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ktempestbradford

@ktempestbradford@wandering.shop

I'm an award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction author ๐Ÿ’– Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion! ๐Ÿ’– a creative writing teacher for Writing the Other (aka https://botsin.space/@writingtheother_bot and also https://writing.exchange/@writingtheother), on the steering committee for the Carl Brandon Society, and a Black Girl who is Magic.

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I've never wanted to punch a website before, and yet here we are....

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someone please explain to me like I'm 2 why Joel Edgerton keeps getting roles when he is, at best, a mediocre actor? Every time I see him in something I spend most of it going "Why is this man still here?"

ktempestbradford,
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It is a mystery on the level of why Sam Worthington still has a career. Dude has been the LEAD in multiple blockbuster films and I bet you can't even recall what he looks like. He is the ultimate Stock White Man from central casting and has about that same level of talent. Yet time and time again I see his name in the credits and I go "wait... which guy was he??"

ktempestbradford, to random
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Wow, this is possibly the stupidest, greediest, most predatory abuse of copyright I've seen in a while.

A person can't post a photo of a room with wallpaper that has a licensed image even if the wallpaper was legally bought? That's not how this is supposed to work!

"She didn't credit me in the caption."

WHO TF LOOKS UP THE NAME OF THE WALLPAPER ARTIST WHEN POSTING VACATION HOME PHOTOS?

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/22/photographer-sues-grandma-over-wallpaper-photo-copyright-infringement/

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Saw someone on here the other day giving all the reasons they won't vote because all the choices are bad and there's no lesser evil and etc. Meanwhile, one choice for president will very definitely try to become a dictator while the other will not. So.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-ian-black-if-trumps-acquitted-hell-be-an-unstoppable-terror?ref=home

ktempestbradford, to random
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YES. THIS. Thank you @pycon for continuing to protect the most vulnerable.

Other cons, take note. (WORLDCON yeah I'm looking at you.)

https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/112462436451472935

ktempestbradford,
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Along those lines, shoutout to BigBadCon for doing the same thing. I felt so safe at BBC because everyone had to take a covid test to get in (the con provided them at the door, even) and everyone had to wear a mask in con spaces.

Even when I attended the POC Dinner, in which folks understandably weren't masked the entire time, I didn't feel anxiety. Again, we had all tested before coming in.

I still wore my mask when I wasn't eating out of caution, but that's me.

ktempestbradford,
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I'm immunocompromised. Getting COVID is still very dangerous for me. And it pisses me off so much that people act as if it's okay to prioritize their comfort over the safety of folks like me. because that's all it is, comfort. Yes, wearing a mask for hours isn't great, yet it's also not torture (for most - I know some folks have issues due to trauma, and I respect that and have no beef). Get over yourselves and think of other people.

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Johns Hopkins is doing a COVID Long Study and is looking for survey participants. According to the post I saw on Tumblr, they need more folks who have NOT had COVID to fill it out. But it's for both people who have and have not had it.

Take the survey here: https://covid-long.com/

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See a class you'd like to take but can't afford the cost? We have scholarships for this very reason. You do NOT need to be dead broke or in dire financial straits to qualify.

Don't self-reject! We have a wide definition of financial need.

Scholarship deadlines and application links are on every class page. Here are the classes currently open for registration:

https://writingtheother.com/category/classes/reg/

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Guess what? I'm on book tour this summer. Come see me discussing the history of psyops and the future of peace with these astonishing conversation partners! Be sure to say hi!

ktempestbradford,
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@annaleen YEAH. and when you come to Portland this time I will not hide in my house and actually see you.

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