By Andrea Menzies
My mom is feeling better, and has returned home. Many thanks to the friends and family that helped me watch her house and dogs while she was gone in the hospital. #feelinbetter
Category: Review News
Reviews on Items
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Get Well Soon
By Andrea Menzies 07/29/26
My mom Anne has cancer and starts the surgery this week. She will have many rounds of surgery and chemotherapy for the issue. I had to have surgery this week at the hospital as well. I need everyone to wish us “get well soon” this week. Bad health issues have been hitting us hard this week. #2026 Cancer Surgery #cancersucks
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Episode 6 Season 1 – The Unofficial Pokemon Go Field Guide vs Palworld
By Andrea Menzies 07/21/26
The Unofficial Pokemon Go Field Guide by Ivy St. Ive
Note: FH7 Publishing does not just do book reviews, but reviews of games based on books. Pokemon is a game that has books and comic books associated with the product.
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This month every person who plays video games has one soap opera question on their mind, and it is what the heck happened with Palworld and Pokemon’s Nintendo? Nintendo has beautiful art and games it has made, and it sued another company for making a game called Palworld like their games. Can they do this? There is a phrase that fits the issue at hand, and that is the legal phrase “fair use” in art. The famous author Immanuel Kant once famously said. “The dilemma of postmodernism is that all art is collage.” This means all art has a bit of other art in it, and we are all standing tall on the shoulders of giants. How much can one work of art look like another before it is just basic copying? Fair use is defined as the following idea. “Reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright.” (Dictionary.com, 2026). I find this interesting because when I first posted a few of my favorite pictures and drawings online in blogs, internet trolls said “that is not yours” if it looked anything like another drawing. If you make it with different paint and changes to it YES, it is your own work even if it is styled like another drawing. Art has stylized techniques used frequently, and very untalented people like to put artists down saying their art is basic copies. This month Palworld won the lawsuit against Nintendo, and video game fans rejoice at being free to play the version they like best.
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Episode 5 Season 1 – The Campaign Against Facebook
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rxe4m-1b112bd
This is the promotional clip for the Episode 5 Season 1 full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/posts/163861975?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
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Happy Bastille Day July 14
By Andrea E. Menzies
Happy Bastille Day holiday to France. I was traveling in France for the first Bastille Day I saw as a kid. It is also celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana in the USA as it was originally a French colony. Many people still speak French in the area.
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Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook
By Andrea E. Menzies 07/14/26
Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook
A podcast book review on The Campaign Against Facebook a book about the many huge lawsuits against the Internet giant. Here are just some of the Facebook lawsuits addressed inside.
- Facebook is giving con-artists the information to popular pages.
- Taking money to post advertisements, and shutting off accounts when there have been no violations. Never refunding the advertisement money.
- Doing experiments with false posts on Facebook with no authorization from users.
- Selling the information on underaged kids.
- Posting “by mistake” fake news information that wins elections.
This episode addresses the 2012 and 2014 Facebook Emotional Contagion Study and the related lawsuit.
Note that in my class this semester we studied the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study conducted in 2012. Facebook conducted a study on hundreds of thousands of people with no consent. It was found guilty of this in court. It claims fake news that changes election results is a mistake, but practiced manipulation willfully right before-hand of the same type.
Press the Patreon Link to hear the full episode.
66 percent say Facebook is filled with spam. Fediverse Reactions
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Purple Clover
By Andrea Menzies 07/14/26
Purple Clover available on Amazon grows well. I purchased the seeds for my mom on Mother’s Day, and it is one of the few seeds I have bought that has grown up. My review is they are worth the money.
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New Patreon Poll
By Andrea Menzies 07/14/26
New free poll for paid members and free non-members of Patreon. What the heck is wrong with Facebook? It seriously used to be very fun, and now has so many issues. Do the free three questions poll here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/163757245?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
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Passing Grades
By Andrea Menzies 07/13/26
I just got the email I passed another class! I am taking a masters degree at night school, and passed three classes at the new school. I passed 2 classes at another school, but they were charging double the tuition I agreed to so I transferred. 5 classes in a masters degree program have been passed by me in 2025 and 2026. It is a stressful program, but filled with great information. I wish con-artist scumbags had not tried to destroy my ability to go to school when I first moved to Virginia. I would have loved to have gone back sooner. I am a lifelong learning fan.
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Shockoe Garbage Toilet
By Andrea Menzies 07/13/26
June and July mark my last trips in 2023 to downtown RVA near the entertainment district in Shockoe. I take screenshots of my last check-ins to remember it has been years. I used to go to the Fallout dance-club and clubs around in Shockoe Bottom area as it vaguely reminded me of far better music clubs in other states with good concerts, friends, poetry readings, and dancing. Going out used to make people friends. My phone was lit up like a tree with friend calls. Unfortunately, Shockoe is a garbage-toilet filled with human sewage con-artist identity theft robbery scumbags. It is not just occasionally filled with bad jerks in downtown Shockoe, VA it is ALL jerks there. My last night there I had to flee in terror from people trying to rob me and force me to buy garbage property, and stealing my information for fraud. I changed addresses from the first place I lived in Virginia, and they instantly knew and demanded I update my information. How did they know unless they were USING my information behind my back without permission? Oceans of credit cards I didn’t apply for kept asking me for contact information correction. A real problem of showing ID cards to get into clubs is everyone sees your card and can copy the information for fraud. I am so glad I used fake ID cards and addresses with them so all their scams would fail. I barely got away. I still love live music as I lived in far friendlier towns for years. I am careful to ONLY buy tickets for road-trips to shows in other states for music and friends as something horrific is happening with nightlife and making friends in the Virginia local areas. Since vowing to never talk to downtown Richmond people my life has improved massively, I am passing night school, and I wish I had never made the mistake of wasting time in Shockoe. I am saving my money to move forever to a less horrible area. My review is I desperately tried for years to find a place in Virginia that is not a garbage-toilet, but it is all a disgusting garbage-toilet. #HateVirginiaForever
