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Here’s a bunch of Goodreads lists that might help!
I HIGHLY recommend Fleshers by Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene! The main character is wlw and in a relationship with a woc! Its super cool sci-fi fantasy and all the girls kick so much ass in different ways
“…last
year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The
Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
[went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as
“a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of
our society”.
…It turns out that the
Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other
things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display.
As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired
the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed
to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the
museum’s excellent smartphone app….
The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will
never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization,
children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults
who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium
Scientist Adam J Calhoun removed
words from famous novels to analyze
their punctuation styles, then converted
the data into heat maps. Periods, question
marks, and exclamation points are red,
commas and quotation marks are green,
and semicolons and colons are blue.
When I was a kid the Captain Underpants books were banned at my school, but there was one kid who owned every and every time a new one came out he’d have it right away and he became like the Captain Underpants dealer of our school. He’d carry them in a book bag with him at lunch and casually pass them off to other kids and honestly it was the greatest thing to ever happen at my school.
He never got caught either.
