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Leftist urbanist jazz he/him; you know the type. Hatch Acted-upon. (Orange Line) Arlington, VA. If I get fired, this could be a good follow ;-}
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I am once again promoting my work! Buy it here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

20 years ago as a young analyst, I was optimistic about some school voucher plans. But the results have been in for a long time now: Most users were already in private school, the few who do switch suffer horrific results, and states can’t afford it all. tennesseelookout.com/2025/01/25/v...

Replies to this post are split into 2 categories - from people who know who dril is, and those who don't. And it's hilarious.

the uncontrollable male urge to respond to a complaint about a certain type of behavior by "ironically" performing said behavior

hot tip: you’d be surprised how often existential dread is just low blood sugar

🧵SO! Fun New Year news for me: I've been laid off. If you're looking for an excellent progressive writer with decades of experience reporting, analyzing, & contextualizing the news under her own byline + channeling corporate & individual voice as a comms writer with progressive causes, hmu!

Also if you find a therapist that IS effective at tackling those issues, then you have to face the fact that even that isn't going to FIX things the way you want them fixed. It really is supposed to make you more aware of the issues and give you good coping/decision making skills.

At my ex-husband’s memorial service last weekend a guy he never liked got up in front of everyone and said, “You know, I don’t think [ex] ever liked me, but…” and proceeded to say some very kind things about him. Let’s all get on that level of self-confidence matched by self-awareness in 2025

Public service announcement: Andrei Tarkovsky classics #Solaris, Stalker, The Mirror and more besides are now available in full (and legally) on YouTube.

I was in the same Syrian prison as Austin Tice. He was very much alive Saher al-Ahmad, held captive in Damascus until 2022 by the Assad regime, offers new information on American who disappeared 12 years ago Josie Ensor www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...

Did you know only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life? Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. Read @lisalsong.bsky.social ⬇️

The ever popular Great Blue Heron. #birds. #wildlife. #photography

wake up babe it's crab tureen, 1736-95, artists in Jingdezhen, China

Not so long ago I saw a performance of Julius Eastman's Femenine and it was one of the more extraordinary things I have seen, though best seen live. Eastman has a tragic story which I was aware of, having seen a piece previously. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOJc...

compassion ecm.lnk.to/compassion

Tis the season for helpful posts about what food shelves need so here's my advice: If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can. Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.

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Pittsburgh’s 15-acre Esplanade development gets green light tonight from the Planning Commission. The large mixed-use development on the city’s North Side will include housing, retail, and yes, a giant Ferris wheel. triblive.com/business/nor...

Moving to central or downstate NY and opening a family restaurant with thick maroon carpet, wood paneling, placemats with local businesses, formal family pictures from 1976-1985, and a salad bar featuring creamy Italian dressing and chocolate pudding from an industrial sized can

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okay i did this kind of as a joke but i think it's actually really useful... here's a starter pack of people who have great starter packs. enjoy! go.bsky.app/8SPnZku

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People saying that you need to garden, that your back yard garden will allow you to be self-sustaining and even feed other people, that you can do a full time job while having this self-sustaining garden, that you can do this gardening while disabled: Wildly fucking unhinged. Cartoon fantasy shit.

Just saw a meme about New Yorkers being angry mean people, and my experience is that New Yorkers are nicer than a lot of Americans because we all live on top of each other and have to be, but people aren’t fake polite. But one think I think people really underestimate is how *chill* NYC people are.

“every Gladwell book falls into this pattern: A weak thesis with obvious flaws treated like the sole way to view the world. But wouldn't he be right at least sometimes? His track record for constant error is a real mystery”

A quick simulation to demonstrate the wild variability of p-values statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/08/a...

This. Also, do yourself a favor and just get a pair of scissors for every room in the house. You will use all of them all of the time. And you won't have to take your one pair of scissors from/back to their designated spot every time you use them

I found out on Friday that I’m getting laid off. If anyone knows of any freelance / editing / writing gigs, please send them my way 🙏