One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in
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Fandom Is Supposed to Be Fun.
Fandom is something we all get into because we, frankly, like something. I feel like that shouldn’t be something that I have to spell out, but every once and a while I find myself in a fandom space where that
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Facebook Literally Pirated My Novel.
So Meta/Facebook apparently used millions of books to train its AI model without the permission of the authors or publishers. These aren’t even books they purchased, but books they illegally downloaded. I’ve known about this for a few weeks (and
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Deer.
I love living in Wisconsin. I really do. I love living just south of the 29 divide between “up north” and the rest of the state. I love living in a smaller city too — all the advantages of civilization,
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Spring Never Arrives All at Once
The weather has been on a roller coaster lately, just like it ends up every spring here in Wisconsin. For the last several weeks the temperatures have gotten nice and warm on Friday only to plunge back into the cold
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I’m Actually Doing Conventions this Year!
So I’m finally in a good mood with yesterday’s electoral wins, so I thought I’d post about some fun stuff instead of how the world is on fire for once. As some of you know, I’ve been trying to slowly
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Win or Lose, We Will Keep Fighting.
Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it’s vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon
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Moving Forward as Best We Can
It’s hard to tell how vulnerable to be on the internet anymore. How safe it it to be so exposed. Twenty years ago I’d just pour anything I was feeling into this space. While I filtered things for other people’s
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Conundrum.
So I’m just going to come out and say it: My favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is “Conundrum.” It’s episode fourteen of season five, and I just deeply love it. I don’t know if it’s because I
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Join Me on April 5th For the Next CTWC Virtual Event!
So on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches’ Collective’s April Brew virtual event. You can register for the event here, and it’s completely free. I’m going to be on a panel
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