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you ever be “it is what it is” but lowkey wish it wasn’t how it is

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Recommended books (from A to Z)

A: The Awakening, Kate Chopin B: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath C: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky D: Don Juan, Lord Byron E: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury G: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy H: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers I: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison J: The Joy of Reading, Charles Van Doren K: King Lear, William Shakespeare L: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill M: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov N: Native Son, Richard Wright O: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham P: The Persian Wars, Herodotus Q: The Quiet American, Graham Greene R: The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham S: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes T: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith U: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera V: The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald W: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte X: Autobiography of Malcolm X Y: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Z: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic

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thoradvice

something important to remember is that there's always time. if you lost many years to abuse or mental illness, you will get a chance to live life on your terms. there is no limit on the age you have to be to achieve goals. you can go back to school at 30, or switch careers at 40. you can start new hobbies at any age. there is no cut off age for being happy and content. if you're trapped right now, you will get the opportunity to become who you want to be.

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I just realized something really heinous about the Spotify announcement.

So, they gave us exactly 30 days' notice to withdraw our work from the new ToS agreement.

Except it can take up to 30 days for them to process that request.

So, if you didn't do it yesterday when it was announced, your work will remain up past the 30-day limit and be considered acceptance of the new ToS.

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That's evil. And the thing is, they know we don't have anywhere else to go. Even Author's Republic requires me to sign a ToS with Findaway/Spotify (Spotify bought Findaway) to maintain library access.

Oh, I fucking hate it here.

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I can also guarantee that they don't have the staff to handle the mass exodus taking place, so that'll add to the amount of time it takes to process requests. Ugh.

They absolutely do not, not least of all because they laid off 17% of their workforce, approximately 1500 jobs, right before Christmas. This follows on the heels of a year of rolling layoffs. (600 employees in January of 2023, and another 200-ish people in June.)

They were already operating at the bare minimum before, it's going to be a catastrophe now.

And I'm just going to take a moment to say, as angry as we (authors, voice actors, consumers) are, what we are not going to do is take it out on the customer service reps who are absolutely not getting paid enough to deal with any of this.

We're going to keep our complaints and our requests to withdraw from the service as polite and businesslike as possible because none of the people who will be reading our emails have any say in any of this.

Worker solidarity, friends. It's not the little people on the ground screwing us over.

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