Sharan Newman

Sharan Newman

@elioxe.bsky.social

Medievalist, author, pretty good cook, confused gardener. Author of Catherine Levendeur mystery series, Real History non-fiction, Guinevere fantasy series. Almost all still in print. I emigrated to Ireland seven years ago and have never regretted it.

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I'm having trouble with these "rogue" AI bots. I don't believe they are sentient, evil, entities. They are complex chips programmed by people who grew up on video games that have as their goal the destruction of armies or other planets. What else can we expect? Am I wrong?

I wasn't in NYC. I lost no one I knew. But there is still a terrible grief for those who were and did. And for what our country became. Tonight I'm lighting a candle for us all.

I am just curious. How many of you live in swank retirement homes with toga parties and non-prescription drugs? Or have parents who do? I seem to have missed the memo,.

Is it just me? When all those experts appear on news programs in front of their bookshelves. does anyone else wish for a closeup with just the books? I want to know what these people read!

Watching France 24 and Trump's full ramble around the cosmic playpen. And then Mark Rutte, when he was allowed to speak, praised him for hitting Iran again! He must have had to take a bottle of antacid to do it. After everything, NATO is still trying to coddle him. Why?

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Credit where credit is due. We see the work of activist Vijay Bombs all over Los Angeles. Glad to see they took their brilliant work to DC. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

Macron took Trump to Versailles? Is he mad? Now there will not only be more tacky gilt, but crystal chandeliers and fountains with T's statue in the middle spouting from who knows where!

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4.3 million people have already been dropped from Snap benefits and with 14 million children already living in food insecure households they have made food pantries working past capacity. This can't continue. Vote blue everyone. #USDemocracy www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

pbs.orgMillions lose SNAP benefits as One Big Beautiful Bill’s stricter requirements kick inSNAP enrollment has fallen sharply nationwide since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. More than 3.5 million people have lost access to the food assistance, as states implement...

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David F. Ellison cordially invites you to an intimate gathering in celebration of the civil rights movement honoring George Wallace and the White Citizens Councils Thursday, April 23 at an all-white country club to be named later

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I'm switching between NO KINGS and that of the Scottish Independence reports. Wearing my pussy hat from 2017 and wishing I weren't so far away. With you all in spirit.

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Scotland, let's get on with #ScottishIndependence and a return to the EU.

🆘 🚩 Europe is now openly pursuing a “digital divorce” from the US. 👉 Building its own systems 👉 Reducing dependence 👉 Treating US dominance as a risk And the UK? 👉 Trying to align with the EU 👉 While doubling down on US deals You can’t sit between two systems that are moving apart.

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NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

I have been shouting about this. War kills the planet. Leaders don't care.😢

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Instead of taking over countries to get oil, why don't we spend the money on other methods of energy and clean up the environment already at a tipping point due to the use of oil? Just wondering.

Still trying to make sense of the attacks spreading throughout the Middle East... And I'm REALLY confused about what is happening in Ecuador. Can anyone enlighten me?