Good Boy Chester reached out and touched my arm so gently 😻And he didn’t even bite me!
Leila Walker
@lwalker.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
![[Mrs. Talbot, explaining why it costs so much to go on vacation]: And those who cannot afford the expense must make up their minds to stay at home. Just as the daughters of those whose mothers a few years ago were drawn by four horses, and whose grandmothers
by six, are now glad to get into a stage coach.
EMILY. But why, Mamma ? Does not the earth bear the same crops it used to do, and as much ?
MRS. TALBOT. More, if we may believe all the improvements that have been made in agriculture, and rural economy of every sort .
EMILY. And what is the reason of it then?
MRS . TALBOT . The change of manners; the accumulation of wealth, which has made a great difference in the value of money; and wars, which have cost such immense sums to the nation .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:trtaoy4etrjwll3lgqiy4o64/bafkreid7atflg47akmjvawhx4ddbl43323whqu3ys6tnnnlekzqreikiqq)
![“Instead of barring talk therapy designed to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity, this law bars therapy affirming those things,” Kagan wrote in a concurrence. “[T]he First Amendment would apply in the identical way. Once again, because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:trtaoy4etrjwll3lgqiy4o64/bafkreiezmnk4eimzwu6iwkyurntklao2aowoxakjt7qhcx66yxorewf4mm)
