You, knowing full well about your power, decide that you will not even mention the name of this female historian, and not validate her work by doing an actual review of what YOU think is wrong with it. You just dismiss it completely. Happy WomensMonth2025, I guess?
I'm thinking now, the decision of a sacred cow male historian to completely erase the work of a woman historian, by saying IT DOES NOT EXIST is actually not just misogynist, it's also targeted, under-the-radar, censorship.
Interesting that on the one hand we have senatorial candidates celebrating how they top school-based surveys. On the other: you have the 20-year-old girl on noontime TV admitting she doesn't know what the Commission on Elections is. An important reminder about our young electorate. #2025Elections
HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Did this settings on my Facebook tonight courtesy of John Oliver. — johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com (the link is valid, I promise)
This erasure of a woman's LIFE'S WORK on EDSA1986. By a male sacred cow historian. My mother has 4 books on the EDSA people power, THREE CHRONOLOGIES updated every time with new available information, and a Tagalog essay. And they wonder why women wake up every day with anger. #historicalcrisis
👜 This is how the leather industry lobbied against environmental regulation all while faking sustainability ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/greenwash...
for the love of baby cheeses can we stop adding -omance to every genre?
it just gets stupider and stupider. Horromance, now dystomance?
A book can have a romantic subplot without being turned into a cringe hashtag
I’m worried that the exodus from Meta and Twitter is what they want. To isolate us from each other.
Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse.
I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
A woman from Luzon, northern Philippines, photographed by Francisco van Camp in 1875.
Finally.
Right before this storm, a news report about a Congressman wanting to change the label "Disaster Risk Reduction" with "Disaster Resilience". To shift words and meanings, without a shift in the kind of disaster preparedness and governance, means: #thisisallcontent. Propaganda, too. #Philippines
Sleepless thought: what happens to the selves we have on the old platforms we've left behind? I've kept X, despite no activity on it, because it's still the space where local (Philippine) news and gov't agencies are. With barely any activity, my feed is mostly just people selling AI. #questions
I think the thing that is lost on those in the “echo chamber” debate is their thinking that these are inherently political apps rather than social apps that have been co-opted for political brainwashing and news. I want this to be my digital water cooler w/friends, not where I get lectured by Nazis.
Video: Super #typhoonMan-yi forces mass evacuation in the #Philippines | #Weather | Al Jazeera
www.aljazeera.com/program/news...
A super typhoon has made second landfall on the Philippines' main island of Luzon, with forecasters warning of "life-threatening storm surge", heavy rains and severe winds.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well Duterte certainly check out. #Philippines
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They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
The number one advice any & every writing professional can & will give you is this:
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SUCK.
You have spent years reading books, watching movies & TV, developing taste to know good from bad. NO ONE GETS TO READ YOUR WRITING UNTIL YOU LET THEM. Trust your taste & write fearlessly.
Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
Typhoon #PepitoPH buzzsaws its way toward landfall over the Philippines 🇵🇭🌀
