Saturday morning’s No Kings protest in Pittsford.

Hi all! We're Wraithmarked Creative, a Rochester-based specialty book press a few of you may (or may not) have heard of!

As we're sure many of you know, a wonderful bookstore recently opened in the South Wedge! The Siren and The Sea ( linktr.ee / Insta / map ) sells a wide range of works and genres, and is an incredibly warm and inclusive environment for anyone who wants to pop in for a book, a drink, or just a sit and hang!

So... WE'RE DOING A GIVEAWAY!

We want to bring more attention to Siren and its awesome staff, so we've got a bunch of sci-fi/fantasy book bundles to give away to some lucky local winners, as well as a limited-time discount for in-store purchases for anyone to use even if you don't win!

The book/book bundles being given away:

• Matt Dinniman bundle
  • (8 books)
• Rebecca Yarros bundle
  • (3 books)
• V.E. Schwab bundle
  • (3 books)
• V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic: Deluxe Edition
  • (1 deluxe edition)
• JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: Collector's Edition
  • (1 deluxe edition)
• Martha Wells's The Murderbot Diaries
  • (3 books)
• Evan Winter's The Rage of Dragons: Deluxe Edition
  • (1 deluxe edition)
• ML Wang's The Sword of Kaigen: SPFBO Edition
  • (1 special edition)
• Local author Eira Brand's Run Like Hell
  • (1 book)
• Local author Bryce O'Connor's A Mark of Kings: Deluxe Edition
  • (1 deluxe edition)

HOW THE GIVEAWAY WORKS:

1. 10 winners will be selected from the comments, and notified there! We'll ask you to Chat us to give us your first name and last initial so we can pass it along to Siren staff so they know you're a legit winner!
2. The only condition is that you must pick your bundle/book up IN STORE! Or be able to send a representative to pick it up for you!
3. Books/bundles will be first-come, first-served! So the first person to the store after winning will have their choice of any one of the above bundles/books!

EVEN IF YOU DON'T WIN... HAVE A 10% DISCOUNT!

Everyone comes out on top today! All you have to do is mention the "Wraithmarked giveaway" at the counter at The Siren and the Sea, and enjoy a 10% discount through the month of April on all purchases!

WRAITHMARKED

If you'd like to check out any of our own projects, we have three launching on Kickstarter in the next few months:

1. Christopher Paolini -Eragon: Special Edition Box Set
2. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Illustrated Deluxe Edition
3. V.E. Schwab - A Gather of Shadows: Deluxe Edition

Thanks for participating, and see you all at Siren sometime!

- The Wraithmarked Team

Great turnout this morning!!! Lots of enthusiasm and creativity despite the chill! 💪

small clip, I know, but there was a great showing tonight. Tons of people of all ages, races, genders, backgrounds, all fighting for the same cause. It was empowering.

We are here. We the People. And we won’t stand down.

On June 1, the Pride flag was raised at Webster Town Hall for the first time in town history. On June 4, the Town Board voted 3 to 2 to adopt a flag policy removing it, effective the very next morning. Councilman John Cahill introduced the resolution, and Councilwoman Jennifer Wright and Councilman Garrett Wagner voted with him.

Here is what the meeting transcript shows, and you can verify every word yourself starting at 1:18:32: https://www.youtube.com/live/xtZqLajz-ok?si=R2bcNBXUer_XS-Z-&t=4717

The resolution was never listed on the public agenda. It arrived prewritten and printed, and the transcript records the sponsor handing out copies while saying he was going to leave one member out. A board member immediately warned that it read like a local law requiring a public hearing. It received none. When asked what flags currently fly on town property, the town attorney said he was not aware. The board then realized the policy as written covers the flagpole at Challenger Miracle Field, the adaptive baseball facility on the same campus, and passed it anyway. A motion to reschedule and get stakeholder input was cut off, even though a two-week delay was offered on the floor.

For context: the town supervisor reported fewer than 10 complaints about the flag, in a town of about 45,000 people. Webster has previously flown the Ukrainian flag and the POW MIA flag without any policy objection. New York's Open Meetings Law, Section 103(e), says records scheduled to be discussed at a meeting should be made available to the public beforehand when practicable.

Reasonable people can disagree about flag policies. But a policy this significant deserves notice, a hearing, and input from the community it affects. The path forward is simple: rescind the resolution and do it properly.

Two ways to show up:
Peaceful protest with Webster Pride: Saturday, June 13, 12 to 4PM
Webster Town Board meeting: Thursday, June 18, 7:30PM, Town Board Meeting Room, 1002 Ridge Road, Webster, NY

Come speak, or just come stand with your neighbors. Everyone deserves to be seen in the town they call home.

