Alexandria Symonds
@asymonds.bsky.social
i'm tired!!!!! and i edit graphics stories for the new york times
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Alexandria Symonds
@asymonds.bsky.social
· Sep 12
the cut from "once in a lifetime" to "genius of love" in stop making sense was the original barbenheimer. i trust i do not need to elaborate
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I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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New: I wrote about the shortage of men in the child care industry—and what it would take to change that.
I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face
vox.com/child-care/4...
I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face
vox.com/child-care/4...
A solution to the child care shortage is hiding in plain sight
“Looking only at one half of the population is a mistake.”
vox.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New: I wrote about the shortage of men in the child care industry—and what it would take to change that.
I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face
vox.com/child-care/4...
I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face
vox.com/child-care/4...
with aid increasingly difficult and dangerous to obtain, some basic items are available to buy in gaza, but at unfathomably expensive prices. a bag of flour that cost $10 before the war is $300 now; a pack of diapers that would cost $5 in the u.s. is $150 in gaza. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
with aid increasingly difficult and dangerous to obtain, some basic items are available to buy in gaza, but at unfathomably expensive prices. a bag of flour that cost $10 before the war is $300 now; a pack of diapers that would cost $5 in the u.s. is $150 in gaza. (gift link)
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Reuters reported the "ward is silent as hungry children are too exhausted to cry," and a doctor said of a baby who did not gain a gram in three months, "there is a total loss of muscles. It's only skin on top of bones."
"Reuters journalists spent five days in Nasser Medical Complex, one of only four centres left in Gaza able to treat the most dangerously hungry children. While Reuters was there, 53 cases of acutely malnourished children were admitted, [per] the head of the ward." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child’s arm is as wide as mother’s thumb
Over the last week, Reuters journalists spent five days in Nasser Medical Complex, one of only four centres left in Gaza able to treat the most dangerously hungry children.
www.reuters.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Reuters reported the "ward is silent as hungry children are too exhausted to cry," and a doctor said of a baby who did not gain a gram in three months, "there is a total loss of muscles. It's only skin on top of bones."
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Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. “I am speaking to you as a health official, but I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. “I am speaking to you as a health official, but I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
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Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump and MAGA Fans Are Talking About the Epstein Case (Gift Article)
Their actions range from pressuring the administration to release more information to spinning additional conspiracy theories about the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Wide Leg Jean is an example of something that can be nice to buy, but not so nice to have as a nickname
June 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wide Leg Jean is an example of something that can be nice to buy, but not so nice to have as a nickname
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“Desire paths” are unofficial trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route to get somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating the secondary path
Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...
Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...
June 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Desire paths” are unofficial trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route to get somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating the secondary path
Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...
Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...
the jenny slate doppelganger doing asl translation for the mayoral debate is so wonderfully expressive
June 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
the jenny slate doppelganger doing asl translation for the mayoral debate is so wonderfully expressive
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The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
May 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
"like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, 'it's cool, he's with me'"
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, 'it's cool, he's with me'"
overheard through the door of my kids' room this morning —
2-year-old: all done music?
husband: but this song is so important!
brandon flowers: I NEVERRRRRR
2-year-old: all done music?
husband: but this song is so important!
brandon flowers: I NEVERRRRRR
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
overheard through the door of my kids' room this morning —
2-year-old: all done music?
husband: but this song is so important!
brandon flowers: I NEVERRRRRR
2-year-old: all done music?
husband: but this song is so important!
brandon flowers: I NEVERRRRRR
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restaurants should have a menu option called “the rat” that lets you scurry around and eat leftovers ppl wont finish. the waiter could ask guests if they’d like a box or if they’d like to send it “to the rat”
May 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
restaurants should have a menu option called “the rat” that lets you scurry around and eat leftovers ppl wont finish. the waiter could ask guests if they’d like a box or if they’d like to send it “to the rat”
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Policy changes often take years to show results.
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect (Gift Article)
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Policy changes often take years to show results.
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
very fun story by @ezwrites.bsky.social but as a parent of twin actors i am duty-bound to oppose this practice www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/m...
Doubling Up: How ‘Sinners’ and Other Movies Multiply One Actor
From camera tricks to digital facial replacement, a history of duplicating effects.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
very fun story by @ezwrites.bsky.social but as a parent of twin actors i am duty-bound to oppose this practice www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/m...