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6 months

@ambernoelle I’m one. She’s such a skilled songwriter, it’s hard not to find songs of hers to like, even if the whole machine is off-putting.

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@jennykleeman Malcolm doesn’t know much about SK if he sees it as a place “where women have rights.” A main reason their fertility rate is so low is BECAUSE of its patriarchy.

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@dowellml When they say “injured,” what does that mean for diabetics? I feel like that’s a crappy euphemism for something far more dangerous and severe.

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@NateB_Panic The able-bodied left are just as ableist — and therefore eugenecist — as the right. In full discolosure, as a disabled person who had to unlearn her internalized ableism, I once thought like that, too.

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@Braxtonbrew96 That’s the kind of adaptive, innovative thinking universities promise to deliver to their consumers — I mean, students! Good on them.

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@JortsTheCat Jorts, they CAME from the bog.

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@LadyChuan I skimmed the first sentence and for a while was very puzzled about why nuns would take a vacation in the Turks and Caicos. 😆 But the ableism and lack of empathy is heartbreaking. Not surprising, but still heartbreaking.

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@probablyreadit And yet not a cop interfering despite death threats. Hmmmm….

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6 months

@itslaylas @TulikaBose_ I prefer “intellectually sophisticated,” but I love that guard already. 😂

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@llmunro I haven’t ridden a non-stationary bike since I was 13. (About 30 years for me, too!) That old adage about riding a bike is just rubbish, isn’t it?

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@fortesalatifi This once happened to me after a weeklong hospital stay. Went back to the gym having lost 10lbs. “What’s your secret?” “A week at Mount Sinai?”

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@ingrid_rojas_c Same with my mom! I got my first chronic illness at 10, and now I understand the toll it took on her. She’s always supported my choice — rare esp for an Iranian mom, but our fam is blazingly nontraditional. (You’re on my mind—reading Martyr! and saw you in the acknowledgments.)

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@thrasherxy I’m an English PhD (Columbia, haha) turned journalist , so no desire for another degree. But I’d consider going to NU J-school just to be taught by folks like you.

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@JortsTheCat You ok, Jorts? No residual effects from your magic screen carpet adventure?

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5 months

@emanabdelhadi Kudos to your mom for being able to resist all the trauma responses. My family had a ton of setbacks for similar reasons, and I’m not sure they can see past the trauma.

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@FioreUnited @AJDelgado13 @kalihollowayftw A dear friend of mine in undergrad was in Columbia’s School of General Studies. (I was actually at Penn but met her at a joint study abroad program in France.) Definitely as rigorous a degree — nothing to be scoffed at.

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4 months

Loved writing this story about @ApricotTreeCaf1 for my first story at @thesicktimes :

How the Apricot Tree Café became a leader in clean indoor air - The Sick Times

Opened in 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario, the Apricot Tree Café has built a loyal customer base who love its European-influenced menus, from salads to schnitzel. Owned and operated by Austrian immigr...

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9 months

@anguilline Definitely post in local cat FB groups. Good luck! 💕

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10 months

@chaedria As an Ivy PhD student, I can vouch for the fact that you are absolutely lowest on the totem pole of importance — especially if you study the humanities.

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@saharbjones @AmericanAir My 70-ish mother helped once on a Lufthansa flight. Also assumed to be just old lady standing up. But they gave her some euros to spend on the duty-free catalog. She bought a necklace.

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@itslukechen @padresj I admittedly went to Augustine and a different set of pears.

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6 months

@Dbwagner104 Poor woof woof, got no churus No flair, no rizz— a big snout snoozer So take this hiss diss and vacate the premises You yellow jello loser (yeeeeeooooowwwwww)

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@TOrynski That’s awesome. Lots to admire about Finland — and yet the weather scares the living fuck out of me (born and mostly raised in Florida, so 35C and 80% humidity is my happy place).

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@IolaElla Or even public libraries!

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@balagonline Many faculty and students are actually paying rent TO COLUMBIA—the largest private landlord in the city and (I believe) second only to the City public housing association. Which could up the fear level, I guess, but could also cripple the uni if they just decided not to pay.

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@slooterman I just saw a tweet about Gaulledet organizing in the DMV.

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@ISASaxonists Big deal in Japan, which isn’t big on immigration period.

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@JortsTheCat Came for the fantasy and labor texts, stayed for the dairy goats how-to.

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@PortiaMcGonagal @mikawilson777 What on earth did Lily Allen say now? 🙄

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@jenna_hnz Texas Rangers — the ones in the red caps with a giant ‘T’ on them.

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@JessicaLexicus That’s one reason that I dread owning a home: it’s a money trap, too. I know renting is worse, but the idea that you buy a home and the worries stop and that picket fence stays bright white and straight and free of rot without work…. Houses are WORK.

