I almost have 10K followers & I promise I'm going to use this platform to create community & relieve some of the stigma around addiction & mental illness shame is so destructive—& it breeds in silence. I believe w all my heart that being open & vulnerable creates better worlds

If you’re in the US, chances are no mainstream media outlet in your area has told you South Africa is at the World Court suing Israel for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention with its current campaign of genocide and mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza. Some key notes ⬇️

can academics who've finished a book please offer some encouragement or advice? I just don't know that I have what it takes to finish & I need the book for tenure. I read what I have & I just don't think it's good or important & the work it'd take to get there feels unmanageable.

can you imagine having an IVF appointment you saved up for & anticipated cancelled because of this? just so cruel.

has anyone set up their own writing retreat for themselves? like a few days away somewhere. I feel like if I could just get somewhere & focus solely on the book I could get this done. if you did, was it worth it?

🚨UPDATE: Hear the chants of over 1000 of Columbia University/Barnard students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates as they call for disclosure and divestment of CU funding of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians. They are also calling for amnesty for all students and faculty

Have seen two tweets in the past 5 minutes about people testing COVID positive from the DNC. DNC folks, even if you haven't tested positive (yet), please be masking in general, but especially the next few weeks. Pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission are real.

something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails

I will beat this drum until my hands bleed: the treatment that could have saved your child’s life during the next pandemic will not be made because cranks who believe vaccines are a soros plot to implant microchips will be in charge of the CDC and FDA if Republicans win.

are any of my followers really close to their parents & felt they did a good job? what made it so? I just want to make sure I do a good job for my daughter.

Rumeysa Ozturk. Say her name.