Linda Carson grew up in the air force, studied CS, and came out okay. She/her (cis) or they/them Lecturer, U of Waterloo. Passed away 2021... see pinned tweet.
If you follow Linda here, you may already have heard that she passed away this week. Linda touched so many, in so many realms, and will be sadly missed. For information about Linda's life, her livestreamed memorial, and the awards founded in her name: https://t.co/pCPW3l40gi
@wophugus @YadLladnek @Zoot_Sanchez @FrostiestDog William Goldman, Craft of the Screenwriter: "One of the reasons cameramen have much better lives than writers is because nobody says to a cameraman, "I'll fix the lighting," because nobody knows how to do it. But everybody knows words."
God: you’re a spider.
Spider: what does that mean?
God: well you can climb, jump, and shoot webs.
Spider: like Spider-Man?
God: no that's-
Spider: i'm gonna protect my neighborhood so hard : )
God:
Spider: [determined whisper] with great power comes great responsibility.
My mother, bringing a colourful arrangement of gerbera daisies in from the front door: "Cate strikes again!"
She hadn't even checked the card, @catehstn 😂💐
CW: Bad news
As if 2020 wasn’t already The Year of Big Suck, last summer I was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is that thing you were dumping buckets of ice over your heads for a few summers ago.
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Just discovered @reetamac’s excellent piece for BuzzFeed which I will now forward to every colleague who I meet on Teams who registers confusion when I say I’m a biracial person who identifies as Black. https://t.co/fvw2dguuMu