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@janeruffino

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PhD candidate in contemporary archaeologies of digital data. Content designer and UX writer. she/her

Stockholm, SE
Joined November 2008
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Pinning this tweet. Iโ€™m hoping this site stays up, but if I get logged out and canโ€™t get back in, Iโ€™m myname @ gmail and my mastodon is in my bio. Iโ€™m on LinkedIn (obviously). If weโ€™re mutuals, DM me for my WhatsApp!
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I think a lot about this headline anyway but more so now
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Itโ€™s wild how many people seem to think that teachers and nurses are easily replaceable. I think thereโ€™s a sense that these are โ€œgirl jobsโ€ that anyone can rock up and justโ€ฆdo.
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Sometimes I think about how people want space colonies but zero people have ever successfully run a videoconference on the first try
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Seeing a lot of talk about the Sentinelese that (unintentionally!) reproduces some colonialist perspectives. They arenโ€™t โ€œStone-age people,โ€ theyโ€™re 21st-century people. People arenโ€™t stuck in time because they donโ€™t use the same technologies we do. We all live now.
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Maybe Iโ€™m just salty today, but people on Team Queen are irritating me. The UK royals donโ€™t like him bc he has bad manners. The monarchy isnโ€™t a bunch of harmless fancy people; they upheld a system of brutal colonialism and represent the same thing trump does: unearned privilege
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@SamQari My Swedish partner told me about this. I honestly cannot fathom having anyone in my house, especially a child, and not feeding them.
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I was once asked in a job interview what business person I admire, and I said Dolly, and he was disgusted. Also used her as an example in a branding workshop and the CEO made me take the post-it off the wall. Dolly rules, douchebags drool
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Dolly Parton's nonprofit organization Imagination Library has donated over 100 million books to children all over the world. #DollyParton
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Even if they were jobs that didnโ€™t require years of training as well as a particular constitution, the people who do them would still be valuable. We arenโ€™t required to treat workers as fungible. But this way of seeing feminized jobs as easy is leading us to a long-term crisis.
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โ€œWhy are people attacking count centers?โ€ Trumpโ€™s campaign emails right now:
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We devalue care work so much that any job that involves it, regardless of what else it involves, is seen as โ€œeasy,โ€ normally by cis men who think caring is womenโ€™s work, and think theyโ€™re only bad at it because itโ€™s beneath them. But theyโ€™ll never admit itโ€™s our greatest need.
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Itโ€™s also wild because care work is among the only type of work that canโ€™t be easily automated. Itโ€™s in capitalismโ€™s interest that we devalue it. Nursing and teaching are not only care work, theyโ€™re highly skilled in a huge range of ways. Just like lots of jobs!
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Holy shit you guys Look at this dog His name is Mr Morris and I love him
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The best people at almost any job are good because they are carers along with whatever else they do. Software engineers, mechanics, administrators, retail managers, people managers, editors, infosec professionalsโ€”the best folks at many jobs are the best because they also do care.
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Theyโ€™re not unchanged for 60,000 years. Theyโ€™ve adapted to changing dangers even in recent years, forced to live w/the outside world even just to keep it away. They donโ€™t need to be frozen in time or pass a purity test to deserve respect. Just please stop with the Stone Age stuff
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I realize the Irish media avoids me despite my working in it for many years, but if anyone wants a perspective from someone who not only understands Ireland and Sweden, but also had a high-risk pregnancy and birth in โ€œno-lockdownโ€ Sweden, Iโ€™m right here, ya know.
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I have stuff to do, but she wonโ€™t let me put her down, so I just have this one thing to do, but a lot. It feels kinda like cheating that holding my tiny baby is both what I want to do and whatโ€™s needed from me? Am I doing this right?
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Pls can parents whose kids refuse to eat anything just tell me itโ€™ll be ok. Donโ€™t want advice, or to hear from the โ€œmy kid eats everything!โ€ parents. My kid eats: boobs, the occasional cracker, pouch veggie lasagna (which is sold out everywhere), smoothies, risotto from France.
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FYI if you are ever sad and youโ€™re in Stockholm, every afternoon at 1600, a doggy school bus arrives and you can spend a good 90 minutes watching dogs be reunited with their owners after a day at doggy day care
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Genuine love and solidarity for those whoโ€™ve experienced the direct or indirect effects of a brutal colonial regime, who now have to witness an outpouring of grief never offered to those whose lives were destroyed or ended by colonial violence
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Our idea of โ€œprogressโ€ is precisely why the Sentinelese are so vulnerable, so even if they donโ€™t embrace the Capitalocene, theyโ€™re forced to coexist with it. If they were actually in the Stone Age, they wouldnโ€™t be at risk from American missionaries, thatโ€™s for sure.
