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Congratulations! The cover is beautiful!

Glad Dracula now comes with trigger warnings. I fear a great opportunity was missed to label the book as an early advocate of how to combat climate change, given that Renfield gets his protein by eating insects.

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TY as always, Ma'am. Yours is about the only Substack I read anymore. You're pretty early again. Curlews?

What can one say about the SNP? Except it's scandal prone lately.

I enjoyed the op-ed. "Personality cult without the personality." (Har. ;-) If I read that right, MSP were told they can be *punished* for what they say in Parliament?!? At least we're not *that* bad over here. As You would suspect, I'm hoping for Kate Forbes.

I'm glad to "hear" Your Equality Act is being revisited. I hope it eventually becomes clear that men, in actual fact, cannot become pregnant, no matter how they choose to identify themselves.

Also found that study interesting. Curious phrase: 'biological sex/sex characteristics and/or birth-assigned gender.' I don't much cotton to that idea of "birth-assigned gender." Gender is never "assigned." It's determined. And it's determined at *conception,* not birth, right? And this?

'Indeed, cultural and familial pressures to conform to cisgender identities, gender roles, and expression are thought to cause considerable harm as they require a gender variant child to suppress their authentic self and emulate socially expected gender roles (the “false gendered self”).'

I'm OFFENDED! I say OFFENDED by being called cisgender! I'm being LABELED, and DEHUMANIZED. Or is a double-standard de rigueur these days. Yes, of course it is. But here's the thing: This idea that people should conform go "socially expected gender roles?" I thought that was killed by Second-wave Feminism. Am I wrong? At *some* point, it was recognized that expected gender roles never summed up how a person was capable of being, right? WHen and why did it ever raise it's ugly head again. I think if people were just allowed to act according to their own ideas of what role they wanna play, I think this idea that gender stereotypes should define a person would be killed, right? Die a second and, presumably, final death. That's just me.

Lol.. I hadn't heard this one: "the packet of peanuts may contain nuts territory."

Interesting that those ancient people used hallucinogens. Like they said, may have been shamanic rituals. And also interesting about rare breeds and salmon.

Just my $.02 worth.

Just wanna add that You save the BEST part for last. Be-You-Tee-Full cover, Michelle. Congrats! And TY again, for all.

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