Samantha Powell
Writing about fashion. Writing about other things. Zoë not Zelda. She/her.
- Talking with my best friend about how my family is a Zadie Smith/Toni Morrison novel. We are a disaster.
- *puts on nerd hat* There's a reason why there were a healthy amount of newspapers in the 19th century run by people who weren't of the dominant class.
- I wish we still had the number of black newspapers that existed back then. And newspapers in Yiddish and various other languages of immigrants.
- I know that people who do cultural criticism have been laid off in swarms in the past decade, which is awful, but also laying off international and war reporters during this moment in history is...
- Tech billionaires really fail to understand the importance of the humanities be they art or history or politics.
- There's a reason why the top film awards nominees, Sinners and One Battle After Another, weave multiple humanities disciplines together.
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View full threadOn another note, the best way to examine wars is through the lenses of history, politics, race, and religion. Any nerd who has read a lot about wars knows this is always the case.
- I've lived in Los Angeles for nearly 12 years, but I still find it odd that I currently have on the air conditioning in January because it's 90 degrees outside.
- Watched the final episode of the first half of S4. The WoC who get involved with Bridgerton men are consistently the most interesting characters on the show.
- Also they're all beautiful with perfect skin.
- Sophie deserves better than what Benedict asked of her at the end of S4E4.
- And she's right that Benedict's French is awful.
- Groundhog Day 2026 makes me want to look up the ones from 1994, 1996, and 1997 because Boston got winter fucked until April all of those years.
- Us 90s children love to talk about the April Fools' Blizzard of 1997. I got an extra two days of spring break.
- Being the child who is good at organizing things fucking sucks. Have had four calls today, and it's not even 9 AM here.
- Crying before 9 AM blows.
- Blergh, I hate crying. It just makes me feel tired in multiple ways.
- Another one of my nerd interests is reading and watching a lot of history about wars and other various conflicts, and contagious diseases have been a top killer during them for most of human history.
- Oh, and famine.
- I read and watch of lot of history about wars and conflicts because humans can't seem to help themselves when causing them.
- It's very obvious that I didn't sleep because I've shifted from fashion to spies rather quickly.
- One of my nerd interests is the history of intelligence agencies (I've read a large history book about the history of the British ones), and a thing that I've learned, outside of their amoral work, is that you can't put an unqualified idiot in charge of them.
- This is the book about the British intelligence agencies in case you're interested. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
