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One of my favorite harmless historical myths is that Ben Franklin wanted the national bird to be the turkey, and I can't help but think we'd be a lot healthier as a nation if that psychotic dinosaur bird was our mascot
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@invisflyingrl
“though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.” part-time hermit, full-time magician. unseeable, aloft, she/her.
Boston, MA Beigetreten Ekim 2016
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Wanna see something marvellous? Uploaded to YouTube the newly found fragment from Cleopatra with Theda Bara. youtu.be/QwPZuyF2Th0?si…
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If this Labor Day feels a little different, that’s because it is.
Workers are fighting and winning in a way we haven't seen in decades.
And this could be just the beginning. Thread 🧵
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@oldenoughtosay I grew up in rural New England, and still nothing made me feel more like a backwoods hick than having to tell every cashier in Singapore, “the card doesn’t tap, you have to insert it.”
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the exclusion of children from public space means the disproportionate exclusion of women from public space the exclusion of children from public space means the disproportionate exclusion of women from public space the exclusion of children from public space means the dispropor
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‘I don’t come here to enjoy other people’s children!’ Should pubs and restaurants be kid-free zones? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
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Personal ruggedization is not prepping or bunkering down.
Personal ruggedization is making smart decisions about where we choose to live, the systems we embed ourselves in, and the ways we work with others to improve our odds of a good future.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedization
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We no longer expect Ball Mountain Dam in Jamaica, Vermont and Townshend Dam in Townshend/Windham, Vermont to release large amounts of water over the spillways in the next 48 hours. Water will still be released from the dams, but in smaller amounts than previously anticipated.
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[Vermont flooding] Vermonters and even some folks in northwestern MA should check out this serious message from the US Army Corps of Engineers re: overflow from Ball Mtn and Townshend dams:
Brattleboro Reformer@BrattReformer
WINDHAM COUNTY — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New England District (CENAE) issued a High Flow Emergency and Imminent High Flows warning for Ball Mountain Dam in Jamaica and Townshend Dam in Townshend. reformer.com/local-news/u-s…
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Lots of people say "It's so great that @Wikipedia exists" or something similar, and for a good reason, but I'd like to say something slightly more precise:
It's so great that Wikipedians exist.
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also at the time, it was unfathomable to most of us, sometimes still teenagers, that the interest rate would be so predatory that after 5-10-15 years of payments, the amount owed would be the same if not LARGER
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I'm tired of dishonest arguments. Nobody took out student loans expecting the federal government to bail them out. People took out student loans because education has been priced out of reach. People took out student loans believing they would be able to pay them back.
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I think about billionaires a lot (kinda my job?) so let me say this:
Most every billionaire on the planet would happily kill you for an extra few points on their investment. This isn't theoretical, it literally happens. They literally make decisions they know will kill people.
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@Gaby_Moss Oh this is criminal. I never would have picked these up
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@TimManzella @jzux If only he’d befriended an American who could send him some
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@invisflyingrl @jzux Not to be a downer but Butterfingers aren’t a thing in Germany 😱
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“no one remembers the weird thing you said at that party” actually the weird thing you said has become a sacred inside joke that bonded several people at that party together forever
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@SonyaShaykhoun You believed this to be a 911-worthy emergency? Yikes.
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@jamieloftusHELP Not memoir but a great nonfic is Lily Dale: The Town that Talks to the Dead, by Christine Wicker. SO great, mediums are terribly terribly petty
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what are your favorite books (preferably memoir doesn’t have to be) about small weird towns
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@HallieRubenhold just a heads up, that Western Traditionalist account you retweeted is pushing some insidious stuff
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If she makes you mad, look within and ask yourself why, then come clean because
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The Marie hate is and always has been *wild.* Truly a gentle person giving you nonjudgmental ideas on freeing yourself from stuff and I just can’t understand how that could be taken so aggressively, rabidly wrong.
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