Mara Wilson

@marawilson.bsky.social

Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard

On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂‍↕️

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I was just thinking about this the other day, & Martin is frankly one of the most well adjusted characters on the show He knows what he’s about & isn’t ashamed of it. Is this thing nerdy and stereotypically feminine? Who cares? He’s the Queen of Summer God damn it and that summer wind is blowing in

watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

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You don’t have to worry about trans women in sports. You do have to worry about trans women in your walls, eating a big crumb as a whole meal off a table they made out of a wooden spool, and taking baths in a bottle cap

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

the complete text of Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" in Collier's, 6 May 1950

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

"i just learned something insane from a stranger. why doesn't everyone know about this" is a great style of post, right up there with "why is nobody talking about this" alongside a link to one of the biggest news outlets in the world talking about it. nobody does ignorant curiosity like us humans do