States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them
Richard Alloway
@richardalloway.bsky.social
Creator of Little Acorns, the notes organisation app for writers, and author of novels, short stories, screenplays, poems, and reflections (suspicions and superstitions).
The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
Suspicions & Superstitions Working on a document in public—in a library, cafe, pub—is analogous to posting on social media. The ephemeral community appears to form a sizeable audience. But none-to-few of them discover what I'm working on. Approach to inquire. Care. And why should they? #Write
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Idiotsyncrasies If I run my writing through a spellchecker, and it comes up with nothing, I never conclude that everything's on point. I assume, instead, that the spellchecker isn't working. So I'll add a letter to the beginning of a word and wait for it to be detected. #writingcommmunity #write
little acorns – simple-to-use notes organisation application for writers
littleacorns.online
Braindrops Keep Falling Out Of My Head Whither My Weather? Next time I’m keeping the receipt. I feel cheated! Last Friday, the BBC weather forecast promised rain Tuesday through Saturday. And now: #WeatherUpdates #bbc
Braindrops Keep Falling Out Of My Head As a social media newbie, this is what being in the mix feels like at the end of year one: #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write #indieauthor
When TV Wasn’t A Medium But A Large My something for the weekend? A play from UK TV's golden age. Thanks to the dependable Play For Forever for this week’s treat: Griffiths' 'Comedians' starring Jonathan Pryce and the criminally underrated Bill Fraser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHF...
Play for Today - Comedians (1979) FULL FILM by Trevor Griffiths & Richard Eyre
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Suspicions & Superstitions The last great prejudice to be outed is the belief in uncommon intelligence. In genius residing in the individual. Genius is a position in spacetime. That someone currently occupies its coordinates is coincidental. Incidental. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing
Braindrops Keep Falling Out Of My Head As a social media newbie, this is what being in the mix feels like at the end of year one: #VideoCreator #VisualStorytelling #CreatorJourney #OneYearOnline #ContentCreator
Beastly Heat Next time it rains biblically, day or night, I'm rushing out into it, under it, and not going indoors till I'm drenched to the marrow. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write #indieauthor #amwriting
Suspicions & Superstitions: Genius: Unmaligning Motive Intelligence tests succeed in nosing out embryonic geniuses as often as psychologists do budding psychopaths. Why? Assessors cannot see the MMO for the MO. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings
Suspicions & Superstitions: Genius: Unmaligning Motive A crime is never solely the fault of the individual indicted. The offender was inspired, fired, coerced and rehearsed by others. So, too, the perpetrator of a deed of genius. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #amwriting #writerslife #write
Suspicions & Superstitions: Unmasking Motive The genius commits a work of art rather than a felony, but is often as delusional, narcissistic and ruthless as a sociopath. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write
Suspicions & Superstitions: Unmasking Motive The parallel with transgression runs to the bone. Most crimes are pedestrian: a few are horribly extraordinary. Geniuses of the first rank are akin to serial killers. There are many murderers, but few Dahmers. Even fewer Shipmans. #Writer
On this day in 1922, a Jewish woman was born in the Sudetenland. A clerk, on the 3 Nov 1941 she was deported from Prague to the Łódź Ghetto with her parents. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Ruth Adlerová
Suspicions & Superstitions: Unmasking Motive Like sexual endeavour, creative enterprise cannot progress on means and opportunity alone. The genius must also possess desire: motive. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write
On this day in 1896, an Austrian Jewish woman was born. Living in Prague, on the 6 Mar 1943, she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and on the 18 Dec 1943 to Auschwitz where they perished. Her name was Greta Krausová Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Suspicions & Superstitions: Unmasking Motive Geniuses aren't cleverer than the rest of us. What they own more of—to a superabundant extent—is motive. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write #indieauthor #amwriting
20 July 1908 A Czech Jewish woman, Božena Freudová, was born in Prague. She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters
Suspicions & Superstitions: Unmasking Motive A criminal act is a collision of means, motive and opportunity. So, too, a work of genius. #Writer #writingcommmunity #writing #writings #philosophy #booksky #amwriting #writerslife #write #indieauthor #amwriting
12 July 1911 A Czech Jewish woman, Hana Neumannová, was born in Litoměřice. She was deported to Auschwitz from the ghetto in Theresienstadt on 19 October 1944. She did not survive. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters
On this day in 1921, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 24 Oct 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt where she took her own life by poison on the 5 Feb 1943. Her parents were transported with her, perishing in Auschwitz later in 1943. Her name was Lilly Franklová
