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The last beer truck in the world crashed on its way into town. There were no survivors.
Prom Mom
Prom Mom by Laura LippmanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Prom night, 1997. Baltimore.
Amber Glass passes out in a hotel, sick as a dog…
She delivers a baby alone…
Unattended….the baby dies…
Meanwhile, her prom date, Joe is off chasing after his ex-girlfriend…
25 years later….
Amber has done time, served a sentence and had her record sealed. She has spent the last few decades in New Orleans, building a life a Read more of this blog post »
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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“the Future is here…it’s just not evenly distributed.” -- William Gibson… Do you ever think about how many services in your life have NO obligation to be very good? Do you remember when Facebook was actually not a flaming pile of crap? When Twitter wa ...more |
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"I have only been on Goodreads since 2018 but since I joined there have been several major changes and IMHO, all of them made the site worse. Remember the old book pages? PM? Why does every change make the site worse? GR is becoming enshittified! But,"
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"It was really depressing to be reading this in the midst of Goodreads taking away the direct messaging function, further enshittifying an already enshittified site that wishes its users would -- to quote another article about the current state of the"
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“The other night I lost consciousness. When I finally came to, it was morning. I spent the next 8 and a half hours doing things I didn’t really feel like doing, but was compelled to do anyway. (Evidentially I receive something known as “financial Compensation” for this.) Eventually I was allowed to return home, where I recovered from the ordeal. I’m just afraid of what happens tonight, if I lose consciousness again. I have this fear that somehow this will start the process all over again.”
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“The other night I lost consciousness. When I finally came to, it was morning. I spent the next 8 and a half hours doing things I didn’t really feel like doing, but was compelled to do anyway. (Evidentially I receive something known as “financial Compensation” for this.) Eventually I was allowed to return home, where I recovered from the ordeal. I’m just afraid of what happens tonight, if I lose consciousness again. I have this fear that somehow this will start the process all over again.”
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities