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  • Beyond the Headline: Unpacking the Gaza Conflict’s Long-Term Impacts

    Beyond the Headline: Unpacking the Gaza Conflict’s Long-Term Impacts

    A deeper look into the long tail of trauma, bureaucracy, and selective compassion Somewhere between your third scroll past an Instagram infographic and the seventh “breaking news” chyron that wasn’t, Gaza kept happening. And while the rest of the world moved on to Taylor Swift ticket drama and the return of pumpkin spice fascism, a

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  • Fake It Till You Mean It: When Pretending Feels Like the Truth

    Fake It Till You Mean It: When Pretending Feels Like the Truth

    📚 See all my books on Amazon🔗 Free on Kindle Unlimited: Fake It Till You Mean It I started writing Fake It Till You Mean It in 2015. Back then, it was lighter. A queer romcom with fake dating, wedding chaos, and just enough sarcasm to keep the feelings at bay. It was fun. Clever.

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  • Kindle Unlimited: The Best Way to Binge Books (and Not Go Broke)

    Kindle Unlimited: The Best Way to Binge Books (and Not Go Broke)

    For a limited time, Kindle Unlimited is free for the first three months. That’s 90 days of binging queer survival memoirs, chaotic rom-coms, psychological thrillers, dystopian nightmares, and slow-burn heartbreaks—all written by me, a deeply unwell author with a lot of feelings and a cartoon bee obsession.

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  • Artificial Ignorance: How AI Chatbots Are Taking Our Jobs, Writing Our Movies, and Still Can’t Fold Laundry

    Artificial Ignorance: How AI Chatbots Are Taking Our Jobs, Writing Our Movies, and Still Can’t Fold Laundry

    It started with autocorrect. Then came Alexa, Siri, and the slow surrender of basic human tasks to increasingly smug-sounding machines. Now, in the year of our glitchy lord 2025, AI has upgraded from polite suggestion engines to full-fledged disruptors of everything we once held sacred: writing, art, ethics, employment—and most terrifying of all—our sense of

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  • Trump Hints at Firing Fed Chair, Markets Panic, Jerome Powell Googles “Jobs That Don’t Require Therapy”

    Trump Hints at Firing Fed Chair, Markets Panic, Jerome Powell Googles “Jobs That Don’t Require Therapy”

    In today’s episode of “Presidential Whiplash: Economic Edition,” the U.S. stock market took a nosedive, recovered slightly, then panic-tangoed in place after former President Donald Trump casually floated the idea of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—before later adding he “probably won’t.” The Dow responded by doing a full emotional breakdown, the Nasdaq lit a

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  • LOVE ISLAND USA SEASON 7: FIJI’S HOTTEST VILLA—OR CANCEL CULTURE CARNIVAL?

    LOVE ISLAND USA SEASON 7: FIJI’S HOTTEST VILLA—OR CANCEL CULTURE CARNIVAL?

    Fiji — that sunny paradise where love is allegedly found, but more often fumbled in front of 42 strategically placed cameras and a table full of tequila shots. Love Island USA Season 7 has turned up the heat, the scandals, and the thirst—both emotional and otherwise. Sure, we tuned in for romance, but we stayed

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  • Texas, But Make It A Theocracy: The Warning Behind Salt and Static

    Texas, But Make It A Theocracy: The Warning Behind Salt and Static

    I wrote Salt and Static because I was done whispering. I was born and raised in West Texas, where the gospel is louder than the truth and the heat will peel your skin and your dignity if you let it. I grew up gay in a culture that weaponized silence, shame, and scripture. I survived

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  • YouTube to Ban AI Blabber—Only Real Human Yelling Allowed from Now On

    YouTube to Ban AI Blabber—Only Real Human Yelling Allowed from Now On

    In a shocking twist, YouTube wants creators to be actual people again. In an attempt to prove it still remembers what a “human being” is, YouTube has announced a bold new monetization policy going into effect July 15, 2025. The platform will now only pay creators who use their real voices and produce original content,

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  • Japan Hits 1.02 Petabits Per Second—Now Streaming Reality Itself

    Japan Hits 1.02 Petabits Per Second—Now Streaming Reality Itself

    Move over fiber optics, Japan just unlocked Ultra Instinct Wi-Fi. This week, Japanese researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (a name that clearly took all their creativity quota) announced they’d shattered the world record for internet speed, clocking in at a mind-melting 1.02 petabits per second. For scale: That’s one million

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  • The Flawless Imperative: Why I Wrote It, and Why It Matters

    The Flawless Imperative: Why I Wrote It, and Why It Matters

    The Flawless Imperative Some stories don’t start with a character—they start with a question. For The Flawless Imperative, the question was this: What happens when the pursuit of perfection becomes more dangerous than the flaws it seeks to erase? This book was born out of my frustration with our cultural obsession with “fixing” people—our bodies,

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