If you’re in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.
You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that’s allowed.
“I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.”
this famous photo was featured as a center spread in the British Daily Mirror newspaper on Oct 9, 1962
photographer Jim Meads was with his two children as the then-experimental Mach-2 Lightning F1 fighter jet roared in to land at De Havilland Airfield near their home
a fuel leak caused catastrophic failure and the plane flipped. pilot George Aird ejected at the last moment, hit a greenhouse, and fell through the roof, breaking both legs as he landed unconscious on the ground. the water from the sprinkler system for the tomatoes woke him, and his first thought was that he must be in heaven
Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author
if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?
How to Download Your Kindle Books (with screenshots)
From your Amazon homepage, click “Account & Lists” then click “Content Library”
Click “Books”
Find the book you want to download and click “More actions”
Click “Download & transfer via USB”
Click the button next to your device, then click “Download”
That’s it! Your book file is now downloaded to your device. To my knowledge there isn’t a way to bulk download everything, which means that your have to download books individually. (If anyone knows how to download multiple books at a time, please let me know!)
I use the free software Calibre to organize my ebook files. This video gives a good basic overview of how to download your ebooks from Amazon to Calibre, and also goes over how to use Calibre to transfer your ebooks to Kobo. I recently got a Kobo and have slowly been transferring my ebooks to it, and it is actually pretty easy!
If you’re looking for ways to get ebooks without supporting Amazon, check out Smashwords, Bookshop.org, or see if your favorite author/publisher sells ebooks directly from their website.
My current boss edits mistakes into my work before I have to submit the work to other people. It’s done in her name - fine for government submission - but the client knows I drafted it. She made 19 edits to my latest legal memo. All 19 edits introduced errors. The work was BETTER before edits. She keeps saying it’s her English degree that makes her need « even the little things » right. Like. One, I have an English degree from a better school. Two, degree or not, her edits are WRONG. Also, she insists on reviewing emails before they go out. She changed there to their in the last one. I edited it back before sending, because it was about a location with no ownership relevance. She got mad at me.
ALT
