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Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

It's 12 October so of course Christmas movies have arrived on streaming services. Buried among all the terrible romances is one called Santa Jaws, about a man whose wish to spend Christmas alone manifests a murderous shark that wants to eat his family.

Might watch that one.

*horror

We saw a horro movie for kids called Sketch today. The 8yo loved it; I thought it was creative and had some good jump scares. Could've done without yet another story in which the death of a mother creates the plot, though.

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Just booked a big trip for next year. Now I have six months to convince my kid it will be fun and exciting.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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He had a true 'No Homers' moment today.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Today's reason for non-Autistic kids telling my kid he couldn't play with them was he wasn't 'sigma' enough. From a bunch of 8- and 9-year-olds.

Really struggling today with the fact that Autistic kids are 'encouraged' to get various kinds of therapy to help with social skills yet non-Autistic kids can be vicious little arseholes to anyone who's different and that's just 'normal'.

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the best answer i got for this:

Well that would set a certain tone, wouldn't it?

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new term to me for something which I had already internalised: cassette futurism

This reminds me of nothing less than Cameo's very mid-80s 'Word Up' music video, but the designer clearly thinks leggings would be a step too far.

The 8yo asked me to cut his hair for the first time in three years. Between me being out of practice and him changing his mind halfway through, he now slightly resembles a child of the 1920s rather than the 2020s.

Australians whose hobby is American politics are really very boring.

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

Hi I'm an A list actor and I've written a novel and/or a children's book. It's fine. Solid B minus writing. First printing is 800,000 copies

Also the language classes you can only attend if your family speaks that language at home. This term, my kid spent 'language class time' making a pencil holder that he was apparently not allowed to bring home.

Do not even get me started on the time wasted by the scripture classes public schools are required to offer, which few students attend. My kid tells me those who don't attend scripture in his class have been watching moves until the others get back.

My kid's public school is lucky to touch on music education once a term, if at all. Nothing outside what's required by the curriculum and no extracurricular musical activities because parents can't afford to pay for it.

At this point, I'd *welcome* recorder lessons as part of curriculum.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

I'd also add that there's a lot more to life than work. Having a well-rounded education enriches one's life in a lot of ways.

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

“Most writers are not really sold—they’re told, implicitly or explicitly, to sell themselves.” (@ilanaslightly.bsky.social)