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@ingridmusic Please put out the “Christmas in New York” EP - I would save my bagel money to pick up a copy.

Ingrid's #HolidayHop is happening at 8pm ET TONIGHT at Webster Hall! Livestream the show from wherever you are🎄✨ veeps.com/ingridmichaels…

@ForsythCoGov so glad as a tax payer to be given <24 hrs notice of a water shut off and then water is YELLOW 48 hours later so no water for drinking, cooking, or doing laundry without ruining clothes. Oh, and I have to pay for the water to flush the lines?! @forsythnews

Biden isn’t incoherent: he’s stuttering. He’s trying to employ the things my kids speech therapist uses on the fly under pressure and angry at Trump. I SEE the tension, brute force attempt, the word search, the frantic sentence rearrangement. View his answers through that lens.

But please- don’t beat up on folks who stutter. In a few years- my kid will be in that job interview, and crushing it- be understanding.

We’ve had some luck, there are certain “modes” like “narrator mode” or “serious adult mode” that kick in sometimes. And there are role models, like Emily Blunt.

When you work with someone who stutters on their stutter, you learn the signs- the grimace, the tensing in the larynx or the rest of the body, the sudden change in cadence or rushing to get your words out. The look on their face as they scramble to salvage their thought.

And try to work around it- calm and slow down, repeat, blast through and force it out, or give up and work around by finding other words. We work on strategies to try to avoid hitting those blocks and preemptively fixing them, but it’s difficult.

Every extra barrier makes it harder. The more emotionally charged, or tense, the harder it is. The more complicated the verbal challenge, etc. We practice telling pretend stories or game instructions under time pressure to practice. When a word is getting stuck they will know

Its like patting your head and your stomach. I see this ALL THE TIME at work- coworkers are stressed, from pressure of presenting, and speaking in their second language, and explaining something hard, and their speech rapidly degrades. A stutterer can sometimes smooth it out-BUT

So here’s a thread about stuttering: A stutter can be worked through- but it induces a cognitive load. Speaking smoothly when you have a stutter is HARD. Non-stutterers do this too- it’s why people confuse a stutter for lying- the higher the cognitive load the more you break down

"With Covid, “fever has never been a marker for contagiousness. Honestly, if we say that, at this point, we’re just making stuff up,” said @PeoplesCDC member @larazjmd Read and share @m_scribe's great article about the @CDCGov concerning new messaging. newrepublic.com/article/179304…

ICYMI: The Atlanta City Council will consider a ban that would criminalize wearing any items that obscure the facial identity of the wearer, with a few exceptions for public health, religion, employment and holiday garb. Read more: atlpresscollective.com/2023/12/05/act…

Ok #Librarian friends - which platform are you moving to so I can continue to see the cool things you’re doing (and heart your cat photos)? #Libraries #evgils #kohails

@SproutSocial - are there plans to be reminded to include alt text when scheduling content? I’d be really interested in receiving such reminders and having an easy way to confirm it was included.

Fight for #COVID19 prevention awareness. Officials warned Ending Emergencies can lead to chaos in America’s health. Missing data, ineffective prevention tools, losing free testing/treatment will escalate the crisis. bit.ly/40A1THg SIGN petition. WRITE to your Gov’t Reps!

Thank you @sleary! #ChatOpenS

I have an enormous developer guide in the works, and we will be adding quite a bit to our resource library over the next few months!

@EquinoxOLI Any top resource we should give a shout out to here at the end? #ChatOpenS

Q5: Time has always been my biggest challenge. Now that I am devoting a lot of time to it, the trick is finding good resources. There is a lot of bad or misleading advice out there, even from otherwise great resources. #ChatOpenS

Definitely! For Evergreen, which has mostly been my focus for the last several months, I get notifications of every new bug, and I have my email filters set up to flag everything with the accessibility tag.

@EquinoxOLI Q5: time. There's so much I want to learn, just juggling it all is the challenge. #ChatOpenS

Fitting in one more - Q5: What are some of the challenges you face as an open source contributor? What would help you overcome these? #ChatOpenS