Sarah
@whtabtpineapple.bsky.social
Proprietor of Al's Pancake World. Cranky reader, overexcited TV viewer. Loves Autumn, romance books & chocolate milk. ace. ADHD. She/Her. MN. Abortion is healthcare
Reviews romance bks Treat Yourself with Books http://treatyourselfwithbooks.wordpress.com
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Sarah
@whtabtpineapple.bsky.social
· Jan 13
First book of 2025 finished! We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. Horror. Interesting read and I liked the ending.
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Is it weird that three people contributed to this story and all of them are white?
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Minnesota Somali community grapples with fraud cases while pushing back against stereotypes
The largest Somali community in the U.S. is finding itself the subject of unwanted attention in the wake of criminal investigations and attacks from the Trump administration.
www.startribune.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is it weird that three people contributed to this story and all of them are white?
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
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I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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boy this thing just keeps happening where the Trump campaign or administration suffers a political setback and then within a few days it’s followed by the exact kind of shooting that’s most politically advantageous for them, they sure keep getting lucky with those complete coincidences
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
boy this thing just keeps happening where the Trump campaign or administration suffers a political setback and then within a few days it’s followed by the exact kind of shooting that’s most politically advantageous for them, they sure keep getting lucky with those complete coincidences
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Do you love:
• Novelty home decor ✅
• Pedro Pascal ✅
• Reproductive rights ✅
I’m raffling off a framed needlepoint work of the iconic Pedro Pascal quote! For every $5 you donate to the LAGRH from now til 12/14, you get 1 entry! Reply w donation screenshot to enter.
bit.ly/4idlm9Y
• Novelty home decor ✅
• Pedro Pascal ✅
• Reproductive rights ✅
I’m raffling off a framed needlepoint work of the iconic Pedro Pascal quote! For every $5 you donate to the LAGRH from now til 12/14, you get 1 entry! Reply w donation screenshot to enter.
bit.ly/4idlm9Y
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Do you love:
• Novelty home decor ✅
• Pedro Pascal ✅
• Reproductive rights ✅
I’m raffling off a framed needlepoint work of the iconic Pedro Pascal quote! For every $5 you donate to the LAGRH from now til 12/14, you get 1 entry! Reply w donation screenshot to enter.
bit.ly/4idlm9Y
• Novelty home decor ✅
• Pedro Pascal ✅
• Reproductive rights ✅
I’m raffling off a framed needlepoint work of the iconic Pedro Pascal quote! For every $5 you donate to the LAGRH from now til 12/14, you get 1 entry! Reply w donation screenshot to enter.
bit.ly/4idlm9Y
Exactly! You can’t create a good storyline clearly.
If you consider random NPC dialogue "boring and unimportant" and you're okay with relegating that to gen AI, frankly I can't trust that the rest of your narrative is any good either.
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Exactly! You can’t create a good storyline clearly.
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If you consider random NPC dialogue "boring and unimportant" and you're okay with relegating that to gen AI, frankly I can't trust that the rest of your narrative is any good either.
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If you consider random NPC dialogue "boring and unimportant" and you're okay with relegating that to gen AI, frankly I can't trust that the rest of your narrative is any good either.
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
Holly has the same set of Rainbow Brite sheets I had as a child in 1987! #StrangerThings
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Holly has the same set of Rainbow Brite sheets I had as a child in 1987! #StrangerThings
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I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.
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how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
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National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
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i will say, in defense of these old ass children: i, too, feel like i've been aging at 2-3x speed since 2016
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i will say, in defense of these old ass children: i, too, feel like i've been aging at 2-3x speed since 2016
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SURVEY: who out there is autistic and also enjoys "breaking" things- ie, playing a video game in a way the developers definitely didn't intend that maybe ends up making the game unwinnable. Or getting an AI chat at work that's specific to your company and IMMEDIATELY figuring out how to get it to...
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
SURVEY: who out there is autistic and also enjoys "breaking" things- ie, playing a video game in a way the developers definitely didn't intend that maybe ends up making the game unwinnable. Or getting an AI chat at work that's specific to your company and IMMEDIATELY figuring out how to get it to...
