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I read mostly fantasy+scifi+horror
Sometimes I argue with people on the internet
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Carter, do you think this language from this EO is playing a role at all (me seeking your wisdom once again): www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Screenshot of Trump EO that says:

The report shall contain a proposed strategic enforcement plan identifying:
(i) Key sectors of concern within each agency’s jurisdiction;
(ii) The most egregious and discriminatory DEI practitioners in each sector of concern;
(iii) A plan of specific steps or measures to deter DEI programs or principles (whether specifically denominated “DEI” or otherwise) that constitute illegal discrimination or preferences. As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars;
(iv) Other strategies to encourage the private sector to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences and comply with all Federal civil-rights laws;
(v) Litigation that would be potentially appropriate for Federal lawsuits, intervention, or statements of interest; and
(vi) Potential regulatory action and sub-regulatory guidance.

January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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I gotta be honest with you all: if I hadn’t listened to Project Hail Mary as an audiobook, I would have probably DNF’d it 😭

But the audiobook was a solid 4 star read. Without spoilers, I’d say: the audio aspect really adds to a key part of the story!

#booksky #scifibooks #bookreview

Cover for Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Author’s name in all caps at the top, title on the bottom (also in caps). Picture of an astronaut connected to a cable floating in almost darkness. Also has a silver sticker that says “author of #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Martian”

January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Some of my favorite reads and the Goodreads reviews that scared me 😔 📚 #booksky @skylight.social

January 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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also, hello to 1k???! thank you for being here!!! i’m not sure where ya’ll came from!

January 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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Three books I wish I could read again for the very first time ✨

Posting some older YouTube Shorts edits until I can put together some new 60 second content!

#booksky @skylight.social

January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Carter!!!! 😭😭😭 surely you’ve seen this?!

January 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM

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I’m a woman of varied tastes!

Current reads include:
🚀 Children of Time, an evolutionary scifi and a grand journey to save humanity
💕 The Seven Year Slip, a romance with some ✨magical realism✨ and a love across time???

What are ya’ll reading right now?

#booksky

A hand holding two books. On the left, the seven year slip with a yellow cover that yellow leaves and a couple in red looking at each other. On the right, children of time, which has a cover with a green planet and a spaceship orbiting the planet.

January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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i saw a tiktok telling me to post videos on here and of course i do what people on tiktok tell me to do #booksky #bookreview

January 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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In case you’ve wondered where I’ve been during the TikTok ban saga - I’ve been disassociating on Stardew Valley ✨👩🏼‍🌾

January 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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Sally Rooney is cooking with this one

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

#booksky #authors #books #sallyrooney

Text in screenshot of article:

unequal nations. In practice, a handful of voters in US swing states have more power to determine the speed and scale of planetary overheating than billions of other people on Earth. American colonists famously rebelled against the practice of "taxation without representation". Is environmental devastation without representation any different? Even if carbon emissions were thoroughly democratically determined - which they are not - why would voters in the world's richest countries have the right to poison the air, sea, soil and rivers for the entire population of Earth? Carbon emitted in the US and Europe wreaks havoc in Pakistan, in Haiti, in Somalia, in the Philippines. But the people of these nations have no right to vote in American or European elections. As a way of arranging our collective political life, that looks less like democracy and more like another political system familiar to us here in Ireland: empire.

November 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM

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my travel stack for this week (plus some extras on my kindle in case my mood changes)

stack lineup:
✨ Wicked
✨ All Systems Red
✨ Heir

From left to right, physical copies of Wicked and All Systems Red. Heir by Sabaa Tahir on Kindle. Laid out in a row on top of two sweaters in an opened rolling suitcase

November 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM

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rearranging the tbr for Wicked because i’m curious

November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM

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what are the 4 best audio books you’ve read to date? #booksky

✨ these are mine ✨

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson

Into the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

November 22, 2024 at 3:18 AM

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If you could give any book a sequel, which would you choose? ✨

Asunder by Kerstin Hall - I know I won’t stfu about this book I just finished, but this was some of the most creative fantasy world building I’ve read. I’d give an arm to spend more time in this world. #booksky #fantasybooksky

A hardcover copy of Asunder by Kerstin Hall. Cover features young woman with a short brunette bob.

November 21, 2024 at 3:06 AM

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yeah, you could say that i’m a gamer

November 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM

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Repost with one of your favorite reads of the year ✨#booksky

I need everyone to hurry up and read this 🗣️ it’s a fast-paced scifi centered around a revenge plot with complex and morally grey characters!