Best-selling author @lainitaylor (her #daughterofsmokeandbone trilogy is a must read) recommends 4 fantasy novels she's read and loved recently: https://t.co/s0nCjo1ltV
Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. https://t.co/wOvCEM8jja
@DebHaalandNM MAKES HISTORY as the first Native American to be nominated to lead @Interior and serve in a cabinet position. This is an opportunity to change the relationship the US government has with Native peoples.
Amanda. Gorman
That's it. That's the tweet.
Her poetry collection, The Hill We Climb will be released on September 21 and is available for preorder https://t.co/d5Yka5wSk8
Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas.
I am approaching this with anthropological precision.
Here are a few observations.
Beautiful words from @VanJones68 on CNN.
“It’s easier to be a dad this morning, to tell your kids that character matters. Telling the truth matters. Being a good person matters...This is vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered.”
A tense scene unfolded as supporters of President Trump and Democratic observers converged on the TCF Center in Detroit as poll workers there tried to finish counting more than 170,000 absentee ballots. https://t.co/LPW55UDXKk
Someone tonight on my social media travels had posted something along the lines of “if you live in a house that’s over 101 years old, someone, a hundred years ago, was hiding from a plague in your room, too,” and now I am haunted af.
@author_elle I am also a pantser..... Or, 'Discovery Writer', which I find more appropriate. You get a month free. Not 30 days since starting, but 30 days of activity. And compared to Microsoft, the one time price is nothing.
@author_elle I LOVE it. Wish I'd transferred over sooner! I wrote my 1st book with WORD, and am writing my 2nd with this. There's no going back. Ever. There's so much you can do within one document whereas WORD required several. The screenshot draft feature is indispensable.
At 660 pounds, it’s not an easy thing to take Bob the Alligator to the doctor. Jim, Curator of Reptiles, made the trip to @uflorida vet school with Bob to get X-rays on a leg/hip that’s been causing him some issues.
📸awesome photos @dez_muir 🙌 #GoGators#Gators
Me writing about men like bad male authors write about women
‘He charged into the room, pert testicles bouncing gaily. I saw a scar & wondered if he’d had a vasectomy. He opened his plump lips, full of promise but annoying words came out...something about a football match’
The straight line distance between Washington, D.C. and Dover, Delaware is less than 85 miles. It takes a helicopter about 40-45 minutes to make the trip. I was 19 years-old, and it was my first time riding a helicopter. I barely remember any of it. I was distracted. (thread)
A mixed-race family got their home appraised for $330k, way below the local average
For a 2nd appraisal, they removed all black family photos/culture items & had only the white dad home. The appraisal: $465k
Black-owned homes are devalued 23% on average
https://t.co/PChbtDLtDF
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