Take a look at the wide variety of powerful women in my books! Ruby Barkley. Linda Coates. Justine Martiniere. Yesenia Cruz. Melanie Landreth-Fielding. Bess Fielding. Alicira. Inharise. Katerin. Rekare. Betsona. Just a few of the women in my work.
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I wish people had listened to me when I tried to say these things were going to be unbelievably important. Now I’m too fucking busy and tired to deal with this kind of shit, and I doubt the people that talked to me still would.
My take on Gavin Newsom is that he's another Dukakis or Romney: a blue state governor who wants to appear moderate and competent but ultimately doesn't have enough of a base to win #uspol
Go away, bot.
acting like newsom is already the nominee allows people to spend the next 2.5 years shouting about “the dnc” and further sink public perception of the democrats and voter morale in general.
lifting up causes and candidates seems like a far more productive use of one’s time, at the very least.
I haven't looked today. Yesterday it was $4.29.
“If Trump wants boots on the ground in Iran, he should deploy the ICE agents. They've spent months in American cities strutting around like elite military forces. Let's see how brave and courageous they really are.
They can even wear their masks.
Now is the time.”
#MilitaryDeployment #ICE #meme
Also seeing this, but doing the exact opposite thing they did with Joe Biden: Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson
A brown bunny hides its head behind a blue package with a tiger image on it.
What a difference an Epstein makes. If Joe Biden were still president, this guy would still be dominating every major news platform & still constantly bashing Joe's economic policies & still lying about how they caused all of the inflation.
You're part of a privileged minority.
same as the people in urbanism groups who won't shut up about how it's cool/based to skip turnstiles.
yeah okay buddy, it would be cool if the subway was free. in the meantime, it's $2 & almost all of you can afford it easily (still way cheaper than driving). if you love transit, support transit.
Yeah, years ago I knew sorority girls who were hardcore into a shoplifting thing. It was entirely about the entitlement (late '70s era).
sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you
This is downright ridiculous. Perhaps in that author's social circle it's the thing to do but...I don't know anyone who does this.
No kidding. Good grief. I don't know anyone who does this.
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
Makes me realize that one former girlfriend was the same sort of narcissist. Everybody had to wear/do what she did. I got tired of it and the friendship faded...she turned weirdly conservative and racist, one of the Sanders crowd.
had some sort of outside job, either full or part time. My aunts worked, one as a teacher, the other as a bookkeeper. Neighbors when I was very little--teacher, school secretary, secretary....
Late Boomer (Jones) here. My mother worked as a teacher, took a year off to have me. I was cared for by someone who did it under the table.
Husband is six years older. His mother worked in the cheese factory, dad was a dairy farmer.
Actually fairly typical circumstances. Most of the mothers I knew
So it’s an interesting question - to some extent Reconstruction failed because most northerners did not care what the south did. I think to make reconstruction electorally viable you needed either a better 1870s economy or you at least needed a more nationally connected one (like Clay hoped for)
Itch.io International Women's Day Bundle 32 stories featuring female protagonists, written by women 32 books for $32 Only until March 11th
Last day for this bundle! My Life in the Shadows is part of it...meet Diana Andrews and her mother Sarah Stephens...and the beginnings of the intergenerational conflict over the Netwalk tech.
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Again, dependent upon location.
I'm a late Boomer. Married another Boomer. Both of our mothers worked, full time.
THIS.
Same generation here but...my mother worked and I knew of other working mothers. It all depends on location.
It wasn't until he became a postal clerk that he had a steady income that wasn't dependent upon sales--before that he was an Army recruiter until the mid-'50s.
My mother taught before my parents married--she had to get a waiver to finish the year because married women weren't allowed to teach (1939). She went back into teaching in the mid-'50s and was the family breadwinner when I was growing up in the '60s/early '70s. Dad worked but as a shoe salesman.
Not familiar with the TV series but yeah, Laura working out of the home also kept the family afloat.
yep, i am 1. extremely passionate about pushing back on the insane and deadly ways in which horrible people are trying to use LLMs to harm and impoverish vast numbers of innocents.
and 2. 'LLMs are useless' is a bad argument which will not help us effectively fight the forces of big tech evil.
That's...not even a brand that my late shoe salesman father would necessarily promote. And good grief.
