Just to say: Monday is the last day to apply for my new online novel workshop, starting Nov. 2. It's 20 class meetings spread over 7 months. And just to say, these Y workshops attract amazing writers and it's always been a great community. I'm here for any questions. https://www.92ny.org/class/novel-generator-with-sandra-newman
Sandra Newman
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Author of various books (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, The Country of Ice Cream Star, etc.) she/they
If I was a parsnip I would be so pissed off about the success of carrots. I'd be like, "Anyone can be bright orange, That doesn't take any intelligence. But of course if you lack substance, you have to resort to cheap gimmicks." And the potatoes would be nodding, but inwardly they'd be rolling their eyes, like, "Jesus Christ, parsnip, work on yourself"
I feel like Moms for Liberty could call itself a fascist organization on its website, add a swastika to its logo, and announce that none of its members were parents but all were proven to be Aryan for four generations, and the national media would still be calling it "a conservative parents' organization"
So it is, to say the least, surprising to me that rich people are lining up to have Horatio Alger medals hung around their necks by Clarence Thomas.
I mean, Alger's novels are all fantasies about affluent older men taking a paternal interest in homeless boys, who blossom under this attention. And he did adopt homeless children—*after* the abuse incident—who lived with him in his house. So that's the origin of America's bootstraps myth.
Apart from everything else, it's amazing an elite conservative club is named for Horatio Alger, a pedophile who lost his first job for abusing multiple children
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
KatTwitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
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Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
I love watching local news to stay informed that a Pennsylvania man is trafficking in sloths and it's still technically legal but Pennsylvanians are concerned, except this one lady interviewed while rushing to buy a sloth before it's outlawed
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