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One thing it does when we think of people as Stone Age is we fail to see the many perfectly valid ways of living in the world. Their tech is modern because itโ€™s what they use now. Itโ€™s not pre-modern because new tech is automatically better. Thatโ€™s a product of the Capitalocene
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Itโ€™s also really important not to frame the protection of their space as paternalistic. Societies are always complex and sophisticated, but colonizer mindsets mean we often infantilize and dehumanize cultures that seem โ€œcloser to natureโ€
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I mean our way of living destroys indigenous knowledge and literally creates genocide, and sure itโ€™s fascinating to think about people who live nothing like anyone else, but itโ€™s not a window into the past. And in any case, we have no right to know about them bc thatโ€™s up to them
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The Three-Age system for prehistory is helpful (within limits) for certain perspectives on Europe/the Mediterranean, but itโ€™s not useful for much of the world. Itโ€™s a 19th-century framework based on assumptions of universal human paths to progress.
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#YesAllWomen because apparently talking about men's violence against women is disrespectful to men.
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I continue to be stumped** about why the #repealthe8th campaign hasnโ€™t become a European model for taking on the far right. To date itโ€™s one of the only successes in Europe. People should be scrambling to get advice from its activists. **lol Iโ€™m not actually stumped
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Reminder or fun fact that I once โ€œdebatedโ€ with this guy on Today FM because he was upset about an ad for Old El Paso Fajitas that showed a man struggling to make a fajita. He declared it โ€œreverse sexismโ€
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Ian O'Doherty: 'Climate change activists love making their empty gestures'
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I am a sneaky snek
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ICYMI as a jokey photoshop, after 7.5 years, endless grief and loss, what would have been my retirement fund, looks like thereโ€™s finally gonna be a full version in May 2020 P good so far I think
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Who originally tweeted this? I just found it in my images and it is perfect.
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Saw a tweet about how the gardai would have rushed in and Iโ€™m just likeโ€ฆI called them once when my ex, who already had tried to kill me, was actively threatening me. I had a full barring order, he had no gun. They shouted โ€œweโ€™re not your bodyguards!โ€ And hung up.
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I wouldnโ€™t make you turn your sound on unless it was important. This is important.
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If you donโ€™t have a boyfriend for Fall, Lusse says heโ€™s ready. Ready for cozy nights, romantic weekends, and sharing his feelings.
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Hi, if you or someone you love is having a tough day, here is a video of Lusse barking in his sleep. He doesnโ€™t bark much when heโ€™s awake, but his dreams take him on many adventures (and yes, sometimes he sleeps with his eyes open). Maybe heโ€™s dreaming of meeting you!
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Iโ€™m sorry for being such a huge bore about this, it just took me so freaking long to have this kiddo and I just think sheโ€™s the most magical little elf baby
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My kid asked if she could break this hellsite, and how could I say no?
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How is my dog so pure There is no more wholesome creature than this dog, kissing ice cream off his own face
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@anitathetweeter Iโ€™m confused. Do they think their child is like... a lodger? Itโ€™s not an adult house, itโ€™s a family home, which is the babyโ€™s house, too. I hope the kid absolutely wrecks the joint with plastic junk and puts stickers absolutely everywhere
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Josephine goes along in the stroller, waving and shouting โ€œhi!โ€ at everyone she sees and I will never understand people who donโ€™t say hi back when A BABY IS GREETING YOU. A baby! Is wishing you! Good day! Whatโ€™s broken in your soul, folks
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@ftrain Irish twitter will have the week of its life.
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Hereโ€™s a page from the spa treatment list in the hotel weโ€™re staying in. I donโ€™t understand why anyone wouldโ€ฆwant this????
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Even though none of us deserves this, viggo wanted to show off his sweet jammies @darth
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Whenever I work on a design project I try to add user scenarios for abuse. No one ever listens because they think itโ€™s an โ€œedge caseโ€ and Iโ€™m exhausting and thatโ€™s why abusers can do this in products.
Met a girl last night who told me she has her ex blocked on everything, so every so often he sends her 1 cent on revolut with messages like, โ€œyou ruined my fucking lifeโ€ attached
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As long as youโ€™re still asking โ€œwhy didnโ€™t she leaveโ€ instead of โ€œwhy didnโ€™t he stop,โ€ you, whether or not you like it, are part of the problem.
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Always push the green in retail places. If you have a complaint, make it verbally, but donโ€™t push buttons that leave data trails that harm retail workers. ONLY PUSH GREEN
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If I see you tap the orange or red face in my local lidl, just know that I triple tap smiley green to cancel you out
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@katherinemzhou I am so furious at this country, and furious that people wonโ€™t acknowledge the racism and xenophobia. Iโ€™m also not surprised by it. People keep acting like itโ€™s a recent change, but anyone who grew up in an immigrant family here can tell you otherwise.