Great turnout for a Tuesday Afternoon

Sad (for the Employees/Partners) it gets caught up in this:

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/starbucks-to-close-250-stores-this-week-155846029.html

Only 1 year and 2 months later after it opened..

maybe someone can open a restaurant..

Sushi Please!!!

EDIT: Clarification

REMINDER: This august come meet your local progressive firearms group and get some hands on experience. We will be having a social meet up at Equal grounds (August 22nd) where you can meet like minded people over good drinks. The next day (August 23rd) we will be heading out to our friends at the Firing pin to use their indoor shooting range. Get a chance to use a firearm for the first time, come try something new, or bring your own for a nice day of range fun. You will be able to borrow gear from our members or rent fun stuff from the shop. You do not need to attend both events. Let's enjoy the last bit of summer and meet others in our community.

Organized by Rochester's National Organization for Women. Sponsored by Penfield Democrats, The New Pride Agenda, Planned Parenthood, Rochester Sexual & Reproductive Justice. Security provided by The Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Over 350 people came out to march in the cold rain for all of our working-class rights that are in the crossfire of Trump's extreme right-wing, billionaire focused agenda!

TODAY!! EMERGENCY ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA 🇻🇪 2-3PM 100 STATE STREET.

was SOOO mad at us for protesting fascism today in Brighton that she needed to scream across the hood of a police car.

Join me and hopefully several thousand Rochesterians this Saturday. It matters.

Live streamers having a “good time” crashing the peaceful protest. Seems like the man in the red hat works for the city school district? You can zoom in and check out the back of his phone case. Also seemed like the girl really didn’t want to be seen… yet their buddy with the go pro seemed to be live streaming everything 💀🤣

So the 3:15pm screening for Imax The Odyssey 70mm at Rochester Tinseltown just got cancelled because they had issues operating the Film and the projector

I would be wary for the next screening because I don’t know how long they are gonna take to fix it or if the issue is something worse and they are not telling

Also if you are planning to get tickets beware that you have 100+ people now that are going to be accommodated to take seats for the upcoming weeks

Its a shame because I had great seats, planned this for weeks and now they gave me a seat for a month out

Anyone knows if this is the first time it happens or they usually have issues with the projectors

I was just at the 7 Eleven on Dewey/Barnard and he was lingering out in the streets looking menacing. Beware!! It looked like he was lingering between the card shop and the alley

EDIT i spoke with him and confirmed that he is marcus. I showed him this post but he did not seem to understand and made groaning gestures towards me. I did bring him and drink and food as a welcoming gesture.

Marshall BioResources in North Rose, NY is the largest breeder of beagles for research in the world.

Tens of thousands of animals are bred there, some kept in wire cages for their entire lives, others sold off to labs where they are tortured and killed.

A broad coalition of activists is taking a multi-pronged approach to shut them down, just like we shut down Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin. Shutting down the main supplier for vivisection labs nation-wide would not only put a stop to the suffering happening in our own back yard, but would be a HUGE step in the transition to more ethical, safe, and effective research methods.

Here are a few things you can do to join the fight to advance sound science without suffering:

1. Join us in protesting and raising awareness. Our next protest at MBR is this Saturday, October 10th, 10am–6pm. See details & RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/share/1H62PLFAio/

Come when you can and stay as long as you like. Maintaining a consistent presence there helps to keep the pressure on and shine light on what this company so desperately wants to keep quiet, so they can keep mercilessly abusing animals with impunity.

1. Follow these pages to stay in the loop on other upcoming local protests and actions you can join...

Instagram —> @roc.animaldefenders

Facebook —> Rochester Animal Defenders

1. Contact your congressional representative to ask them to Co-sponsor the COMPACT Act (H.R. 10522) to remove NIH funding from dog and cat experimentation, and contact Attorney General Latitia James to request a formal investigation into allegations of criminal cruelty by a former employee of Marshall BioResources.

Read the full criminal referral HERE.

Create an account on app.savethedogs.io to get clear guidance on these outreach initiatives and log your efforts to help us all stay coordinated. By creating an account, you will also be signed up for regular email updates and invited to weekly strategy Zoom calls with the broader, international coalition to Save the Marshall Dogs.

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Just went up in the last couple minutes, festival canceled due to weather. Stay safe out there, y'all, there's a flash flood warning for the Brighton area. Hope everyone makes it home safe!