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@ISASaxonists You mean *other* than the Catholic Church?

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@singingsox We masked folks have to find ways to get together.

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@thrasherxy Yup! Going to class in person and unmasked is dangerous, but not because of the protestors — who are models of disability justice with all their masking, even outdoors.

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@julia_doubleday @jacobin The rampant ableism of the left is exhausting.

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6 months

@aleximenez I’m here for the story, but also the Yoongi GIFs.

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2 years

@Helenreflects That’s why I loved traveling in Seoul last summer and would only take extended trips in places like SK, Japan, Taiwan, etc for the near future.

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@Jesse_Hirsch (Chiming in from Appalachia) Uhhhhhh…… (Where’s the bombastic side eye emoji when you need it?)

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@Tyler_A_Harper @ADeepSouthCrit Probably because publishing is all happening in an urban echo chamber that refuses to look at itself and instead goes after rural America?

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@NateB_Panic I’m amazed the campaign has just decided to torpedo the student vote that they do desperately need. But OK, Boomer.

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@jenjajeh Gahhh don’t make me cry on a Thursday afternoon. 💕

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@sarahkendzior My mom cried. I didn’t understand why for years. I get it now.

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@ThatEffinFlower @VCU Love the masking! #disabilityjustice

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@julia_doubleday But you are menacing! When masked, you are, for them, a walking trigger for all the things: our fucked up health-no-care and public non-health system, disability, illness, mortality. You embody truths they know deep down but spend their whole lives trying to forget.

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@KatSDC @dowellml Absolutely! I’m so sorry this happened, but given our profit-driven system, not surprised.

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6 months

@chaedria @EmmanuelDntDoIT 94, actually! No skips in that masterpiece. I was a shy nerdy HS freshman screaming my choir girl voice useless in the shower trying to copy her. Ultimate girl crush.

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@ambernoelle Oh my god, the night OG Unsolved Mysteries scared me so much I ripped off a chicken pox scar that’s still a divot near my eyebrow….

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@JortsTheCat Good point! If Karen Russell’s “Bog Girl” is anything to go by, you’ve got the right coat color to be a bog cat!!

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@moorehn The return of COINTELPRO.

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9 months

@anguilline @ToniNBloom We also have a rescue called Laps and Naps for Senior Cats. You may reach out to them — they do take kitties from beyond WNC if they have space/can find fosters.

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Very proud of this piece, and grateful for a fantastic editor in @reportermike . “Having assets to pass on is a privilege. Having friends to leave them to is a gift.”

When Friends Are Your Primary Concern in Making a Will (Published 2023)

For many people who feel closer to friends than family, estate planning can require special considerations.

www.nytimes.com

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7 months

@jewishbroke @CarmenGranddau1 Oh, yeah! I think because I never know it’s Easter until it sneaks up on me.

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10 months

Such an important piece by @LygiaNavarro on #LongCovid in the Latino/a population.

Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️

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Latines are the group most impacted by #LongCovid in the US -- a fact that most media have ignored and that the federal government isn't addressing. Check out my reporting -- alongside @jpbejaranob 's for @NWPBroadcasting .

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@blgtylr I prefer the Count of Monty Crisco myself.

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@Maria_Tureaud I haven’t started querying, so I don’t want to vote — but is there a way to show results? Could use some encouragement.

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@KashPrime @theRavenApp Such a pleasure to connect! You’re and your colleagues are doing such great work with both @theRavenApp and @CanCovSoc .

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@ejdickson Do you have suggestions for how to let sources know if they’re not used in a way that’s grateful and sympathetic? I always feel so guilty when someone gives me an hour of their time for a sentence or two.

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@weischoice I finished, but deliriously ran by the man who died as someone gave him CPR at mile 19. Chicagoans were awesome: hosed us down, passed out pretzels for the salt.

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@JortsTheCat @straterize Oh, people stopped caring about public health sometime circa summer 2020.

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4 months

@lucyj_ford As a multi-K boy group stan, 100000%.

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1 year

@kaytiburt @insidethetube You are the best! Are you in Korea now?

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@appodlachia Mutual aid

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@Tyler_A_Harper @Musa_alGharbi Great explanation of the uni purpose and the obedient student (waves hand) it wants. I don’t agree with the most cynical takes on the students. But it’s true that only outside elite academia did I experience not just theory but praxis in social justice.

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I loved writing this piece about today's FFA (Future Farmers of America) for @AmbrookResearch . Spoke to some amazing students doing great things:

Future Farmers of America: More Than Cows, Sows, and Plows - Ambrook Research

In contrast to its old-fashioned reputation, today’s FFA members utilize cutting-edge technologies to address agriculture’s most pressing challenges.

