Although this article came out last year, it seems particularly relevant at the moment. The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic https://t.co/sn5Co0HNYZ
Find your way to a body of water. Along the way, or by the water, pick up a stone. Clutch it your hand, & pour your anger into it; let it grow warm from the heat of your heart. Weep, if you need to.
Then throw the stone into the water as far as you can, exhale, & go home.
Spanish poet and playwright Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca, was abducted and murdered on August 19, 1936, just outside Granada, Spain. He was 38 years old at the time of his #death and his body has never been found.
The Twitter debacle is at least partly explained by Karl Popper's 'Clouds and Clocks' theory. I wish it was more widely understood, so here's more.
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If you leave Twitter, I recommmend you DO NOT delete your account.
All old tweets @ mentioning you will still exist and if someone grabs that now available username then all tweets @ referencing that username now point to them.
Nichelle Nichols was born Grace Dell Nichols on December 28, 1932, and #died earlier this year on July 30, 2022. She is best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek...
Why do some people say “aks” instead of “ask”?
It’s not “just their accent” and it sure as hell isn’t a mispronunciation.
There’s a linguistic reason and a cultural reason. Let’s quickly look at both:
"Fictionalizing someone else’s story is already a fraught endeavor. When that story is also an immigrant story—congratulations, you’ve made a fraught sandwich." @ruthmadievsky on the ethics of fictionalizing immigrant narratives and inherited trauma: https://t.co/YsPrUmNKm3
Last weekend, I went to Michael Flynn's ReAwaken America conference and discovered that Qanoners had revived George magazine. For some reason I took it personally. https://t.co/Ypgu5oewVU via @MotherJones