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Urban fantasy novelist (Generation V series from Roc Books), geek, closet academic. Vampires, kitsune, werebears, nerdy jokes. Same handle at the blue sky.
Mar 26, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
I think what I'd really like right now is a cozy British village murder mystery show where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are elderly widower neighbors who bicker a lot about their gardens, and also solve crimes. And there's a super hot grandson who has to drive them around. So Ian will be all, "You need to prune this hedge back! You think it looks fine, but it keeps putting shoots up over on my side!"

And Patrick gasps and is all, "OF COURSE, that explains how the knife got into the locked breadbox! Call Lewis, he needs to drive us IMMEDIATELY."
Nov 1, 2019 11 tweets 2 min read
For the record ---

I WISH that an impeachment would undo the 2016 election.

I mean, wouldn't that be amazing? Neil and Brett get drop-kicked down the steps of the Supreme Court by Ginsburg and Sotomoyor. That moronic tax cut gets rescinded and money flows into the treasury. Children are not only let out of cages, but were never even put in there -- their trauma is magically re-wound and removed! Children were not stolen from their parents. Camps were not built and run by for-profit companies.
Aug 4, 2018 18 tweets 4 min read
Money means more when you are poor. Give $20,000 to a rich person, and all they do is buy an ostrich jacket. Give $20,000 to a poor person and suddenly, holy shit, that's their cost of housing! Now they can BUY FOOD. AND CLOTHING FOR THEIR KIDS. Every dollar goes to the economy. And, yes, I know that the bespoke ostrich jacket artisan is also part of the economy. But that's a pretty niche part of the economy.

Give $20,000 to a poor person and every dollar grinds into their local economy. Food. Housing. Clothing. Education. It's all local.