Amanda
Ms_emmalyon from that other site.
I hate writing bios but enjoy books and such.
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- Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
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- this is a great point and to that end: why isn't Anthropic building a salesforce competitor or whatever? Surely they could with the magic of Claude Code based on all the crap I've read
- going through some old photos and found this from years ago that i took in richmond. what a building!
- Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
- “Maybe I’m Amazed,” Paul McCartney, 1970
- YEAH
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- This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.
- I am talking feminism, patriarchy, racial capitalism, beauty capital, fatphobia and more with Kate Manne at Princeton next week. I haven't been this juiced up for an event in a very long time.
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- Timeline cleanse
- A Hard Day’s Night, starring the Beatles
- It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
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- Mal regularly looks like one of the cool kids who doesn’t understand why you’re wasting his time speaking.
- THE SCREAM I JUST SCRUMT 😆😭 #ReadingAfterDigitalAgeFandom
- ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-r…
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- Today’s picture of Professor Fate, the backyard cat. She’s getting more comfortable, meowing for me to hurry up and feed her and approaching me more closely
- It's the Winter Olympics, so my once-every-four-years chance to note that my wife's aunt was once the head of the Canadian curling federation. Her husband? A leader in the Mounties. If this family were any more Canadian, they'd be maple-flavored.
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- Three teenagers just walked past me singing “Would?” by Alice In Chains. Look. Gen X might not have been the coolest generation, but that is precisely why it had the coolest rebel culture.
- To truly know Judaism you have to understand that the origins of many our laws are absolutely fucking hilarious.
- I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
- Far out
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- kind of obsessed with this student creation on display at school, made from bullet casings “Strength can exist without aggression,” says the artist. “Resilience and gentleness can coexist”
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- 19th-century American actor Ira Aldridge is remembered as a pioneering performer who refused to let racism keep him from his passion for Shakespeare, first in New York and then abroad. Explore more on our blog: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
- Winter treat
- It’s here! KILLS WELL WITH OTHERS, the sequel to KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE is out in paperback this week. What happens when you’re a 60-year-old female assassin and the organization you work for would rather kill you than let you retire? Read it and find out! 🔪
- Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.
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