“The internet is governed by incentives that make it impossible to be a full person while interacting with it.” - Jia Tolentino

Best advice my grandad ever gave me: 'Tradition' is just peer pressure from dead people

Native Americans protesting Trump border wall tear gassed, arrested by US agents on Indigenous Peoples' Day || By: Kenny Stancil nationofchange.org/2020/10/14/nat…

Ahem.

MLK also believed in guaranteed income, housing, and universal healthcare. If your congress person or senator is tweeting MLK’s quotes ask them what they are going to do to bring those ideals to life. Because we need that right now more than ever.

“We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.” -Marian Wright Edelman

TIL - search “captions vs ASL” to learn too!

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Jesus fucking Christ. What a prick/absolute loser this man is.

A horrible truth we're regularly confronted with: How expensive it is to be poor in America. A dirty secret we rarely discuss: How cheap it is to be rich in America. A thread... 🧵

. PlateJoy - work from home means delicata squash tacos with black beans for lunch instead! (Loving the recipes!)

So it’s an actual Santa shortage. They said over 300 people who played Santa died in the last year. You don’t pay attention to how many people died from covid till you read stuff like that

We invite you to read more about our decision, how we plan to implement it, and to join us in our efforts to use language in a way that expands, rather than reduces, human possibility. Read “Artifice and Intelligence” by Emily Tucker: medium.com/center-on-priv…

every quarter i give my students an extra credit assignment to make a meme about something we covered in class. this quarter i taught US History from approx 1815-1920(ish), and the kids had some spicy takes (thread of memes)

I mined Reddit comments to measure the frequency of different insulting compound words. Full deep dive here: colinmorris.github.io/blog/compound-…