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Fat lady with glasses & curly hair near Seattle. Have inhaler will travel. She/her. Pushing 60.
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the other interesting thing about reading your work over time is you can see ideas emerge. like, i wrote this in 2024 but you can see the idea percolating early on in my tenure at the times. it just took a few years for me to be able to actually articulate it.
One of the basic ideas of democracy is that nothing is final. Defeats can become victories, and victories can become defeats. Governments change, laws change, and most important, the people change. No majority is the majority, and there’s always the chance that new configurations of groups and interests will produce new outcomes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Both quotes were used as epigraphs for David Weber's book The Short Victorious War, which ends up being neither.

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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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All of these people who can't afford to buy books need an introduction to the public library and @gutenberg.org , which will give you more books than you can possibly read for free.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Mighty Trains did an ep on Shinkansen!
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM