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Jan Ashton 📚🐱🌎
@wordyashton.bsky.social
Author and editor of regency romance novels. I love #JaneAusten, animals, democracy, and a good Bolognese.
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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Movie mavens Max and Finn loved Flow. Paws crossed it wins the #oscar for best animated film.
February 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Every act of resistance matters, however small.
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
1st published 28 January 1813
January 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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These women didn’t sit down, stay quiet, or ask for permission—they broke the rules and changed the world. Role models.

We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
January 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Helpful hotlines today:

1-800-BUTTERBALL - for your Turkey

1-800-662-3263 (Ocean Spray hotline) - for your cranberry sauce

1-800-CALLFBI - for your annoying insurrectionist cousin

Happy Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 PM
So chocolate shakes can be delicious, inspiring, and a tax write-off? Perfect!
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
November 24, 2024 at 10:31 PM
By next week, the yards will be dull and brown and my unraked leaves will emerge to mock me, but right now I just love #Chicago and its autumn wonderland.
November 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
A tale as old as time. 😉
POV-

me researching and posting Historical Fiction and Romance book recs only to have my most liked post ended up being a 📸 of my cat napping on the back of the couch 🫠

*new social strategy add cat pics to every post
November 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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whenever a man says “childless women contribute nothing to society,” the ghost of the famously unmarried Jane Austen rises and says, “you are such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by you.”
November 19, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Yes, a common question for me too.
Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?
November 14, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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This site feels like twitter when twitter was fun and weird and cool.
November 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM