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Writer, teacher, extroverted introvert. I teach high school media studies, literature rhetoric, and research. My personality is "The Good Place" meets "Game of Thrones" patreon.com/TheFriendlyPedant

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Carrie’s Substack
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03.08.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m not normally a bird watcher, but I was thrilled to catch a blue suited twit sleeping away the day.

28.04.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 21155 πŸ” 2952 πŸ’¬ 1169 πŸ“Œ 257
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29.04.2025 05:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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29.04.2025 05:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

24.03.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 96767 πŸ” 15989 πŸ’¬ 3562 πŸ“Œ 766

"...unless we do it."

24.03.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They not like us they not like us
Dun dun dun dun
They not like us they not like us

19.03.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Four panel comic from Pizza Cake Comic (on Patreon as pizzacakecomic).

First panel:

A shoulder demon says, "I just had a Zoom meeting with my boss and he said empathy is a sin now."

Second panel:

Hapless Soul: ...What?

Shoulder Demon: Yeah.

Third panel:

Shoulder Demon: So I guess I'm supposed to tempt you to... care about others?

Fourth panel:

Hapless Soul: I'm confused.

Shoulder Demon: Me too.

Four panel comic from Pizza Cake Comic (on Patreon as pizzacakecomic). First panel: A shoulder demon says, "I just had a Zoom meeting with my boss and he said empathy is a sin now." Second panel: Hapless Soul: ...What? Shoulder Demon: Yeah. Third panel: Shoulder Demon: So I guess I'm supposed to tempt you to... care about others? Fourth panel: Hapless Soul: I'm confused. Shoulder Demon: Me too.

Gooood morning sinners~! πŸ™ƒ

18.03.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 7209 πŸ” 1281 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 49

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

14.03.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 12464 πŸ” 2708 πŸ’¬ 355 πŸ“Œ 132

If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov β€˜s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre.

Their phone number is 310-828-5582

14.03.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 19060 πŸ” 5768 πŸ’¬ 544 πŸ“Œ 318

You know a nation is ignoring real problems when they focus on policing women.

14.03.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning from the left coast #BlueSky tribe. The USA is wild these days, being run by a corrupt since birth oligarch. I want to encourage us to not become complacent. Stay mad, and enjoy your life. Both are possible. We truly are #StrongerTogether Happy Thursday! πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™

13.03.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 396 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

He's MOCKING him. Notice guts in quotation marks and picture the smirk when he dictated it

14.03.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chapter 2 of Empire of Illusion proved impossible to listen to. I got about halfway through and finally went, "Okay. I get it" and skipped to the next chapter. I mean woof.

11.03.2025 02:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have this in my Audible library after I finish Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges

07.03.2025 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And they took away pain medication as a legitimate treatment for people with chronic pain after their investment in Sackler didn't work out. Well, financially it did. Fentanyl is the crack cocaine of the 21st century

05.03.2025 13:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not Your High School Crucible β€œArthur Miller’s play is a lot more interesting and profound when you’re reading it through the lens of what these young girls are trying to say in our play.”

β€œArthur Miller’s play is a lot more interesting and profound when you’re reading it through the lens of what these young girls are trying to say in our play.”

05.03.2025 12:11 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and yet nothing seems to stop the battles. We go on and on seeking a final victory and a triumphant king who will bring peace; but victory never comes and peace never comes and the kingship is never settled." (The White Queen, Phillipa Gregory)

05.03.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Everyone knows that these wars have torn our country apart, have destroyed our prosperity, our friendliness between neighbors, our trust of strangers, the love between brothers, the safety of our roads, the affection for our king; 1/2

05.03.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dorothy Parker

04.03.2025 04:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A young unknown actress winning instead of Demi Moore is like meta commentary on The Oscars

03.03.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's something so poetic to this Carrie (born in 1972 to a Debbie Reynolds fan, who named her own daughter Leia) about seeing Mark Hamill spend his life supporting the resistance to an evil empire ✊️😊

03.03.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Not Let The Schools Decide?

23.02.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 341 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 2

What an unbelievable bastard.

19.02.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I liked her. She understood family is what matters and she refused to be used.

19.02.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alicia Florrick
Dr. Mark Green
Dana Scully

18.02.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

As a writer, I've always thought that a piece is never finished. It's just "due"

It's why I don't reread anything after I've published. I'll want to change it

17.02.2025 05:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This. And attention, too. We're an attention economy. So delete Twitter, stay off the networks that parrot his talking points, and the mealy mouthed centrists who say there are 2 sides. Don't watch their YT channels. Keep your eyes on the resisters and their good works.

17.02.2025 05:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That must have been so terrible! Most of them were women and children (about 700 out of nearly 1000). And most refused to commit suicide when it came to it, and were murdered by the "true believers." Coward Jones shot himself in the end, after watching hundreds of his followers die in agony.

17.02.2025 05:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nation Finally Breaks Down And Begs Its Smart People To Just Fix Everything WASHINGTONβ€”Overwhelmed by the frustration of being utterly unable to solve any of the numerous difficult problems it faces, a worn-out nation finally broke down Thursday morning and begged its smart p...

Can we just skip ahead to this part?

β€œWe know we said we didn’t need to read any books or have a lot of expertise to do this stuff, but we were wrong. We need your help, and we need it bad.”

(From 2011.)

16.02.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1