@laurenzcollins I’m not sure what sort of angle you’re looking for, but How to Love Animals by Henry Mance makes a very strong case for not eating animals. (After reading it, I am now vegetarian-trying-my-best-to-eat-vegan).
On the new IPCC climate report just this: Hope is power and relevance. Journalistic cynicism (‚it’s too late’, ‚it can’t be done’, ‚why us?‘) is a form of obedience.
See also this from @AlexSteffen:
And Lucy Kellaway's Re-educated is brillant, clever and funny--I devoured it in 24 hours and wish I had more time in her company. https://t.co/nzp6zWCHcb
"How to Love Animals" is a brilliant, funny and compelling book that I am recommending to everyone I know. "What really threatens animals today is not cruelty, so much as thoughtlessness." https://t.co/izOFNKwMMp
This podcast on writing is wonderful. I'm steadily making my way through it and finding it so interesting and inspiring. Each episode is an interview with a writer - the likes of Lucy Prebble, John Lanchester and Curtis Sittenfeld. https://t.co/PMSAf9KynH Thank you @hattiehattie!
@rachelcoldicutt I find it very strange / funny to hear my children use the phrase “on a call” fluently (as in, “were you on a call?’). Like they shouldn’t know what it means, but they do.
"... when I opened the file called 'quarantine' I found it to be 158 words long and full of cryptic particles: 'Masque of the Red Death. Statue of Pericles. Tigers.' Fine, whatever... "
https://t.co/A5pG6IA1nL
Colleagues in HCI/CSCW, if you're taking time today to broaden your reading to better credit the work of remarkable Black scholars, you are in luck. There is a wealth of wonderful reading to do. Here are just a few examples of stellar work by exemplary intellectuals in our field: