@divya among my faves and Chris Cooper's film debut!!
@mattblaze oh thank you! that's very nice to hear.
@kissane also if it's remotely helpful Jesse (the author of that Nation story) is a friend and would be happy to connect y'all for further discussion? he has stayed in organizing but ended up in actual electoral stuff, works for Tiffany Caban now
@kissane I don't remember how much Nathan Schneider acknowledged that in his book but I will endorse it solely because I made the maps
@platypus that is pretty satisfying
@dphiffer nice! how are the footnotes stored/styled in the cms?
@Wolven congratulations and also yes, time is very confusing
A follow up 🧵 on some of the most useful and powerful new features of Palestine Open Maps #PalOpenMaps relevant to #NakbaDay #Nakba #Nakba75
My previous thread can be found here https://vis.social/@bothness/110356522129732527
(Also, read on for a little treat at the end of the thread!)
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https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-20/ posting it here late but this week in sentences: lupine duel, ambient familiarity, hardening skeleton, your strongest grandmother, Texan teenage
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.
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.