Alex WCH
@alex-wch.bsky.social
Remorseful former lawyer, current teacher. Remorseful former conservative, current progressive. Book lover is my personality now. Book banners are never the good guys. He/they
#booksky #readinglife
Yay! Libby delivered James by Percival Everett! It’s a re-telling of Huck Finn through the eyes of Jim. Especially exciting because I re-read Huck Finn last month.
So far (I’m only in Chapter 2), it’s great, and having fresh memories of Huck Finn definitely helps
Yay! Libby delivered James by Percival Everett! It’s a re-telling of Huck Finn through the eyes of Jim. Especially exciting because I re-read Huck Finn last month.
So far (I’m only in Chapter 2), it’s great, and having fresh memories of Huck Finn definitely helps
March 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#booksky #readinglife
Yay! Libby delivered James by Percival Everett! It’s a re-telling of Huck Finn through the eyes of Jim. Especially exciting because I re-read Huck Finn last month.
So far (I’m only in Chapter 2), it’s great, and having fresh memories of Huck Finn definitely helps
Yay! Libby delivered James by Percival Everett! It’s a re-telling of Huck Finn through the eyes of Jim. Especially exciting because I re-read Huck Finn last month.
So far (I’m only in Chapter 2), it’s great, and having fresh memories of Huck Finn definitely helps
Here is a different screenshot showing the total amount of government contracts thr company has ever received is just shy of $50 million with an m.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Here is a different screenshot showing the total amount of government contracts thr company has ever received is just shy of $50 million with an m.
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But then suddenly, the FPDS shows that same contract as $8 billion with a b, to jive with the DOGE number
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February 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
But then suddenly, the FPDS shows that same contract as $8 billion with a b, to jive with the DOGE number
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Here according to the Federal Procurement Data System that contract was only $8 MILLION.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Here according to the Federal Procurement Data System that contract was only $8 MILLION.
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Thread: bad news, everyone. DOGE is just falsifying data now (thanks to that ostensible read-only access they claim to have)
Here is DOGE claiming to have saved $8 billion with a b
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Here is DOGE claiming to have saved $8 billion with a b
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February 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Thread: bad news, everyone. DOGE is just falsifying data now (thanks to that ostensible read-only access they claim to have)
Here is DOGE claiming to have saved $8 billion with a b
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Here is DOGE claiming to have saved $8 billion with a b
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Riyadh 2025 = Munchen 1938
February 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Riyadh 2025 = Munchen 1938
I wanted to read Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black but the wait for either the ebook or audiobook was months on Libby. Besides this looks like it might be the about the same characters? So maybe I should read it first? Bonus! Another double DEI: black and queer!
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February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I wanted to read Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black but the wait for either the ebook or audiobook was months on Libby. Besides this looks like it might be the about the same characters? So maybe I should read it first? Bonus! Another double DEI: black and queer!
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The next is something I’ve been wanting to read for a while now: a novel written by a Native American writer. This one is written by a Native American woman too, so double DEI!
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February 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The next is something I’ve been wanting to read for a while now: a novel written by a Native American writer. This one is written by a Native American woman too, so double DEI!
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This one is but it isn’t a DEI selection. Yes, it’s about the mythology of Native Americans—BUT it was written by a white man in 1914. I can expect a lot of outdated and racist language (a la “primitive”) in an honest attempt to understand a culture. Why this one? It was $4 at a used bookstore.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This one is but it isn’t a DEI selection. Yes, it’s about the mythology of Native Americans—BUT it was written by a white man in 1914. I can expect a lot of outdated and racist language (a la “primitive”) in an honest attempt to understand a culture. Why this one? It was $4 at a used bookstore.
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This month’s contemporary Black lit selection. What would the world be like if all the yt ppl just disappeared? I’m only about 1/4 through and a lot of food for thought, including noticing some of my own unconscious biases. So far, highly recommend for other melanin-deficient readers.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This month’s contemporary Black lit selection. What would the world be like if all the yt ppl just disappeared? I’m only about 1/4 through and a lot of food for thought, including noticing some of my own unconscious biases. So far, highly recommend for other melanin-deficient readers.
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I don’t know much about Native American history, and I wanted a book about it written by a Native American. This is the one (hopefully it’ll be available soon *enough*)
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February 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I don’t know much about Native American history, and I wanted a book about it written by a Native American. This is the one (hopefully it’ll be available soon *enough*)
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Classic work of Black literature that shamefully I haven’t gotten around to. It’s time. (Fun fact: in second grade I went to Frederick Douglass Elementary).
I don’t like confining Black history to the shortest month, but I do make sure to take in some Black history/lit every Feb.
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I don’t like confining Black history to the shortest month, but I do make sure to take in some Black history/lit every Feb.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Classic work of Black literature that shamefully I haven’t gotten around to. It’s time. (Fun fact: in second grade I went to Frederick Douglass Elementary).
I don’t like confining Black history to the shortest month, but I do make sure to take in some Black history/lit every Feb.
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I don’t like confining Black history to the shortest month, but I do make sure to take in some Black history/lit every Feb.
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First up is not very DEI. Classic American novel, written by a white man, which uses the N-word too much.
But this year I am reading 12 great American novels and this is next in order. Plus I plan to read Percival Everett’s James when it’s available on Libby, so call this prep for that.
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But this year I am reading 12 great American novels and this is next in order. Plus I plan to read Percival Everett’s James when it’s available on Libby, so call this prep for that.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
First up is not very DEI. Classic American novel, written by a white man, which uses the N-word too much.
But this year I am reading 12 great American novels and this is next in order. Plus I plan to read Percival Everett’s James when it’s available on Libby, so call this prep for that.
