Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Try to make sense of this. Try! 🤣 It's not possible...
It is surreal but clarifying. This is how colonialism works.
The fiscal "oversight" board has by default absolute powers. How so? Because it is for some purposes "sovereign" 😂 as part of Puerto Rico. But c'mon now...We all know that Puerto Rico is not sovereign. So the board is in reality accountable to the US Congress alone.
@anarchosynthism@mastodon.social they already have a website but I unfortunately can see this being mistaken for the organizing body for NYC's Alcoholics Anonymous groups
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Today is #MEAwarenessDay - the public needs to learn about the millions of people missing from society, unable to work and life their lives due to this often debilitating illness. For me, Covid triggered ME, in addition to other conditions.
Places I am often or always missing from: community and cultural events, volunteering in the community, restaurants and bars, 20 hours of my working life, parties, travel, the allotment, the outdoors.
With this illness there is a spectrum. I have mild ME, as I am still able to leave the house and do some activity if I pace myself. For example, I worked and had to travel yesterday and today and tomorrow I am on the sofa at home.
But people with severe ME are bedbound and cannot tolerate any stimulus at all (light, sound, touch) and many are fed through tubes. We need help and treatments for them urgently. For decades not enough money was invested in research. This is starting to change but we need to pressure governments for more.
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papacy, papa do
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I saw a mysterious fiducial marker in the sidewalk near a ridge top in North Seattle and I immediately thought of @ingrid and the visible marks of mostly invisible systems of civic technology.
I think it says "terrane control" and is perhaps about surveying hillslope slippage.
my flight response is kicking in and instead of working on grant applications I'm looking at job postings, maybe I just want to do a normal job for a while instead of writing a book and taking qualifying exams
@mtigas congratulations Mike!
"Why are the world’s richest people obsessed with preparing for the apocalypse? Because they’re edging us all toward it. It’s as if, Rushkoff writes, they’re trying to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust." https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
I know NPR is pretty terrible but I still feel such a sense of comfort when I hear the "All Things Considered" theme song, it is a sound of childhood
health insurance wtf
@TeamMidwest ugh how annoying!
@t36s yeah, and I think education will be the worse off for it!
it is wild to me that universities are out here demanding their adjuncts have PhDs
@tmcw highly recommend Pacific Arc stainless steel rulers
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@PaulGrahamRaven mid-throat, snowy white, immaculately maintained
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you know that the class is going to be absolutely fucking brutal when the teacher is a 70 year old Brazilian man named Edgar
got an email from a producer working on a documentary about Occupy Wall Street and once again I feel about ten thousand years old
Ingrid Burrington
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Just reminding you from Nottingham that Robin Hood was madey uppey but the Luddites were real 🔨💥
And it wasn’t the Sheriff of Nottingham who tried to stop them. They sent army units (failure), then hired spy cops and made smashing a frame punishable by death. Lord Byron made his maiden speech in Parliament in opposition to the death penalty for Luddites. You can still see the hole where they installed the gallows to hang Luddites here.
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We’re trying to get to $1000 donated on Bluesky and we’re at $510. Can the Mastodon community beat them? Let me know what you send and I’ll keep track!
with my start - $50/1000
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@phil the other day someone asked the instructor if we could do boat post AND dolphin, on a Saturday?? I mean OK go off sociopath
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If I hear a yoga teacher use the word "abs" I know we're in trouble
"core" is not great either but we'll allow it
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