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These two are my core beliefs, #Bitcoin embodies hope for people, while #literature offers hope to the reader.
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WolfMacbeth 1 hour ago
This quote touches on something essential: loneliness has less to do with the absence of people than with the lack of language for what is one’s own. image
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WolfMacbeth 5 days ago
R.I.P. Brigitte Bardot “I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” Brigitte Bardot Remembering the beautiful soul that was Brigitte Bardot, or B.B. as she was often referred to. B.B. retired from acting at the age of 38, and devoted herself to her beloved animals. She was also an animal rights activist living a life that was true to her beliefs, 1934 - 2025 aged 91 years 😻🐕🐈🐎🦌🦉🐕🐈‍⬛❤️❤️❤️ image
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WolfMacbeth 6 days ago
#literature #sciencefiction #book #books Ursula K. Le Guin was warned in 1969 that she was about to destroy her career, yet instead she reshaped modern literature. Raised in Berkeley by anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, she grew up understanding that societies and identities are cultural constructions, not fixed truths. After years of rejection for being “too philosophical” and “too female,” she defied science fiction’s rigid norms with The Left Hand of Darkness, opening with the startling line “The king was pregnant” and imagining a world without fixed gender—an idea publishers feared readers would reject. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains in print decades later. She had already challenged fantasy conventions with A Wizard of Earthsea, making her hero Ged explicitly brown-skinned at a time when fantasy protagonists were overwhelmingly white, and she publicly resisted publishers who tried to erase that choice. Her influence only deepened with time, culminating in her 2014 National Book Awards speech at age 85, where she openly criticized corporate publishing and capitalism itself, calling on writers to imagine alternatives to the status quo. When she died in 2018, Le Guin left behind not just acclaimed books and awards, but a lasting proof that imagining different worlds—of gender, race, power, and freedom—can change the real one. image