The last episode of Wandavision is about the danger of letting grief & rage make you into a monster. It's not about slavemasters but it is about manipulation. Some of you have never engaged with comics or storytelling & it shows.
I don’t want a career, I want to wear a fancy robe covered in stars and dispense confusing and ambiguous advice to passing travelers from a large stone cottage on the edge of the woods where I live with a parliament of owls
@ERLathrop I first watched it as a double feature with Portrait of a Lady on Fire per your suggestion. One of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had!
Re-upped my alumni membership so I could have library access...only to learn that alumni can only access online journals from an actual library computer. 🙃 How is that helpful to anyone?
If we’re calling people “diversity hires” then I would like to also coin the term “homogeneity hire”:
A person who is hired, not because they were the best, but because they were the same.
Used in a sentence: “Mike hired another Mike - he’s probably a homogeneity hire🤭”
Covid has taught me three things:
1. Our economy collapses as soon as it stops selling useless stuff to over indebted people
2. It is perfectly possible to reduce pollution
3. The lowest paid people in the country are essential to its functioning
A reminder, 400 years after the Mayflower, that the Wampanoag people are still here, still practicing our culture, and still facing adversity
We didn’t just disappear or go extinct. And so I want to note some of the amazing things that we’re doing as a people (THREAD 👇)