I have also received spam emails purporting to be from dead authors and I just imagine the devil looming over these poor dead authors and screaming RENT'S DUE HEMINGWAY GET CRACKING ON THOSE SCAMS
He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence
As the editor of a book on this list, allow me to say again that book banning is a catastrophe for freedom of speech in America. There is no silver lining. It's all harm.
You can fight back by calling your reps to demand they vote against HR 7661, which is effectively a national book banning bill.
Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library
2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists
3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
Liberals don't actually have a moral objection to bigotry, they just have a list of acceptable targets that gets updated occasionally. Once you understand this you see it all the time.
what if we normalized mental/emotional/social health checkups like physical checkups? just quick meeting once a year, covered by health insurance. Oh a referral for therapy? would you like maybe career counseling? you're feeling sad but you think it's reasonable level, shall we check in in 3 months?
George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"
We should have never doubted this man
A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.
A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”
Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…
i don’t know what's going on but i agree with this and it’s my answer to shitty readers and other media partakers everywhere
I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!
You know what, let’s try sending Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor to mediate. Just to see what happens.
All this and: could we please stop telling people that however they report sexual abuse/harassment is the wrong way to do it?
I keep coming back to the inherent message from execs not greenlighting/canceling girl-centric projects… that female stories are cringe and not worth listening to. That is absolutely false. We need to hear everyone’s personal feelings/stories. If they are told well, people will empathize with them.
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
I find it kinda funny as a high school librarian how many parents I see complain about not being able to find "boy books" for their sons while I have plenty of boys checking out all kinds of books, including ones with romance and girl protagonists.
You’re allowed to just walk away and never tell your family and friends where you went for 11 days in 1926, until your discovery at a nearby hotel, and to claim amnesia. That’s a thing that you could do today.
Something like 89% of librarians today are women, but in years olden days it was considered a man's job and women were relegated to library assistants. In other words, men complaining about "girly jobs" should stfu.
There is also a narrative amongst a lot of conservatives that this kind of vaguely open societal acceptance of LGBT peoples is what *caused* the Holocaust. Our existence and acceptance is "evidence" of a societal breakdown that allowed fascism to take root.
Eg: Hitler is the fault of the queers.
I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.
The teaching part isn't just getting a student an answer, it's helping them think critically about what they are trying to figure out and how to ask the Qs that will get them to the correct answer or relevant resource. The journey is as important as the destination. You can't outsource that.
We actually do need YA books that don't have (or have less) sex, romance and violence. We also need books that have those topics. We need YA to be varied - teens are diverse! - but we also must refrain from moralizing those themes. Abstinence isn't "clean", and sex isn't "dirty."
We didn't deserve this day.
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
This shouldn’t be controversial: Everyone deserves access to quality health care. PERIOD.
New look at the Artemis II Eclipse 🌑
You can also see Venus to the left
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
Until thou relinquisheth the singular YOU, take thine arguments against the singular THEY and stfu!
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.
It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹
Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.
