My story "The Last Frontier" is up now at @RiverStyxMag. It's about the dream of chucking it all away and moving to Alaska, and it's a personal favorite of mine. 🔗:
What organizations that millions of teachers belong say about education matters. In contrast, what Bill Gates, Elon Musk, or other random super rich folks say about eduction does not.
@WeaverBask I was really impressed with the street markings in Scotland. There were a lot of things that were stressful about driving there but it seemed like they were trying to make it safer and more usable in a lot of small ways
Reading that Greg Grandin book made me sympathetic to why people get mad about this but I do think anyone complaining ought also to support the Bolivarian dream of a single American government
America is a toponym for the United States of America. America is the common name and widely understood to refer specifically to the USA in English.
I understand a lot of the people sperging at Americans right now are ESL so they probably didn’t know this.