“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), “Familiar Studies of Men and Books”

Good planets are hard to find. #Earth #careforourplanet

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc... That bubble can’t pop fast enough.

BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races. Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023. This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

open.substack.com/pub/kolinaci... Keep books in your pocket. #books #readmorebooks

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.” — Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

"Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it." ~ Tom Waits

Found this at the park and my son was fascinated with it.

Happy day!

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” –Mary Oliver

When Banned Books Week itself is banned, does it even make a sound? A round-up of all the censorship, self-censorship and more around the country: bookriot.com/banning-bann...

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), “Lady Windermere’s Fan”

I underlined one sentence while I was revising my book at midnight last night, then realized I would already lose an hour and had to go to sleep. What a bummer.

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), “The Brothers Karamazov”

lithub.com/yes-you-are-... Art isn’t about convenience.

bookshop.org/p/books/cool... New Colson Whitehead coming!

Authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard left Country Club Elementary School minutes before their scheduled presentation after being asked not to discuss book banning by the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.

You need to show up and vote, folks. Throwing a tantrum and not showing up? Not voting? That's what Republicans are counting on. That's why they make it hard to vote. That's why we have Trump in office, because over 50% of registered voters didn't bother to show up.

A beautiful morning view of snow topped Mt. Shasta from the Mt. Bradley webcam courtesy of the AlertWest webcam network.

apnews.com/article/dr-s... More #drseuss !

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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

youtu.be/jTmCVEAOnyk?... Support your local libraries!

www.indiewire.com/features/com... If only this could be made, I think Spielberg would do a great job of bringing it to life.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

youtube.com/watch?v=hEB6... #Halloween

This!:

youtube.com/watch?v=vfi5... Raffi still telling it like it is. #democracy

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone // Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right, and laughter becomes a weapon.” — Albert Camus