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This country has given my family and me extraordinary opportunities. Practicing law is a privilege. Being able to communicate with you is an honor.
I owe it to the country, the rule of law and all of you to do my part in the fight for democracy. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
I owe it to the country, the rule of law and all of you to do my part in the fight for democracy. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
Trump Sued Me. I Fought and Won.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This country has given my family and me extraordinary opportunities. Practicing law is a privilege. Being able to communicate with you is an honor.
I owe it to the country, the rule of law and all of you to do my part in the fight for democracy. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
I owe it to the country, the rule of law and all of you to do my part in the fight for democracy. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announced the death of his son, Ethan, on social media. Ethan Browne had roles in Hackers and Raising Helen, and founded his own record label.
Ethan Browne, Son of Jackson Browne, Dead at 52
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announced the death of his son, Ethan, on social media. Ethan Browne had roles in Hackers and Raising Helen, and founded his own record label.
www.vulture.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announced the death of his son, Ethan, on social media. Ethan Browne had roles in Hackers and Raising Helen, and founded his own record label.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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walking into the CEO of disney's office, as my goons put their guns to his head, I toss a manila folder on the table labeled "Bugs Life but good" featuring loads of photos of real bugs, and a written statement that if they put cartoony faces on the bugs, im nationalizing disney+killing him instantly
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
walking into the CEO of disney's office, as my goons put their guns to his head, I toss a manila folder on the table labeled "Bugs Life but good" featuring loads of photos of real bugs, and a written statement that if they put cartoony faces on the bugs, im nationalizing disney+killing him instantly
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Hot take from someone who never had kids and never will: push presents are fuckin awesome and everyone who gives birth should get them.
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hot take from someone who never had kids and never will: push presents are fuckin awesome and everyone who gives birth should get them.
The beans come with a frank… 🤣🤣🤣
FWIW, I don't know. Usually the beans come with a frank but it's sometimes hard to tell on cats with all the fur.
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The beans come with a frank… 🤣🤣🤣
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Reminder that we have Hide Posts (in the ... menu) and muting by keywords (Settings -> Moderation -> Muted words and tags) on here.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reminder that we have Hide Posts (in the ... menu) and muting by keywords (Settings -> Moderation -> Muted words and tags) on here.
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Leading up to dumb Fathom Events release Great American Family announces a third movie in the Candace Cameron Bure-Cameron Mathison cinematic universe, A SWEET CHRISTMAS ANNIVERSARY, coming in 2026
Gee, I wonder if the wedding happens or not in the movie coming out in 4 days? Mystery for the ages 🙄
Gee, I wonder if the wedding happens or not in the movie coming out in 4 days? Mystery for the ages 🙄
Still laughing about what a dumb ego trip this is
Not only is it SEQUEL to low-budget, barely-watched TV movie, but wearing wedding dress on poster and movie originally A HOME SWEET CHRISTMAS WEDDING, yet only vaguely unrevealed story beat: Will wedding happen?
Wish Fathom released box office info
Not only is it SEQUEL to low-budget, barely-watched TV movie, but wearing wedding dress on poster and movie originally A HOME SWEET CHRISTMAS WEDDING, yet only vaguely unrevealed story beat: Will wedding happen?
Wish Fathom released box office info
Official Fathom Events announcement for ANOTHER SWEET CHRISTMAS, including perhaps worst-cut trailer I've ever seen.
And, if you thought theatrical release meant Great American Family spent more than 9 cents making this…Well, not that you can see on screen.
🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/LFbybMiaqi8?...
And, if you thought theatrical release meant Great American Family spent more than 9 cents making this…Well, not that you can see on screen.
🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/LFbybMiaqi8?...
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Leading up to dumb Fathom Events release Great American Family announces a third movie in the Candace Cameron Bure-Cameron Mathison cinematic universe, A SWEET CHRISTMAS ANNIVERSARY, coming in 2026
Gee, I wonder if the wedding happens or not in the movie coming out in 4 days? Mystery for the ages 🙄
Gee, I wonder if the wedding happens or not in the movie coming out in 4 days? Mystery for the ages 🙄
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I'm sorry, what?
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm sorry, what?