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These authors were sold a romantasy convention. Instead, they got the Fyre Festival of the book world
Authors are feeling misled and some are out thousands of dollars after travelling to Baltimore for an event advertised as a romantasy book convention, complete with a fantasy ball, only to encounter what some are calling the Fyre Festival of BookTok.
#books #festival #money #event #Baltimore #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/million-lives-fyrefest-booktok-1.7528873?cmp=rss
Charging money for your goods and services always, without exception, makes you a servant to the ones who have all the money. You are doing their bidding, no matter what you do. Rich assholes are completely and instantly penniless, the moment you can function without money. As long as you use money, things will get worse indefinitely, but if you can find a way to stop, if we all can find another way to function, then things might get better.
#money #economics #politics #rant
I will never be rich.
If I had billions tomorrow, and a world of opportunities at my fingertips, I've only ever wanted to do one thing with my life-
#help others if I can, and be a kind, trustworthy person.
#money has no value to me except as a resource, and once I have enough to survive it would be like water - why would a hoard a lake when others are dying of thirst around me?
I wouldn't be rich for long, and those who I help would be the real value of my #life.
#SCOTUS appears open to allowing the creation of the nation’s FIRST #public #religious charter #school in #Oklahoma, an unprecedented move that would reshape American #education & redraw the boundary between #ChurchAndState.
A ruling for St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School would allow #taxpayer #money to directly flow to a faith-based school & give govt #sponsorship to a #curriculum that has students to adhere to #Catholic beliefs & #religious #mission.
🆕 blog! “Who is responsible for missing money?”
I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to news reports. The real story is always in the penultimate paragraph.
Let's look at this inflammatory headline:
Woman’s 'spree' after $158k banking error, refuses to return pensioner’s life savings
An Auckland beneficiary is under investigation for an alleged “sp…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/who-is-responsible-for-missing-money/
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#banking #banks #money #newzealand
This week's E-Sylum has a review for a book which looks interesting. Supernote by Jim Davidson: https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n17.html#article5
The story of a multi-year investigation into the "Supernote" - a counterfeit $100 bill so undetectable, it threatened to destroy the global economy.
#Numismatics #Banknotes #Money #Bibliophone #Books @numismatics #AmReading (or I will be when I get a copy)
Yes, I have several cryptocurrency wallets available for donations.
#XMR: 44iBaPgjHPYAVmXN6KYwa5aLXVue9yoprJVZTew94KFYPFGGjGyo54hbWPMVMCmJetcwFT1VA5x8biRZexq4wMVw9i2AVPB
All other currencies received are exchanged into XMR because of its strong privacy features.
#BTC: bc1q3eju7ezh9zgvu9lpleyqpg2jpq9nz70xyadywk
#ETH: 0x60DB6f721dCB04706F076410Bf3f07259d62Ee87
Now
#LTC: ltcmweb1qq040j77vc04y5s4yv7vzqfgtzr79mpcuxh2p82dpqk9px2w8ex6mcqnm4z7spyyqdgtvxduxftsa8w9fg2tcqrqaj6quzz70dl25tttzg5qexx7w
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#BCH: bitcoincash:qq2f8jjswkkeeps3s53upf8tg4lngx4j6y9d7404yf
#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #Donation #Support #Money #Monero #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Litecoin #Solana #BitcoinCash
A good article about the success, effectiveness, and importance of federal appliance efficiency standards for saving consumers #water, #energy, and #money, and the current Republican effort to eliminate them.
https://grist.org/politics/energy-efficient-appliances-trump-culture-wars/
Being raised #Catholic is a curse that isn't lifted when you become agnostic. I won the "Above and Beyond" award for the month of March, which comes with a $250 award. Knowing that I'm one of the highest earners in the #office, and don't need the #money as much as others might, fills me with guilt. Catholic #guilt. It's maddening.
The bipartisan ask for an investigation comes after staffers at 18 crisis centers told ProPublica payments were delayed for months and led to cuts, some of which continue to limit urgent, potentially lifesaving services.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-human-trafficking-commission-funding-investigation-call?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Microsoft-Dilemma - #Europe as a #Software Colony (43min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg
This is how the #EU is paying a secret number of Millions to #Microsoft in order to stay less secure, more dependend, less self-empowered, and more corrupt.
And this was known even before the US went totally crazy, risking our future big time.
So let's change and take back control using #FOSS software and open standards for true competition and actually according to our own rules for a change.
#Windows #Word #Excel #PowerPoint #corruption #cloud #politics #politicians #LibreOffice #OpenSource #Standards #Money
Be honest, create a full picture. Inflation is artificial and it's greedy billionaires who profit from it.
#anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #taxtherich #inflation #profit #profits #money #euro #pound #yen #rupee #dollar #corporate #capitalism #multinational #greed #billionair #socialism
Book swaps at tube stations are invaluable – bring them back | Letters https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/book-swaps-at-tube-stations-are-invaluable-bring-them-back #Childrenandteenagers #Parentsandparenting #Lifeandstyle #Culture #Fiction #London #UKnews #Books #Money #TfL
