@AntiTrumpCanada Or, hear me out, you could just smile and go along with it so they can use their one week of vacation a year to temporarily escape from the hellscape they’re engulfed in
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
@PeteButtigieg “It doesn't have to be like this.” Respectfully, is that true? Very few of us WANT it to be like this but we don’t know how to make it stop. Tweeting more bad news at us doesn’t help. What do we DO? How does anyone stop this?
I’ve loved @StephenKing’s The Long Walk since I was a kid and eagerly awaited the long-delayed film version so I thought it wouldn’t live up to expectations. Wrong. It’s emotionally intense, strangely beautiful, absolutely brutal, aggressively dark & horrifically timely. See it.
@MarkDuplass@988Lifeline Thank you for sharing. Your work is inspirational and I didn’t realize you also struggle with mental health issues. Now you’re even more inspiring.
…disinformation to take hold. It seems to me like you could make more money by charging less per person bc you’d be putting the information within people’s reach. Am I just wrong? I, myself, can’t afford full price for these papers. I’m not devaluing journalism…
Why wouldn’t newspapers with serious, good journalism want MORE people to be able to access reliable info during these perilous times? I fully understand the value of journalism. I was a journalist for years. But pricing reliable info out of so many people’s reach only allows…