this story is like a series of odd behaviors only a rich white lady could get away with lmao im not really hating but i am getting that vibe

I liked the first story. nice to imagine a future where the tech is helping out. I'm imagining the situation here is you can have mods to give you information about any sort of data but it would be overwhelming to know everything, so she picks the bees. this is just such a pure solar punk story. plus the discussion about plant language is great. more about the concepts than the character or story even but fun to read

I liked this point ... that the fact that people feel like they have to vote Dem so that they don't fall into fascism is not really a democratic choice. and the point he made earlier about how functioning democracy isn't like spectacle... it's voting on public policy and infrastructure issues people spent years studying

I'm not finding the writing style very engaging personally, although I like the plot and characters well enough. I think it's just kind of dry

yes I love the rebrand. im not single, im flexible and open to the vicissitudes of fate 😌

this book brought up a memory i had forgotten. in high school i couldn't sleep because my adhd dose was not figured out yet and i was shy and bad at advocating for myself, and i when i was trying to fall asleep and couldn't, i would have imaginary conversations between myself and classmates i was maybe friends with or maybe barely knew. i think part of the motivation was to practice having conversations. i hadn't always been shy but i moved right before high school and was shy in the new context so i found a way to yap still

got this from the library and I can see why it costs $60. incredible quality in the cover, pages, printing of the photos, just a joy to hold as a book. interesting and encouraging to hear that race pseudoscience was NOT accepted in it's day. the first essay by Molly Rogers describes it was mostly just southerners who accepted it, and a convention with that allowed women to join, not just men, was particularly hostile to his ideas. he sought out people who accepted his theories in implying people of different races were different species, even though they went against accepted science AND theology of the time. definitely pushes back against the narrative that people in the past didn't know better.