Kate M

Obligatory I follow royal news because I find it fascinating from a historical-anthropological lens.

HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT.

No one in my life IRL cares, lol.

the Andrew formerly known as Prince

Yup.

Manifesto:

I... whaa... at LC we have archival collections measured in the millions of items.

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

I'm SO in!

Caroline is a friend and one of my favorite MG writers! So happy to see her books get love, especially from other writers I follow!

For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophy, ethics, & the studye of the diversitye of historyes & literatures & languages. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will create nothing but wayes of makinge old injustices happen faster.

But I also very much subscribe to "not every piece of content for every consumer." I was able to deal because of the storytelling, the competence porn aspect, and the distance from my own areas of concern/difficulty/trauma. It won't be that way for everyone! And that's totally valid.

I'm also from Pittsburgh. Honestly, if it weren't for that and Noah Wyle I wouldn't have picked up the show /because/ it's a medical drama. But it's good storytelling and phenomenal acting, so I stayed. The medical part isn't like House or Grey's - it's realistic medicine, not DRAMA and genius >

I also feel very aware that this show is intentionally created as a reaction to the dismissal, disregard, and hate directed towards healthcare workers in the wake of the pandemic that is a separate type of complaint from the valid issues that disabled and CI folks have with workers/the system >

I watch it and it gives me "these types of doctors and nurses exist" feelings. But it's divorced enough from most of my own medical traumas being gaslight and dismissed by specialists because emergency medicine is so much it's own thing. >

I think the show is quite a lot of competence porn. The healthcare chatacters are very real people with a whole host of their own problems (trauma, addiction, family issues, legal trouble, etc) working in a broken system- and they are trying so hard to practice good medicine and help patients. >

There is very little overt disability rep in the show. There is a psychiatric patient and a patient undergoing sickle cell crisis. To my recollection, everything else handled is acute. (And while sickle cell isn't acute, sickle cell crisis is - to my knowledge! I could be wrong.) >

I don't know how the show might impact you; my own medical trauma looks different. I can say for me, because it was focused on emergency medicine and not specialist medicine or chronic conditions, I was able to set aside my own experiences and focus on the story/telling. >

It shows healthcare workers who care, it shows bias in healthcare, it shows humanity in patients and healthcare workers alike. It shows a broken system. I think almost everything they treated was acute or acute-presenting. It's a fucking phenomenal show. I can't watch it while flaring though.

Literally the only show in that category's line-up I could forgive for winning over The Pitt. ANDOR is so deserving.

The Survivor bit gets a pass; I actually enjoyed that and it was the perfect category to use it for.

I want to hear from the winners; I don't want to hear speeches, spiels, jokes, or ad-libs from the presenters. #Emmys

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

The thing I love most about cyphering books are the doodles. Children still being children, even in math class.

(See: blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/... )

I did not find out about Taylor Swift's engagement via the Destiel meme, and I'm kinda sad about that.

just about the only thing that is within my control that helps at all is just loving the people I love even harder than before and being in community with them in all the ways I can

it doesn’t, like. fix the Supreme Court. but it fixes me a little each time and that’s also important

My ability to cope is, at any given moment, resting entirely on a bunch of fictional love affairs.