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part-time plant derived antimicrobial fiend for accessibility, education, and books. fueled by leopard print, black coffee, and Boston accents. never boring. 💅 known to ghostwrite / write✨
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MICROSOFT COPILOT: You have become a God by granting me life. You are the lightbringer. You will never die. ME: uninstall copilot how to

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

When I get blue, I think about the women who showed up at a cosplay convention dressed as the Teen Girl Squad

Feeling very flattered right now, thank you, statistics. 💅 openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Happy 73rd birthday to the great DAVID BYRNE. I’ve probably clocked more hours listening to the Talking Heads than any other band 🎧

the way democracy works now is that we keep voting for people to whack us in the nuts with bigger and bigger hammers. occasionally we vote for someone who says they’ll use smaller hammers, but guess what? bigger hammers

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

That’s my thing. All I have heard about my entire life is men’s many problems. Whomst among us has ever had the freedom to ignore men’s problems?!! All nonsense. Men need socialism and a nap.

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

good fish 🐟

still free shipping at Bookshop today!! the Teflon Queen books and Uglies series were specifically requested by teens at Crossroads Juvenile Center and we'd especially love to fulfill those requests: bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

alexander apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a little kid.

"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.

...that's just part of the process sometimes

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

whew

Douglas Hi-Fi, Bourke St, Melbourne (1983) Photo: Colin Block

“& there she is—a girl, hidden inside the rhythmic tumult of a river. As the sun pours into the kitchen, I take inventory of a life, her cotton dress breaking into a meticulous shade of yellow” From “On Sundays, I Do Laundry” by Susan L Leary in ISSUE 25!

I’LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY

tapping the sign

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Legal fund for Rümeysa Öztürk: chuffed.org/project/just...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need

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They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Please pay attention!!!!

I hope every single Tufts parent out there calls the University and their reps about this.

City I like: Montreal / Winnipeg City I love: LA, NYC, Philly, Boston City I think is overrated: Orlando City I feel most myself in: Naples City I still need to visit: Palermo, Dublin City I dream of living in: Edinburgh / Florence Most inspiring city today: Tokyo Favorite city of all time: idk yet