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Lives in a Dutch cottage in Utrecht, Netherlands. Writes like a ghost. 🇺🇸🇳🇱🌷🌻🦋🌲🍀🎿❄️📚
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A civil society has third places to enjoy your city and its people. Utrecht is a cozy Dutch city.

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Every artist or writer should have a personal library. If you can't find 200 books that matter to you, you're lacking curiosity-- thinking too much about yourself.

submitted 101 days ago • 9 comments

Poland’s foreign minister is running in a primary today, hoping to become a presidential candidate in his country’s May election. But he’s is having to confront questions about his wife Anne Applebaum’s views of Donald Trump. 🔗 trib.al/oqupZG3

submitted 102 days ago • 49 comments

If you want Bluesky to have a lot of energy (and have more news folks) you have to start following a lot of them, so that you can create a lot of discussions and cross-pollination, so to speak. Threads hates engagement, and X has drowned it in trolls.

submitted 103 days ago • 349 comments

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

submitted 103 days ago • 391 comments

Public libraries are a really beautiful aspect of our civic life. As I sit here working in my community library, I feel these operate according to the norms of "public goods" that would apply elsewhere, too. So if we can agree our libraries should exist, maybe other public goods should too...

submitted 105 days ago • 57 comments

Barnes & Noble is making a comeback: The world’s largest retail bookseller is expanding at a breakneck pace and is on track to reach its goal of more than 60 planned openings this year.

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🤔 Here's my idea of "heaven". ... HBU❓️

submitted 108 days ago • 669 comments

Some of my favorite writers are dyslexic. Many have painful memories with shame from their exhausting experiences with learning to read, spell, and write.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

3 questions for Americans from Dutch friends: Is a winner-takes-all with 2 parties representative democracy? Is it known a democracy ranking of 36 in the world isn’t top-tier? Isn’t the Supreme Court, like Iran’s, accountable to no one and appointed for life? www.democracymatrix.com/ranking

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