@roanna
Comedy novelist/gossip columnist for imaginary people. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Member of Armadillo Authors Society. Learn more at https://www.armadilloauthorssociety.com/
I’d like people to notice is how the reviewer and the introduction uses a multi-century movement of peoples to support today’s anti-immigrant argument in Britain.
However you characterize movement from 200-600, it ain’t anything like anything modern. Because FOUR HUNDRED YEARS
Prodigy! Yep.
It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation
This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society
it's that recurrent moment again where awful people are replaced by different awful people and yet I'm still sort of glad to see the original awful people gone
This is what it feels like to post on BlueSky.
It's always time for this anti-fascist moment from Casablanca.
While the US slides deeper into the Dark Ages, the European Medicines Agency has approved a vaccine that protects against both the flu & COVID.
"Look, I understand the anxiety. I really do. It’s uncomfortable realizing that the same technology that drafts awkward emails and pretends to be your therapist also shines in the cruelty department and may one day bomb you out of existence."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
I also note that HMT is the ONLY major media product to take Dominionists seriously as a threat, as Christian Nationalist Terrorism, and a cadre of self-serving, selfish, manipulative, deluded buffoons.
And JFC that needs more press.
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
Do y’all remember a zillion years ago, in a much happier time, when Conan O’Brien did his “hipster infestation” skit? My husband and I still quote it to each other.
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I been saying them shits was nuggets!
You know what will make your day? Getting a note out of the blue from a stranger who just wanted to say they're reading and enjoying your book.
22 episode seasons too 😭
So much of my college days are colored with this band in the backdrop. Irish punk and Appalachian folk have a lot in common with being pissed off at those who keep applying the boot to the neck.
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
Author Night Mystery and Noir Four authors read a selection of mystery, noir, and crime fiction with a New Orleans twist Featuring readings by Tom Andes, Danny Cherry jr., Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert. Wed March 25th 530 pm to 630pm Nora Navra Library 1902 Saint Bernard Ave. NOLA Public Library
I'll be taking part in mystery and noir night for New Orleans Public Library on 3/25!
I'll be reading from my novel, The Pike boys, and slinging some signed copies.
I'll be alongside Tom Andes ( @tomandes.bsky.social),Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert!
Location: Nora Navra branch
time: 5:30!
This day has been a MONTH.
frances peaches, painted by bertha heiges, 1903
frances peaches, painted by bertha heiges, 1903
NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.
The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.
san.com/cc/what-your...
i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist
also taking a shit apparently
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Papa (maternal) did woodworking, made stained glass & repaired planes during WWII. Worked for his bros mostly.
Great uncle Tommy fought Rommel in the desert, only knew him as a retiree.
Grandpa (paternal) was a salesman.
Granny (paternal) picked cotton & worked in textile mills.
Maternal gfather: NYC taxi driver, master armorer during WWII, union plumber. Artist.
Maternal gmother: Farmer, home-maker, raised 4 kids.
Paternal gfather: Army Corps of Engineers, including building roads in the South Pacific during WWII.
Paternal gmother: computer operator, home-maker, 3 kids.
How to win in November
