Alissa C. Miles 👩🏻🦰
@alissacmiles.bsky.social
Freelance Editor | Writer/Reader | Boy Mom | Needlepointer | All-Around WASPy Nerd in NC
Reminder: perhaps the easiest & cheapest way to tell Bezos to fuck off is by linking to Bookshop or (even better) an indie bookstore WHENEVER you talk about a book online. W/o a link people will just google it & that will lead to Amazon. W a link you can send a sale to a good business
Roadsteamer MEME Warriors Anyone know where I can pick this book up?
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
“Every time Black communities get close to political power, we see this shift… We see states across the South reminding the country exactly why those protections exist in the first place.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“Alexa, show us an interview you couldn’t pay us any amount of money to watch”
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
Chris Sale stifled bats throughout his longest outing of the season 🫡
My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news. www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
nbcnews.com
I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán. It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight. Holy shit.
“Trump’s former spiritual advisor released from jail after serving just 6 months for molesting a 12 year-old girl.”
A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, ready to start their new life together. Instead, ICE detained her. She was brought to the U.S. as a toddler. People like her should be citizens, not treated like criminals.
Because nothing says “support our troops" like having ICE detain their law-abiding wives.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
I also feel this way at the end of the book. Sometimes it jumps to rating the book when I want to read the acknowledgements
Nellie Cubed@nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe world has massive problems, but I hate it when a new downloaded book opens to page 1. Sir, I want to see the cover and the title page and the copyright year and the dedication. Don’t be telling me what I can and cannot skip when I’m the one reading the book. #BookSky 📚💙
Do not mess with Dawn Staley, y’all. #gogamecocks
“The novel has created a buzz among their old college friends, now in their 60s, about what’s fiction and what’s not. But what’s unquestionably real is the unusual male friendship that King portrays in Heart the Lover.” Moving this one up on my list!
The Assembly@theassemblync.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Epic Real-Life Friendship Behind an Acclaimed Novel Lily King’s “Heart the Lover” commemorates three chums who bonded as students in Chapel Hill. With two of them departed, their friends recall an uncommon alliance that ended too soon.
You love to see it. Slop is anti art and doesn't deserve to be published.
School canceled for tomorrow due to severe weather 😳
“Can we pray for the moms as well? Or just the babies?” Allie Phillips bravely told a pro-FAILED abortion death penalty bill group her story of fleeing Tennessee for a life-saving abortion Men tried to intimidate/stop her. She persisted: www.instagram.com/reel/DVuUJfm...
“It isn’t that I’m more afraid of public speaking than death; it is that public speaking feels like it could cause my death. But I do it every month because I am a high school librarian in the state of Texas in times such as these.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @la-cac.org www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-...
How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty
I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.
texasobserver.org
Who at Grammarly thought this was a winning idea?
Julia Angwin@juliaangwin.com · 5mo agoI'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
