Okay, well it's supposed to show Sparkles. Will try again with a different photo.
We're traveling so I've mostly been sharing other people's stuff, but here is Sparkles sitting pretty at tea shop Companhia Portugueza do Cha in Lisbon, Portugal. Having her along is a great way to strike up conversations with people on the street and in shops and restaurants.
really can not say enough about these washpost who is government long form essays-just really fascinating topics
I think they ought to start naming them after major corporations who contribute significantly to climate change. Hurricane British Petroleum. Hurricane Nestle.
Last year I wrote about Godzilla as a metaphor not just for the hideous scale of industrial war, but the climactic changes that industry produced. Been thinking a lot about that recently.
It’s not just nukes: the power at the heart of the Godzilla franchise is our awareness of the global consequences of human folly
A novella for whatever your spooky season mood happens to be! Gothics, haunted houses, demonic possession, dark fairy tales, grief, madness, and mayhem. There’s something about frights that just lend themselves to short reads. For me at least. See any faves?
Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges www.themarysue.com/utah-book-ba...
Conservative book banners in Utah are targeting Little Free Libraries and want to make the owners susceptible to criminal charges.
'Politically, freedom means democracy. A democracy of equal citizens is incompatible with an oligarchy protected by “negative freedom”. If, as in the US today, the law says that money is speech and corporations are people, it creates a plutocracy, “Freedom” then becomes a synonym for privilege.'
The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US