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“The leaders "agreed that freedom of expression does not mean freedom to spread lies, prejudices and insults."

Also prompting concern were Meta's new, looser restrictions on speech concerning topics such as gender and sexual identity, announced Thursday.”

dread in the sense that all omens, even the ones telling you what you wanted to hear (unsure which one this is) still instill a faint sense of fearful (if sometimes happy) dread

I fucking love this book man.

-culture or New York-isms but I had enough city in me to know to step aside to glance at my phone, don't dawdle, don't look, don't stare, don't crowd. Stay unbothered. Flow with the river.

-cross." And my Manila-born instincts lit up, instincts that London had put to gentle sleep, and I had that bored-but-hidden-alert face and stride from Manila on, weaving around traffic jams, hand on my purse but with the wary eye for cops and white ppl that London taught me. I didnt know the basic-

I love this series so much, it just pours the very essence of what it means to BE a city, live IN a city, into a juice concentrate that I guzzle down. I remember this strange switch getting flipped in my head as soon as I crossed a street in New York and went "OH. Oh you don't wait for the light to-

my aunt will never know

I think it works well as a simple mind-mapping tool 😊 and since typing choices/links automatically spawn new chapters/text boxes, it's handy for quickly mapping out multiple choice narratives in a visual, conspiracy-board-type way. That's how I used it, personally.