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it’s rare, but sometimes you want to go run an account you used to handle just for a day or two. I’ll be downloading a certain new podcast episode tomorrow and thinking of that team.
Kristen Taylor retweeted
1/ The South is home to more LGBTQ+ people than anywhere else in the U.S.
Meanwhile, Southern legislators are pushing violent policies to hide this truth.
Trans kids in particular are being threatened—and not just in Texas.
🧵 A thread on how to show solidarity in this moment:
“Patience counts, and change is not linear.”
Ten ways to face the climate crisis without losing hope: Rebecca Solnit brings it, as always: theguardian.com/environment/…
Kristen Taylor retweeted
We’re all singing “Thank You for Being a Friend” at midnight. That’s just the rules.
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McClaren Hospital where Oxford community is gathered to support the family of Justin Shillings, one of the four teens killed this week. Justin is an organ donor and the crowd is here so that when his body is moved for surgery his family can look down and see the love and support
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Women in Afghanistan, and those living as refugees in Pakistan or Iran have become so accustomed to war they have often replaced traditional motifs of flowers and birds in their rug weaving with images of war, including drones, tanks and guns #WomensArt
This is interesting. Especially good to see emotional intelligence in the job description. (I hope one of you gets this!)
Welcome to the team: @BKCHarvard announces a "pop-up" institute focused on rebooting social media, seeks director for the institute. cyber.harvard.edu/story/2021… sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/…
please enjoy my friend Roman’s comment as he closes this man-on-the-street sequence (posting esp for @timmaughan, who may appreciate it)
bbc.com/news/av/world-us-can…
For your June 9th, 1-3p ET calendar: @suryamattu and I are leading an @itpcamp session on telling stories with data.
~come for the sample data sets, design decisions, and interpretative dance gestures~
Please join us! itp.nyu.edu/camp2021/
Kristen Taylor retweeted
My grandfather spent his life savings to buy an apartment in the second tallest tower in Gaza: the same building housing the AP and Al Jazeera bureaus that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday. I wrote about all the homes he lost for @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/05/20/opini…
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We strongly support @UNCHussman faculty statement on Knight Chair #NikoleHannahJones tenure decision. There is an opportunity to reverse course and do the right thing. link.medium.com/7CkyEycmogb
Kristen Taylor retweeted
Anybody who thinks destroying Al Jazeera offices will stop Al Jazeera from reporting hasn’t been watching the past 20 years.
Thank you, @kissane.
(This part made me cry –
“I suspect that treating people like humans who are intrinsically motivated to do useful work in the world, and who deserve genuine care, allows far more people to do their best work without destroying themselves in the process.”)
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And on a world poetry day we have lost a great voice.
*
And now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless, go to Lvov, after all
it exists, quiet and pure as
a peach. It is everywhere.
--Adam Zagajewski