Jamie

poor, obscure, plain, and little

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

This woman is braver than the entire Democratic Party and MSM combined.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if anything, it proved to me that we honor King’s dream, by daring to dream big, and by, most importantly, daring to dream together. Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us. What a worthwhile, powerful calling only we can answer. Here with you in the hill and the climb, and whatever light lies beyond, whatever light lies within.
-Amanda

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

A thread of contemporary fantasy authors you might enjoy if you’ve recently been disappointed by a once-beloved author:

[Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert]

I’m thinking about that Mr. Roger’s quote “look for the helpers” and the way people miss a key element in it. He was talking to preschoolers. It is a perfect message to preschoolers. But that is not the message for us, the grown ups. (Con’t)

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

The folks who are pushing for ChatGPT to replace teachers and textbooks don’t care that it makes people dumber because that is its purpose. That is what it was designed to do. They want to create a world where the very rich are educated and the rest of us are illiterate.

[Jamie @noaveragenerd]

@packersloren I was in the same boat. I am 29. I got my license in 2021, but didn't start driving daily until April of this year. Be patient and kind to yourself. You can do it. Good luck on the test!

[Jane Austen First Drafts @Austen1stDrafts]

Happy 207th anniversary to Northanger Abbey! Celebrate by solving a murder that never happened.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

Of course

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

fyi, pangur ban probably translates to “white fuller,” a fuller being someone who felts fabric by kneading it. so, the cat was presumably named for its love of kneading fabric (making biscuits) 🥹

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

annual reminder that a major subplot in A Christmas Carol involves Scrooge denying healthcare to his employees, and that Tiny Tim would have died had Scrooge not been shamed by ghosts into giving him coverage.

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

“This degree is a waste of money—” Must everything be measured in terms of wages and profits? Shouldn’t it be enough just to read, to learn, to contribute to the sum total of the world’s knowledge? Dismissing the value of scholarship and the humanities is a kind of poverty.

[Yaffa the Lesbian Witch🖖 @archaicf0ssil]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer is actually about the importance of libraries and how using library resources saves the world when you think about it

[Jane Austen First Drafts @Austen1stDrafts]

Just a reminder that Wishbone Darcy loves you very much ❤️

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

saw someone say that The Hobbit is too difficult a book for teenagers, and I really think part of the problem is adults with such low expectations that they think kids can’t handle a book famously written for children.

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

Those who only know the Tin Woodman from the movies are likely unaware that in the original fourteen Oz books, his origin story is the most messed-up, horrifying thing you can imagine.

And his ultimate fate is even worse.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

SAM: Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal."

In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: https://t.co/rsDH2BQzwX

[wheezywaiter @wheezywaiter]

Dems should be more Bernie and less Cheney.