In my opinion, this plot represents one of the MOST important facts about American society today. The white population has a huge extra hump of older people that other demographics don't have.

Everyone who has been involved with an NGO (or for some reason aspires to work with an NGO 😅) needs to read Meron Hadero’s fantastic short story static1.squarespace.com/static/565c3d3…

Another day begins in Kabul, a sea of people rushing into the Kabul airport terminal. #AFG

A couple drivers on the Great Highway decided to threaten me with their cars after I peeled off from the peaceful protest to pick up my kid from school

"Women’s shoes — abandoned in the urgency — littered the roads". ft.com/content/036d71…

damn, that shit was supposed to go to small town police departments

The first hate crime casualty after 9/11 was a Sikh named Balbir Singh Sodhi, murdered by a man who thought Balbir was Muslim On The Daily Show, Hasan Minhaj asked, “Why don't you just go “Hey—I'm not Muslim.” This was my response. I hope you’ll join us.

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i’ve not known peace since learning about the time a children’s choir went on French tv in full Serge Gainsbourg drag and sang a moving rendition of “suis venu te dire que je m'en vais,” moving Gainsbourg himself to tears youtu.be/g6zgLL3yFno

Your friendly reminder that Nobel peace prize winner and white revisionist history darling FW De Klerk literally burned so many state documents to hide the crimes of his government that they had to use the Iscor smelter in Pretoria. Yes. A steel plant furnace.

Ugh. I hope someday the US starts taking seriously its relationships with African countries.

Heard bonkers story about a war between dogs and monkeys in India on the BBC this morning. Started when a dog killed a baby monkey, and the town's monkeys rounded up 250 street dogs, dropping them to their death from trees and buildings. meaww.com/horrifying-mon… #PlanetoftheApes

One takeaway from this map: most of the “rural” focused startups in E Africa depend on a population density that does not exist elsewhere on the continent.

What’s the difference between racism in South Africa and racism in America? It comes down to directness. #BetweenTheScenes

Finally an article on the situation in San Francisco that doesn’t rely on wild assumptions regarding the efficacy of incarceration or undue deference to the police sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

"vote" is democrats version of thoughts and prayers

the future

Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8

Thinking about Bourdain's reaction when someone toasted to the Queen

An example of architecture from every single country in the world, in alphabetical order. Starting with Afghanistan's Minaret of Jam. 1/196