Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick)

I'm in a POTS seesaw. Ugh

Final querying hour (hour 17) ran over a bit bc dang computer. 13 queries sent on this sprint. Not too shabby. #24hrWritingSprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social

Hour 15 of #24hrWritingSprint finally collected 5 more agents on my query list and got a query out to 1. Slow progress but progress nonetheless. There are over 600 people doing this, I think. Such a cool event. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social @scrivenerapp.bsky.social

This query hour of the sprint was a slow slog working to find 5 more agents to query. This is why it's a task that needs a honking chunk of time. #24hrWritingSprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social

8th hour done. More queries sent. At that stage where I start thinking I've messed up each one immediately after hitting send. Hmmm. #24hrwritingsprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social

Off to Singapore for the next hour - just completed #6. Queries going out, words getting written. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social #24hrWritingSprint

That is the 4th hour of the #24hrWritingSprint with @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social - heading to 8a in Melbourne next! Query work progressing - slow but nice to have time set aside to crank it out.

Second hour of #24hrWritingSprint spent sending queries - will be toggling btwn that and new words. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social

It's like the quaggas in South Africa - strikingly beautiful genetically modified zebra that look very similar to those extinct beasts, but are not in fact quagga.

ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico “We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.

ICE is not accounting for the whereabouts of dozens of detainees from New Mexico

Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.

Screenshot of a McConnell tweet declaring “this week in the Senate proved that clumsy partisan jams will not work” after he filibustered a Democratic spending bill and Democrats agreed to allow a McConnell-preferred clean bill to pass to avert a shutdown.

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

They are tryna disappear us. Submit your work. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged for the work we do.

Wishing you luck. I don't have anything you haven't tried.

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

If you're a Gillibrand constituent, for the love of God, please call her office to demand she not bow to Republicans. Phone numbers below for each region she reps.

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

attacking higher education is economic sabotage

the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities

“The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.”

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

‘Passports taken by the government’: How new State Department rule blocks trans travelers The passport ban by the State Department has left transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans without one of the most vital travel documents.

All of us deserve accurate IDs so we can safely travel and go about our daily lives without fear of harassment or discrimination.

The attacks on transgender people must stop.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

A Substack thumbnail that reads Hibernation: Reflections on the winter season and life with POTS - a picture of layers of snow on a windowsill w a partly cloudy blue sky in the background and a red glass votive holder and a glass happy cat on the inner sill

My latest post compares managing overcommitment w POTS to seasonal hibernation.

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

TFW you read a line in writing group and they gasp.

I posted about the flavor, the chew of words on my Substack (link in profile)

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.*

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