I am! The project I’m working on currently is a near future that is getting more near and less future every day haha 😅

Oh man I wish we’d had a chance to chat more about your project, that sounds awesome!!

Congrats @rileysnyder.bsky.social and Michelle!!

Which also cracks me up because statistically kids can barely read nowadays anyway. Proficiencies are so low and it is a BATTLE to get most kids to pick up a book for a grade let alone for fun. Like do they think 6th graders are out there begging for the bluest eye and Ulysses? 😂

Also if you want to get real nerdy and granular, our brains don’t even experience a difference between listening and visually reading information which means, to our neural pathways, they’re basically the same thing: www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326...

..it doesn’t mean the listener is absorbing anything less than a visual reader. My mother is blind and probably gets through like 3-4 books a week while I average maybe one a month. Also, the Cambridge dictionary defines reading as “the skill or activity of getting information from books”

There’s actually different categories of reading by definition, the important ones to this discussion being: A visual reader (what you’re referring to) and an aural/auditory reader. Reading simply is the act of absorbing information from written material. While reading via listening may be slower…

I and @carsonnow.bsky.social are floating around out here, would love to be added! Thanks for putting this together 🖤

But my first suspect wouldn’t be a hired contractor who lives in another state, it’s just so bizarre they’d choose her!

Dang that’s genius.

Probably because on the international scale, US liberals are still highly conservative, especially compared to European countries that provide basic social safety nets and health care. The Youth are far more into democratic socialism than liberalism. Other than the ones into fascism of course lol

We 👏 need 👏 more 👏 leaks! Honestly 90s and early 2000s media made it seem like hackers would be a much bigger deal by now. Bring back the nerd in a trench coat with solid moral fiber! Hack it all baby!

Also apparently scene kids are still a thing?? Which I don’t understand since scene was part of 3rd wave emo which is definitely long dead?