No TikTok opinion from the SCOTUS today after all.

There’s still a chance, however folks should operate as if its a 100% certainty that TikTok will blip out of existence come the 19th.

TikTok stated they will show a blank screen with a link to info about the ban and otherwise shut down the app.

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

This morning I saw a post from an author talking about their book

I am already aware of their book and when I see them post about it I'm usually like "I should pick that up."

But THIS time their post caught me at the right moment and I bought the book.

PLEASE YELL ABOUT YOUR BOOKS. Thank you.

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time