When I need to vent before I kick someone.
I’ve been known to bite, too.
Quoting an email from Mark Coker of Smashwords: In case you haven’t heard, about two weeks ago, PayPal contacted Smashwords and gave us a surprise ultimatum: Remove all titles containing bestiality, rape or incest, otherwise they threatened to deactivate our PayPal account. Smashwords has built their site around PayPal. They are negotiating, but PayPal holds all the […]
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I’ve had people say that to me. Yes, I wanted to smack them. It’s not actually what I’m saying here, I just liked it as a title. Recently a young lady on my Twitter feed decided to tweet some pictures of herself in various outfits. I clicked a few (I was actively avoiding editing, of
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I am so tired of hearing it passed around how this kid was bullied at school, that kid was harassed in class, and “no one did anything.” Now, if you’ve lost a loved one due to this horror–you go right ahead. You blame me, them, God, everybody. I am so sorry for your loss and
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Today, my email informs me, is Transgender Day of Remembrance.† I think it sucks that such a day is needed, but the fact of the matter is that one in four transgender people have been physically assaulted due to their identity. One in four. One in ten has been sexually assaulted because of who they
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Remember those internet rants I said were a waste of time? Here’s me, wasting some. In a newsletter type email today, I read about a woman who is outlining a novel for NaNoWriMo that she hopes to publish as an ebook in early to mid December. … …really? Okay, fine. Maybe she is just that
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“It’s not fair,” my 13yo will whine. “You’re right,” I’ll usually say. “I worked a lot already!” she’ll point out. “Yep.” “I should get to go!” “You’re right,” I’ll agree again. “Now. How much does [the mountain, the clock, the rain] care about everything you said?” I’m trying, you see, to teach my daughter that
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I don’t even know what I dunwanna do. Anything, I guess. It’s Sunday afternoon and I dunwanna do nothing. Oh flippin’ well. I have a list and I will get through it as best I can. Just as soon as I can drag my head out of the fog of not-caring. It’s times like these