“We’ve. Been scooping voices and content for so long we got ahead of ourselves. We thought we had expanded to the point folks wouldn’t care if we did it to academics thanks to the wave of anti university sentiment. We’ll try again later”
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I can connect you to folks looking for work!
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Just imagine if instead of spending billions on undeclared wars we spent it on children and seniors and infrastructure and housing and education and medical care instead
If you are an author or editor at *ANY* level -- from beginner to jaded old veteran like me, click through to the article Todd's posting about, take 2 minutes, and email them to let them know you opt out. Will save us all time having to mount yet a 577th class-action suit down the road.
Get fucked, Grammarly.
No, and as I'm the Midlistiest of Midlisters I have zero clout so I'd be someone they'd probably try it with, I'd think? I've had convos with my agent about single vs. dual POV, but that's usually more about what would work best for the pitch/story than anything else
Minnesota is in the midst of Liar's Spring as well, it's 60*F today and going to snow on Wednesday, lmao
Ladies and gentlemen, our Secretary of State:
Not a ton of parents can stop work in the middle of the afternoon to stand watch outside their kids' school (or right at the start of the work day) so the grandparents have really stepped up and dutifully go out and freeze their butts off for a half hour each morning and afternoon
I see a lot of posts talking about Minneapolis Wine Moms resisting ICE (and yes, we are) but I also want to thank the Minneapolis Grandparent Resistance, since about 80% of the people I do "crossing guard" duty with are grandparents.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
I vote for something new! Stretch those wings and fall back in love with writing
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
we've got a month, let's do this
Judith Butler Apology Form: Reason for Behavior: The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s I miss not thinking about gender I was jealous of their nonbinary swag I never actually read their work I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender Mercury was in retrograde I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
yeah my most recent books has gotten some reviews complaining about the difficult female lead, who is...mostly just very invested in her job?
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
It really does
sending you fellow-mom hugs, Mel
If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there
And on a Minnesota Specific level, the fact that they let ICE arrest their employees (who were American citizens, in one case) without a single word and then kicked out peaceful protestors has dug them a deep, DEEP hole here
My daughter's friend really wanted to get my kiddo a specific toy that is only sold there, and you would have thought the parents were giving us blood soaked rags they way they apologized for it (it was fine, those moments happen, but I'm down from ~3-4x a month to 3-4x a year, tops)
that should say "at least one target RUN a week"
I am a liberal, middle class mom in Minneapolis (you cannot get more Target Demographic than that, pun intended) and my peers went from "at least one Target one a week with offers to grab stuff for each other" to "we apologize if a specific gift had to be purchased there and offer to return it"
I mean, SAME
I would pay one million dollars for that
Humanities Academic Problems (tm)
