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"Some people don’t care if their Cowichan sweater was made by a machine or a little old Native woman clicking her knitting needles. Other people care."

"She was subsequently encouraged to join a feminist book club by a group of academics. 'I learned, and I’ve continued to learn,' she says. They’re still meeting every month now; Barfoot says her members are among 'the people who will come to my funeral'."

"The fact that we call smartphones phones is such a mass linguistic spell. It’s like calling the nuclear bomb a microwave because it can warm up a burrito" —@somethingishappening

"It’s far from the most important way our lives have gotten worse, but it might be the most pointless – which makes it useful for understanding so much else about a moment in history defined by breathtaking self-sabotage."