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I used to use github for my course materials, currucula, and syllabi when I was a teacher.

my personal email does not feature my name in any form

Nah, I sing my weird songs around everybody, no shame around anybody.

@Kolanaki@pawb.social

bad news, buddy…

Well it’s certainly lowered my grocery budget.

You can just say you don’t eat cilantro. You don’t have to lie about it being an allergy.

not “starting with” but it’s functionally a standalone and the most “fantastic” of her novels

It’s less about age and more about our ability to take care of our responsibilities. As children, we have few, and taking care of them takes little time and is easy. As we grow we get more and more, and if our abilities don’t grow in tandem we become stressed and unhappy. It’s easy to find yourself in a situation as a young adult where you have lots of responsibilities and not enough time, money, and training to discharge all of them. Similarly in middle age if you haven’t kept upskilling and you find yourself outclassed professionally by younger professionals.

Some ways to fight this are by keeping your lifestyle simple and inexpensive; by constantly seeking to improve; by being parsimonious with your social commitments; and by building a network of mutually supportive friends and colleagues who can help you during sudden spikes of need or sudden dropoffs in ability, such as unexpected illness.

I would not want to have to open the camera every time I got on the bus, for example.

You’re right, poor people don’t deserve art in their lives. How did we all get this so wrong???

We functionally can’t. It don’t take.

I rotate like a rotisserie chicken.

Be twice as annoying back.

I have never blocked anyone on any platform.

what if the whole thing is emojis?

asking for a friend

Gotta love a story where “mapmaker” is the OP vocation.

The Tiger Lillies — “Banging in the Nails” (youtube music link, sorry)

While I can’t know the spirit in which the song was written, I suspect it was intended to shock and offend. But I’m firmly “death of the author”, so IDGAF. I listen to it as part of my Lenten devotions, a reminder that the sacrifice of Christ is necessary because we humans in general and me specifically are fucking depraved.

If you’re ever in charge of a young child with a stroller, it’s the ultimate shoplifting tool. You can cram all sorts of things under or behind it under the guise of fussing with the baby, and just walk out afterwards, no one wants to stop a fussy baby from leaving a store. Use this to harm predatory corporations that you can’t ethically give money to.

Pale Lights the author’s ongoing serial, is even better. New chaptr just dropped a hour ago!

Series?

• Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy

• Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain

• Discworld, especially the Night Watch books

• Orson Scott Card’s Alvin Maker series

Individual Books:

• Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown, or anything else she wrote

• Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock and Howl’s Moving Castle, or anything else she wrote

• Philip K. Dick, “Galactic Pot-Healer” (Dick straddles the line between science fiction and science fantasy, but this one’s firmly the latter)

• Madeline L’Engle, Many Waters

I’m sure I’ll think of more but my break is up.