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Here it is: Your daily reminder to Click for Palestine!

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I suspect the youngsters are lumping us (Gen X) in with Boomers. But there is a HUGE difference.

I hope this has helped clarify.

[Gen Z and younger: "What show is that? idk what that is"]

Gen X: [raises hand] Can... can we also maybe not get worked to death?

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I rarely read academic articles just because I’m interested in the topic (I'm usually editing them because they hired me to), but today I did read such a one. You can read it here.*

The authors essentially say: In imagining futures in fiction, we need more examples of positive outcomes—where humankind has successfully dismantled capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc.—not just visions of dystopias where we’re all f**ked. They don’t quite say it that way, but that is my very professional summary.

And I completely agree! The countless stories of apocalyptic sci-fi have done sufficient work of warning us all about the path we’re on, thank you very much, but we also need some helpful visions of better places we could end up, so we can start designing how to get there. *Proper citation: Houlden, S., Veletsianos, G. Impossible Dreaming: On Speculative Education Fiction and Hopeful Learning Futures. Postdigit Sci Educ 5, 605–622 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00348-7

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This is the wholesomeness you need today.

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we all must get weirder and more queer. i am completely serious and genuine and this is urgent. please get weirder and gayer now. if you see me acting weird and gay mind your business a little bit.

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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A sketch I just made. A lot of us, especially women and queer folk and other minorities, often have trouble feeling entitled to take up space. Mt. Rainier does not have this problem. Be like Mt. Rainier.

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I kind of wish that the polarities of violence and sex in popular culture were reversed. Like, I wish that writers and filmmakers needed to justify up the wazoo their decisions to show a murder on screen when "they could have just done it tastefully in shadow or something," but no one even batted an eye at a sex scene. I kind of wish that erotic video games were the norm but FPSs were a considered a weird and loser-ish thing to play.

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Good list of books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters!

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Nice!

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This article 😂 💜 🏳️‍🌈

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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

ll Vincent van Gogh l March 30, 1853 - July 1890

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a couple more spoonerisms my household has stumbled upon that we find especially amusing: Loot of the Froom Carrots of the Piribbean

Tonight I accidentally said "Wufus Rainwright" instead of "Rufus Wainwright," and if Woofus Rainwright isn't the name of a line of rain gear for dogs, it should be.

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Tonight I accidentally said "Wufus Rainwright" instead of "Rufus Wainwright," and if Woofus Rainwright isn't the name of a line of rain gear for dogs, it should be.

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i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

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let me tell you driving from Ohio to Washington in a SmartCar with everything I owned was funny enough on its own but once I got west of the Rockies, every. single. time. I stopped ar a gas station, random dads would just spawn beside my car. like there was some sort of dad portal following me. and they’d see my ohio plates and go, “did you DRIVE through the mountains in that?” and every. single. time. I’d go, “well, they didn’t airlift me!”

it killed. it absolutely cleared ever time. never failed to make the dads laugh. they were obsessed. i said it the same every time. it was like I was in a groundhog day timeloop on interstate 70 westbound gas stations. and i you know what? I was happy.

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I just ventured onto Threads, scrolled carefully for about five minutes, then shut the tab in horror. Nearly every single post was some snarky hot take about other people in the reading, writing, or publishing world. If I wanted to be back in that drama, I'd have just stayed on Twitter. I propose we call the collective Zuck/Musk social media zones (IG, FB, X) the Muck Pit.

I'd like to congratulate tumblr on becoming possibly the best social media app out there, not because it has improved in any way, but simply because the other social media platforms have all gotten so much worse so fast that tumblr has accidentally been left standing above them.