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But this year I am reading 12 great American novels and this is next in order. Plus I plan to read Percival Everett’s James when it’s available on Libby, so call this prep for that.
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#Shakespeare:
-Then I skipped for some reason to Julius Caesar. This play always takes me back to 10th grade English. On this reading, Julius Caesar moved me quite a lot, and not just the nostalgia factor. Something, something death of the Republic.
Next week back to the Henriad.
-Then I skipped for some reason to Julius Caesar. This play always takes me back to 10th grade English. On this reading, Julius Caesar moved me quite a lot, and not just the nostalgia factor. Something, something death of the Republic.
Next week back to the Henriad.
January 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#Shakespeare:
-Then I skipped for some reason to Julius Caesar. This play always takes me back to 10th grade English. On this reading, Julius Caesar moved me quite a lot, and not just the nostalgia factor. Something, something death of the Republic.
Next week back to the Henriad.
-Then I skipped for some reason to Julius Caesar. This play always takes me back to 10th grade English. On this reading, Julius Caesar moved me quite a lot, and not just the nostalgia factor. Something, something death of the Republic.
Next week back to the Henriad.
#Shakespeare:
-Two Gentlemen from Verona. Pretty good, especially as a first(-ish) play.
-The Taming of the Shrew. Dreadful.
-Henry VI, Part I. Very okay.
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-Two Gentlemen from Verona. Pretty good, especially as a first(-ish) play.
-The Taming of the Shrew. Dreadful.
-Henry VI, Part I. Very okay.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#Shakespeare:
-Two Gentlemen from Verona. Pretty good, especially as a first(-ish) play.
-The Taming of the Shrew. Dreadful.
-Henry VI, Part I. Very okay.
7/8
-Two Gentlemen from Verona. Pretty good, especially as a first(-ish) play.
-The Taming of the Shrew. Dreadful.
-Henry VI, Part I. Very okay.
7/8
Halfway through: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. I can't explain why I put this down. I definitely plan to finish it soon.
Just started: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Cambell. Very interesting premise. I'm not far enough to much more of an opinion.
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Just started: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Cambell. Very interesting premise. I'm not far enough to much more of an opinion.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Halfway through: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. I can't explain why I put this down. I definitely plan to finish it soon.
Just started: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Cambell. Very interesting premise. I'm not far enough to much more of an opinion.
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Just started: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Cambell. Very interesting premise. I'm not far enough to much more of an opinion.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Sobering look at how institutionalized dehumanization infects and corrodes everyone it touches. My favorite line: "There are wrongs that not even the grave can bury."
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Sobering look at how institutionalized dehumanization infects and corrodes everyone it touches. My favorite line: "There are wrongs that not even the grave can bury."
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January 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Sobering look at how institutionalized dehumanization infects and corrodes everyone it touches. My favorite line: "There are wrongs that not even the grave can bury."
5/8
Sobering look at how institutionalized dehumanization infects and corrodes everyone it touches. My favorite line: "There are wrongs that not even the grave can bury."
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-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs writing as Linda Brent (picture). This was unexpectedly a page turner. It's short, has a happy ending, but a pretty hard time getting there. I definitely recommend it to everyone, especially us yt ppl.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs writing as Linda Brent (picture). This was unexpectedly a page turner. It's short, has a happy ending, but a pretty hard time getting there. I definitely recommend it to everyone, especially us yt ppl.
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-Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. This one is short and dense. A few good quotes, a couple interesting ideas, but ultimately I'm not sure I'd recommend this anyone who wasn't specifically interested in critiques of 21st century capitalism.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
-Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. This one is short and dense. A few good quotes, a couple interesting ideas, but ultimately I'm not sure I'd recommend this anyone who wasn't specifically interested in critiques of 21st century capitalism.
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-The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. I discussed this elsewhere, but still read it.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
-The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. I discussed this elsewhere, but still read it.
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#readinglife #booksky January Reading Round Up
This month I read:
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Boy Howdy did this one resonate with me the month of Trump's taking control of the ship of state. Elsewhere I expanded on the metaphor of America as Pequod, Trump as Ahab. I stand by that.
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This month I read:
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Boy Howdy did this one resonate with me the month of Trump's taking control of the ship of state. Elsewhere I expanded on the metaphor of America as Pequod, Trump as Ahab. I stand by that.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#readinglife #booksky January Reading Round Up
This month I read:
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Boy Howdy did this one resonate with me the month of Trump's taking control of the ship of state. Elsewhere I expanded on the metaphor of America as Pequod, Trump as Ahab. I stand by that.
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This month I read:
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Boy Howdy did this one resonate with me the month of Trump's taking control of the ship of state. Elsewhere I expanded on the metaphor of America as Pequod, Trump as Ahab. I stand by that.
1/8
January 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Just paid 6.49 for a dozen MEDIUM eggs. Under Joe Biden this cost me 4.60.
Because I have no information about any bird illnesses, I can assume only that this is directly Trump’s fault. I suppose this is from his stopping federal payments.
Fuck Trump. I hope he gets a painful cancer.
Because I have no information about any bird illnesses, I can assume only that this is directly Trump’s fault. I suppose this is from his stopping federal payments.
Fuck Trump. I hope he gets a painful cancer.
January 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just paid 6.49 for a dozen MEDIUM eggs. Under Joe Biden this cost me 4.60.
Because I have no information about any bird illnesses, I can assume only that this is directly Trump’s fault. I suppose this is from his stopping federal payments.
Fuck Trump. I hope he gets a painful cancer.
Because I have no information about any bird illnesses, I can assume only that this is directly Trump’s fault. I suppose this is from his stopping federal payments.
Fuck Trump. I hope he gets a painful cancer.