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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22h

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 23h

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

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Tracey @3obergs.bsky.social · 3d

Newport, Oregon public library newest mural

The stairway of band books. I must go see this in person! ❤️❤️

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 1d

Por supuesto, no podía falta el tono condescendiente y moralmente superior de la última frase

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 2d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Sep 4

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4d

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

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nefelibatus @anavacerradx.bsky.social · 6d

PASA ESTO. El viernes 14 de noviembre en La Villana de Vallekas.
Un día de reunión en torno a Monique Wittig, leyéndola y escribiendo a partir de ella. Más info/inscripción aquí > www.ucm.es/estudioslite...
La entrada es libre. La inscripción es solo si necesitas reconocer créditos y para el taller

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 7d

Y esto hablando de familiares de primer grado, cónyuges y parejas. Si fallece un amigo ni siquiera te corresponden días. La única opción que queda es ir al médico de cabecera y que te den la baja por depresión, ansiedad y derivados. El duelo no es una patología, es intrínsecamente humano

Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 7d

Si es una muerte traumática ni siquiera tienes tiempo de asimilarlo, menos llorar la muerte y pasar por el proceso de duelo (que puede durar meses o años). A los 3 días ya tienes que ir a trabajar tus 8-11 horas diarias como si no hubiese pasado nada.

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 7d

Económicamente no sé lo que significa, pero 3 a 5 días de luto por el fallecimiento de un familiar cercano es de las cosas más violentas del sistema

RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 7d

Garamendi pide "un permiso" de los permisos de Yolanda Díaz, que ha anunciado hoy la ampliación del permiso por fallecimiento familiar: "Es agotador. Cada día es una ocurrencia nueva. ¿Ha estudiado lo que significa esto económicamente? No"

rtve.es/noticias/

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 7d

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 9d

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 10d

Art, as I said earlier, affects a person's emotions, not his reason. Its
function is, as it were, to turn and loosen the human soul, making it
receptive to good.

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 9d

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 14d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 11d

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Marc GS @marcrinai.bsky.social · 13d

New tattoo ✨️✨️
Glaceon + Estela from Animañ Crossing.
Tattoo artist: @/aokunaru on IG 💙💙
Tattoo design: @kaaileen.bsky.social 🧡🧡

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Javier Von Count 🔻🇵🇸 @jvoncount.bsky.social · 14d

Si aplicamos la lógica de Israel, ahora mismo 46 países tienen derecho a bombardear Tel-Aviv y cortar todo suministro de comida, agua, y electricidad hasta que el IOF libere a los rehenes

v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 14d

Israel has KIDNAPPED 497 PEOPLE from 46 COUNTRIES from the Global Sumud Flotilla

This is a HUMANITARIAN MISSION, now it has become a global kidnapping by #Israel

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 15d

Published ahead of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct. 5-11), our report hopes to ballast a strong defense of the freedom to read. We encourage readers, writers and the wider public to join students, parents, and librarians in speaking out on Oct. 11 for #LetFreedomReadDay – and beyond. pen.org/report/the-n...

The Normalization of Book Banning

This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

pen.org

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 16d

Talavera tenía que ser

Carlos Hidalgo @carloshidalgo.bsky.social · 16d

La ciudad española con más paro fuera de Andalucía y se van a gastar 100.000 pavos en una bandera. Tienen un centro regional de Alzheimer parado porque el ayuntamiento no quiere poner 15.000 euros.

100.000 euros para una bandera de España gigante en Talavera de la Reina: “Esta ciudad tiene muchísimas prioridades”

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 16d

a spider can fly on a current of air

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Ayrin @nancesce.bsky.social · 17d

"Altos navíos y altos reyes
tres veces tres.
¿Qué trajeron de las tierras sumergidas
sobre las olas del mar?
Siete estrellas y siete piedras
y un Árbol Blanco."

(Tolkien, p. 701)

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