Much to Mar’s relief.
I love it when English discovers the joy of French's "Faire".
The truth is that those of us who are not in the top 1% of the country have a lot more in common with Haitian immigrants than we do with the Elon Musks of the world. We benefit from safety nets. Cancer could bankrupt us. We deserve fair wages for fair labor. We can’t afford politicians.
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Probably reading Charles De Lint's Moonheart. It was the first urban fantasy I'd ever read (one of the earlier ones in that genre, I think), and I loved how moving fantastic elements into modern times and places made them both more fantastic and more relatable.
Adorable!
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Starter pack: go.bsky.app/UxQCnfV. Should have all 122 in there, but a couple of the handles are misbehaving in search so a chance something is amiss.
Yeah, I had a number of these guys on my tomato plant last year. I still had more tomatoes than I could eat, and they were fun to watch.