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The banning of books in Texas and 10 commandments in schools will likely soon end. Not only has Gov. Greg Abbot lost and soon-to-be Senator-elect Talarico won, but… The Texas Tribune is reporting that Democrats have solid leads in all the statewide elected executive races: Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Ag Commissioner, General Land Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, and 7 of 9 State Board of Education seats. The governor appoints our Secretary of State, so that will change, too. Texas is finally turning blue. #boostingIsSharing#Bookstodon #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity #author #writer #uspol #bluewave #bluetsunami #democrats #elections #election

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.28 — Could you work without the [I]nternet? What would change? I wrote using a computer from 1975 through 1997—though the early years were timeshare—without the aid of the Internet. Spellcheckers and grammar checkers appeared well before they became Internet-based, though I have hardcopy (remember books?) dictionaries, reverse dictionaries, spell-check books, and thesauri. I do have encyclopedias of science, engineering, and other knowledge lookup books, but realistically, research without a good librarian would be very much more difficult without the Internet, and would have taken days instead of minutes. I look up a lot of things. Writing my Mars-colonization novel would have been very difficult without being able to look up facts, photos, a discussions at the time of need. Moreover, I would not have written it at all, since the feminist story is based on a #writever month of feminist prompts—31 of them, one for each chapter—posted on Mastodon. I am thankful for the Internet. [Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.] #BoostingIsSharing #gender #fiction #writer #author #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers #RSdiscussion #RSstory #RSMarsNeededWomen

No wonder NASA earth and ocean science is being cut (#uspol). Good science puts at risk masking the true nature of bad weather: acts of God that frees government and corporations from paying to fix things broken. #boostingIsSharing#climate #science #nasa #climatechange

Yep. That's the gist. Take care of yourself. #BoostingIsSharing #Humor #Funny #Politics #Cartoon