VelvetBabe

Assigned fabulous at birth. Digger of bad architecture, ill-advised travel, financial irresponsibility, all dogs, woke bearded men. Up with democracy.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Remembering those bygone days when you could turn to Twitter for fast and trustworthy information on a rapidly developing story like a catastrophic wildfire.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

A reveal in the debate about fact-checking: how little the platforms care about users who come to Facebook/X etc. for information. I get why malign or crooked people might build a business promoting floor wax as a cure for cancer. Are they the true customer? Apparently yes.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Old Twitter's mechanisms would have led me to experts on wildfires, water-policy obsessives, and brave photographers who carried their cameras to the edge of danger and beyond. Today's X wants to convince me that LA's catastrophe is all the fault of women and minorities.

[🇨🇦 Dawg 🇨🇦 @Pickerelpete01]

Oh Canada,

Our home and native land...

We have the best Prime Minister!

Thanks @SmartyrNow for the video

[Cult MTL @cultmtl]

Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway have all been named among the countries with the best quality of life. https://t.co/V2l2MhmVBF

[VelvetBabe @VelvetBabe_]

@HabibKhanT It’s gender apartheid. Plain and simple. The world was outraged and rallied against and put a stop to racial apartheid, but when victims are female, the world shrugs and does nothing at all about it. Females are nothing in the world’s eyes. Always and forever less than.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person.

My nephew Matthew, now a @Georgetown sophomore, shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. My nephew has searched online and has found nothing similar so believes it not to be a "form letter." It's a beautiful precis on how to live a life of service.

February 11, 2019

To Matthew:

Thank you for your letter. I admire your interest in serving our country and appreciate your desire to begin that service as soon as possible. No matter what the future holds, there are a few things that young people must do to ensure success: Study hard in order to excel in college and learn as much as possible about the things that particularly interest you; be tenacious in fulfilling commitments, whether to others or to yourself; volunteer your time and talents to community projects, learning all you can about the specific needs of the country or state in which you live; and treat everyone—family, friends and strangers—with honest and respect. If you do these things, I’m sure you will find satisfaction in whatever career you chose.

With best wishes,

Jimmy Carter.

[Lynn Spina @lynsys57]

👍🏻😜

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

President Carter taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from this remarkable man. https://t.co/dZHL0Nu0Tj

[VelvetBabe @VelvetBabe_]

@gotravelyourway Continually astounds and disgusts that gender apartheid gets none of the attention or concern that racial apartheid did. Where are the campus sit ins and world wide calls for divestment such as happened with So Africa??

[Josh Cahill @gotravelyourway]

In 2021, I organized Afghanistan's first all-female flight together with Kam Air. Many media outlets covered the event and the video reached millions of people but what happened to the women after the Taliban took over and where are they now?

A Thread 🧵

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

A Christmas miracle! In the early hours of Christmas Day, Sonje presented our Umani family with the most wonderful gift: her first child, a newborn baby girl. We have named her Sulwe, which means ‘morning star’ in the Luo language.

Sonje is one of Umani’s pioneering elephants. Shot by poachers as a baby, she miraculously survived but will always walk with a serious limp. But as Sonje reminds us, even the most far-gone cases have hope.

Now, Sonje has welcomed her very own baby into the world! We’re putting together the full story, but we couldn’t wait to share this wonderful news with you.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[David Bowie Glamour @DavidBowieGlam]

#BowieForever #DavidBowie

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

O Holy Night. Happy Christmas from the west of Ireland

[David Frum @davidfrum]

It's disheartening that in an age where knowledge has never been more accessible - the United States is about to be governed by an administration so primitive and ignorant as to believe that tariffs are good and that vaccines are bad.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Cecile Richards. The daughter of Texas Governor Ann Richards, she served as as the President of Planned Parenthood for over 12 years. Today, President Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

RETWEET to thank @CecileRichards for her life of service!