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Wendy Sparrow
@wendysparrow.bsky.social
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Author of books, lover of HEA, dog person, happily-married mom of 2, disabled, Fibro, EDS, agoraphobia, PTSD, OCD. Bi She/her

Sci-fi rom series on KU: How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH7HSKWH
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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · Jun 7
Sometimes, you just really need cozy reads. Sci-fi romance for fans of Galaxy Quest, Doctor Who, or Lower Decks. Fated mates, alpha heroes / heroines, paranormal abilities, a few grumpy-sunshines and close proximity...even an accidentally married. #Booksky #Ad #Romance
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH7L35JM
Images of all the book covers in the Love, Gaiians, and Monsters series and universe. They are available on Kindle Unlimited. There are fated mates and alien hotness. They can be read out of order due to a helpful "previously in the universe" intro, and they're funny and quirky. Book covers shown in the main series: How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days Earthen Girls are Rarely Easy Gaiian Girls Just Wanna Have Fun The Gaiian Who Secretly Loved Me The Good-ish, the Sexy Kind of Bad, and the AI Blasterfight at the OK Outpost Catch Me if You Can, Gaiian Feer and Loving in Lost Vegas Ms. Belle and the Gaiian Beast The Really Great Lab Escape Novellas in the same universe: Barrten & Robin A Spaceship's Rear Window A Gaiian's Runaway Bride
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cmdrsue.bsky.social
*whispers* victorian catwoman
oregonthedm.bsky.social Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d
Part 127 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

A women's glove from 1850s London, modified for self defense.
Hook like daggers on fingertips
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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madeleineswann.bsky.social
Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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signemaene.com
Some pictures of the enchanting woods in Bellevaux (Bouillon). There must be fairies there.
Picture of a path in the forest. Moody sky. Colourful autumn leaves. Picture of the trees, green moss. Picture of a forest view. Colourful. Picture of a green path in the forest.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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sandwichpick.bsky.social
I hate living in the bad timeline from Back to the Future 2
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
wendysparrow.bsky.social
When we went to the Seahawks game, I kind of wondered if players liked our stadium (despite the ridiculous noise levels) because Washington State only allows sports betting within tribal casinos. I wondered if that dialed the toxicity down.
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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sesmith.lol
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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elea.fyi
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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atrupar.com
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
wendysparrow.bsky.social
I feel like I'm too ragey to be on here on a day ending in Y where powerful people commit atrocities and get a pass from other powerful people.

And I haven't even been on here long enough to find out all the ways I'm right.

*sighs*

Like pain and exhaustion really lower my coping with monsters.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
wendysparrow.bsky.social
Look, I know I'm salty today, but the CEO quoted in this Disney AI deal article is a schmucky ass. AI is built through IP theft.

And I'm old enough to remember when Disney sued a daycare for a Mickey Mouse mural. The dissonance from Disney in this article is outrageous.

www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...
Text from article: "It shows that the AI companies can work with the creative community to come up with models that work for both of them," Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid told NPR regarding this particular deal. "And I think we're going to start seeing more and more deals come through because they realize they can do this and do it the right way."
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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beverleykendall.com
Donald Trump is O.J. Simpson, determined to find Nicole's killer himself. On the golf course. 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
wendysparrow.bsky.social
In a week, I get a shoulder MRI after a 2 month wait. It was going to be a 4 month wait but I called everywhere to find a sooner appt. And it's for an injury so painful that I actually went into the ER last week but immediately left because of the 30 people waiting and no seats.

I. hate. this. man.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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atrupar.com
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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charlottestein.bsky.social
So far I’ve had Elena Ferrante twice (phew she is DESPERATE to talk to me!), Ann Patchett, Martha Wells, and Frieda whatserface.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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cmdrsue.bsky.social
A truly great thread.
oregonthedm.bsky.social Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with

2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
Blue stone surrounding a gold metal core
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
we need a department of kerning
The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Anyway he coughed to death eventually
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Just thinking about the part in the silly YA fantasy series THE HUNGER GAMES when it turned out the president was part of an elite sex-trafficking ring of often underage survivors and the other powerful people from the Capitol all knew about it. Fantasy!! What an imaginative genre!
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
I hope the people who need to learn the lessons offered today are starting to realize that when you endlessly give certain folks the benefit of the doubt, this is the kind of evil that happens.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all. Plaintiffs are in the process of hiring an IT contractor. Plaintiffs’ contractor will meet with the government’s ESI Liaison (with attorneys on the phone) to attempt to work through issues concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved. While Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage,
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.

This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
environmicrobio.bsky.social Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 2d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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ryanlostintx.bsky.social
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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matthewdownhour.bsky.social
No one brings this up enough:

-Acosta gives Epstein a sweetheart deal
-Becomes Secretary of Labor
-In that capacity tries to gut anti-human trafficking funding

It's like a poorly written paperback legal thriller
The Secretary of Labor Wants to Cut Funding for an Agency That Combats Human Trafficking
Acosta, who is currently under scrutiny for his 2008 plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, has proposed an 80 percent cut to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs' budget.
psmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM