@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.
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.
@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/
health insurance wtf
@TeamMidwest ugh how annoying!