Gaby 🦆

Sr. Product Manager @ExpediaGroup Maps, @SeattleAquarium volunteer alum, @UWFosterSchool MBA, moderate nerd. She/her. I like birds.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

you need to be hobbit-maxxing. you should be eating big breakfasts and making dramatic exits from parties. you need to be growing potatoes and drinking ale. you need to be smoking with wizards

[Peter @Peter_M_V]

Please God no

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Richard Scarry

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

an underrated moment in Jane Eyre is when a preacher asks the young Jane how she intends to avoid going to hell, and she replies, “I must keep in good health, and not die.”

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

Every time you leave dog poop on the trail, you're denying trash cans essential nutrients to fatten up for winter. Heartbreaking.

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

Leslie Jordan had a scene in “Will & Grace” where Karen walks into a bar. Leslie turns around, looks at her and says “I thought I smelled gin and regret.” And I laugh every time I think about it. WE GRIEVE A GODDAMNED LEGEND.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

If you show frustration or anger through: sighing, giving the silent treatment, or making sarcastic comments—this is a passive aggressive communication style.

You might say “I’m fine” when asked if you’re upset.

Here’s why 🧵:

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Someone said, “What are we supposed to do…recycle the same outfit for years?”

And that’s the truly the fundamental disconnect because I’m like, “Yes! You should wear stuff for years!”

[Amelia Brown @ameliabrowntale]

Honestly, it's just safer to stay home and dance with the ghost in the attic.

#art by Marhey Talavera

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Benjamin Lacombe

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Restaurant order preferences in Africa

[Samantha Bee @realsambee]

If Kavanaugh doesn't like the way people in his state are gathering outside his house, maybe he can just take off work and drive hundreds of miles to a different state.

[Gaby 🦆 @CompassRosa]

Amateurs to the rescue – Politicians should take citizens’ assemblies seriously https://t.co/Et0mkGWVWI

[Katie Hill @KatieHill4CA]

Birth control pills are one of the only treatments for certain health conditions, like endometriosis, which affects 1 in 10 women.

Nothing to do with contraception. Just with health, & preventing unimaginable pain.

Clearly, people still just don’t give a shit about women.

[Field Museum @FieldMuseum]

The sound of @shedd_aquarium penguin feet is the joy you didn't know you needed. 🔈🐧

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/

[Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites]

Good morning. I, & others like me, lost our right to healthcare last night.

“Under the new rule, a transgender person could, for example, be refused care for a checkup at a doctor's office....”

https://t.co/1FFUtZ32CQ

[Anita Sarkeesian ✨ NEW SHOW OUT NOW @anitasarkeesian]

For folks who are new to demands to defund the police and the concept of prison abolition please check out Mariame Kaba’s (@prisonculture) thoughtful explanation of what an alternative society could look like https://t.co/a5JGX0IohU

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Free coffee isn’t what makes a big difference in retention. Inclusion is one big thing that does. https://t.co/2x1ob5eHCv