Emily Bulger

@dweekly @adryenn Graphic says you have a year after receiving your final grade to decide.

@adryenn Not sure what window of time you have to decide.

This seems kinda...radical? ASU makes its courses available to anyone for $25/course. After you take the class, if you want the grade you got added to an official transcript with a credit you can use, +$400. These are real college credits. 8 year olds are getting college credits!

@MikeAtherton Gambling apps like DraftKings. Wild information density, complex flows seem painless, unique UI requirements. Problematic, perhaps, but pretty genius from a strictly UX perspective.

@LiveNation 503s and “page not found” and now getting “your session has been suspended” — well yes, refreshing the page to see if it will ever load. Ticketmaster does not learn 🙄

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@amythibodeau @bookingcom Hey Amy — a friend is a UX writer for them, based in Amsterdam. DM me if you’d like to be connected

Do I know anyone who works @bookingcom (or know anyone who knows anyone)?

@Eric_Erins <crickets from the 7%+ mortgage holders>

So what’re you all spending on housing these days?

@WGNNews What’s with only naming one of the two members to resign? Is there some reason why one person is named and the other is referred to as “and another member”?

A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities. wgntv.com/news/chicagocr…

@Eric_Erins Still total trash drivers, too!

Uncanny how little has changed. Other than the cars this is exactly what it still looks like

@danbarker 🤣 unclear how I became a defender of dressage, but hopefully it brings some weird joy to people. No shame intended!

I have been shamed, by @EmilyBulger, for not knowing how popular Horse Dancing is. Here is a horse dancing during London 2012, to atone.

@danbarker Dressage is an Olympic sport! horseandhound.co.uk/features/what-…

Things I did not know existed: the sport of Horses Dancing to Music. Here, the horse Porridge dances, watched by HRH Princess Anne, to music played by Gaynor Colbourn (who also wrote the music to the BBC sitcom 'Sorry!')

@Eric_Erins This is basically the definition of hygge — especially the lightning/thunder part

Laying in my sunroom watching the lightning and taking in the sound of the rain on the windows. This is /comfy/

@literally_Wario @destinyspile @roastmalone_ Oof, strong disagree on this one. If it isn’t 2700 Kelvin, I do not want it.

Israel has cut off all internet and cellular communication in Gaza. They don’t want the world to see what they are doing. We must not look away from this violence, especially during a blackout. We need a #CeasefireNow.

The effects can be seen from space. The Gaza Strip has plunged into darkness since Israel announced a “complete siege” Oct. 9. On Friday, the little connectivity Gaza had with the outside world appeared to be severed, amid reports of heavy bombardment. wapo.st/477tylj

At 4am, Texas Republicans passed a hateful anti-immigrant bill that: ✖️Traps migrants in razor wire ✖️Spends billions to build Trump’s wall ✖️Separates children from their parents This bill is immoral, inhumane, & ineffective. Texans deserve real solutions not dangerous stunts.

Opinion by Karen Attiah: We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities. The United States and other global leaders must not allow Israel to carry out the collective punishment it has declared it will exact on Gaza. wapo.st/3S0wXhC

@chefjoseandres @CNN What I would give for salmorejo and maybe a flamenquín…

Tonight we are going to beautiful Andalucía so get your gazpacho ready!!🍅 😋 watch José Andrés and Family in Spain tonight on @CNN 9pm ET/PT!

@patio11 Seconding the other comment from a Chicagoan…when I moved to IL last year and needed to get a license and register my car, people were very surprised I went to the DMV and not a currency exchange, which seems to be “a private business that helps you avoid gov bureaucracy/lines”

(They offer a range of so-called alternative financial services, called that because they are an alternative to the mainline banking sector. Extremely high cost credit is generally how their bread is buttered.)

Ruriko: Oh a currency exchange. Does this neighborhood get a lot of tourists? Me: … No. Ruriko: Then who exchanges currency? Me: Exchanging currency is not near the top of activities at a currency exchange.

@the_transit_guy You can also see this on the Blue line to O’Hare (Chicago) between the many lanes of the Kennedy Expressway

Screaming, crying, throwing up I love this so much

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

@edyong209 I subscribed to The Atlantic in 2020 primarily because I wanted to read and support your work, which really stood out from all other COVID reporting at the time. Looking forward to following your next chapters. Congrats on the end of this one!

Endings are hard. Blank pages are harder--but also exciting and full of possibility. Onward. TKTK 9/

Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day. Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/