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[Maia Szalavitz @maiasz]

mr. spike wants you to buy my book...

[Maia Szalavitz @maiasz]

at last!! paperback publication of Undoing Drugs releases today! please buy from your favorite bookseller https://t.co/qwnlnNWiBK

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#libraries

[(((Jay))) @SouthPhillyJays]

Is there a word for when a book is even better than expected so you read it so methodically that you're not even halfway through it when your check out time expires at the library and you end up buying it to finish?

I say we call that a Szalavitz

[Demo Kira @KiraDemo]

@GeorgiaTech plz move Masters Grad inside. U know it’s going to rain #wecandothat

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@DianaLRendina poll everywhere?

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@GenderPudding Botanical Gardens in Bronx or Brooklyn

[Tyler the ✨𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷✨ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @TylerAlbertario]

Every single ACT UP member who fought (and often died) in the late 80s/early 90s to get this class of drugs developed to treat HIV/AIDS, getting mocked & ridiculed the whole way, is now responsible for quite possibly saving all of humanity from COVID.

I'm actually gonna cry.

[Demo Kira @KiraDemo]

Librarian friends, are you using Twitter Spaces or Clubhouse for library related purposes? Please DM me.
#clubhouse #TwitterSpaces

[Maia Szalavitz @maiasz]

at last... my article on how trauma survivors are being denied pain care bc algorithms... https://t.co/N2l394fnUp

[Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 @ibdgirl76]

“There is just no correlation whatsoever between the likelihood of being said to be high risk by the algorithm and the reduction in the probability of developing opioid use disorder,” Kilby explains. In other words, the algorithm essentially cannot do what it claims to do.”

[Demo Kira @KiraDemo]

@maiasz Jett’s ready to read. Look at those little feets and go buy the book. #harmreduction #undoingdrugs

[Maia Szalavitz @maiasz]

“Thanks again to the Wall Street Journal and @slatel for this fantastic review. Can’t wait to share Undoing Drugs with the world on July 27th. Preorder from wherever you buy your books!”

https://t.co/k6Ft0OY9bt

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@MagpieLibrarian Exercised by Daniel Lieberman or Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

[Ryan Henyard @rhenyard]

One ring to track them all,
One ring to find them
One ring to serve them ads
And in the data bind them

[F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco]

god I wish my neighbor was totoro

[Demo Kira @KiraDemo]

@maiasz That sibling experience!

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@maiasz https://t.co/BE8NeJ8sDb

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RT @Gizmodo: Censoring Jon Hamm's penis doesn't violate copyright law, federal judge rules https://t.co/yOooreyiD2 https://t.co/9LmGvOEbBy OMG can’t wait for the next copyright workshop!

[NASA Internships @NASAInterns]

#NASAinterns across the country tuned in today for #LaunchAmerica! 🚀🌎🇺🇸

Stay up to date with @NASA's @SpaceX Demo-2 Mission: https://t.co/Gvl0nkHvkV