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Last night a friend visiting from out of town casually mentioned some mutual friends had told her they were concerned that I've been isolating and that I'm not okay

And I mean, obviously, but it kind of stinks to learn that everyone can see

Western outlets doing everything possible to avoid saying that #Israel is invading my country #Lebanon. This is nothing less than complicity.

@vruba @jenlowe love to see manufacturing of consent for the borders of my partner's home country getting unilaterally redrawn!! normal times over here

@jenlowe the neighborhood Ramsey's grandma lives in got hit by an air strike last night (she's ok)

Extremely tense and anxious about what's going down in Lebanon and how much worse it might get

Word on the storm impact from Helene in west North Carolina is that Internet just doesn't exist there. Every fiber path impacted, miles of fiber path gone, access roads to even start damage assessment are no longer there.

Network Engineers are saying days of work to get satellite trailers and basic e911 service restored. Weeks of work for Internet connectivity that even resembles normal.

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: like a piano, instanbul, horrible ruthless love, too crazy and alive, Or worse: Western scientists, the only system, that fragile boundary, at odds with the palace

aw my advisor said I can't lovingly refer to David Harvey as the beloved Marxist grandpa of geography in this cover letter

"My #editors ask what the features are used for. A variety of purposes, I say, thinking carefully — hunting, storage, cooking. I’m leaving information out...

Write one too-specific #article, & #tribal historic preservation officers might find themselves fighting off #NewAge gatherings of non-Natives appropriating #Indigenous #worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropological “research.”"
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/indigenous-community-cultural-coverage-journalism

#History #Culture #News #Press

Navajo uranium mine survivors demand action on stalled compensation program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/092624_reca_rally/navajo-uranium-mine-survivors-demand-action-stalled-compensation-program/
People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied at the U.S. Capitol – along with tribal leaders – to demand action on a stalled compensation program.
#Tucson #Arizona

@aoife tonight the haters eat like kings at the table of success

God I love living in New York when we all come together to hate the mayor

Just saw an Italian grandpa in my neighborhood in a brat baseball cap

working on this episode of RIP Corp is fucking up my blood pressure so bad

got in an argument with someone about degrowth where I said that living in an era of widening wealth inequality is basically de facto degrowth via a downwardly mobile middle class, why not just degrow billionaires instead

Currently wondering around Bethnal Green with this lovely hammer to return.

It was used in the 90s by a group of women to disarm (by smashing) an Indonesian Hawk bound for East Timor. They spent 6 months in prison before they were eventually acquitted. Their defence rested on the fact their action prevented murder. https://caat.org.uk/news/21-years-on-solidarity-with-the-disarmers/

#caat @histodons #history #nuclear #peace #disarmament

Another year another round of social justice and technology fellowships awarded to a cohort with a significant number of people in tenure track jobs who really don't need the money

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt

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This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.