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@pronounced_ing
Nov 26, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Today is #SmallBusinessSaturday and it’s a great day to support your local independent bookstore! Find one near you (and don’t forget that many will ship): indiebound.org/indie-store-fi…

Here are some things you might not have known your indie bookstore offers:
1. Your indie bookstore is staffed by actual humans who read books, love taking about books, and can give you personalized recommendations for your mom, siblings, friends, uncle, neighbor… or yourself. Just ask them! #IndiesFirst
2. Don’t see what you want on the shelf? Your local indie can order just about any in-print book for you, and it will arrive in days. #IndiesFirst
3. Maybe you love ebooks. Indies can help you there too! A Kobo e-reader is light, waterproof, and illuminated (my husband prefers his to his other previous e-reader) and often, you can buy e-books from your indie: indiebound.org/ebooks
4. Or maybe you’re an audiobookophile. (What? It’s a word. I think.) Get your audiobooks through Libro.fm and support independent book selling: libro.fm/?gclid=Cj0KCQi…
5. In addition to the obvious—books—indie bookstores pick out stuff that makes great holiday gifts. Or treats for yourself. Example: my family always wants calendars, so I got a bunch… and snagged this one for myself. Page a day calendar of “The little World of Liz Climo”
6. Many independent bookstores also sell awesome T-shirts. (Bookstore T-shirts are approximately 50% of my wardrobe now.) They make great gifts for faraway friends! Or, again, yourself… Celeste Ng selfie wearing a Book Soup tee
7. Don’t wear T-shirts? Need something to carry all your books in? Indies offer some of the coolest tote bags around. Example: this one from @ravenbookstore. Tote from the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas
8. Puzzles and games! You know you love them. Indie bookstores often carry a great assortment of them, and are a great way to discover new favorites. #IndiesFirst
9. Did you know an indie can bring you a BOOK FROM THE FUTURE? I love this idea from @maggiesmithpoet: preorder upcoming books from your local store (they can help you!), they’ll arrive the pub date, you’ll have a gift that keeps on giving. #IndiesFirst #SmallBusinessSaturday
8.5: The delay between tweets 8 and 9 brought to you by the bookseller who recommended the board game Mysterium to my friend, who brought it over, and with whom I was playing it for the past few hours! Recommendations from humans, folks. 12/10 would ask again.
10. Finally, for every $100 you spend at a local small business, $68 stays in the community—vs. just $14 if you shopped at a national chain. Shop locally and you support not only that store but your entire community! #SmallBusinessSaturday

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A story: my mom had tuberculosis as a child, in postwar Hong Kong. TB, fyi, is serious and deadly. Her sister also had it and has long-term health issues. My mom recovered, but TB stays dormant in your system for the rest of your life. (1/X)
In early 2020 my mom was prescribed a biological medicine for something unrelated. It suppressed her immune system and reactivated her TB. Fortunately, her doctors screens for this and caught it right away! Because… TB is also super, super infectious. (2/X)
Side note: think about every Victorian novel you’ve read/TV show you’ve seen. You know how there’s always someone coughing up blood and/or wasting away from consumption? THAT is tuberculosis. (3/X)
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Guns make us SO FREE that people in Maine are still on lockdown while police hunt for a mass killer armed with an AR-15. We can’t keep living like this.
But yeah, sure, let’s focus on people in drag, LGBTQ+ kids, and books that mention sex of any kind, that’s the REAL danger
People talk about guns and 2A as important for people to protect themselves. At what point will we agree that part of government’s role is to protect residents, because it *shouldn’t* be every man for themselves?
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Jun 15, 2023
Horrifying but unsurprising findings here, including: misogyny & racism are rampant and intertwined in the inc*l community, that most already are misogynistic before joining, & “in*els degrade all women but women of color are doubly denigrated by incels.” psypost.org/2023/06/analys…
If you’re wondering why I put an asterisk in the previous tweet, it’s because I’m one of the many, many women of color that live rent-free in these dudes’ minds. I still get random comments from them on unrelated tweets, out of the blue.
“Perhaps naively, we did not think that misogyny would be as common as it is. We suspected that misogyny might be the product of a vocal minority, whereas other users were not there to hate women but instead talk about the difficulties with being an inc*l. This was not the case.”
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Jan 20, 2023
For an interview, I tried to look up the exact date of a particular attack on an elderly Asian American during the pandemic. There were so many similar attacks it took me multiple attempts to find the specific one I was referring to.
Even narrowing my search to
- Asian person stomped
- caught on camera
- midtown Manhattan
- daytime
led to *multiple* cases. Multiple.

That doesn't include the other cases where people were beaten, stabbed, punched, kicked, had acid thrown on them...
...Or the cases not in midtown but in Times Square, Yonkers, Brooklyn. Or the cases not in New York but in every other major city in the US. Or the cases where it wasn't caught on camera.
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Dec 29, 2022
What I’m getting from these “just stop masking!” pieces is that deep down, some people feel so guilty about not masking that they’d like everyone to stop… so they can stop feeing guilty. 🤔
I think I’ve talked about this before, but in grad school there was this one guy on campus who always wore a bike helmet. All the time, inside and out. In class, walking around. It was a bit unusual, but okay, cool! If he likes wearing a helmet, why not?
It literally makes no difference to anyone else if someone wants to wear a bike helmet 24/7. It would be ridiculous for someone, say, to write a long piece in a national magazine about why this dude doesn’t need to wear a bike helmet… unless they were somehow feeling bad?
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Dec 8, 2022
So @Harvard just sent out an email that says "COVID is not going away"... and then cancelling all COVID tracing and mitigation measures university wide. Brilliant.
"Students and employees will no longer need to report a positive COVID-19 case to HUHS. Anyone who tests positive will manage their isolation independently by referring to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance."
"COVID-19 has not gone away. ... Meanwhile, individual action remains critical for personal protection." INDIVIDUAL ACTION REMAINS CRITICAL LARGELY BECAUSE NO ONE IS MAKING ANY COLLECTIVE ACTIONS ON A SOCIETAL LEVEL
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