“In her time at Piney Point, Samantha Parkington is essentially cosplaying Kirsten Larson. She's on a Singing Bird-themed vacation. At its best, this kind of reenactment can be a bridge of empathy and hand-on education. Too often, it becomes an exercise in erasure.“

Samantha in the Adirondacks (or; all my girlies hate Thoreau)

Some people are so rich that they pretend to be poor as a vacation. (Observations from my research for Part 2 of the American Girl deep dive series)

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"What do you mean, Cinderella HAS ears and they just didn't draw them? The movie is animated! Cinderella is a drawing!"

Cinderella Does NOT Have Ears (I am the world's foremost authority on the matter)

YouTube video by Babbity Kate

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well now I don’t want to

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2y ago

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

can't wait to become a menace to every other social media platform starting tomorrow

the "graduation goggles" effect from tiktok users has been PROFOUND

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

One thing the TikTok ban discourse has not included is that many TikTok creators privately do not like TikTok, which of course they’re not saying because none of us want it banned. It’s a brutal creative ecosystem that extracts from creators until they burnout and then they are replaced.