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This so perfectly articulates the best thing about this movie: Mary. “It’s a Wonderful Life is, in part, the story of someone becoming, kicking and screaming, against all intentions and desires, a big man. Mary sees the big man in George from the first, because she is a big woman.”
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This so perfectly articulates the best thing about this movie: Mary. “It’s a Wonderful Life is, in part, the story of someone becoming, kicking and screaming, against all intentions and desires, a big man. Mary sees the big man in George from the first, because she is a big woman.”
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His music opened the doors and hearts that science, literature, and reason failed to reach. Learn an incredible life story of the most prominent Ukrainian composer and listen to the timeless music of Ukraine:
daryazorka.substack.com/p/mykola-lys...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/mykola-lys...
Mykola Lysenko – the Father of Ukrainian music
Learn about the most prominent Ukrainian composer and listen to the timeless music of Ukraine.
daryazorka.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
His music opened the doors and hearts that science, literature, and reason failed to reach. Learn an incredible life story of the most prominent Ukrainian composer and listen to the timeless music of Ukraine:
daryazorka.substack.com/p/mykola-lys...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/mykola-lys...
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Much like Christmas, it always feels as if the autumn colours will never arrive...
...but just like that they're here and it doesn't feel as if there's enough time to enjoy them🥹
#momiji #maple #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #autumnrain #GardenTeahouse #camelliateaceremony
...but just like that they're here and it doesn't feel as if there's enough time to enjoy them🥹
#momiji #maple #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #autumnrain #GardenTeahouse #camelliateaceremony
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Much like Christmas, it always feels as if the autumn colours will never arrive...
...but just like that they're here and it doesn't feel as if there's enough time to enjoy them🥹
#momiji #maple #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #autumnrain #GardenTeahouse #camelliateaceremony
...but just like that they're here and it doesn't feel as if there's enough time to enjoy them🥹
#momiji #maple #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #autumnrain #GardenTeahouse #camelliateaceremony
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This feels weird to say, but I order kids books for a store and I feel like picture books change me ALL THE TIME? My newest one is this book Truckosaurus coming in March that sounds like it’s gonna be a standard Dino truck mashup, but is full of the most perfect joyful fever dreams?
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This feels weird to say, but I order kids books for a store and I feel like picture books change me ALL THE TIME? My newest one is this book Truckosaurus coming in March that sounds like it’s gonna be a standard Dino truck mashup, but is full of the most perfect joyful fever dreams?
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If you need a reading list, get your pencils out and write these down.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
If you need a reading list, get your pencils out and write these down.
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Even amidst war and energy terror life goes on. In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, children can buy cocoa for leaves at a café.
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Even amidst war and energy terror life goes on. In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, children can buy cocoa for leaves at a café.
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
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Learn interesting facts and a brief history of the Ukrainian language!
daryazorka.substack.com/p/surprising...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/surprising...
Surprising facts about the Ukrainian language
Interesting facts and a brief history of the Ukrainian language.
daryazorka.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Learn interesting facts and a brief history of the Ukrainian language!
daryazorka.substack.com/p/surprising...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/surprising...
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“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester! 😀
October 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester! 😀
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I am deeply fascinated with Ukrainian poetry, and the lessons it teaches us. I hope that through my translation, it will speak to your heart, too!
daryazorka.substack.com/p/one-of-my-...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/one-of-my-...
One of my favorite Ukrainian poems
and lessons from writers from the past.
daryazorka.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I am deeply fascinated with Ukrainian poetry, and the lessons it teaches us. I hope that through my translation, it will speak to your heart, too!
daryazorka.substack.com/p/one-of-my-...
daryazorka.substack.com/p/one-of-my-...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts.
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts.
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
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One of the full-circle moments? In high school, I was friends with Rebecca Smith. I was diagnosed as autistic. Now, she learned she's autistic and is a teacher down in Texas and I interviewed her about how she helps students accept others. @the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Autistic moms are livid after Trump and RFK Jr blame Tylenol — and them
Autistic moms tell Eric Garcia that they fear Trump’s outlandish and conspiratorial claims about autism and Tylenol both erase their needs and those of their children
www.independent.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
One of the full-circle moments? In high school, I was friends with Rebecca Smith. I was diagnosed as autistic. Now, she learned she's autistic and is a teacher down in Texas and I interviewed her about how she helps students accept others. @the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Palestinian American filmmaker @mohusseini.com and I made a short doc about people - Palestinian and Israeli Jews - who give us hope.
It became available to stream today, when many of us are feeling hopeless. Let us know if it gives you a glimmer of hope.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/the-pa...
It became available to stream today, when many of us are feeling hopeless. Let us know if it gives you a glimmer of hope.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/the-pa...
The Path Forward
A platform for watching independent films.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Palestinian American filmmaker @mohusseini.com and I made a short doc about people - Palestinian and Israeli Jews - who give us hope.
It became available to stream today, when many of us are feeling hopeless. Let us know if it gives you a glimmer of hope.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/the-pa...
It became available to stream today, when many of us are feeling hopeless. Let us know if it gives you a glimmer of hope.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/the-pa...
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I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.
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The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
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A deaf man swept up in an L.A. ICE raid couldn’t speak, couldn’t hear — and couldn’t ask for help. His family had no idea where he was. This is how it happened
Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas
Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....
www.latimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A deaf man swept up in an L.A. ICE raid couldn’t speak, couldn’t hear — and couldn’t ask for help. His family had no idea where he was. This is how it happened
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Have never traveled to a country outside their own
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...
July 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Have never traveled to a country outside their own
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...
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You want to know what dehumanization looks like? It looks like this:
Israel will save your donkey, but not your daughter
Ahmed Najar
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Israel will save your donkey, but not your daughter
Ahmed Najar
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Israelis 'rescue' donkeys from Gaza, and now my disabled mother can't flee IDF strikes | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
You want to know what dehumanization looks like? It looks like this:
Israel will save your donkey, but not your daughter
Ahmed Najar
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Israel will save your donkey, but not your daughter
Ahmed Najar
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
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Palestinian father mourns the death of 3-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, as a result of malnutrition.
Photo: Doaa Albaz / Activestills
Photo: Doaa Albaz / Activestills
July 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Palestinian father mourns the death of 3-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, as a result of malnutrition.
Photo: Doaa Albaz / Activestills
Photo: Doaa Albaz / Activestills
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This used to be Serebrianskyi forest. It is the frontline now.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
July 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This used to be Serebrianskyi forest. It is the frontline now.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
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Happy summer solstice from the Salish Sea.
June 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Happy summer solstice from the Salish Sea.