.
Imagine selling the tokens of your legacy for a chance to live.
Universal Healthcare. NOW.
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
James Van Der Beek is selling Dawson's Creek memorabilia to pay for his cancer treatment.
Imagine selling the tokens of your legacy for a chance to live.
Universal Healthcare. NOW.
Imagine selling the tokens of your legacy for a chance to live.
Universal Healthcare. NOW.
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OPINION: "We are not saying our children should not be leaders, warriors or protectors. We are saying they must not be tools for a system that does not love them. We must offer them other ways to build their future—because there are alternatives," Horace Small writes.
Opinion | Why We Must Steer Black Children From Military Service
Horace Small writes that Black parents must discourage children from serving in the armed forces.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
OPINION: "We are not saying our children should not be leaders, warriors or protectors. We are saying they must not be tools for a system that does not love them. We must offer them other ways to build their future—because there are alternatives," Horace Small writes.
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Too many smart people have impostor syndrome and too many dolts have columns and podcasts and it's basically this
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Too many smart people have impostor syndrome and too many dolts have columns and podcasts and it's basically this
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yesterday one of my best friends told me I had to get on board with her relationship with ChatGPT and that I was lucky to have met someone and she's isolated and lonely and fuck these tech bros for sending so many people down this path and exploiting peoples loneliness. I am really worried.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
yesterday one of my best friends told me I had to get on board with her relationship with ChatGPT and that I was lucky to have met someone and she's isolated and lonely and fuck these tech bros for sending so many people down this path and exploiting peoples loneliness. I am really worried.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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Ghayath Almadhoun
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ghayath Almadhoun
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Tis the season
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tis the season
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
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November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
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"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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I really wish our elite publications didn’t feel the need to employ risable dumbasses and liars for … balance? To voice the editorial views? To … what exactly?
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I really wish our elite publications didn’t feel the need to employ risable dumbasses and liars for … balance? To voice the editorial views? To … what exactly?
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...
THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...
THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
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🥁 And our Best Microfiction nominees are...
Tiff Bartel (tiffbartel.com on Bluesky) and Jenny Stalter (jennystalter.bsky.social)! 🎉 🔥
Read their pieces here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Microfiction is under 400 words! 🤯 Congrats to our nominees and best of luck!
Tiff Bartel (tiffbartel.com on Bluesky) and Jenny Stalter (jennystalter.bsky.social)! 🎉 🔥
Read their pieces here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Microfiction is under 400 words! 🤯 Congrats to our nominees and best of luck!
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🥁 And our Best Microfiction nominees are...
Tiff Bartel (tiffbartel.com on Bluesky) and Jenny Stalter (jennystalter.bsky.social)! 🎉 🔥
Read their pieces here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Microfiction is under 400 words! 🤯 Congrats to our nominees and best of luck!
Tiff Bartel (tiffbartel.com on Bluesky) and Jenny Stalter (jennystalter.bsky.social)! 🎉 🔥
Read their pieces here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Microfiction is under 400 words! 🤯 Congrats to our nominees and best of luck!
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As the nation focused on New York City’s mayoral election and gubernatorial races in New Jersey & Virginia, there was an intergenerational movement of Black people, particularly millennial women, in small cities & rural towns shaking up local elections, too.
capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
Black Women Sweep Local Elections in Small Towns
Millennial candidates made sweeping gains in rural towns and small cities — making history and achieving several firsts.
capitalbnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As the nation focused on New York City’s mayoral election and gubernatorial races in New Jersey & Virginia, there was an intergenerational movement of Black people, particularly millennial women, in small cities & rural towns shaking up local elections, too.
capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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I will say that most of the time, internet fandom could not be more wrong about what goes on behind the scenes, but the Television Without Pity boards had absolutely pegged NXIVM as a creepy cult as far back as the later seasons of SMALLVILLE. And they knew the whole story well before it broke
Ex-'Smallville' star Allison Mack details her time in 'sex cult': 'I was ... abusive'
Ex-'Smallville' star Allison Mack details her time in 'sex cult': 'I was ... abusive'
Ex-NXIVM member Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 2021, addresses her role in the 'sex cult' and life after prison in new podcast 'Allison after NXIVM.'
www.latimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I will say that most of the time, internet fandom could not be more wrong about what goes on behind the scenes, but the Television Without Pity boards had absolutely pegged NXIVM as a creepy cult as far back as the later seasons of SMALLVILLE. And they knew the whole story well before it broke
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It’s not empathy if your primary goal is to put the least amount of effort into making someone behave in a way that makes you comfortable.
And permanently makes them honor you as a savior
So you can get wealthy enough to have what you don’t think they deserve
And permanently makes them honor you as a savior
So you can get wealthy enough to have what you don’t think they deserve
Every chatbot startup: “I saw people were lonely so I made a widget.”
A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion | TechCrunch
Robyn wants to position it self as an empathetic chatbot and not as a companion or a therapy app
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s not empathy if your primary goal is to put the least amount of effort into making someone behave in a way that makes you comfortable.
And permanently makes them honor you as a savior
So you can get wealthy enough to have what you don’t think they deserve
And permanently makes them honor you as a savior
So you can get wealthy enough to have what you don’t think they deserve
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Rutherford County Library System (TN) shut down 2 libraries to ban books from the collections. This decision came as the Secretary of State sent them a letter demanding they "follow the law" and "follow Executive Orders" related to collections.
The board *likes* this.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
The board *likes* this.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
bookriot.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Rutherford County Library System (TN) shut down 2 libraries to ban books from the collections. This decision came as the Secretary of State sent them a letter demanding they "follow the law" and "follow Executive Orders" related to collections.
The board *likes* this.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
The board *likes* this.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...