@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon Ooh! That makes me unreasonably proud

@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon Anne of Green Gables. It showed me that it's ok to be ambitious in school, and that wanting to write stories is, if not perfectly normal, at least not unheard of either. I read it at about 7-8 (for the first time, but I've of course read it countless times since).

@Remittancegirl I remember reading this Reframe essay a while ago, and I think he might be on to something. If public health is a matter of taking personal responsibility for boosting one's own immune system, it becomes very easy to sort people into livers and diers, and the diers, by dying, are proving that they never deserved to live. If you're guided by supremacy, it's not a problem that people suffer and die, I suppose. @futurebird @cwebber @cstanhope

"Political journalism has developed a set of practices that make surprise the default response to predictable events. Treat every denial as meaningful. Frame every warning from advocacy groups as partisan overreach. Insist on a both-sides structure even when one side is lying. Worry more about being called biased than about being accurate. Do all of this, consistently, for years, and you will be surprised when the things people warned you about come to pass."
https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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