https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-92/ 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
"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
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
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-91/ this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt
Philadelphia nerds and some subset of fedi nerds: Anna Tsing (!!) is giving a lecture at Penn tonight (!!) that will also be live streamed (!!) and is about a new body of work she's doing on CONCRETE (!!!!!!!)
"Mr. Lochridge, an experienced submersible pilot from Scotland, said he tried to calm his boss down and asked him to hand over the PlayStation controller that was used to pilot the vessel." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/titan-submersible-coast-guard-hearing.html
There was a little blue eyed cat meowing plaintively at the top of a stoop on my walk home like he really wanted to get into the building. No one answered the front door so I tried the basement entrance and the lady who came to the door was so relieved--she couldn't hear him downstairs--and took him inside. He immediately chilled out in her arms.
Just a wholesome little neighborly encounter, idk wanted to share