mastodon 4.7.3🐉 She/her. #Astounding nominee in Precambrian Era. Agt: Harold Matson Co. Avatar by Ethan Kocak.
ALT AVATAR: Smiling woman with long hair, two affectionate brown Burmese cats on shoulders.
ALT SPLASH: Apricot sunset streaked with pale blue sky & purple-grey clouds, framed by Northern White Pine & Red Oak. (c) KEKimbriel
#Writer (#SFFH) dealing w/ weird health & medical gaslighting. Canary in world's mine; sentinel antennae. #Neurodiverse 😷 https://linktr.ee/dragonrain33
Sometimes you need to see a story where someone else has responded to people trying to undermine them. . . by achieving resounding success.
In this case, she compounded the success by turning her ribbons from wins at quilting shows into a quilt, too.
https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/new-mexico-state-fair-ribbon-quilt-now-on-display-in-smithsonian/
ALT TEXT: "Robert Reich • @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy • 5h
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The tariffs roll in a cascade. Smaller businesses were hurt, and they fear more coming their way.
Most of them don't expect to get back the tariffs they paid. 🥺
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5939521/tariff-refunds-canada-trade-war
Return to historical Texas in @patricia_rice@mastodon.online 's TEXAS TIGER.
Georgina Hanover returns home to take her place in society, part of a powerful family alliance. But loyalties fracture & danger shadows their town.
Cling to the past---or embrace the future? 💕 Check out the sample!
@bookstodon #bookstodon #ebooks #books #BookViewCafe #ebooks #PatriciaRice #romance #Texas
@patricia_rice@mastodon.online, @ChazBrenchley@wandering.shop, @KSmithSF@wandering.shop, @gregoryfrost@wandering.shop, @marissadoyle@wandering.shop, @mayakaath@mastodon.world !
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-texas-tiger-by-patricia-rice/
This is writer Ken Brady's BIL. Don is a sweet man with a chronic disease (MS) he works around; he's an ink man who runs Newport Tattoo in Newport, Oregon. He was viciously attacked while walking his dog. It sounds like it's a miracle he survived.
Any boost on this would be wonderful. Thank you for reading. #GFM
All her life, orphaned Wren hoped for an adventure. With, say, a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician.
Turns out the princess was hiding at an orphanage, the prince is a youngest son, and the magician is. . . "new."
This isn't your average fairy tale!
WREN TO THE RESCUE by Sherwood Smith is the first of Wren's tales.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #ebooks #adventure #MiddleGrade #fantasy #WrensWorld #SherwoodSmith
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-wren-to-the-rescue-by-sherwood-smith/
Even if you feel you are "up" on recognizing email scams, you want to read this article. Because scammers are leveling up.
As always, not panicking and reacting too fast is key.
Can a man who’s lost his memory find true love with the woman who rescues him?
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If you have a secret love of forced proximity romance and secret or hidden identities? HERE TO STAY by Kate Freiman is waiting for you.
In #ebook & print from #BookViewCafe. @bookstodon #bookstodon #ContemporaryRomance #ForcedProximity #billionaire
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-here-to-stay-by-kate-freiman/
Best commentary I've found so far about the cruise ship and startling Andes hantavirus events. In the US, we can't rely on our public health experts right now because HHS has hamstrung them.
So--if in public, in close quarters, for a few months? If you know yourself to be a risk population, have close ones who are, or are hyper-immune? Masking is probably wise.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2026/05/hantavirus-need-to-know-stanford-medicine.html
Wait--you didn't think Sherwood Smith & Dave Trowbridge could pull together a 5 book, galaxy-spanning epic space opera with coups, humor, & universe-destroying artifacts?
😁 heh-heh-heh
Authors' cut of THE THRONES OF KRONOS, the finale to EXORDIUM! ☄️ Now available!
#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #Aliens #Collaboration #DaveTrowbridge #SherwoodSmith #ExordiumSeries #military #war #swashbuckling @bookstodon #bookstodon #ebook #books
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-the-thrones-of-kronos-by-sherwood-smith-and-dave-trowbridge/
The Milky Way Photographer of the Year Awards were announced today! #astrophotography #MilkyWay
If I haven't mentioned it lately, if you love quirky bookstores and have never read ONCE UPON A TOME by Oliver Darkshire, you've missed something.
Very much recommended. #books
Continue to be surprised by life.
It's actually not only life-affirming, it's life changing!
