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Day 3. Advent poetry.

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Just stumbled upon Dr Wiltz, turns out I will be sharing a lot of their posts

“Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.”

—Octavia Butler

Only the oppressor would expand a coalition by silencing the most marginalized.

“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery”— Octavia E. Butler

Kendrick didn’t even diss Wayne, he just described the irony of admiring someone who can’t be happy for your success.

Dear everyone,

Sorry for everything.

Gen Z is amazing. I asked a (paid) intern to bring me 50 blank pieces of copier paper and when she brought them in they were warm. Turns out that, rather than count them, she set the copier to 50 and printed blank sheets. Genius.

real.

Trying to find community here, of leftists, queer peeps, and others trying to tap into movements that will bring us closer together and lift all of us up. So who should I follow?

When people clutch their pearls at the idea of prison abolition, it's usually because they've only grasped half the concept. The goal isn't "everyone runs free and does crimes"; it's "everyone has enough, obviating most crime to an extent that allows us to address outliers case-by-case."