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Hi, I'm Roberta (IT). Quirky books reviewer, indie & small-pub authors champion, book justice warrior, LGBTQIAP+ ally, David Tennant gifs dispenser. She/her.

Italy
Joined July 2021
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New How I Filmed This content: I break down why the Heaven scenes were hell to shoot in Good Omens 3 Design/camera/budget youtu.be/aN20D_u4evs #GoodOmens
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Happy Birthday to our superstar ⭐️ in every way. You make me burst with pride. The sweetest kindest boy . Keep shining .Hope all your dreams come true 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💙
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This is scary…
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Saying “I hate Jewish people” is antisemitism Saying “I hate Israel for committing genocide” is NOT antisemitism. Hope this helps.
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They both had wildness in their hair — twigs, branches, the odd blossom. She carried the crunch of drought, he the crisp of ice. medium.com/promptly-written/… #Medium #MediumWriters #ShortStory #WritingCommunity
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A reminder.
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If nothing else, the people claiming there "are no books for boys or men" demonstrate that publishing needs to reinvent its marketing strategy. These books 100% exist, but everyone's always claiming not to know this.
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Has anyone investigated whether the fact publishing is notoriously an underpaid industry is related to the employees being women? Men are very free to go make $40k (or less?) to live on NYC, but men are always telling me that's absurd and they wouldn't agree to that.
Is the "boys don't read" problem a matter of supply or demand? More than 70 percent of staff at America's Big Five publishers are women, as are more than 70 percent of editors and a majority of executives. Adam Szetela argues this is the single biggest transformation in the history of American publishing, and that an industry recruiting almost entirely from elite universities has narrowed what reaches the shelves. quillette.com/2026/10/23/why…
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California has approved funding for 1939 Market Senior Housing, a 187-unit affordable housing development in San Francisco that will prioritize LGBTQ+ seniors. The development will remain open to all eligible seniors, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Construction is expected to begin in early 2027, with the first residents potentially moving in by 2029 #NOH8
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Google forced to halt work in Finland after illegally clearing 250,000 trees for a new data center, according to the Guardian.
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it's worse than that. google cut down the forest WITHOUT A PERMIT because they know they're too big for small countries like ours to fight. they got off with a "oops haha sorry lol"
JUST IN: Wolves are reportedly roaming into Finnish villages after Google cleared over 56 million square feet of forest for AI data centers.
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For AI fucking data centers. Destroying the planet so people can ask a chatbot the fucking weather. Or to write a fucking email. Or to steal our children's future. Or so an AI agent can hack your bank account. What a horrific disgrace to our planet.
Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki theguardian.com/environment/…
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The guy who directed the killing of 250.000 trees in Finland for Google now with a nopology + "We don't think it would be useful to start debating this publicly."
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Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants data centers in space. Nobody wants humanoid robots or flying cars. We want clean water. We want a stable climate. We want a habitable planet. We want wildlife to survive. We want to live.
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It's 400,000 trees and not reportedly. They did.
JUST IN: Google reportedly cut down 250,000 trees to build data center
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Happy Birthday, Chaz Bono!🥳 Chaz Bono opened up about his journey with gender in an interview with The New York Times in 2011. 📸 Getty
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56 million square feet of forest. There needs to be public beheadings.
JUST IN: Wolves are reportedly roaming into Finnish villages after Google cleared over 56 million square feet of forest for AI data centers.
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Getting someone’s #pronouns right is the simplest way of being an ally! If you’re not sure which pronouns to use, politely ask. #PronounsDay #transgender #nonbinary #trans
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Replying to @maryarchived
God y'all are so jealous and insecure it's pathetic. She's successful and gorgeous and you're not. Go to therapy instead of attacking someone who's way out of your league anyways.
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