Building our entire society around the personal automobile was a mistake, exhibit 9,000
Could do with a little less Jay and a little more Silent Bob if you know what I mean.
What information does the torturer extract from a tortured metaphor?
Indigo bunting!
Oh sweet Thistle, I know you were a wonderful companion. Thinking of you, Ian.
Saw a post going around about Andy Weir in which he says he is aggressively opposed to the idea of art including social commentary and all I can say is I am not surprised that the utter vapidness of his prose, the almost comical flatness of his characters, and the tedium of his plots is intentional.
It almost feels to me like the success of his work is an experiment in how bad fiction can be and still get a massive amount of attention. Like, there's no way a real editor really reads his prose and thinks it's in any way laudatory or worthwhile, right? I had 8th grader students who wrote better.
Sounds like a microcosm of the last ~20 years of, well, everything.
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I think this is part-and-parcel with the fairly common observation that most democratic voters are significantly to the left on matters of actual policy than their elected representatives.
A few specifics recs... but find what you love.
The poetry of @chenchenwrites.bsky.social
"Hello Sunshine" by @keezyyoung.bsky.social
The Gardener's Hand trilogy by @feliciadavin.com
Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin
Bhanu Kapil’s "The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers"
"Jane Eyre"
