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Wendell Beery, rest in peace.

"She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped."

Oh no suddenly we are reading Nancy Drew meets The Revenant

I just want to embody the boar on the cover, living my best stanky forest life.

Her ex calling her Bunny 😰 IYKYK but you can't go around casually calling people Bunny

Nerd alert, but I was browsing Libby by publisher and Thomas Nelson has a contemporary romance line?? I know romance keeps the entire industry afloat so it makes sense why they do, but I was just so surprised that it's not like obviously Christian-themed romance.

"1994-95, Wenatchee, WA. In a town of 25,000 people, prosecutors charge 43 adults with 29,726 counts of ritual abuse. More than two dozen people are convicted." Yeah.... so this hometown environment explains a lot about my mom never being able to get over satanic panic fears of D&D, the Smurfs, playing records backwards, etc etc.

"The FDA does often enough approve prescription medicines that are less effective, more dangerous, and more expensive than OTC remedies."

"The most effective smokescreen in capitalism"

"The Sacklers are pikers compared to Johnson & Johnson." Wheeeee

Miranda July's spirit child? America's answer to Convenience Store Woman? Im here for it!

"Whenever you hear the word 'fintech', mentally substitute it for 'unregulated bank.'"

The enshitocene 😭

"A liberdade de uma pessoa é insperável da qualidade de sua agência -- a capacidade de perceber seus próprios desejos e ações, e de sentir capaz de promover mudanças. Em pequenas e grandes escalas, os sistemas de IA vêm interferindo nisso, criando uma sensação de impotência individual, até mesmo de perda do livre-arbítrio."

"Diversity in ways of being is an antidote to scarcity."

"Enumerating the gifts you've received creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you already have what you need. Recognizing enoughness is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more."

"The state wants violence because in that playing field it maintains every advantage: from bigger guns, to total immunity, to the privilege of perpetual victimhood."

"...there is an indigenous population being colonized, but we should let this unpleasantness run its course so we can arrive at true justice in the form of land acknowledgements at every Tel Aviv poetry reading."
when I tell you I am HOWLING 🔥

Is there any essay or podcast about the JonBenet Ramsey case and how it sparked a true crime fascination for an entire generation of women when we were like 5 years old? I want to read about my origin story 🌚

I'm doing it for science 🫣

I want to read like 30 titles by the end of the year, this is fine right?

Really hoping that Viv just ran off with the police woman and they are living happily in a cabin in the Catskills.

Pride really is people's entire personality in this book lol

Wow I had no idea how amazon's business model actually works. Here I was thinking the majority of the money came from AWS 🤡

Cool band name: 'Wayne Grudem and the Neo-Deletionists'

☹️ why does every memoir by a woman have SA tho?

Using Jew as a noun is fine, as an adjective you are entering murky waters, and as a verb you are announcing yourself to be a flaming racist. Lol reminds me of Josh Johnson "You blacked it!" https://youtube.com/shorts/JFzskp7qaI...

Alright I guess it's on me that I didn't expect a book whose theory is heavy metals poisoning creates serial killers to have hours of exposition about industrialization and mineral refineries. We got a solid 40 minutes of bridge building techniques, folks.

Looking high and low for the plot twist 👀👀👀

"Next to a hole, thou shalt not edit."