Larisa
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Forest-dwelling book enjoyer. Also a gardener and small press editor. Based in NH. They/she
I gotta stop doing these to-Boston-and-back trips in one day, man. 5-6 hours of driving in a day sucks, even if itās broken up.
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Anthony Oliveira
about 21 hours ago
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Claire Willett
about 1 hour ago
you will notice in a lot of these documentaries that it was easier for lesbians, fat women and older women to get out of NXIVM when they started to smell a rat. being invisible to men like Keith kept them out of the inner circle, which Iām sure stung at the time, but it freed them in the long run
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Claire Willett
about 1 hour ago
itās also a very potent reminder that there are many aspects of being a conventionally beautiful heterosexual woman under patriarchy which Iām always relieved I donāt have to lose sleep over because Jesus Christ cishet men really donāt let you live
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perplexpert
about 5 hours ago
The guy in the parchments
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM7JU3Aw/
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Crystal Fincher
about 5 hours ago
I saw this last week and Iām still not over it
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Zoe Tunnell
about 6 hours ago
That all we all think about is BEING trans. If not for the nightmare world that folks have foisted upon us where we have to fight every day to exist, it would just be background noise to me. It's part of my life, like being a lesbian. It's second nature. It's breathing.
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Micah
about 4 hours ago
I spent so much of my childhood having a terrible time with emotional regulation despite the best efforts of my parents (who really tried) it sucked! I was miserable when everyone looked at me funny because I was melting down! help your kids!
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Micah
about 4 hours ago
as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone elseās!) so much easier
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
about 4 hours ago
The thing about doodles is that they're all regular guys cursed by a fairytale witch to live in a dog suit, so it's just a human being with human needs for emotional connection but it's also a dog
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Kingfisher & Wombat
about 3 hours ago
Holy mother of bunnies, Vinca has actually done a retrospective of the whole shebang!
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Jessica Reisman
about 5 hours ago
Woohoo!!! More Deadloch!
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Richard M [Cranberry Sauce Aficionado]
about 2 hours ago
I am a mathematician. And itās fucking insanely annoying how some people act. I just like fun puzzles, and some people turn it into a bizarre identity in line with unspoken eugenics beliefs. Frankly, itās exhausting.
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Evan Berry
about 2 hours ago
Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think thatās just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
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Faine Greenwood
about 3 hours ago
obviously thereās nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also donāt believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
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The 51st
about 13 hours ago
"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then theyāre a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit. "We would be wise to re-commit ourselves." Our latest opinion piece:
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Opinion: D.C.'s new streatery rules are a costly miscalculation
The city's streatery guidelines are punishing small businesses and vibrant neighborhoods. We need a permanent solution to keep these staples of the cityās dining scene.
https://51st.news/dc-streatery-rules-18th-street-opinion/
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sarah jeong
about 14 hours ago
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
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sarah jeong
about 14 hours ago
I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
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nonelvis
about 12 hours ago
Hey, local friends! If you care about keeping MA school libraries safe from the right wing book-banning contingent, please take five minutes to contact your senator before Wednesday.
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Ana Marie Cox
about 11 hours ago
So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
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Lee Knox Ostertag
about 10 hours ago
I think about these matters a lot as a lover of Lord of the Rings...the racism in those books is their greatest flaw and, in my opinion, directly contradictory to the themes of hope over despair and humility over power.
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Lee Knox Ostertag
about 10 hours ago
this is a great article
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unpleasant broad
about 9 hours ago
"Everyone is 12" theory complicated by expectation that 12 year olds can read
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RothaĆ
about 8 hours ago
Itās one thing for a curriculum to fail to teach children to read. But for the curriculum to teach children to *cover up that they canāt read until itās too late*āthatās why they got away with selling it for 30 years. Even teachers didnāt know how badly they were failing.
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RothaĆ
about 9 hours ago
āCan you guess from the picture and the first letter what this animal might be?ā The Teachers College curriculum trained kids to *mask* that they couldnāt read, so they didnāt get help until 4th or 5th grade. Evil.
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about 6 hours ago
Reading the article (which I hadn't done - shame on me) - this explains so much why EVERYTHING is video now. I learned to read in the early mid-70's where everything was "hooked on phonics". NO WONDER the generation(s) behind me want videos not words.
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about 8 hours ago
"130 million Americans 54% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 years old lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." This comes from the National Center for Education Statistics. It's definitely not a joke and I thought it was too.
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sarah jeong
about 9 hours ago
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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sarah jeong
about 9 hours ago
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Kelsey McKinney
about 9 hours ago
having read both versions of frankenstein and a book of criticism and a novel based on frankenstein in the last month⦠i am happy to release my creature (this blog)
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Guillermo del Toro's āFrankensteinā Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather than be...
https://defector.com/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-flawed-because-his-creature-is-not
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Kingfisher & Wombat
about 7 hours ago
I donāt want to alarm anyone, but I seem to be living in a pretty how town.
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Prisonculture
about 7 hours ago
People of all ages should know about this man [especially white people because some of you continue to pretend that people didn't know that enslaving Africans WAS WRONG at the time].
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Coach Finstock
about 8 hours ago
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Authors Against Book Bans
about 13 hours ago
Update for everyone in Mass!
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Samira Ahmed
about 14 hours ago
My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
1 day ago
Mamdani is a threat not because he is a special unicorn, but because his success is replicable. THAT is why the establishment loathes and fears him. (that and deepbaked Islamophobia)
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ak
1 day ago
been saying āheās literally just a guyā a lot but he really is just a normal seeming guy! many people like a normal guy who wants good stuff and wants to fight for it!
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Welcome sweet November
1 day ago
It's not everything she deserves, but it'll do.
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Amanda Weaver
1 day ago
I do a lot of online shopping at my day job and pretty much everything I've bought for the last few months has all been delayed in shipping. Keep it in mind when you're Christmas shopping. Leave loads of time or buy locally in person.
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Dealing with the *waves hands* of all this by getting back into Flobots
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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant
1 day ago
Wife of a furloughed federal worker here. We live in Okinawa & they aren't paying our housing or his salary. We are worried about neighbors & coworkers in the same boat. This sucks. But what sucks worse? Dems fucking betraying us and caving so all of this was for nothing right when we had leverage.
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Dave Levitan
1 day ago
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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Menno
1 day ago
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
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Daniel Kibblesmith
1 day ago
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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Blue sky nice ghost
1 day ago
Joyce Carol Oates said Elon lives an empty life and he's like, "Nuh uh. I watch movies AND read nonfiction." Like just taking a full mulligan on the friends and family stuff. Fatality
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GenXJamericanšÆš²šŗšø
2 days ago
Joyce Carol Oates is the Babe Ruth of posters. Big swings and big misses, but when she connects? She parks āem in low earth orbit š¤š¾
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sarah jeong
1 day ago
one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver
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grimm š
1 day ago
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
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C. L. Polk
2 days ago
āThe report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).ā How can you be a thought leader when you donāt think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
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ZoĆ« āBaddie Proctorā Quinn
1 day ago
You gotta hit em in the egos kids, they donāt have much of anything else going on in there
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