saraidh.bsky.social
Longtime book, history and fiber geek, now with added democracy activism and Minnesota legislature nerdery.
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I'm not hosting ours, so I don't actually know! But I recognize enough of the outfits that I'm pretty sure he is the size to be able to wear most 18" doll clothes, which might help you find your own godzilla.
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Obviously, I get why they would talk to members of the DFL, but the silence from Republicans is notable. I think Demuth issued a pretty tepid statement and I couldn't find anything when I went looking for statements from the MN GOP.
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Clearly, I need to rewatch Noises Off.
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I just heard an interesting leftist framing about voting that might be helpful - authoritarians want people not to vote, so think of voting as an act of noncompliance.
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I appreciate those of you who are rising to the occasion, though.
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They may just be tragically tempermental, but I'd be delighted to be wrong.
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Hopefully somebody has a recommendation, because every one I've ever had broke, including the industrial one provided by the basement waterproofing people.
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I need to check that out again! I did a bunch of them one year and then got kind of distracted, but I recently joined a library craft club and I'm keeping an eye on the parks activity calendar.
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It's absolutely maddening. In related news, I am a paid subscriber of Wired, Rolling Stone and a dozen or so indie journalists and neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post.
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Yeah, for example I mostly know a lot of the things he talks about, but I wouldn't have had any idea about how bad deep sea mining is without him doing an in depth piece about it.
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Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Future - Naomi Alderman
Both excellent reads with visions of getting us out of some of our current difficulties as a society
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It's going to be sad, but as one of her constituents I am thoroughly enjoying her no fucks era.
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I remember it coming up a few times, but I think it might've been this one. captainawkward.com/2020/06/05/1...
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Thank you! I've read enough Captain Awkward that I didn't have a specific letter in mind. And yeah, CA is great, highly recommend reading the archives. The Darth Vader boyfriend question is classic. captainawkward.com/2011/01/17/r...