"We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men"

From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379

#poem #booksky #writing

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A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.

This is well worth reading - full disclosure, I have generally found myself aligned with Dunt's ideas, so may be prone to confirmation bias - but he always seems to be able to encompass the complexity of things in his arguments. A rare thing in an age of partisan sound bites

I've seen a lot of hot takes on the recent autism bullshit, and while I appreciate the support, maybe some of you all should also start boosting actually autistic voices. If you don't, you're just perpetuating the myth we need someone to speak for us when we we're capable of speaking for ourselves.

Saleh's message on Instagram through Abdallah's account since he's been removed completely by Meta.

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

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I am a state school teacher (UK) convinced that the national curriculum is failing to build the skills the next generations will need. Does anyone know of any groups or organisations working to design a new approach? I want to get involved

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

In my lifetime, you used to be able to dismantle and reassemble an entire car-engine on a kitchen table. Now, several computers are in the way of that.

So much power has been yielded up to complexity, no wonder people want their simplicity back.

Hard to decide what pisses me off most about generative AI. But one strong contender is that fact that those aggressively pushing it act like they’re doing the rest of us an enormous favour.

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

Repost if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

What a letter.

Have a hobby, not a side hustle and other great pearls of wisdom.

Words to Live By Number 157