The website is a bit of a mystery. Ads for it started showing up on electronic billboard screens all over Raleigh a few days after Monroe was kidnapped. They would appear for just a few seconds in the middle of another ad, then disappear.

Almost like it was a glitch.

We need more characters like Lisbeth Salander right about now.

Finally got around to reading Moby Dick... I enjoyed the relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg, but I could have done without the 150 pages of "here's what we know so far about whales".

Today might be the day I actually go insane. Wish me luck.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to say, ‘I have ambition, but not too much.’

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk, 2012)

#feminism #quotes

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was born #OTD in 1984.

In 2022, she became the 2nd woman to win the Fields Medal (often described as the Nobel Prize of #mathematics)--for solving the sphere-packing problem in 8 dimensions, a feat that had stumped mathematicians for centuries.

#WomenInSTEM

guys like this miss the irony that they're still demanding that women act a particular way even while addressing the guys from the women's own platforms. what a huge puzzling mystery what the problem could be!!!

Good morning to all the human authors who write using their meat brains. A very happy em dash to you! 🥰

One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.

we’re far enough into literally every new literary novel being upmarket heteropessimist romance sex farce that i can say that it was nice being a teenager / nascent adult woman in the 2014-21 period where fiction written by women was valued for being uncompromising and abrasive and SMART

I used to wake up with anxiety. Now I wake up with anger. That's progress, no?

Why is there no "feminine rage" category for novels?

This is brilliant! Please share. So many people are afraid and need help. Libraries have the answers.
#library #libraries #askforhelp #answers #books #reading #read #booksky #answers #knowledge #knowledgeispower 📚

I just got here. Where are the cat videos?

I deleted my Facebook account and somehow got banned from Instagram.

This is my new home now.