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history‎ (289)
young-adult‎ (251)
civilization‎ (248)
government‎ (244)
being-human‎ (243)
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courtship‎ (93)
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“The new enemy of the Enlightenment doesn’t believe in any kind of verities beyond personal feeling and experience. It has no use for statistics or numbers or data. It doesn’t hold any truths to be self-evident.”
― Michael Lewis, Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

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“This era, the Enshittocene, is the result of specific policy decisions, made by named individuals. Once we identify those decisions and those individuals, we can act. We can reverse the decisions. We can name the individuals. We can even estimate what size pitchfork they wear. Or at the very least, we can make sure that they are never again trusted with the power to make policy decisions for the rest of us.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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“But to say this -- that mainstream liberal parties will never develop a moral compass until they are punished for not having one -- produces a level of antagonistic vitriol unmatched in almost any other context. Waves of progressives will take time out from pasting MY RELIGION IS LOVE stickers to the bumpers of their Teslas to let you know that advocating this position makes you the enemy, that they hope you're happy when Trump takes power and makes your life even more miserable, that you should just go back to where you came from.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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“For the last time, Actinia, you can't set humans on fire! It never helps! (101)”
― Django Wexler, The Palace of Glass

tags: advice, fire, setting-people-on-fire

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“One day it will be considered unacceptable, in the polite liberal circles of the West, not to acknowledge all the innocent people killed in that long-ago unpleasantness. The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming...One day the social currency of liberalism will accept as legal tender the suffering of those they previously smothered in silence, turned away from in disgust as one does carrion on the roadside. Far enough gone, the systemic murder of a people will become safe enough to fit on a lawn sign. There's always room on a liberal's lawn.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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The Geek Girls Book Club — 746 members — last activity Apr 10, 2023 11:03AM
The GGBC grew out of NYT TV reviewer Ginina Bellafonte's comments on her review of "A Game of Thrones", saying that: "While I do not doubt that ther ...more

Not Quite A Topless Robot Book Club — 31 members — last activity Mar 13, 2013 06:42AM
A group for readers and contributors of Topless Robot, regular commentors, semi-regular commentors, rare commentors, lurkers, and friends of all of th ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 307028 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Q & A with Lawrence M. Schoen — 61 members — last activity Mar 04, 2014 01:49PM
Discussion about Science Fiction and Fantasy, about writing, about language and linguistics in sf & f, about Klingon in particular, about small press ...more

Friends of Victor Torvich — 134 members — last activity Mar 11, 2025 11:16AM
Group of friends of Victor Torvich, that are or were interested in History books.

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