Notices by Laura Anne Gilman (lagilman@raggedfeathers.com)

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The Seattle Times has no fucks left to give.

“As one of the country’s very few family-owned and -operated metro newspapers left, The Seattle Times is also apparently one of the few whose editorial board is willing to endorse presidential candidates.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/hell-yes-the-seattle-times-edit-board-endorses-harris-for-president/

One of the advantages of working in a PT clinic is, when something goes wrong, they get you in that week.

One of the disadvantages of working in a PT clinic is, your coworker’s been silently judging how you walk for 2 years, just waiting for a chance to tell you how you’re doing it wrong. 😂🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️

All nine South Dakota tribes have officially endorsed the banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands.

The rest of South Dakota is officially jealous of that ability.

https://apple.news/A-VnWERldTWyWviwlznUz0A

This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the use of the term “pull the trigger,” how often I use it, and what I could be saying instead.

“Pull the lever“ is always followed by “wrong lever!“ in my head. So that’s probably not a good choice. 🤦🏽♀️😂

Has anyone found something that works for them?

Jeff Bezos is moving to Florida in order to avoid paying 7% taxes on anything _over_ $250,000 in capital gains. The man already has more money than he could ever spend in his entire life, more money than his heirs could probably spend in their entire life, and he’s skipping town to avoid giving some of that to help support early childhood education.

There are many reasons why he’s probably a shitty human being, but this shoots up to number one on my list.

One of the more frustrating, and completely unsolvable problems of writing is that a third of your readers will complain that you explain X too much, while another third will complain that they didn’t understand X, because X was never explained.

There is absolutely no way for the writer to win. We’re just very thankful for the remaining third, who totally got it.

So far this morning I’ve encounter four (4!) timelines posting/reposting photos that a little thought would have suggested were manipulated/taken out of context.

People, the Fake Age is already well on us. I don’t care if it DOES seem to support your worldview or is So Cute! Or whatever. Check your damn sources and if a little voice says “that…seems unlikely,” then LISTEN.

/end rant not directed at anyone in particular but everyone in general.