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Hi! I'm Leah. I'm a voracious reader, traveler, and writer.
🌻 You can follow my work at my blog (bit.ly/whilereadin) or on Insta at whilereadingandwalking.
📷 Appreciate my work? Buy me a coffee: bit.ly/LeahCoffee
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Leah
@reading_while
I read a whole lot of books, and I read them while walking. Then I write about them @BookRiot, @ALABooklist, @ChicagoRevBooks.
she/her/hers Joined Ekim 2016
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I DID NOT KNOW THE POKEMON BERRIES ARE JUST ANAGRAMS OF REAL FRUITS???
Leppa = APPLE
Pecha = PEACH
Rawst = STRAW(berry)
I am completely mindblown
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New study finds that US COVID deaths were undercounted by ~20%.
While COVID revisionists and antivaxxers are trying to con people into thinking we did too much, the data says the opposite: Governments didn’t implement public health measures effectively enough to save more lives.
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@SharayaJeter no one wants to hear this but i think putting a bigger person in a caterpillar print and having yourself as the butterfly is….a little painful to see as a big person myself
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Everybody arguing over who should have won, but i genuinely think Myki and Nini did the worst last night …
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The Bachelorette is canceled?
It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to put The Muppets on ABC on Sunday night. 😌
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the worst part is that lizzo continues to get fatphobic hate online every which way. and she acknowledged that she is part of the damaging glp1 & weight loss trend. but she is still part of it & it hurts many of us all the more because her proud fatness meant so much to us.
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Happy 23rd birthday to Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire! 🥳
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One in four unemployed Americans have now been looking for work for over six months, per CNBC
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The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council.
It will be the size of Central Park.
And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.
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Corporate America has seen year after year of record profits and of course workers didn't see any of it. Now it looks like they all know the party is over.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Several of the world's biggest companies have already done huge layoffs this year: UPS - 30,000 workers Amazon - 16,000 workers Intel - 15,000 workers Volkswagen - 50,000 workers Meta - 16,000 workers Oracle - 30,000 workers Citigroup - 20,000 workers And it's only March.
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he’s right. you need to lock in and start buying lots of 700+ page indie press novels in translation to get through the oncoming nuclear winter
Ahmed Askary@pashadelics
People really believe this won’t escalate further, that oil won’t hit $150+, and a global recession isn’t coming. The best time to lock in was yesterday.
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It did poison poor communities and make electricity and water more expensive though.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs
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Who here still needs a Pokopia copy?!
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The Pentagon already has a goddamn $1 trillion budget! Americans can't afford healthcare or groceries.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: The Pentagon is trying to get more than $200 billion from Congress for the Iran war.
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A bundle of spinach was $5 last week at my local supermarket.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The cost of vegetables jumped 49% last month as inflation hit hard and companies raised prices.
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giving mcu spider-man a long-term overarching story was one of the best decisions marvel ever did. we're literally growing up with him i can't believe it's been 10 years 🥹
Is The Spider-Man Brand New Day Trailer 2 Out Yet?@Spidey4HypeGuy
2016 -> 2026
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The moment we start normalising this instead of chasing it away with torches and pitchforks is the moment we lose art as we know it.
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