Miranda T 🌻

think Honey Lemon from Big Hero 6, but with less science and more tragic novels about the human condition and random excitement about Jesus

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

a promise I choose to make, break, and reaffirm regularly: today I will live as though western civilization depended on it. today I will speak as though my voice echoed alone against the darkness. today I will love as though my heart will not beat tomorrow. #myshot

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

It sounds crazy but I promise you: if you just put your phone aside and read for half an hour each night before bed, it will change your life.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The daughter of Ali Shamkhani one of the Islamic Republic’s top enforcers had a lavish wedding in a strapless dress. Meanwhile, women in Iran are beaten for showing their hair and young people can’t afford to marry. This video made millions of Iranian furious. Because they enforce “Islamic values” with, bullets , batons and prisons on everyone but themselves.
The main advisor of @khamenei_ir , celebrating her daughter’s wedding in at a palace-like venue. The same regime that killed #MahsaAmini for showing a bit of her hair, jails women for singing, whose hired 80,000 “morality police” to drag girls into vans, throws itself a luxury party.

This isn’t hypocrisy, it’s the system. They preach “modesty” while their own daughters parade in designer dresses.

The message couldn’t be clearer: the rules are for you, not for them.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

April is the foolest month

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@SketchesbyBoze @kinkuma_burner They are objectively far less useful than they were even ten years ago.

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

they made a mistake casting a well-known actor in this role. should have gone with a real nobody

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

just finished Northanger Abbey— terrifically funny and wholesome. Austen is clearly going to be brilliant just from her first book. I’m sad there’s only one left I haven’t read.

Where are the modern novelists doing this kind of work?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I hope you’ll join me in the Cool Person challenge (being a Cool Person by getting a library card, lengthening your attention span and sharpening your mind through extensive reading)

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Inspired by the guy who had never heard of the Odyssey, here’s a thread of books you should at least KNOW about, if you want to be culturally literate.

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

the audacity that people like two hours’ flight from me have #stormlight book 5, while we plebs on the west coast just wait

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

all of this!

[Samantha Watkins @_samantha_joy]

In Montessori, children start learning many skills *early*

>6mo babies drink from open cups
>18mo toddlers put on their own coats
>3yos prepare meals & scrub tables

But WHY??? (Hint: the reason isn't what you think)

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@BrandSanderson @torbooks I need to know if Shallan goes to space!!! And to see how Odium is finally thrown. down.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

I know a lot of people who voted for Trump. Let me tell you their reasons.

They wanted a return to normalcy. Gender ideology is just too out there. They want to protect women and children.

The economy has been disastrous for them. They didn’t have a cushion to absorb the inflation. They are cutting out everything in their lives just to afford food. And some are cutting that out. Their lives have gotten very small. When they tried to tell you, they were told they shouldn’t splurge on things like a frozen pizza.

They see people coming illegally into this country and being handed stuff. Their stuff. Their money is being handed over. They have nothing. They watch as others are just handed more than they have.

They can’t afford rent and don’t know what to do. More people fighting for the same housing units makes prices rise.

They see a frightening turn towards censorship. They value the first amendment. Remember, it’s very important.

They are so tired of being lied to and called terrible names. Every time the mainstream media made up a story to make people hysterical they rolled their eyes. This pushed more and more people away. They stopped having any faith in the media. A firing squad? Really? 🙄

They feel the hysteria is toxic and frightening. Again they want this all to calm down.

They watch as political protests are punished for only one side.

They see crime running rampant.

They see the people who try to protect us from crime being punished. The criminals go free to re-offend.

Essentially, they want their children to be healthy, they want their family to be fed, they don’t want endless war, they want things to be fair, they want the bad guys punished and the good guys appreciated, they want to protect women and children.

I hope if you are frightened today you will hear me. I hope I can help you see that things are not dire. I hope I can help you see that these were regular everyday folks who want regular everyday things. Food, clothing, shelter, privacy, respect for boundaries.

That’s it. Just those things.

Peace.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

The people of West Virginia have voted to ban euthanasia and assisted suicide. A big win in West Virginia for the sanctity of human life!

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

“Snobbery only begins when other claims to quality fail.”

- Frank Swinnerton, the Tokefield Papers

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@supersingalong My great grandfather just passed this year. ❤️ (I am almost 30)

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@RealCaloJones Not Morton’s. Morton’s has a v high lead content. https://t.co/fQzUcKZTzS

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@JasonBed @NancyRPearcey @conservmillen @NickAdamsinUSA https://t.co/j77o8mxkvK

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Since Sharia law was introduced in Nigeria, 50,000 Christians have been killed.

"Last year, 5,621 Christians were killed worldwide because of their faith—90% of them were northern Nigerians.

Mission organizations are reporting that Christian persecution is at its highest in 30 years.

Approximately half of Nigeria’s population are professing Christians, and most of them live in the south. However the other half are Muslims, and most of them live in the north.

Northern Nigeria is where Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group, have kidnapped thousands of young girls and killed tens of thousands of people over the last decade.

Boko Haram was founded in northern Nigeria in 2002, shortly after 12 northern states reintroduced Sharia law between 1999 and 2001—despite Nigerians’ constitutional right to religious freedom. Since then, at least 50,000 Christians in northern Nigeria have been murdered."

Read more to learn about a case that could abolish blasphemy laws in Nigeria.
@SlowToWrite
https://t.co/Rio1M059zb

[Miranda T 🌻 @bookranda]

@endlessallison I don’t but put some apple cider vinegar in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and poke small (like, pen tip size) holes all over it. The flies will all be inside and dead within a week.