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youseeatortoise

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Author of "Cascade (The Sleep of Reason Book 1)" and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter.

https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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youseeatortoise,
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@jeffowski I do this too (with teenagers/adults)

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@sarahmatthews @bookstodon I loved this book. So bleak.

youseeatortoise, to writing
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A review! I always enjoy breaking the sad news to people that yes, we swear much more than you think in Canada.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/10/04/review-cascade-rachel-a-rosen/?fbclid=IwAR3r82snQWxFxm5bHauf0cM8zoJ1PvD3G7KlhsfHlrAJ-r3JV1AsYrO0drQ

youseeatortoise, to random
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What's your WIP about?

Blight is the sequel to Cascade (https://mybook.to/cascade) and the difficult middle child in the Sleep of Reason trilogy.

Three years after a second magical catastrophe transforms the world into a hellscape and with a murderous far-right government in power, the small, scattered resistance movement is handed a rare opportunity when the regime's poster child defects. What follows is a battle for the ruins of civilization and a broken country's soul.

br00t4c, to Teachers
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Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI

https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-are-going-all-in-on-generative-ai/

youseeatortoise,
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@br00t4c I was horrified to find out some fellow teachers were using it. The kids are already learning very little.

kentbrew, to chrome
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Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

youseeatortoise,
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@kentbrew Thanks! I should really switch to Firefox but it's a monumental task, so I appreciate this in the meantime.

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youseeatortoise,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 you'd think even if they didn't care about our lives (they don't) they'd care about this. But the economy in the Global North is mostly fake I guess.

br00t4c, to climate
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Are we prepared for a climate created emergency in Ontario?

https://rabble.ca/environment/are-we-prepared-for-a-climate-created-emergency-in-ontario/

youseeatortoise,
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@br00t4c with this government? I'm guessing not.

vlrny, to Canada
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Petition to "call upon the Government of Canada to create and implement a disability emergency relief benefit to provide immediate support to people with disabilities while awaiting the implementation of the Canada Disability Benefit."

Please sign and share this link everywhere you can.

Poverty is crushing disabled ppl in Canada (including me). We need your advocacy. 💪🧡

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4514

youseeatortoise,
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@vlrny Not healthy but signed and boosted. <3

youseeatortoise, to fantasy
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Sep 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?

All of it, really. Most is given from amateurs to other amateurs based on something their Grade 11 English teacher told them. Did your Grade 11 English teacher write a book?

But my particular bugbear at the moment is hard magic vs, soft magic systems, magic systems being an idea that needs to be nuked from orbit in .

youseeatortoise,
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@kurtseifried @cstross Alas, creative writing is falling by the wayside—along with reading novels—as schools focus mostly on standardized testing.

youseeatortoise, to random
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59 — What is the best piece of advice that your MC has ever been given?

Wear comfortable shoes. It's a long, hard fight. You can't do it in heels.

dangillmor, to random
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A person I otherwise deeply respect has remained (very) active on the deadbird site, and is even paying for it, because (the person says) it fulfills a professional need that can't be met elsewhere.

My friend calls it "a deal with the devil." On that, we agree.

I have my share of hypocrisies, and try to manage them carefully. Sticking with a site run by an enemy of journalism and democracy was just too much to stomach.

Journalists should leave. Period.

youseeatortoise,
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@rysiek @dangillmor The dead bird site is also useless (from a newsreader's perspective) for following the news. I was mainly using it for that and I left when I couldn't find anything.

youseeatortoise, to random
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IT person: Ah yes, I see why your computer isn't working. It has snakes in it.

youseeatortoise, to random
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26 If your MC wrote books, what genre would they write? Why?

Maya: Would scrape the serial numbers off her epic-length Night Beats fanfic and publish it.

Ian would write edgy experimental literary fiction but entirely accidentally and when asked would claim that it was what happened last Tuesday.

Blythe would write about the inherent eroticism of the sea.

Jonah would write extremely pulpy Westerns and sword and sorcery.

GottaLaff, to random
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is in the jail, per Scott MacFarlane (going thru the booking process).

In jail.

He has been arrested and is…

In jail.

