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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

#it will be okay

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"…I study a period and region of history where people were, if anything more devoutly and observantly Christian, and I’m here to tell you: medieval English people had no problem believing in climate change and ecosystemic collapse."

#medieval christianity #climate change #evangelicalism

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"Part of what makes the film exciting to watch lies in the way that it engages with and documents social realities of Vision 2030’s mid-point without simply endorsing a sense of “progress” or getting lost in nostalgia for the past."

#night courier #saudi arabian film #Ali Kalthami

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"…the recently developed theory that nitrogen might become a powerful, even debilitating narcotic drug under increased pressures—a tendency that, if true, would affect anyone trying to perform complex tasks like espionage or escaping from a submarine deep underwater."

#wwii #nitrogen narcosis #submarine warfare

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Karrakaz from The Birthgrave.

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I've spent all afternoon thinking about the line from Wentworth's letter "you sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others" and about how that really is the most important part of the letter. Yes "you pierce my soul" and "I have loved none but you" and "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago" are all more swoon-worthy. But the whole point of Persuasion is how Anne suffers because none of her friends or family acknowledge her needs or anything she says. She is made small by everyone around her. She is persuadable because she has been stripped of her agency; not by the circumstances of her life, but because the people in her life have talked over and down to her so much that she has stopped resisting. She knows that she won't be heard, so she just stops speaking. But then Wentworth hears her voice! He hears her, sees her, and he loves her for who she is, not what he wants her to be. I think Jane Austen knew exactly what she was doing by including that line. It's so subtle in such a purposeful way.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#jane austen #persuasion #captain wentworth #anne elliot

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"What if the simplest most effective act of resistance was to refuse self-hatred and claim meaning, purpose and vindication in love itself?"

#dorothy allison #what we know is true

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"I don't tell the team everything that I think they're doing wrong. I don't show up at retro with all the stuff I think they need to change. I just watch, and listen, and I write down everything that seems deeply weird."

#wtf notebook #people skills #good strategies

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"It was a curious and lonely pilgrimage because, whereas they were once on every street, they have now almost all gone and I had to walk miles to find enough specimens to photograph."

#phone boxes #the march of progress #history

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"Our institutions chose to throw mitigations under the bus, rather than admit that continual COVID spread was a mistake, a bad decision, and a social catastrophe."

#covid is not over

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Gaming Oneself

Stole a wee bit of a lie-in this morning, since yesterday was busy-busy-busy. Meetings abound for the rest of the week, but today I get an afternoon without, which will be spent swearing internally at revisions. Not that it’s a bad thing to revise–far from, and the overwhelming majority of editors are here to make the book better. It’s just difficult on an emotional level. One must set aside a…

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#books #revision hell #slight pause for station identification #weather eye

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

#biblical stories #jewish #fun with frogs

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"Anger and outrage fueled Grace, who tracked Clara down and confronted her in a Salt Lake City hotel lobby. Grace walked up to Clara and exclaimed, “So you are the vampire”."

#history

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

#writing #tom gauld #writers

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"Charlotte pestered Charlie Brown and the gang only through February 1955, at which point Schulz realized there wasn’t anywhere for the character to go. That, and Charlotte was drawing the ire of readers."

#charlie brown #charles schulz #comics history

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"Because a subject so heavily undertaken by women couldn’t be considered a consequential intellectual pursuit, a major step in this movement was to “defeminize” botany…to sever the historical association with women so that the men who did it would be taken seriously."

#botany #history of science

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"While that lengthens the odds that the planet exists, there’s a still a lot of sky left to search, including spots that are much tougher to sift through."

#where is planet nine #astronomy