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There are many primers on how to start with Ursula K. Le Guin, all of them perfectly fine, but I haven’t seen any that just go with “Start with what’s available and easily accessible”. 

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is available online, and it’s only four typewritten pages. Confession: I hadn’t read this until today. You may think, as I did, because you know the story through osmosis (as probably many people who are familiar with sci-fi do) you don’t need to read it. You would be wrong.

This website has collated stories that are available online. They all appear to be from free sources like Baen, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld.

On Le Guin’s personal website there is a great deal of stuff: poetry (original and in translation), book excerpts, interviews, and writing advice. 

She blogged pretty extensively for many years, and there’s some lovely stuff in there. Her penultimate entry was about her cat Pard and the Time Machine. (just Ctrl + F for “pard” on the archive index. Trust me.)

Don’t let me stop you from going to the library or your online bookstore of choice to get her books, of course, but there’s plenty of stuff available that you don’t have to go very far to access.

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no more gravy no more basting it is freedom we are tasting

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tweet to original artist

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Plumehead illustrations by Annis Naeem

This artist’s Website // Instagram // Facebook

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Happy Halloween everynyan :3

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Guys today is literally the most important day of the year.

Say Happy Birthday to Turkey!!!

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Some wild shit goes on in ppls lives

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Why don't you answer any of the blatantly antisemitic anons? Maybe it's because you don't actually care about antisemitism???

Only answering anons that make you look good or are easy to argue against is just sad.

Hmmmm

Anon how would you know that I have "blatantly antisemitic" anons sitting in my inbox huh!? 🤔🤔

Lmaoooo. Zionists are genuinely some of the dumbest people I have ever had to deal with. Great job telling on yourself

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i'm so tired of hearing like "it's so sad that sarah mcbride sucks... why couldn't she have been cool" because like categorically she is a congresswoman. they're all going to be acting to advance american imperial interests that's their fucking job. to be genuinely disappointed by her is to plant your foot upon a rake such that it smacks the shit out of you. what did you expect

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snasers

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I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.

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this shit is a regigigas

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the phenomenon of people talking about the cost of "AI" in energy and water while ignoring everything else they use that also spends those same things is very telling

you do not know the process behind production of the things you take for granted. you think your computer is a magic box that connects to the astral plane. you never think about the cables and servers and water cooling and electricity cost and the workers who build and maintain the infrastructure etc. etc. except for the thing you don't like and were told the cost was a good excuse for why you don't like it

you also don't think about the cost of so much more. the food you eat, the phone in your hand, etc. you just know it costs an amount of dollars at the store

this isn't about being a morally bad person for not thinking about this. this is about not getting bogged down on the supposed inherent evil of 1 specific thing you were told to hate because it's the only thing that you realize needs to be produced using material resources. and instead becoming a marxist