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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law--

The actual military:
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Feb 23
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The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
YouTube video by Anti Trump
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February 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Settlement reached in Portland protesters’ suit over feds snatching man off street, violence in 2020
"After over four years of litigation, the United States government has finally settled our individual clients’ claims in a manner that will help compensate them for the injuries they suffered at the h...
www.oregonlive.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Portland in 2020 was a proving ground for Trump's fascist impulses. The capacity of regular people to raise the political costs of repression should not be discounted

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Who Won the Battle of Portland?
How Portland, Oregon's uprising turned back President Trump’s authoritarian revival of ‘law and order’ politics. Reporting by Tim Dickinson.
www.rollingstone.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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pattidigh.bsky.social
There’s no shame in admitting that you were previously speaking from a less informed place. -Kelly Hayes
November 27, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM