The Big Fricking Swede

Neal Gilbert Redman: Creative writer, writing professor, @VCFA alum, and, you guessed it, Swede(ish-American). Also @[email protected]

[The Big Fricking Swede @BigFrickinSwede]

Checking out Mastodon some with @MLISrevenge. You can find us at https://t.co/RP8qhVFQqX. It's similar to Twitter in many ways, but is run by a non-profit and has a setup that enables a more positive community. Still @BigFrickinSwede over there, check it out with us!

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@karenbabine @MLISrevenge I had seen it around but hadn't looked into it much, but it looks fun! Will add it to our list. :)

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MLISRevenge and I are checking out that Azure Skies place, send a DM if you'd like an invite code. (can also still find us on the elephant place)

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@karenbabine Haven't been on here as much of late and just saw this! Congrats!

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@RevAGSL

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@RevAGSL The plaintiff didn't even have standing! No one actually made the request--the person cited did not actually do so--which means this is even more messed up from a legal standpoint.

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@RevAGSL Younger me was ambivalent about AA, as I thought "merit should be the sole metric!" but older me knows more. It 100% needs to be part of the process.

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@LauraGalanWells That happens so often to me as well! "That word/phrase I have heard quite often, why can't I think of it?"

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

MAGA Republicans and the right-wing media are spewing lies and making false equivalencies about Trump’s latest indictment.

I want to clear a few things up. 🧵

[Greg Fish @_neutronfish]

From The Atlantic's profile of Licht comes this gem, one screamed at us by pundits and media executives since the Tea Party uprising of 2009. It seems impossible to explain to them that we heard all these views a million times and simply do not like them. Yes. As a country. 🧵

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@nicsperiment Looking good! 100% would eat right now.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Today marks three years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Three years since the largest series of antiracist demonstrations in history, followed by one of the most concerted racist movements to demonize and ban antiracist work in history.

📸 AFP

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@RevAGSL Yeah... hate it how it's usually seen as "look at that dude scoring with the teacher!" Not sure how it all went down with Macron, but I've definitely heard variations on that phrase for teenage boys with adult women. :/

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@aprilfiet Sure, a typo, we believe you... ;)

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Love in the Library is a beautiful children's book that looks squarely at something terrible in America's past (prison camps for American citizens of Japanese ancestry) and still comes away hopeful for the future. Nothing in it or its author's note should be silenced.

[Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom]

Eyebrow-raising details in here from @nytimes. The #EdScare comes to publishing. Applaud @emteehall for speaking out about the effort to suppress her voice. Who knows how many others experienced something similar under pressure.
https://t.co/Gj6oXiA2XY

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@LauraGalanWells Yeah, I had no clue. Feels like Netflix is really bad at any marketing and just assumes people are going to already be subscribed and scroll through their stuff. I'm subscribed but I only occasionally scroll through new things.

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the @WGAWest's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.

[Sylvia Santiago @sylviasays2]

OPEN for short fic & novella subs! Spec fic, sci-fi, fantasy 🔮🪐⏳