this is what happens when Pamela Paul meets a witch in the woods and is turned into an op-ed - ThreadSky

nameshiv.bsky.social • 51 days ago

this is what happens when Pamela Paul meets a witch in the woods and is turned into an op-ed

This is like every NYT oped happening at once

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Though dollars to donuts I bet this is someone handwringing about throwing out a copy of like, left behind that someone left in it. In which case throw it out who gives a shit.

rantdelish.bsky.social•51 days ago

one time I threw a dawkins book I found in a free pile for the decomposers to enjoy. no ragrets.

piglet.bsky.social•51 days ago

it’s called “curating” and it’s a librarian’s *job*. omg.

hhillarious.bsky.social•51 days ago

The person posing the question asks a good question about curating and removing religious books aimed at children with an anti-science bent from her front yard little library.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/magazine/little-free-library-ethics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU4.iyV7.8DSCOFMdf11M&smid=url-share

hhillarious.bsky.social•51 days ago

When a friend of my niece’s gifted her children (the triplets +1) all sorts of religious book and books that questioned science – everything from evolution to the age of the Earth (and was it flat just as the Bible said), that Noah’s Ark was real…

hhillarious.bsky.social•51 days ago

To counter this, I gifted each one of them a subscription to NatGeo for kids, subscriptions to several Cricket magazines and a 2-year membership to the local kid’s science museum.

hhillarious.bsky.social•51 days ago

https://lancastersciencefactory.org/

hhillarious.bsky.social•51 days ago

https://shop.cricketmedia.com/magazine-subscriptions#modal-close

roosefella.bsky.social•51 days ago

NYTimes readers unable to make extremely basic decisions about their own property without a letter to a national newspaper.....

jenlei.bsky.social•51 days ago

Might I suggest this wonderful book?

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lollardfish.bsky.social•51 days ago

Amazing

omfproductions.bsky.social•51 days ago

I just remember the time I found a bunch of magazines from one of those evangelical groups at a public camping ground left for people to read and decided to use them for camp fire fuel... and I am not sure if I should repent. Heh.

omfproductions.bsky.social•51 days ago

Like... would I want a kids book by Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh in my Little Free Library if I had one? They publish them... this is why I do not have a little free library fwiw.

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