cmookbridgman.bsky.social
She/her. I do individual support for disabled adults and help them get out of segregated services and into the world. Love books and pets. New to ttrpgs. Want to help build a world where everyone is valued.
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Where was this "analysis?"
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Sorry; I am listening to an audiobook and just got to the list of names. Cheríe?
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But Cherry's story is just so great. And it makes me so happy to know that when Pratchett heard people talking about her as a trans story, he said "That wasn't my idea, but it absolutely works."
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Oh, dear. ;)
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Tiffany Aching was my introduction to Discworld. I then went back and read some of the earlier Witch books and had great fun seeing familiar faces, but you don't have to have the background to understand the stories.
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Nanny Ogg is happier and more emotionally healthy, so good for you.
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Tiffany Aching starts off as a 9-year-old with an annoying little brother spoiled rotten by her parents because they *finally* got a boy. She invents a massive spell to get around the problem of having only a small, cracked hand mirror. As a teenager she deals with a Mean Girl.
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As I feared, the window has moved so far right in *many* countries that the "liberal" parties would fit right in with Ronald Reagan. And of course the U.S. is leading the charge.
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Cheaper, too.
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I mean he is a comedian, but ...
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...he personally disapproves of? *Not* his job.
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And actively helped set him up, for instance by blocking Merrick Garland. I know McConnell has been trying for years to get conservative justices on the bench. I don't fault him for that; it's part of his job as an elected conservative politician. Refusing even to hold hearings for someone (1)
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As far as I know, the only thing he's backed down from is Senate leadership.
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I blame him and Mitch McConnell. They had a tremendous amount of power in the Republican Party. They both knew exactly what Trump was. They said it. And then they folded utterly. Repeatedly. At least McConnel just gave up rather than actively cooperating like Graham. But they both can go to hell.
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Unfortunately Obama and Biden both tried, "This is America! This isn't who we are!" and it didn't work because it was objectively false. Not who we want to be, maybe, but very much who we have been and apparently we still are.
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And/or follow someone else's suggestion of covering them/their cars with biodegradable glitter. Preferably pink. Mark 'em.
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If we are now disappearing people, make them own it.
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I need to fill the shelf space formerly occupied by HP. Accepting any and all Pratchett books. They're hard to find secondhand,; apparently they sell out quickly when they get any.
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I'd love to know why you are "no longer so afraid of a global descent into fascism" when it looks to me as though that is exactly what's happening.
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Please someone tell me she gets better as the books go on.
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I am agreeing that separation of church and state does not apply here. It doesn't mean no people of faith in government; it means government can't legislate faith. And yes, both these guys are shit humans.
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He just says yes it is and steamrolls right on. When he first talked about getting rid of birthright citizenship, some reporter explained he couldn't do that by executive order because it was in the Constitution. His response: "I don't think it says that in there."
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He can use his beliefs to guide his judgment, yes. And so can the rest of us, whether we are in government or not. Separation means he can't say everyone (in government or not) has to agree with him.
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Ouch. How is it that I am cheering for Tucker Carlson? That's scary.
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Go teach some more! The world needs you! Kids need you! Faith needs you!
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*The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,* by Shannon Chakraborty.
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Stephen Briggs *is* a great narrator *and* I was glad to get the Tiffany Aching books (with mostly female characters) narrated by Indira Varma.
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No captions available?
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I hope so. I thought anyone who voted to abolish abortion rights in America would lose their seats. Nope.
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Ah. So as long as, for instance, a voter eligibility law does not explicitly say "Black people can't vote," then a literacy test in a state that did not educate Black people wasn't racist at all. I see. Right.
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Most urgently, due process and rule of law. Of course, with Republicans passing a tidal wave of horrible laws, that's not enough, but we can't have a legitimate government without it.
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We should be defending each other. Not letting random guys pull people off the streets.
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So everyone around the court should assume he's being kidnapped (because he is), grab the kidnappers, get the victim away, and call the police.
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I never said they did. I know better than that. The exorbitant tuition and fees are not going to the people doing the educating--which shows that educating is no longer the main function of universities.
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I'm mostly complaining about structures that actively discourage teaching and still expect students to mortgage their lives. I don't think the faculty is the problem.
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"This growth in the use of part-time faculty has occurred despite low pay, almost nonexistent benefits, inadequate working conditions, and little or no opportunity for career advancement."
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Absolutely. And then there's the issue of part time adjuncts: "by 2005, according to data compiled by the AAUP from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), part-time faculty represented approximately 48 percent of all faculty members in the United States....
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Thanks!
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Is there a specific reason for your rage other than generally being elitists? I thought they were old-school conservatives rather than Nazis and would be objecting.
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What happens to the weeded books? Library sale?
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I figured this out when I went to college at Johns Hopkins. It was very clear very quickly that teaching undergrads was bottom of the barrel for priorities. One of many reasons college tuition is insane. And this was 35 years ago