neptune from jwst ✨

I love libraries. As a latchkey kid I basically grew up in my local library. As an adult, finding my books in the library is how I knew I had made it as a writer. Please use and support your local library, they're incredibly important to your community and to the country.

“It’s important not to have this place be an echo chamber” is something that sounds correct but falls apart when you realize it actually means pretending arguments done in bad faith are genuine. It’s the “I’m just asking questions” of social media

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

Amidst challenges and sorrows, humanity's pursuit of joy and hope demonstrates our resilience. We unite in seeking balance, each contributing to a global effort that illuminates life's darker moments with joy's gentle radiance.
From the Yukon, I am sending joy, hope and positivity.

Canada, you need to be aware this atrocity is coming your way if the Conservatives get a majority.

1. One spring day 79 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany & began floating toward the ground.

This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died.

(It's an annual Remembrance Day thread I used to post on the other site that feels apt for my first thread here.)