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Today I cried in the street because I got shortlisted for a thing I REALLY WANT and have worked super hard for, and was really difficult to apply for because it involved getting past a ton of old trauma. Pls cross all of your digits for me โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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They donโ€™t like him because he gives the game away. They donโ€™t care about family separation, rolling back trans rights, killing Roe v Wade (Northern Ireland still has no abortion access!!!), they just donโ€™t like that he openly keeps the kind of company theyโ€™re quiet about.
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Thank you for coming to my ted talk
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@redlightvoices Oh god imagine that you actually had a missed miscarriage and your HCG wasn't high enough to register and you found out because you couldn't get that IKEA discount
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@ambernoelle @MikaMurstein Love the replies here suggesting that homeless people are breaking the social contract/abusing public space, as if somehow their homelessness isnโ€™t a sign that others broke the social contract long before they needed to use a bench as a bed.
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@reina_sabah Oh god. Iโ€™m somewhere between India and South Africa, but my babyโ€™s egg came from a Latvian donor. At what age will she rise up and crush me????
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In movies when the video link cuts out, they always assume some disastrous event. Imagine videoconferencing was solid enough to complete a meeting, let alone so robust that only all-out war could take it out. (I canโ€™t imagine this.)
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@EvaSaraLindberg @SamQari Swedes canโ€™t resist a lecture, huh!!? Wild that youโ€™d think I wouldnโ€™t talk to the parents, or that Iโ€™m in need of moral correction.
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Ableism + late capitalism had a baby and itโ€™s a hostile toilet Thanks, I hate it
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Swedish law requires your workplace to have a nap room. This is ours. http://t.co/70VwkM6z0y
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Throwing shade at a guy because he doesnโ€™t read books and he puts ketchup on everything is not the same as supporting Black Lives Matter, especially when the prime minister herself tears apart families, is responsible for austerity casualties and presided over Windrush.
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Hey corporate feminists Come get yer girl She leaned in so far she crushed democracy
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I canโ€™t stop watching this
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Whoa hi thatโ€™s a lot of retweets for a thing i didnโ€™t even do. Pls make sure you read the full article so the author continues to get the kudos she deserves for articulating these things when we needed them most
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Iโ€™m just sharing these again because look at my baby. And I feel @darth needs to see the many moods of Lusse, now captured by a pro
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I canโ€™t even be in American internet groups anymore because I canโ€™t cope with so many discussions resting on assumptions that England is fancy and โ€œEuropeโ€ is socialist and that Trump is an isolated problem.
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I feel isolated because Swedes generally want to talk about how stupid Americans are (and you canโ€™t say shit about the fascism here) and Americans love talking about how superior Swedes are, and I just wanna hang with people who get that this is a global problem
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@Sierra_OffLine Iโ€™m on a listserv with some of these dudes and one of them just retired, and the list is just like, people saying super nice things to him, about him. He also signed off with a reference to Cory Doctorowโ€™s โ€œenshittification of the internet.โ€ Theyโ€™re chill and also worried!
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At 21, I broke a local record in a 50-mile ultramarathon. In my 40s, I had 9 rounds of IVF before having a baby at 44, at the peak of a pandemic. Iโ€™ve had to get a specialist referral bc my body isnโ€™t recovering. Maybe donโ€™t print fatshaming shit. Headlines like these are poison
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I havenโ€™t fully processed it yet because Iโ€™ll just end up crying my entire brains out and I have to make a presentation in an hour, but as of now, I can KICK A NAZI IN THE SHINS WITHOUT BEING DEPORTED. Because after 28 months of waiting, Iโ€™m officially a Swedish citizen!
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We have to talk about this shit as systemic. Itโ€™s possible to acknowledge what is unusual about Trumpism, as well as how much power is concentrated in the US, without letting others in the world off the hook.
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Anyway, I just ignored my morningโ€™s work and flooded your feeds. I got lucky and had a healthy birth and baby, but it was more terrifying than it needed to be because some people decided going to the gym was more important than public safety. Josephine says justice for Breonna.
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The UK is on its third PM in 3 years. Their government has a less stable lineup than The Fall
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2009: twitter is amazing so funny and fast and interesting 2017:
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This is a really interesting thread, and talks about the danger involved with taking VC when you could/can scale and get revenue-positive. VCs arenโ€™t looking for sustainability.
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I don't want to be doom and gloom, but Patreon is about to eat itself. Or, more specifically, the investors who demand geometric growth are about to demand Patreon eat itself.
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I guess in a few months Iโ€™ll have to change my twitter bio from โ€œrecovering archaeologistโ€ to โ€œrelapsed.โ€ Iโ€™m actually kind of stunned with disbelief that Iโ€™m going to be making my second attempt at a PhD, on the archaeology of contemporary digital data.
