Today In Labor History April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture died on this day. He was one of the most prominent members of the Haitian revolution for independence from France. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Encouraged by the French and American revolutions. Louverture led 100,000 enslaved Haitians in revolt, winning their freedom in 1793. In 1804, Haiti became first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70 and France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. Louverture was betrayed in the end and died in prison. For a fantastic history of the Haitian Revolution, read “The Black Jacobins,” by C.L.R.James.

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vale Kerry Greenwood.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/kerry-greenwood-death-author-phryne-fisher-murder-mysteries-dies-aged-70

#PennedPossibilities 637 — Does your MC have a past that haunts them?

May Ri watched from Mars orbit as Herschel Crater got nuked, having failed to knock out all the missiles with her railgun. Her eldest daughter worked in the capitol, in the domed city situated in that crater. Had. She has nightmares of the flash and a mushroom cloud rising. Sort of like in the attached vid.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries creator dies aged 70
By Nicola Heath

Australian author Kerry Greenwood, who died following an illness, was best known for the Phryne Fisher detective series.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/kerry-greenwood-author-phryne-fisher-series-dies/105145524

Griffin Dunne, the actor, filmmaker and author, recalled marveling at Mr. Kornbluth’s output and his multitasking skills: “He could hold a conversation with me while hunt-and-pecking out an article on deadline on his IBM Selectric with a huge joint in his mouth.” #obituary #journalism #author
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/business/media/jesse-kornbluth-dead.html

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Today in Labor History April 6, 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was declared. Novelist, B. Traven (Death Ship, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), served on its Central Council of Workers, Soldiers and Farmers. The socialist republic was quashed a month later by the Freikorps, which included Rudolf Hess and other future members of the Nazi party.

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight.

Today: For author and textile artist A. Catherine Noon, it’s all about the yarn, both metaphorical and literal – spinning a yarn, knitting with yarn, weaving, sewing, painting, sharing stories and good times over a cup of coffee with dark chocolate. She teaches creative writing, creative expression and textile arts.

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-a-catherine-noon-2/

https://www.europesays.com/1971636/ A chat with famous New Zealand cookbook author, Julie Biuso #14day #about #África #african #aotearoas #Author #biuso #central #chat #cookbook #cooking #Culinary #delicious #editor #even #famous #Food #foodloving #Here #immersive #journalist #julie #Latest #likes #luciano #more #new #NewZealand #part #pavarotti #played #scene #Shows #side #south #speaks #than #that #tour #travel #TRAVELLERS #uniquely #Venture #wine #with #years #zealand

#ScribesAndMakers 2504.06 — Talk To Me Day. Featured creator: Lydia VVinters ( @HeliaXyana ) #TTMD

It's now April 6th in London, so here's my question:

I see a lot of imagery on your website (https://lydiavvinters.com). How to you characterize yourself as a creator? A poet? An Artist? What do you focus on?

Also, is your last name of your pen name intentionally a double-V so it looks like a W (double-U)?

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The US media is too cowardly to cover the [Hands off!] protests for fear of Trump.

I assume you mean on broadcast TV. I get my news on the web, not on TV. Here is what I found:

Fox News isn't covering. USA Today says there are thousands, not hundreds of thousands. Washington Post, NBC, and New York Times, are completely mute. However CBS and ABC have stories. PBS is full throated on the spot with live feeds. CNN has below the fold (10 stories+ down) coverage. Axios, AP, and Reuters are covering prominently. Local Los Angeles affiliate television websites are also following.

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So who's working on the creative project where I can download a car, I'm still waiting...

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https://www.europesays.com/1971168/ Finance guru Martin Hawes on the biggest mistakes people make in retirement and what he got wrong #about #after #All #And #Author #Behind #biggest #book #cancelled #career #comfortable #during #Finance #got #GURU #hawes #he #health #in #Insurance #Jane #just #leave #made #make #martin #medical #mistakes #NewZealand #ON #people #phare #Plan #retirement #struggle #talks #the #warts #what #winddown #written #wrong

#Trump and #Musk and AI, oh my?

From my favorite historian pundit, Z:

… no serious economist is going to endorse [Trump's] approach to tariffs. No unserious one, either, probably. So, where did the White House come up with this formula? Well, if you put the phrase "balance bilateral trade deficits" into AI engines, the administration's approach (or some close approximation) is what you get. That is the case with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude. If you put the phrase into Grok, you get the EXACT formula the White House used. In other news, Grok is the AI platform owned by... Elon Musk.

Guess you don't need the terminator to destroy the world. Simple AI is enough.

Scroll down to "Fuzzy Math" at this link, but the whole 4,000 word article will clear up the whole muddy mess.

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Items/Apr04-1.html

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Patricia J. Esposito has been a writer of edgy paranormal fiction for most of her life, but always knew she had a romantic heart. Her most recent fiction and poetry reflect that enduring quest for love and joy beneath the human struggle, most recently in her novel Beside the Darker Shore. She has had numerous works of fiction and poetry appear in anthologies, such as ...

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A quotation from Stevenson

By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. It is not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honour useful labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-04), “Æs Triplex,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis

Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me.

I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!

Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.

Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.

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Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.

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