Tamara Hogan
@tamarahogan1.bsky.social
Tamara Hogan hates cold weather, hoards black boots, and writes award-winning paranormal romance. www.tamarahogan.com. She/her.
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
Zero. Heck, I did 15, 16 and 17 just last week...and I definitely own a dusty dictionary (18). 😊
(i got a zero lolz)
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Zero. Heck, I did 15, 16 and 17 just last week...and I definitely own a dusty dictionary (18). 😊
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You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
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Monthly health care premiums doubling—or more—may not be "gut-wrenching" to Senators like Ron Johnson. But to most Americans, payments that used to be $772/month becoming $2,400/month is a BIG DEAL.
Ron Johnson: "I don't think this is going to be any kind of gut-wrenching problem if these enhanced subsidies just go away. We'll probably have the weather the lies told by the Democrats. Democrats say all sorts of things that are untrue."
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Monthly health care premiums doubling—or more—may not be "gut-wrenching" to Senators like Ron Johnson. But to most Americans, payments that used to be $772/month becoming $2,400/month is a BIG DEAL.
About to be arrested for busting a move
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
About to be arrested for busting a move
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:
“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”
Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:
I can read so much faster than I can watch a video. No transcript? I'll pass, thanks. Also, too many people who watch videos in public don't seem to own a set of earphones. 🎧 Quiet, please!
July 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I can read so much faster than I can watch a video. No transcript? I'll pass, thanks. Also, too many people who watch videos in public don't seem to own a set of earphones. 🎧 Quiet, please!
That feeling when a newspaper didn't approve or publish your online comment, and you have no idea why... #choppedliver
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
That feeling when a newspaper didn't approve or publish your online comment, and you have no idea why... #choppedliver
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This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
![Screenshot:
No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.
[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreieqpfyocgnmbjxooiqmg34hpxbxzfjhywfjaej45xdlkmo2j4k3pu@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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Paramount+ sub = $60 a year
Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.
Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.
a man in a suit and tie is saying " boom easy as that "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying " boom easy as that "
media.tenor.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Paramount+ sub = $60 a year
Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.
Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.
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Will you be near Washington, DC on Sunday, July 20?
Will you be looking for something to do?
Join the ‘Moon Day’ protest with #nasa workers to oppose mass NASA layoffs and budget cuts 🚀
www.space.com/space-explor...
Will you be looking for something to do?
Join the ‘Moon Day’ protest with #nasa workers to oppose mass NASA layoffs and budget cuts 🚀
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA workers plan 'Moon Day' protest on July 20 to oppose mass layoffs, budget cuts. 'This year has been an utter nightmare that has not stopped.'
"They're undoing decades of progress…"
www.space.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Will you be near Washington, DC on Sunday, July 20?
Will you be looking for something to do?
Join the ‘Moon Day’ protest with #nasa workers to oppose mass NASA layoffs and budget cuts 🚀
www.space.com/space-explor...
Will you be looking for something to do?
Join the ‘Moon Day’ protest with #nasa workers to oppose mass NASA layoffs and budget cuts 🚀
www.space.com/space-explor...
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If you’re in office—and you don’t call this out—you’re choosing a side.
Silence is compliance.
And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.
Silence is compliance.
And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.
Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.
July 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you’re in office—and you don’t call this out—you’re choosing a side.
Silence is compliance.
And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.
Silence is compliance.
And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.
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Sometimes a high end clothing brand slowly goes out of fashion and the quality suffers and then you start seeing it at Walmart instead of Neiman Marcus and the same thing can happen to newspapers
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sometimes a high end clothing brand slowly goes out of fashion and the quality suffers and then you start seeing it at Walmart instead of Neiman Marcus and the same thing can happen to newspapers
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Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
Watching the news these days feels like watching "The Californians." We get it, anchors and reporters. Sh*t is bad, but turn down the over-emoting.
a man with blonde hair is making a surprised face while wearing a blue shirt .
Alt: Actors on SNL over-emoting in the skit "The Californians"
media.tenor.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Watching the news these days feels like watching "The Californians." We get it, anchors and reporters. Sh*t is bad, but turn down the over-emoting.
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Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
June 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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June 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thanks, Suz!
#NoKings Virtual rally on Zoom for those with health or other issues. 6/14. 1 - 2:30 PM ET. Sign up now! (It’s held by an Indivisible group in NY but open to anyone!) mobilize.us/s/ABLiax
NO KINGS / NO OLIGARCHS - Malone NY · No Kings
### On Flag Day, we gather not to watch from the sidelines, but to actively participate in the nationwide No Kings movement—a peaceful demonstration of our commitment to the principles that make Ameri...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thanks, Suz!
👇👇👇 A very helpful thread: 👇👇👇
A reminder:
We can all be part of the change. The surest way for things to stay the same (or get worse) is do nothing.
Yesterday was “eventful.” Several followers suggested the dems can’t do anything.
I disagree, but that’s not enough so I want to share how we can all make a difference.
🧵
We can all be part of the change. The surest way for things to stay the same (or get worse) is do nothing.
Yesterday was “eventful.” Several followers suggested the dems can’t do anything.
I disagree, but that’s not enough so I want to share how we can all make a difference.
🧵
June 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
👇👇👇 A very helpful thread: 👇👇👇