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Pleased to report that on only her second day on the job, baby Josephine has seized the means of (milk) production and drank until age passed out. A fitting way to celebrate Karl Marxโ€™s birthday. Good work, comrade!
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Even now, I have to lie about my experience. If I said it was terrifying to give birth in this, where no one wore a mask and I rarely saw anyone wash their hands in 5 days in the hospital. Because if a foreigner doesnโ€™t flatter sweden, we get met with aggression or condescension.
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The response was designed for the comfort and convenience of middle-class, Swedish Swedes with Swedish loved ones. It also increased the hatred of Swedes toward foreigners. So many people have angrily told me I just donโ€™t understand Sweden. But Iโ€™m here, experiencing it, too.
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For obvious reasons Iโ€™m bad at replying, but thank you for all the amazing happy vibes. Here are some tiny baby toes
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Ok you can have one bump selfie because my god, i am huge and itโ€™s not even done yet
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@etienneshrdlu โ€œI know you like the yellow kitty toy your grandma gave you, but we told her about your palette and she didnโ€™t listen and we simply have no choice but to burn itโ€
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Anyway, my view is as nuanced a view as Sweden deserves, but clearly the only acceptable view is that Sweden can do this because Sweden is somehow better. Itโ€™s not. Iโ€™m not going to be unfair, but the Covid response here has been especially unfair to many of us. Listen to us.
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I canโ€™t believe theyโ€™re going to let me leave the hospital with this baby
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We signed on the house!!!! We have a whole ass house!!!
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Because they didnโ€™t actually protect health care, my midwife caught Covid. My anxiety counselor caught Covid. I had *no prenatal care* for the third trimester. The clinic was open, but they had Covid running through a prenatal clinic, so as much as it was my โ€œchoice,โ€ it wasnโ€™t.
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@redlightvoices I mean it's a terrible idea for 46435375765 reasons but also I guess you only get a discount if you can carry a bio child and sooooooooo it might be fun to find out if it's even legal, just to literally piss off the white bros who thought this was a cool idea
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6 years
Siri, Iโ€™m a bad person. If I donโ€™t get my shit together what personal hell can I look forward to as my eternal suffering
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4 years
Biiiiig yawn (just wait until she and the dog meet, youโ€™re gonna get some serious spam)
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4 years
At least ask about the role of Swedish exceptionalism. At least ask about the social cost of asking critical questions. At least point out that our economy has not been protected. At least ask about ICU admissions and follow up with hard questions. At least center the vulnerable.
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4 years
The focus is so much on what โ€œfreedomsโ€ people were allowed to keep (as if small sacrifices for protecting others is unfree), but not on what people havenโ€™t been free to do: protect themselves in potentially risky settings. Health workers werenโ€™t *allowed* to wear masks.
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5 years
@clhubes I have a partner and 3 stepkids but Iโ€™ve lost 9 pregnancies and people think my family isnโ€™t real. Iโ€™ve even been denied mental health services bc theyโ€™re reserved for people who have kids relying on them. I pay the mortgage but...uhh ok
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6 years
If you wanna depress yourself more, ask the men around you to name their female role models and say they canโ€™t answer โ€œmy momโ€. If they have any at all, listen to what they value about them. Ten bucks itโ€™s stoicism and self-sacrifice.
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4 years
Finally, if you want a good example of a European country that handled Covid relatively well without a hard lockdown, look at Norway! Sweden has a very powerful nation branding strategy, which is part of why everyone pays attention to them even when itโ€™s not warranted.
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4 years
If you or someone you love is feeling sad, here is a video of my 5-week-old baby trying desperately to stay awake so she doesnโ€™t miss anything
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4 years
My friend is on her way to the only immigration office that has spots right now, which involves long-distance train, so, ya know, stress on stress. This was next to their seat. What a fun place to live this is, truly.
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2 years
@RobynElyse And even now, looking back, the cop whose job it was to bust skateboarders who skated the fountain was a really slow runner and the joke was that he couldnโ€™t ever catch them. Now I realize they didnโ€™t care that much about busting skaters, either. We were super lucky!
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4 years
The bed, like my heart, is full
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3 years
What is the best fact that you know? Mine is that Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school in France. There are no better facts than this, but I want to know your best one
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4 years
Good morning from a tiny elf
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2 years
@robyncaplan Here is a picture of my dog in a sweater to counterbalance all the people in your menshies yelling at you about the wayback machine, as if it solves this problem or handles all types of sites. Or helps you know where those broken links were supposed to go. Etc.
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4 years
I also missed Ireland because many more Irish people see through bullshit and donโ€™t automatically trust authority to protect them. The discussion seemed more mature and nuanced there. I mean, hell, I was on the brink of thinking well of Leo Varadkar. Praising a Tory boy!!?? Me???
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