How I wish, so fervently wish, that we could say those words every day for the rest of his vile life.

youseeatortoise,
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@GottaLaff I wanna seeeee

eniko, to random
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It upsets me when people speculate despondently that we'll never get rid of covid now, that our chance has passed, when meanwhile we're not even trying for the lowest of low hanging fruit

For example, airplanes should be running their air filtration at max when boarding and deplaning. They don't. They have never done this throughout the pandemic. They can, there's no technical issue preventing them from doing this, they just don't, helping to spread covid variants internationally

Or schools. We've seen studies show that schools are a major vector for the spread of covid (and other airborne diseases!) We've also anecdotally seen many examples of schools that kept covid out completely, either through ventilation and filtration or testing and masking or some combination. Putting air filters in classrooms is dirt cheap compared to disabling students and sickening their households, but it's not even being looked at

They haven't even tried literally pushing a button and are telling us nothing can be done

youseeatortoise,
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@eniko I am fascinated by this! I'm facing career repercussions by still masking at work. I have no windows but 2 HEPA filters in each classroom. I'm told the ventilation in my space is excellent—but not by anyone I trust to know more about these things than I do. The article doesn't say anything about masking or class size either. I lack an engineer's brain or experience and I would literally throw money at someone to do this in my school.

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People who criticize me for being concerned about getting a disease that could harm or permanently disable me or my loved ones get instantly blocked. There's no "both sides" here. If you do that, you're an asshole, and I will remove you from my life in every way I can. Period.

youseeatortoise,
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@mattblaze What? You mean you don't want to increase your chances of dementia, heart attack, and stroke? how odd /s

JenWojcik, to random
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Unless you move your pieces around with your genitals, there is no goddamm good reason for CHESS COMPETITIONS to ban transgender players.

I MEAN COME THE FUCK ON.

youseeatortoise,
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@JenWojcik And if you are, chess just got a lot more exciting I guess (but they still shouldn't ban transgender players obviously).

juliaserano, to trans
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"Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & LGBTQ+ Purity Politics" may be my best essay of 2022 – it explains how heteronormative beliefs about sex & penises shape stereotypes of both bisexuals & trans ppl (including claims that we are "perpetually privileged") within cultural feminist-leaning queer spaces...
https://juliaserano.medium.com/penises-privilege-and-feminist-lgbtq-purity-politics-bafd1f25fe3e?sk=5098f46767404745b65d298b79aa8066

youseeatortoise,
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@juliaserano TIL that Julia Serano is on Mastodon omg!

absolutspacegrl, to random
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The fact that some people I work with still have this guy’s comics up at their desks is very off-putting.

I used to, they were engineering-related and we kind of all did like 15 years ago. Then he went off the deep end and I threw that shit away.

Here’s a recent gem of a tweet 🙄

youseeatortoise,
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@absolutspacegrl Is he suggesting that all ladies are over a hundred years old?

youseeatortoise, to random
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Look at me on a brand-new platform and I've yet to post a single cat picture. Here are the girls in question, Cocoa and Sabot. They have a secret they won't tell me.

joannaholman, to random
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I hate how much modern life includes wasting time evaluating middleman companies between you and the service you want to use. Last night I needed to make a hotel booking and ended up in a daze trying to compare the hotel’s website, booking platforms and sites that compare booking platforms. I think I even saw a site comparing the comparison platforms. Every site has slightly different rates, offers and booking terms but ultimately all are for the same standard hotel room.

Same problem getting a phone plan or electricity company. My phone is still largely going through the same phone towers and my electricity from the same power plant even if I pick plans offered by an airline or supermarket for some reason. I wonder how much of what I spend each year goes in profit to middleman companies like these?

youseeatortoise,
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@santiago @joannaholman I'm so sorry to hear that. Nothing you require to stay alive should ever be in private hands.

youseeatortoise, to random
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I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

youseeatortoise,
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@dbaplanb @caregivers Ooooh I need that.

AuthorHelp, to books
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We're intending to run a in November.

and will be invited to post about their books, or related subjects like research, using the hashtag. They can also run competitions, offer signed copies, etc.

can watch or follow the hashtag to find to read and authors to follow.

Details and registration: https://authorhelp.uk/FediBookFair/

Boosts appreciated.

@authorindiespeak @writingcommunity

youseeatortoise,
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@AuthorHelp @authorindiespeak @writingcommunity This is so cool!

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