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Random Positivity Threads (awful.systems)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/morewrite@awful.systems
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On occasion, we here do a thread of random positivity, where we start with a thematic prompt and talk about things that are enjoyable just for the fun of it. Past examples:

We have also had a couple threads of educational-resource recommendations. These are marginally more serious, since they're about gathering actually good explanations of things that sneerable people like to pontificate ignorantly on. But I'll list them here because learning is fun:

Feel free to comment in the old threads and/or suggest new ones in the comments here.

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago

Working in academia I have close friends who were born all over the world. A good friend of mine from Iran has told me that the two things he has read from Egan that take place in Iran - this novel, and a short story in a recent collection in which the main character is an afghan refugee woman trying to go through higher education - capture the essence of life in Iran better than any other english-speaking work he has ever read, to the point he was questioning Egan's Australian origin to me.

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