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CD Covington

@exaggerated.bsky.social

Writer, linguist, Germanist. Roller derby official in Berlin, Germany. Freelance copy editor and translator. Links-grün versifft web: www.cdcovington.com Mastodon: @exaggerated@wandering.shop

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Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23h ago

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 24h ago

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d ago

Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Great Inflammation panic

The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.

motherjones.com

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d ago

Its a lib "bubble" because MAGA can't stick dick opinions in my face without a block. People like bluesky because unlike Twitter you can curate/filter out stupid bullshit. The only reason conservatives hate it is because they cant force you to pay attention to them. That better not fucking change.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Der Volksverpetzer@volksverpetzer.de · 2d ago

Das Problem ist, je später Merz, Söder und der Rest der Unionsführung nicht begreifen, dass sie angefangen sollten, für die Union Wahlkampf zu machen und nicht für die AfD, desto größer wird der Schaden an der Demokratie.

Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lockdown in Hellworld was a very validating read for me. Proof that, yeah, that shit really happened, we all went through that. You wouldn't think you'd need the reminder of what it felt like at the time, but it does help. That shit sucked. Good book though.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't plug this book as much because people didn't seem to want to read about Covid while it was still peak Covid but maybe some of you all do need a reminder of what it was actually like as it happened. www.orbooks.com/catalog/lock...

There will be a million books written about this period in history but most of them will come when it’s all said and done. Writing about it now at the beginning of the pandemic—and to be clear we are still in the beginning of this in America despite being six months along—feels strange it feels like you’ve just jumped off a cliff into the ocean and as you’re falling someone shouts out How’s the water? and you yell back What? and then you keep falling. I thought for some reason anyway I’d get a lot of this down as it was happening. Not for history because I hate that framing the idea that you hear so often now like “History won’t look favorably on this” usually when it’s someone panicking about Trump’s latest fuck up. It’s just such a strange way of thinking about the world to me. It’s a form of punting responsibility for real problems happening right now to some later date at which point the future moon historians or whatever will arrive and right the wrongs of our present with their scathing appraisal of how terrible Trump was. Not only is it a type of cowardice—“outsourcing this to the future when people will care” as a buddy of mine said—it doesn’t even happen to be true. The history books do not in fact tell us the real unvarnished dirt on what our leaders and so on were up to that’s like the one main thing we know about history books that they’re fucked up and biased and written from the perspective of the victors. On top of that thinking about this particular pandemic in terms of what will be said about it later is just real fucking weird because did we even learn about the Spanish flu in the books we were meant to have read? I certainly don’t remember reading about it in school.
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 3d ago

Selective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.

AutAd@autad.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dieser Skeet ist so wichtig. Und genau aus dieser Perspektive solltet ihr argumentieren. Man läuft sonst schnell in die Gefahr eine weniger menschenfeindliche Migrationspolitik der linksliberalen und Mitte Parteien gegenüber den rechten Parteien zu verteidigen. Ein anderer Weg wäre möglich, war

borders kill@humblehybrid.myatproto.social · 4d ago

ihr könnt jetzt ewig lange darüber spekulieren wer dAhInTeR sTeCkT, fakt ist dass die ceuta situation überhaupt nur deshalb eine "krise" ist, weil die eu migrationspolitik 50000 leute die nach europa wollen überhaupt als "problem" sieht und nicht als menschen die jedes recht haben hier her zu kommen