Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦

Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦

@marywwalters.com

Writer of fiction and blogs. Lives in Toronto. Occasional humorist. Stoic in Training. marywwalters.com Slava Ukraini

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

thetimes.comUniversities teaching literature students how to cope with long novelsCritics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦
@marywwalters.com

The internet isn't what it used to be. Half of what I see horrifies me and makes me sick and fearful for humanity, and the rest of it I don't believe because it looks like it might have been generated by AI. And yet, like the moth to the flame, here I am.

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Mark M. Weston
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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” --Olga Tokarczuk www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...

themarginalian.orgStorytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…
Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦
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US Republicans remind me of those talking dolls we used to have. You pulled a string on the doll's back and pre-recorded sentences came out, which were almost always unrelated to the question you had asked. Same talking points were built into all the dolls.

Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦
@marywwalters.com

My favourite line from my choir rehearsal last night. Our conductor said to the altos, sopranos and basses , "Now, when the tenors come in, you are going to think 'Maybe we're in C Minor 7th or something'." I am glad of his confidence, but

Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦
@marywwalters.com

but in this era it is impossible to tell the difference between real news and April Fool's jokes and I think the media have decided it's best to avoid anything that might be labelled as fake news. Make America Fun Again.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦
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“While the US prefers dictators to democrats, punishes its friends, and lies, bullies and plots to steal allies’ sovereign territory, there is no going back. Many, perhaps most, Americans abhor this vile behaviour – yet unaccountably fail to stop it,” Simon Tisdall says what many of us are thinking.

theguardian.comBritain has been paying a high price for Uncle Sam’s craziness. It’s time to turn to Europe | Simon Tisdall | Simon TisdallIn his final column, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator says America under Trump is not the first time it has caused trouble for allies

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Henri Bréboeuf
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦@deonandan.bsky.social

Hey, I'm all for Canadians showing enthusiasm for the electoral process, regardless of which candidate is involved. However, boasting about crowd sizes is something a certain orange shitgibbon does. I find it unbecoming of a Canadian leader in these times.