Who needs an ESCAPE from everything? How about some sci-fi short stories that let you run away from everything for a few minutes?
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If I put it on paper, it stops mutating in my head and I can sleep.
Writing is for my sanity.
Publishing is an entirely different matter.
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Hi writers -- why do you write?
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"She reads a lot. She told me she once read thirty books in a month."
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I will be needing her contact information immediately and a list of her favorite books.
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PSA: I changed “office hours” to “drop-in hours” a couple years ago and attendance more than doubled.
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My sense of smell keeps flickering in and out. I've been testing it with mint oil. For a few hours I can smwll, then it's muted, then nothing. A few hours later it's muted but I can smell. I'm breathing fine but my sinuses feel swollen and stuffy.
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We ask for so little and get even less.
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In almost all the various pregnancy forums I lurk in online, multiple folks have posted something along the lines of "the debt forgiveness will let me to start a 529 account for my new kid!" or "I'll be able to afford daycare a year earlier than I thought!" 
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currently preparing a caterpillar identification flowchart for #InverteFest but honestly this is already scientifically accurate as it is
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Disabled people, remember: when you’re having a good day walking and you BEGIN to get tired, turn back, that initial tiredness is your halfway mark.
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I would like the government to treat my student loans like PPP and pay me for my investment that has resulted in 18 years of tax money they get from having me educated.
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Oh... nvm... it's the loan owner that does the refund. I'd still have to pay it back. That doesn't help.
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And I need to go look into this.
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Fun fact: You can be refunded any federal student loan payments you've made since the March 2020 pause.
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As the glorious season of August winds to an end I am happy to see my autumnal friends rejoicing in the return of giant skeletons, pumpkin spice, and candy.
Oh to have the casual glamor of a musk ox
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Meadowhawk dragonfly on a white coneflower in the golden hour.
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As Biden cancels (some) student debt, remember why the debt exists. A key Reagan advisor warned in 1970 that free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education":
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before you tweet remember ppp loan data is public.
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“So if you say, is it worth it to spend $50 billion on long Covid…there’s almost no amount of money that you could spend that you could feel like is too much money,” said Dr. Cutler.
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If chicken pox was a relatively new virus today, we'd see most people get an annoying, itchy rash then get better. Some would die, but not many. Three years into it, we would still not know about shingles.
What will we know about SARS-CoV2 in 50 years that we don't know now?
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The people who need student loan forgiveness are not lazy. You actually can’t be lazy and survive in this country. Trust me I was scarily poor. You can only be lazy if you’re rich. That’s a rich people privilege.
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All this does is return to loan holders a tiny fraction of what they have paid to the government.
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Gentle reminder: the interest rates on student loans mean that for many years, loan holders have been subsidizing taxpayers.
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Eldest, who is taling care of everything while I'm sick and quarantined, has declared she doesn't want to be a housewife.
I heartily agree.
Being the sole caregiver for anyone is hard.
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Again, when it comes to which party is more elitist:
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Some few people survive cancer without treatment, too. Should nobody get cancer treatment, then, by your "logic"?
Survivor bias is a helluva drug...and misses the entire point: an entire country that has been brainwashed into thinking education doesn't improve the WHOLE NATION.
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Anyway, having paid off $100k of student loans on a salary of much less than $100k, the reason I think others in that situation should also pay off their loans is not because I'm jealous of them and want them to suffer. It's because I know it can be done.
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If you find yourself thinking "I suffered so everyone else should too" - consider therapy.
That's not a normal or healthy thought.
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From the archives | But if President Lincoln were to free the slaves—a preposterous idea—how would that be fair to slaves who risked life and limb to escape or who actually bought their emancipation the old-fashioned way: through hard work?
The Editorial Board, 1863
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Life isn't fair.
The government's purpose for existence is to make it fairer. To provide bandaids for skinned knees, or make playgrounds safer.
If the government is pushing people down so only popular kids can play on the playground, the government needs to be replaced.
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Of course life isn't fair.
I learned that age 4.
Our preschool walked up the hill to the big playground and we were told not to run. We were 4. We all ran.
I tripped, skinned my knee, and had to sit on the bench for an hour while everyone else played.
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Boomers melting down about how this isn't fair is really something. We know life isn't fair. You told us that every single day of our childhood. So I'll give you the same advice you always gave us: Get over it.
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Nighttime view of Gyeongbokgung, the main royal palace of the Joseon era located in downtown Seoul.
(Photo courtesy of CHA)
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#Gyeongbokgung will open for nighttime viewing from Sept. 1 to Nov. 6.
A total of 700 tickets are set aside each day for those purchasing tickets at the site on the day of the visit, with 200 tickets for foreigners.
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Ah! Someone is trying to make my life easier. 💕
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Per here (studentaid.gov/debt-relief-an):
the Administration will launch a simple application in the coming weeks.
If you would like to be notified...when the application is open, please sign up at the Department of Education subscription page. ed.gov/subscriptions
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It’s a good start.
Now let’s do the rest, and pair that with major cost-of-education reforms.
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10k-20k in debt cancellation isn't enough. But it is the beginning — and sharing stories of how it is dramatically changing people's lives helps garner the support to push the movement further.
Here are just some of those stories:
annehelen.substack.com/p/the-beginnin
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Jared Kushner had about $5m in PPP loans forgiven.
Tom Brady: Almost a million
Khloe Khardashian: $1.2m
Maybe go F**k yourself.
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If you take out a loan, you pay it back.
Period.
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I can't be the only one who needs this.
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