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7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 3 replies · +18 points

I shared on FB, and it did get a shitty comment. But then I deleted that comment and added a comment of my own:

"A note: I am very much not interested in rude comments on this post. And in the spirit of the The Toast's excellent comment moderation policy, I will delete such comments if they appear."

7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +25 points

I'm going to get this tattooed on my face.

7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +70 points

Oh my god, I honestly thought I wasn't going to cry, but HERE WE ARE. I cannot wait for her to be my president.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +39 points

Really really enraging! Her book is a tremendous piece of reporting. I've read quite a bit about North Korea (I'm a grad student studying international politics), and I've never read anything like Without You There Is No Us – it juggles the broader context of life and politics in North Korea and the narrative of day to day life for her and her students in a way that I found both really informative and totally captivating. Please read it!

7 years ago @ The Toast - The Wedding of Sir Gaw... · 0 replies · +16 points

oh my god

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 3 replies · +25 points

Gotta recommend the new Switched on Pop podcast episode about the reinventions of Nick and Joe, Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band. The episode takes on Cake by the Ocean (Joe) and Close (Nick).

If you don't know, Switched on Pop's premise is two music nerds (a musicologist and a songwriter) breaking down pop songs, chatting about cool chord progressions and unexpected melodic choices and music history and all sorts of stuff. It's smart and fun, and these guys just really love pop music. Also the musicologist's dissertation is on jazz and Harlem nightlife in the 1920s/30s, and how race and racism shaped that scene, so I love him even more.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread In Lieu Of... · 0 replies · +8 points

Thanks for putting this Tinyletter together! I just signed up, and was super excited to see so many vegetarian-friendly recipes.

7 years ago @ The Toast - If Ted Cruz Were Your ... · 1 reply · +176 points

If Ted Cruz were your husband, you only married him to steal his time machine (he obviously has a time machine because he needed one to be the zodiac killer) and you would go back in time and right all manner of wrongs, including whatever made Ted Cruz become the person he is.

Then you would return to the much-improved present, married to a man who is still weird and obsessed with soup, but much more progressive and working as an accountant or something instead of being in politics. You are still FAR too witches for him, but hey - you have a time machine now.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread In Lieu Of... · 2 replies · +10 points

Seconding the N.K. Jemisin recommendation.

I recently fell in love with the Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. Per the blurb at the linked page, "If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman’s knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth. And if she asks, you must answer. It is the other side of tradition’s contract - and if you refuse the question, or lie, no steerswoman will ever again answer even your most casual question."

So the steerswomen are collectors and sharers of knowledge - sociologists, anthropologists, librarians, teachers, and devotees of the scientific method all rolled into one. The series follows this steerswoman named Rowan as she travels around, doing her badass adventuring knowledge-seeking thing, mostly with her traveling companion Bel. There's a great central mystery that drives the plot, twists and turns that literally made me gasp, and it all centers on this really awesome pair of competent, fearless women.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

Thank you for asking! I passed (!!), and got useful feedback on my project along the way. I'm feeling happy and relieved, and also tired. :)

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