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@wudanyan @KSJatMIT 🫥

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@waitmanb @OUPAcademic [clutches pearls]

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@esdsantos Know that you’ll improve it and rewrite the whole thing for the book.

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@ElaheIzadi VOLUNTEER?!?!?! 😡

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@ThierryAaron I honestly see humans as ghost species. We won’t survive what we’ve done to our environment and will sadly drag down so many other species.

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@LygiaNavarro Yeah, that piece was bullshit.

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10 months

@kate_manne What’s the role of telehealth you’re referring to here? Is it for prescribing Ozempic or for WW itself? (I’m writing about telehealth atm, so curious about this.)

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@GrimKim Say hello to Iorek Byrnison if you see him! (IYKYK). And you might enjoy the novel The End of Drum-Time, which I just finished — set in Sámi land in the 1850s.

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@avitale @KUngernyc @Harpers The modern police force emerged from slave patrols. The system was born rotten and “a few good apples” will not right that moral shipwreck.

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6 months

@beau_baumann Marvin Gaye is always a civilization-level threat in the best possible way.

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4 months

My friend @kaytiburt kicking ass per usual.

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As the genocide in Gaza continues, Palestinian #Kpop fans are currently organizing boycotts in an attempt to pressure HYBE, the industry’s biggest company, into divesting from Israel. ✍️: @kaytiburt

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@GrimKim Personal grief is genuinely the worst: love with nowhere to go. Your world is obliterated by loss, and the world heartlessly keeps turning. Not self-indulgent at all! 💕 Take care of yourself, and give yourself miles of slack.

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@IBJIYONGI 150%! The light pollution is awful, and the headlights totally blind me when I’m driving — not that you actually need to see when driving, right?

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6 months

@johnpmerrick @moorehn Prêt à Protester

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10 months

@KaylaAncrum Intrigued by this hypothesis. The author website has a post about this situation that includes a download, supposedly of a story. Could that be a virus/way in for scammers?

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@LibyaLiberty Proper heirlooms I get, but what about late 80s/early 90s Noritake? I chip our everyday all the time, so I feel like those are (a) not worth much and (b) would be chipped to hell in a week with my hand-eye coordination.

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5 months

@GrimKim @CrabMuseum You are the second person I know to fall in love with @CrabMuseum !

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1 year

@kaytiburt This should be an article!

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6 months

@accommodatingly @rebeccalehmann Can we just email each other about how great PL is? I need a fellow PL fanatic in my life.

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@stevesidea @KateMadd And Conrad kicking butt in his fourth with Heart of Darkness, etc. Drives me mad (impressed).

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@Dbwagner104 @JortsTheCat

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@annamerlan But it makes me feel so ALLIIIIIIVVVVEEEE! [keels over with flu-like symptoms]

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1 year

So excited to have my story on the women who grow willow and weave biodegradable caskets was selected by @Longreads ! Thank you @kristastevens

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"An often overlooked benefit of green burials that everyone interviewed mentioned is how the process builds and strengthens community." @saramurphyphd @AmbrookResearch

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@jessicadefino_ Read your newsletter on it! I’m less interested in men’s prefs and more about places like the beach and the like where showing it might be conceived as obscene. That’s the main reason I do any maintenance.

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@blacklionking73 @subpop Grunge was such a beautiful but tortured moment. Wish it lasted longer, but it was never going to.

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@ravenscimaven All I’ve got are thoughts and prayers.

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@SabraMBoyd Wow! That’s awesome!

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@EpiiicFay @SharonBeckerPhD @kaytiburt Just boarded my final flight leg back to Orlando. Miss Seoul and hanging out already!

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@Margo202_ I am heading there for the first time for a friend’s wedding and would love to write about that destination as well as other stops for female and solo travelers. DMing you email.

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@erinoverbey Honestly, you could have just ended that sentence at “the racism.”

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2 years

@annabroges @kaytiburt I’m sorry you’re facing this. I left NYC in tears when I lost my job. But now I’m SO glad I left. Not to dismiss your grief & rage at the economic injustice — but I hope that you, too, find a new place & community just as fulfilling (& affordable) for you.

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@julia_doubleday Ahhhhh!!!!! As a masker in NC, I am over the moon. Fight not over, but yay yay yay.

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@ReaRhine_ From the States, but lived in Edinburgh for three years and London for three months. Also watched Danny Boyle’s 2012 opening ceremony. (Wasn’t it Branaugh who played IKB?)

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2 years

LOVE the decision to have the audience provide the vocals on Dynamite. #HOBIPALOOZA

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6 months

@Tyler_A_Harper Not used to rejection, but — as a grad student — used to such unrelenting criticism (and no focus on what you do well) that you feel everything you write is shit. When I left academia to be a freelance writer, I was stunned at all the positive, helpful feedback.

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