I think me and my books are in some ways, less learned than before I read this many books.

I see a lot of "they can't be good books" and like, I dunno, maybe not, I'm not pretending to be reading high lit, but I don't know how much of a guarantee reading 20 books in a year is that they'll all be good

Like ppl who read 400 books in a year must be trying to say they're extremely learned?

Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.

Thank you for putting alt text on it

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

I am concerned how much it seems to be a truism that panic is doing something