ancagarcia.bsky.social
@ancagarcia.bsky.social
Mom, wife, teacher, medievalist, lover of sunsets and mountains. My posts are my own.
I read something every day, but I plan on reading even more in 2025. Books were the only form of entertainment and escapism when I was growing up, and now they are the best getaway from political polarization and fake social media BS.
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Deciding to read a book a week was the best new year resolution I ever made | Katie Cunningham
I read 52 books that year and I’ve kept the habit up in the years that followed, the routine now firmly established
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December 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am grateful for this community, its kind people, and its polite conversations!
November 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
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A Third World War?
Let's help those who are holding it back
snyder.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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There is some comedy around men explaining the plot of The Handmaid's Tale to its author, in response to her tweet. But this also reveals the tragedy beneath – of misunderstandings that point to the moral and therefore political vulnerability of the United States.
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Casting the First Stone
Handmaid Fails, 2/3
snyder.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
She was vulnerable and 16. He started a relationship with her even though he had a son her age.

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Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports
Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool
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November 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Please share!
The Department of English at U of South Florida in Tampa is hiring multiple full-time, 9-month, non-TT Asst Profs of Instruction for FYC & PTC courses
Start date 7 August 7 2025
Due date: 15 Jan 2025
More details and link to apply
gems.usf.edu:4440/psc/gemspro-...
gems.usf.edu
November 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
This type of "refusals" have their own flavor - they make us feel part of a community of scholars who understand the dangers of GenAI - yet GenAI is here to stay in our classrooms whether we like it or not. refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Two children died due to improper mixing of the vaccine. RFK went to Samoa to push an anti-vax narrative. After the vaccination rate plummeted, tens of thousands of children contracted measles.
83 DIED.
RFK has blood on his hands, and he is being put in a position make it far, far worse.
November 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM