I love everything about this, but that sentence is pure sunlight after a long night: "To be loved is to be changed." Damn right.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 8h agoTo be loved is to be changed.
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Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 8h ago
New Bond = new origin story. How about a bunch of agents competing to be OO7? Richard Ayoade Ruby Stokes or Millie Bon Jovi Dev Patel and Tessa Thompson and Janelle Monae as a bickering, murderous married couple with Rupert Grint as "Q" and Jameela Jamil as "M" Moneypenny? Manny Jacinto in drag
The Independent@the-independent.com · 15h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
Happy birthday to Wendell Berry! I hope we all can find peace:
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” -American writer Wendell Berry, born on this day in 1934 His writing often calls for a return to sustainable agriculture, promoting the idea that our connection to the land is essential for both personal and environmental well-being. #WriterSky #BookSky
American historian and suffragist Mary Ritter Beard was born on this day in 1876. As co-author of “The Rise of American Civilization,” and a founder of the World Center for Women's Archives, she documented women’s contributions to society as essential parts of history. #WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.” -French writer Guy de Maupassant, born on this day in 1850 He is considered a French master of short stories. His work gave a precise and even elegant voice to the disillusioned lower- and middle-classes of France. #WriterSky #BookSky
On this day in 1735, a win for freedom of the press: John Peter Zenger was acquitted of seditious libel after reporting the colonial governor of N.Y. was taking extra money from the city. Zenger convinced the jury that factual reporting of the truth was a valid defense against libel charges.
Writing for a uni, I interviewed several alumni who were drs, nurses, and other care workers during COVID. Talking with me, they all cried. A nurse in NYC told me about the SECOND refrigerated semi-truck trailer brought to her hospital to hold dead bodies. RFK is a liar and a goddamn fool.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Happy James Baldwin's birthday! Celebrate the man by not diminishing others:
James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924. In his writing, he shared his remarkable insight into the human condition and the inhumanity of racism. He influences writers concerned with human rights, justice, and the big questions about who we are and what we mean to each other. #WriterSky #BookSky
On this day in 1939, after the Germans had triggered nuclear fission, physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard wrote Pres. Roosevelt and urged him to develop a nuclear weapon. This launched the Manhattan Project, the atomic bombing of Japan, and the physicists’ regret over sending their letter.
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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“Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, the TV, nor the smartphone.” —American documentarian Ken Burns, born on this day in 1953
Happy birthday to Alexis de Tocqueville. Born in 1805 - 221 years ago - the guy still knows us better than we know ourselves:
It is the birthday in 1918 of US writer Mary Lee Settle. Best known for her five novels called the Beulah Quintet, Settle researched and wrote the books over 28 years. The Paris Review said the books trace the evolution of the people we have become, from 17th C. England to current day West Virginia.
“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.” -French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville, born on this day in 1805 He wrote the U.S. was enthralled with its own mythology, where the majority imposed what he called a tyranny of thought.
The world’s major powers signed treaties to limit war crimes on this day in 1899 at the Hague Convention. Modeled on the U.S. Civil War Lieber Code, the treaties specified how nations would be held responsible for war crimes. A 1907 meeting further clarified the treaties, broken at the start of WWI.
On this day in 1818, French physicist Augustin Fresnel changed our understanding of light by submitting his writing “Memoir on the Diffraction of Light” to the French Academy of Sciences. He said light was both a particle and a wave. #Duality #Philosophy #Literature #History #OTD
On this day in 1932, U.S. President Herbert Hoover had enough of the Bonus Army. He ordered uniformed troops to forcibly evict around 17,000 jobless veterans who had come to D.C. to claim their service bonuses. The spectacle helped FDR win his lopsided victory in that year's Presidential election.
Wow. The mom questioning Haley really did a good thing — and she did it well! It’s hard to imagine any thoughtful person voting for Haley after seeing this.
God@thegodshow.com · last wk.If you cannot answer a simple polite question from a voter, then you absolutely do not belong in the Senate.
On July 27, 1940, Warner Brothers released the animated short "A Wild Hare," introducing Bugs Bunny. In the Merry Melodies short, Bugs is being hunted, badly, by Elmer Fudd, who is surprised to discover that he’s been talking to the animal that he was trying to shoot only a minute before.
