Specifically, when she goes home to her family and finds it all too loud & chaotic for her delicate nerves.
Movie-Fanny was much more resilient.

Specifically, when she was sent back to live with her family, and as a victim of long-term abuse, I did find it odd that she was all "the boys playing are making too much racket!"

Yeah: having watched the movie first, book-Fanny did come across as rather "Princess and the Pea" - def understandable why the movie subbed her out.
(I appreciate book-Fanny more now, but it took 3 readings!)

Hot take: the likeability enables the assholery? 🤔

Ok fam, I am back with another episode of "read a fucking book" 📚💙

I present to you:

**Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's Most Important Novel!!!!!!; or, This Book is An Important Text About Enslavement in the British Empire**

earrings and paintings by Crystal Galindo

🚨👇🏽THIS THIS THIS👇🏽🚨

This is your president America. He’s gonna get us all killed.

Bild Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster? Wahl 2016

Spiegel »Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem« US-Präsident Trump verwandelt Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption und Demokratieverachtung in Tugenden, sagt der Journalist Tom Nichols. Die Republikaner hält er für politisch und moralisch ausgehöhlt. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller 04.04.2026, 09.39 Uhr

New York Times: How Trump-Kennedy alliance is pushing thr boundaries of public health

New York Times: Legally creative, democratically dangerous: Trump's plan to twist the news Feb. 24, 2026

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Obse...

Alberta government doesn't think an impact assessment is needed for Kevin O'Leary's monster data centre even though it will use about 24 million cubic meters of water annually — roughly 460,000 people's lifetime consumption. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

Communism is when you refuse to risk your life/health for low-budget flick being filmed by 🍑holes. 🙄

Which isn't great, but at least we can eat that. The data centre will be used for AI to eat US (our brains).

Israeli leaders are condemning settler attacks. It’s a smokescreen The recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy.

Israeli leaders are condemning settler attacks. It’s a smokescreen

The recent wave of denunciations from government ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy

www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

"Pale Blue Dot": image of Earth taken from Voyager 1, February 14, 1990

It's zoomed WAY out, but if you're over 36 😆:

I smell a rat: "we don't have to give them to the people who will actually VET the signatures - we can just give them to our buddy Danny instead!"
They get the referendum they want & only God will know how many legit signatures they got.

ANALYSIS | If a court halts separatists' referendum bid, they'll push Danielle Smith to approve it anyway | CBC News A First Nation's injunction request, to be heard April 7, claims the independence petition drive threatens treaty rights.

"We don't necessarily have to turn the signatures into Elections Alberta,” Sylvestre said. “We have other options. We could actually bring them to the government and have them vet them.” 🧐🧐🧐
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People would spin out Pepe Silvia theories on what that chair means, what the sandwich means. There'd be youtube videos ranting at length.

People would make meme images of it.

And, how would the people who it clearly targets, even attempt to debunk it? How do you argue with a wooden chair?

Given that most major media and nearly every social media company is owed by people pushing fascist agendas and AI is rampant, we all have to be extra careful to practice media literacy. Slow down. Don’t share what you haven’t read. Be wary of confirmation bias. Check the source. Verify.

THIS THIS THISITY THIS THIS

I've been seeing more fake stuff getting passed around lately. Take a sec to check the actual source!

Watching the US destroy its supposed "civil liberties" should be an obvious warning to Canadians that we cannot let the state build further infrastructure of oppression. You might like your current government (lol), but what happens when you don't? Elbows up eh? Against who exactly?

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win

Sign a letter to your senators today about blocking 27,000 bombs to Israel

Israel's bombing has been killing an average of 10 lebanese children EVERY DAY for the past 2 weeks

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable

Lebanese healthcare workers and officials say Israeli bombings have deliberately targeted medical workers and facilities in south Lebanon, including through the use of double-tap strikes.
At least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon, killing 40 healthcare workers, wounding 107

I tell my students that writing — in the classroom, in your journal, in a memo at work — is a way of bringing order to our thinking or of breaking apart that order as we challenge our ideas. We look at the evidence around us. We consider ideas we disagree with. And we try to bring a shape to it all. Sometimes my students see the process differently. They see writing a paper as a hoop they are being asked to jump through, a way for me to evaluate them and pronounce them successful or not. In other words, they see writing solely as a product. If the end point rather than the process were indeed all that mattered, then there might be good reason to turn to GPT-3. But if, as I believe is the case, we write to make sense of the world, then the risks of turning that process over to AI are much greater.

I published this in the Boston Globe in November 2022, right before ChatGPT was released which I didn't know was coming that next week and had no idea this conversation would be where it is three years later.

I wish I could be confident it was even just that, but he's so easily manipulated & dearly loves the taste of Putin's boot leather that he may have done it entirely without any fear.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

"His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway."

There will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Find your local No Kings event and join us in the streets again next weekend: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

sports gambling and prediction markets have tarnished the proud art of gambling. real gambling is when you play cards or dice with your friends and go home hours later with $17.00 more or less than you came with. if the beer doesn't cost more than the game you're not gambling you're getting scammed

Why not both? 😫