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Coming This Sunday: The Pride Book Fair on Itch.io

Authors Claudie Aresenault, Erinn Harper, and Cara Nox have put together an awesome Pride Book Fair! 8 bundles of queer books on itch.io, featuring 110 books total – launching on Sunday, June 22nd, at 7 p.m. Eastern time, and ending July 1st at 3 a.m. Eastern.

You can get all 110 books by buying The Big Bundle of Queer Awesomeness, only $100 – 76% off the price of buying all the books individually – or you can buy one or more genre bundles of your choice!

Duck Prints Press has five books included – all five are in The Big Bundle of Queer Awesomeness, or we’ve got one in the Science Fiction bundle, three in the Urban and Contemporary Fantasy bundle, and one in the Fantasy Romance bundle!

Read more about the Pride Book Fairs on their carrd!

Check out all the bundles: Big Bundle | Contemporary & Historical Fiction | Fantasy | Science Fiction | Fantasy Romance | Urban & Contemporary Fantasy | Dark Fantasy & Horror 1 | Dark Fantasy & Horror 2

The Pride Book Fair is separate from the Pride Bundles for Charity that Duck Prints Press is hosting to raise money for Rainbow Railroad, and is also separate from the Citrus Con itch.io 18+ erotica games, comics, books, and more bundle in which we have a book! June sure is prime time for discounted queer stories – when better to fill up your e-book reader? Come read with us!

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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As a bonus, there is now scientific research showing it negatively impacts the brain. Which, thanks, we could see that. But having proof (which is a bit more nuanced than "chat gpt induces literal brainrot" and yet also basically includes that) maybe, just maybe can we stop acting like using generative ai for everything is some kind of flex?

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

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“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

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Another Kremlin policy to kill Americans put in place by MAGA traitors.

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These goons are living out their juvenile video game fantasies. What sane person would do a job like this? Ski masks in the summer in broad daylight, kidnapping mothers and fathers off the street. Scaring children?

None of this helps improve America, let alone make it great. One word: shameful.

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Not seeing anyone talk about it, so Greta Thunberg and three other activists on the Madleen have been released by Israel. I can't find the names of the others who accepted deportation, but Greta Thunberg is back in France.

Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who was also onboard the Madleen, has refused deportation along with the other 7 remaining passengers. She specifically said that she refused to sign a document stating she had entered Israeli waters illegally. She and the other seven passengers will face an Israeli court this week. They are in danger. Spread the word.

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“When George Hornedo, 34, was still deciding whether to run in the Democratic primary for Indiana’s seventh congressional district against longtime incumbent André Carson, a party elder looked him in the eyes and said: “You are gonna get hurt.” Hornedo went home that day and posted a TikTok video recounting the encounter. According to him, it highlighted the reality of the Democratic party. “The people in charge don’t just fight Republicans, they fight anybody who challenges them,” Hornedo said. “That’s not democracy, that’s machine politics.””

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‘They got us into this’: Indiana Democrat says party leaders cannot lead

It’s time to clean house. It’s time for the old guard who paved the way for all of this horror to retire, and make way for younger leaders who are ready and willing to fight against that same horror.

I say it all the time: these feckless, useless, conflict-averse, politicians are worse than Republicans because they don’t just ensure Republican policies are adopted, they block people who will fight to prevent those policies from being adopted in the first place.

David Hogg was right. Fuck the party power brokers who drove him out of the DNC because he threatened their gravy train.

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-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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doing anything with technology these days is an unending cycle of going no i do not want to use AI. im not interested in setting up copilot. I do not want help building my site. I would like my autocorrect to make sense again. I do not want AI generated search suggestions. no. nope. still not. die

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The Golden Girls – 2.05: Isn't It Romantic

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"it's okay to live with your parents as an adult if you're disabled" "it's okay if it's a cultural thing" "it's okay if you're trying to save mon-" shh. listen. it is okay for any reason. you don't need to have a justification. if your parents are alright with it and you're alright with it you can just do it. peace and love on planet earth etc etc