Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read a book and how to read the world https://t.co/LlU7CVEqUQ
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt#WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
It’s bad luck to pick wild daffodils in Scotland. The reason? Fairies might be sleeping in them. Scottish fairies do tend to be quite fierce beasties with a habit of spiriting people off to Elfhame. So, it’s probably not a good idea to wake them.
#FolkloreSunday#StDavidsDay
We’ve been warning for years that this is where AI was leading: mass surveillance, automated bombings, the imprisonment of freethinkers. It’s urgent that we collectively boycott OpenAI and ChatGPT. They are building the engines of our oppression.
Roman emperor Nero built an immense palace for himself called the "Golden House" with walls covered in gold leaf & a colossal 100-foot statue of himself; so loathed was Nero that, after his death, his palace was dismantled & much of it filled with earth to eradicate the ugly memory of the emperor.
Highly recommend studying a dead language, perusing obscure dialect dictionaries, seeking out books & films that test your attention span, reading folklore & poetry from before you were born. You need to actively cultivate curiosity in a world that’s trying to make you dumb.
This was my first explicitly trans cartoon I created many years ago. And I'm very proud of it. I have prints of this available with I hope all possible pronoun variations. It's called "Lost Transgender Lamb - Choose Your Pronouns Print". Trans rights are human rights!
dont use ai to write your books, you coward. write the good old fashioned way with a quill pen in the attic of a rotting gothic mansion with a few ghosts peering over your shoulder while your relatives downstairs call you a recluse and try to poison your tea
We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.