Melinda Tillitski

Believer in the power of kindness. Ever-curious. Observer of life’s smallest wonders.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

On Colbert last week I mentioned my 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Mueller, who after reading a poem I wrote, told me I could be a writer when I grew up. I never forgot those words. So what an utter delight when I looked up from the signing table in New Orleans and saw Ms. Mueller there!

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

I’ve been doing this work for nearly 11 years and today was the first time I cried because I can feel a shift in the zeitgeist in America against gun extremism. It’s happening.…

[Melinda Tillitski @mtillitski]

Every time I expressed frustration today, I got advice back in return. And I started thinking about how annoying it is that all my friends feel compelled to meet my complaints with advice. And then I realized I probably do the same to my kids.

[Kevin Baron @DefenseBaron]

Proof Elon Musk is pushing his agenda? @NPR gets labeled “state-affiliated media” which is bogus. @starsandstripes, which is actually owned by the US government, is ignored.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Wow, way to make this label meaningless. NPR is absolutely not even comparable to propaganda outlets like RT & Sputnik, which have no editorial independence. This is ridiculous and only helps actual propaganda outlets blend in with legitimate news outlets.

[Melinda Tillitski @mtillitski]

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

—D.W. Winnicott

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Welp. The URL for Twitter's "Resources for Researchers" (info about using the API to retrieve data for research) is now returning a page that says "Nothing to see here."

On the Left, you can see what it looked like previously, before Musk dismantled API access for researchers.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

I’ve been thinking about the difference between courage and strength.

Years before my mother died, we had a conversation in which we realized some of our frustration with each other resulted from the fact that she was strong but not courageous and I am courageous but not strong.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

There were armed guards at Columbine, at Parkland, and at countless other schools that have suffered deadly shootings. One study published in JAMA looked at 134 school shootings and found that the presence of armed guards increased deaths by 2.83x. https://t.co/1H6XeKbqCA

[Melinda Tillitski @mtillitski]

Don’t be silent if you care

[Catapult @CatapultStory]

“I would also love it if readers walked away from my book with a greater sense of self-love and forgiveness, especially those who have struggled with shame.”

@voguemagazine interviews @mcrane_12, author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF
https://t.co/Xeq0o3JeOT

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I did a talk at the University of Montana tonight and at the end the moderator asked everyone in the room who had benefitted from Crash Course to stand up and like 80% of the people stood up and I cried like a big doob.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Randal Reid was driving his car in Atlanta when he was pulled over and arrested for a crime he did not commit in Louisiana, a state he had never visited. He spent six days in jail because police misidentified him with AI facial recognition technology. https://t.co/b5raAG5AgR

[Melinda Tillitski @mtillitski]

@deray I’m curious, how this was eventually resolved?

[Little Free Library® @LtlFreeLibrary]

Does your community need books? We're giving Little Free Libraries where they're needed most! Learn more about our strategic plan and our goal to put book-sharing boxes in book deserts. https://t.co/ydpQu8wYvy

[ChapelThrill24 @GrahamBunn]

This would be a nice get!! 🙌

[Allegra Hyde @allegra_hyde]

For @lithub I wrote a Grand Unified Theory of "Exit Strategies" for fiction, with examples from works by @blgtylr @charles_yu @LydiaConklin @MargaretAtwood @Rumaan @Morgan_J_Talty and others

And because I'm extra, the essay has three different endings 😈

https://t.co/ZqLPFkm6rb

[Melinda Tillitski @mtillitski]

Oh the gentle goodbye of the “notifications silenced”

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903 https://t.co/IoE6H6OG8g

[WIRED @WIRED]

Honey bees, although a valuable domesticated animal, are not remotely threatened with extinction. The real concern lies with 3,999 other bee species in North America, where incredible losses in native bee diversity are already happening. (From 2015) https://t.co/U8Llps36c8