TIL about airglow, something named back in the mid-1800s. (Humans understood it was real for a long time, Aristotle & Pliny talked about it happening.)
On those faint color nights? It may not be an aurora in the sky. It may be airglow.
Space battles, political in-fighting, & personal struggles ramp up the stakes in THE RIFTER'S COVENANT, the rewritten 4th volume in the EXORDIUM series. Now in #ebook & #print from #BookViewCafe.
The Panarchy is in shambles & an ancient artifact they call the Suneater looms!
Sherwood Smith & Dave Trowbridge have created the author's edition.
#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera @bookstodon #bookstodon #books
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-the-rifters-covenant-by-sherwood-smith-and-dave-trowbridge/
Yes, I want my coffee, my vanilla, my olive oil, my cinnamon, AND my chocolate examined so I know what I love and what country to buy it from!
Certifying chocolate--it's a science and an art in Italy.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/g-s1-120911/chocolate-certified-cacao-standards-evaluate-coffee-wine
Wishing the best Mom energy to everyone out there, and a Happy Mother's Day to all the hardworking moms we know & love. 🌸
Everyone who didn't get good mom energy, for whatever reason? May you find nurturing people for your life, and may you nurture others.
We can be good change in the world.
Because measles is one of those diseases where you can think you've beaten it.
And then years later, that's a no. . . .
This fall, the Magic returns!
RE: @KatKimbriel@raggedfeathers.com
Re-upping this because this is a week for reading both the silly and the strong.
Sometimes, those ideas are the same thing.
Well.
I'm not the only person having migraines from Liquid Glass. I've tried everything in this article.
Tomorrow I go look at various Android phones. I can't wait for Apple. The migraine halo around the oval of my face is firing off my TMN.
https://androidexperto.com/ios-26s-liquid-glass-dark-mode-is-giving-users-vertigo-and-eye-strain/
This is very discouraging. I don't know what the board was thinking, choosing an MBA mentality to take over running Wikipedia.
But I don't support union busters.
I realize that with satellite, with cell towers and the public further into the arboreal forests, we might think that fire watchers aren't needed anymore.
But satellites can be turned off without warning. We have seen cell towers go down.
And I find that I feel a little safer knowing that the sharp eyes of a knowledgeable human being are out there in the wilderness, watching for change. #FireWatch
If you haven't started on air purifying plans for this year, keep in mind that a C-R box is a cheap way to make a good filtration device. Be ready for wildfires, because as dry as it is, we know smoke is coming our way.
I don't know if I can wait this long--I may be a dedicated Android user by then, or a person who never uses anything except the phone of my iPhone.
But for others, the ability to tone down Liquid Glass may save their relationship with Apple's phones.
Apparently The Common Good afa infection is concerned is in trouble.
Take care of yourselves.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/poll-rfk-maha-vaccine-safety-americans-00869088?_sq=1569
For your Iron Age Dreams. . . .
Let Big Picture Science explain why beavers can revitalize watersheds, rivers, and our forests. How they can help us withstand drought & climate change. #BigPictureScience
Love this podcast! I always leave an episode with new knowledge & hope.
Captain America's famous speech, "No, you move," given back to him in one timeline by Peggy's sister, is based on Mark Twain. (As I understand it. NOT caught up on the universe.)
A good week to read it, and its origins.
This is great news.
Except I suspect some very big money will attempt to suppress it. :(
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-satellite-shows-exactly-where-air-pollution-begins/
Old legends are true. Seeds can "hear" rain!
https://bioengineer.org/new-study-reveals-plants-can-detect-the-sound-of-rain/
Just breathe.
If you're going to read about Jenny Larson, The Bloggess, speaking at the LoC during the National Book Festival? Expect that her speech, & everything leading up to or away from it, will be . . . furiously happy. Terrified. And pretending it never happened.
With a #LoC card.
Enjoy. 🙃
Honestly, this removes a huge advantage to Netflix. The ability to try LOTS of things, a flat rate, no ads, easy access & Search--
That's all gone now, right? Are all the services no longer serving their customers? 🙁
Okay, confession.
Life, Interrupted has been ARGH for so long I have never looked at the Requests section. So if you didn't catch me when I Requested your account, I didn't see it.
Maybe that can be remedied in the next few months. All depends on whether I can hold off an Apple upgrade to a new OS on this machine.
Liquid Glass is AAARRRGGHHHH in the pain department. . . .
