punk ass book jockey. If reading gives you superpowers, I am Edna Mode. she/her
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That weird helplessness of living somewhere your reps are making the right choices, so you make your calls, but don’t know what they accomplish. You go to protests, but don’t know what they change. You send what little help you can financially. But mostly just feel helpless.
Remember when twitter used to be able to get you of the moment news in your local area? I miss twitter.
Katherine Fergason retweeted
Never forget that @bariweiss incited the murder of Dr. Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian professor, writer and poet in Gaza.
Israel killed him 2 years ago for no reason.
They also killed his sister and her kids, his daughter, husband and baby.
Bari will always be known for this.
I feel like there are so many picture books coming out these days about books books books. At libraries. At stores. But maybe we should just be making books? Books about things and not about books?
Does AMZ seriously have an ad campaign about how you can spend less in your children because you can’t stand them?
My email changed itself from sorting by most recent to sorting by most “relevant” and I hate absolutely everything. I thought I was going bonkers before I realized what was happening.
Explaining to people that bookstores CAN'T ban books because they are not the government is so last year. Three years ago. Five years ago. Ten years ago.
God bless indies who choose what they want to sell.
God bless all the indie booksellers spending so much energy they do not have fighting the government that is actually banning books
omg I think I made a nemesis tonight.
I regret nothing.
I’m gonna have to see if I can find out her name tomorrow.
If it were a few years back, I’d end up writing a whole twitter thread about the Ai Weiwei exhibit I saw yesterday because I can’t stop thinking about it. But now I don’t know where to put those thoughts.
Katherine Fergason retweeted
17 hours after its unlawful seizure and capture, the #Madleen crew remains held offshore, reportedly near Ashdod. I call on:
– Israel to release them immediately, and let them sail unimpeded to Gaza;
– The UK to act under its Article 94 UNCLOS duties as flag-state to ensure the safety of the crew;
– Crew members’ home states (Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey), to intervene to ensure the safety of their citizens.
There is no legal basis for Israel’s actions. All states must uphold their obligations under the Genocide Convention—to prevent further acts of genocide and end Israel’s impunity.
It should never have fallen to ordinary citizens to do what states refuse to.
All the places I used to buy relatively inexpensive 95masks aren’t selling them by more. Does anyone still masking have a favorite source?
Katherine Fergason retweeted
We are $3,000~ away from being able to completely replace the NEA grant funding that was taken away from Deep Vellum and @open_letter! Help us reach our goal today. Link in the second post:
Katherine Fergason retweeted
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad
Katherine Fergason retweeted
Israel just bombed a school packed with families in Gaza. 19 people burned alive. Where’s the media? Where’s the panel of experts? Where are the public statements?
