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ktempestbradford

@ktempestbradford@wandering.shop

I'm an award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction author 💖 Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion! 💖 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.

DMs are closed but contact info is on my website!

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mishellbaker, to random
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Just a little reminder to any attendees who would like to see me: I'm not up for travel/public events just now but I am still ambulatory and functional (if tired) and will be taking visitors at my L.A. home this weekend. Not to put too fine a point on it, but statistically this is likely the last time I can do that.

Contact me at this handle at the goog mail if you want my address.

ktempestbradford,
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@mishellbaker big hugs. Not going to the Nebs, unfortunately. So more big hugs.

sbdivya, to random
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Super happy to share my first story in Clarkesworld with all of you!

"Artistic Encounters of a Monumental Nature" is about a street artist team and their mysterious rival.

It's free to read online, but please consider subscribing!

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/divya_06_24/

ktempestbradford,
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@sbdivya yaaaaay

thiswomanswerk, to random
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Hey y'all! so last year on #Juneteenth I started a lil #reparations thread. Some racist assholes took issue with that...

So this year I'll be making multiple threads throughout the month! It's now June where I am so I'm eager to get started.

Black folks, reply w/ your cashapp venmo ko-fi etc etc if you like.

Other folks, (especially if you're benefitting from the federal holiday) throw them coins if you got the means and boost replies in the thread for circulation

:)

pls boost

ktempestbradford,
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@thiswomanswerk hiyo! I'm Black and my Venmo is @/KTBradford. Huzzah for reparations!

annaleen, to random
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Are you a person in Portland, OR, who likes books and history and solving big problems? Then come see me next Tuesday, 6/4, at Powells! I'll be talking about my new book "Stories Are Weapons" with public radio's Dave Miller. It's a history of psychological warfare in the U.S., and a call for cultural peace. Hope to see you there!

This is a list of tour dates for the "Stories Are Weapons 2024 Tour." They are: 6/4 Portland Powell’s Books with Dave Miller 6/6 Seattle Town Hall Seattle with Lindy West 6/13 San Franicsco Mechanics Institute with Alexis Madrigal 6/18 Berkeley Hillside Club with Ed Yong 6/22 Vancouver, BC Massy Books, with Charlie Jane Anders 8/24 Washington, DC National Book Festival with Peter Pomerantsev

ktempestbradford,
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@annaleen soooooo remember how I said I'd see you in Portland? I lied.

I'll see you in Seattle, instead!

Got a dogsitting gig and leaving town Tuesday. Good thing I'm leaving for the place you're going to next!

phildini, to linux
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Oh, hey, yes: if you want help switching to , I’m happy to help, but I’m also not going to try and say you must switch
https://fursuits.online/@tilton/112510442861399719

ktempestbradford,
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@phildini I have an old Chromebook that can't have an OS update. Help me put Linux on that sometime?

ktempestbradford, to random
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100% in agreement. I really want the Galaxy Ring, but not if it costs as much as an Oura and requires a subscription. Especially as a galaxy phone user!

"We need to stop letting companies double-dip with high upfront costs and required subscriptions | Android Central"

https://www.androidcentral.com/wearables/we-need-to-stop-letting-companies-double-dip-with-high-upfront-costs-and-required-subscriptions

ktempestbradford, to random
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📣 Hey Writers! Do you know about the On Demand Courses available from Writing the Other?

Webinars, Master Classes, and self-guided Deep Dives to help you #DecolonizeYourFiction, available for purchase any time, day or night, in any time zone, on any planet in this solar system 🌌

https://writingtheother.com/on-demand-classes/

Help me boost this across the #WritingCommunity pleeeeze 🙏🏾 Thanks! 🥰

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

ktempestbradford, to random
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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/

ktempestbradford, to random
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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.

ktempestbradford, to random
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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/

ktempestbradford, to random
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See a #WritingTheOther 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/

ktempestbradford, to random
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Didn't realize that by coming to this airport I was entering the 3rd circle of hell....

Oscar Mayer branded gummy bacon
Oscar Meyer branded gummy hot dogs. All of these candies look like the products they're based on, adding extra horror to the proceedings.

ktempestbradford,
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It got worse.

ktempestbradford,
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@bryan @futurebird @beans_please I....

Really on the fence here because I do enjoy meta-ness, yet also cannot imagine inflicting the gummy hot dogs on myself.

annaleen, (edited ) to random
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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.

ktempestbradford, to random
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Can my librarian and teacher friends speak to this epidemic of young people not knowing how to use computers? Cuz... wow

https://www.tumblr.com/s-leary/748660000648495104?source=share

ktempestbradford,
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@Jakra meanwhile, I'm out here like: why do I need an app store for this software on my laptop?? I can get it from the website.

ktempestbradford, to random
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The scene: My boomer dad and I are watching TV. A commercial for a show called MILF Island (or something).

Dad: Points to MILF What does that mean?
Me: Mother I'd Like to F---
Dad: chuckles Okay, what does it really mean?
Me: I'm not kidding, that's really what it means. I explain the general concept
Dad: Shakes his head in elderly disbelief
Me: contemplates the life choices that have led me to the moment where I have to explain MILF to my father

ktempestbradford, to random
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Okay okay okay can we just talk about how BEAUTIFUL the actress who plays Penelope is? (I don't know her name, sorry.) She's obviously going for the glowup in this season, but she has always been such a cutie. Here she's radiant. I'm losing my mind.

#Bridgerton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4JYAx5rNRA&ab_channel=Netflix

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