Trump meets the Dodgers. They lose.
Ted Cruz backs Houston. They lose.
Ball don’t lie.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #43:
Scent is a powerful emotional and psychological trigger. Many actors use scent to help them get into character. You can do, too, as a writer: teach yourself to associate a scent with your work in progress, and see if it helps you get into the zone more quickly….

There used to be a debate about whether reading actually improved people as people or it was just another way to pass the time.

I feel like the 21st century decline of reading and simultaneous rise in ~waves hand at all that~ provides a pretty clear answer.

I just learned that there is a death metal band called HATEBEAK whose lead vocalist is a parrot. “Birdseeds of Vengeance” is a banger that delivers a screeching indictment of food insecurity couched in avian existential dread

Polly does NOT want a cracker

LA fires root cause is fossil fuels says climate expert

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Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date.

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THIS is @gopsen.bsky.social and @housegop.bsky.social

As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power."

"In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

It truly is a perfect simplified explanation.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Au revoir ma douce pleine lune 🌕

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.