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Ellen Pao
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Tinu Abayomi-Paul was a key contributor to my understanding of the disabled community and ableism in the workplace. Please join me in honoring her legacy and work.
The key to making life better for disabled people is for us not to be just talking among ourselves. They’re going to hit everyone at some point. Anybody can be disabled at any time and some of the issues that they bring apply to all of us. When things happen to us then they spread out to other areas. TINU ABAYOMI-PAUL
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Apologies if I didn't respond to your email. I've been busy...
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May 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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He was a visionary in so many ways. From wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_H...
Pop Shop: 1986 In April 1986, Pop Shop opened in Soho, selling shirts, posters, and other items showing Haring's work. This made Haring's work readily accessible to purchase at reasonable prices. Having achieved what he wanted, which was "getting the work out to the public at large," Haring completely stopped drawing in the subways. He also stopped because people were taking the subway drawings and selling them. Some criticized Haring for commercializing his work. Asked about this, Haring said, "I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price. My shop is an extension of what I was doing in the subway stations, breaking down the barriers between high and low art." The Pop Shop remained open after Haring's death until 2005, with profits benefiting the Keith Haring Foundation. The Pop Shop was not Haring's only effort to make his work widely accessible. Throughout his career, Haring made art in subways and on billboards. His attempts to make his work relatable can also be seen in his figures' lack of discernable ages, races, or identities. By the arrival of Pop Shop, his work had begun reflecting more socio-political themes, such as anti-Apartheid, AIDS awareness, and the crack cocaine epidemic. Final years and death: 1987–1990 From 1982 to 1989, Haring was featured in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions and produced more than 50 public artworks in dozens of charities, hospitals, day care centers, and orphanages. Haring was openly gay and used his work to advocate for safe sex. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and AIDS in the autumn of 1988. He used his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his illness and to generate activism and awareness about AIDS.
May 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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These days it helps to look for the beacons of light and the helpers. Keith Haring's art has so much joy and impact, even during the dark 1980s in NYC. I found out he has a stamp so I bought 4 sheets. (I wish it had his signature so everyone would learn more about him)
Photo of a page of 20 stamps with Keith Haring's Untitled, 1985 drawing of two figures dancing while holding up a radiating heart
May 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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They already chose to overlook his murder of a journalist in 2020 when he did his American tour. And he's just an all around bad guy to everyone. TIL he was responsible for the Jeff Bezos dick pics
Of course, bin Salman and the brutal monarchy that rules Saudi Arabia were never modernizers. The crown prince’s laundry list of human rights abuses and atrocities include crackdowns on dissent, a brutal military intervention in Yemen, and the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist in exile, Jamal Khashoggi, in October 2018. On Wednesday, United Nations investigators accused bin Salman of personally sending a video file infected with phone-hijacking malware to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over WhatsApp in May 2018. That could explain how the National Enquirer came in possession of embarrassing sexts and dick pics around the time of Bezos’s divorce last year. From Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/all-these-extremely-powerful-people-may-want-to-double-1841167453
May 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Waiting for the NYT to report on Hegseth's plagiarism with the same zeal as it pursued Claudine Gay. It's been 7 hours since The Daily Princetonian article, what're you doing?
Google search of NYT hegseth plagiarism with links to 0 NYT articles, one article in The Daily Princetonian from 7 hours ago Google search results for NYT Claudine Gay Plagiarism with links to 4 NYT articles Google search results for NYT Claudine Gay Plagiarism with links to 4 more NYT articles
May 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Warren Buffett spoke at my school and gave this piece of wisdom that I think about often. It's lucky to be lucky, and it's even luckier to recognize how lucky you are.
He told the audience to imagine a barrel with roughly 5.8 billions of balls — one for everybody in the world. Each ball will determine important factors (e.g., your birthplace, IQ level, gender, ethnicity, skills, parents) in your “new life.” “If you could put your ball back into the barrel, and they took out 100 balls at random — and you had to from pick one of those, would you put your ball back in?” he asked. In addition to not knowing which ball you’ll get, there’s another catch: “Of those 100 balls, five of them will be American. So if you want to be in this country, you’ll only have five balls to choose from,” Buffett explained. “Half of them will be women and half men. Half of them will be below average in intelligence and half above average in intelligence.” He asked the students again: Do you still want to risk taking a second shot at life? “Most of you won’t want to put your ball back,” he said. “So what you’re really saying is, ’I’m the luckiest 1% of the world right now, sitting in this room — the top 1% of the world.”
May 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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or the 10 front page articles on her emails! including the lede article! www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...
photo of front page of TNYT from October 29, 2016 with front page article on right 2 columns: "NEW EMAILS JOLT CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN RACE'S LAST DAYS" with photo of Hillary Clinton taking up first three columns
April 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Is this the first time the NYT has used "lies" in a headline about what's been going on? What do you think it is: Even a broken clock or too little too late?
Screenshot from the New York Times with headline "In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change" And subhead: "Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change."
February 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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To the founder of 8chan
Brennan hopes they don’t come back. He hopes that Gab is brought down, that 8chan is removed from the Internet, that the genie is put back in the bottle. “That would be beneficial to society,” he said. It’s a stark reversal from his views as the outspoken and aggressive defender of 8chan when he led the site from provider to provider, as tech companies dropped him one by one. Fredrick Brennan is the founder of 8chan, a message board that has been linked to hate speech, white supremacy, and nationalism. In 2019, six years after the message board’s founding, a user of the site carried out a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, and posted his manifesto to 8chan. It was subsequently linked to several other shootings. Brennan disavowed his creation in the press, and has continued to advocate for action to be taken against image boards like Kiwi Farms and the site he founded. Now 28 years old, he is a software developer.
January 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It seems like every other person who has run a social media company has learned otherwise the hard way. From Ev Williams after Twitter. (full article is worth a read: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/t...)
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Mr. Williams says. “I was wrong about that.”
January 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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SF is still one of the best cities in the world
Photo of van perched on post about 15 feet in the air. On the side of the van is painted the words "San Francisco All Are Welcome" in green all caps, reverse italics lettering with shadow. The car is painted with green and blue stripes, and its hubcaps are purple.
December 23, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Also a reminder that Wembe is barely out of his teens
Close up of Wembe's face looking bored and annoyed.
November 25, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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I learned that connection is healing from Stanford Prof. Leanne Williams, PhD, who explained: “Contact and that positive reward calms down the stress hormones and boosts the positive reaction to the brain. And makes you feel literally that connection to someone and that someone has your back.”
Text box: Professor Leanne Williams, PhD, of Stanford’s Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness, explained why most people are experiencing this increased anxiety. “It’s almost like everyone going through the pandemic is more likely to have like, by definition, one of the stresses that causes anxiety, and extra load, as a result, on their brain function. And it’s the same brain function you need to plan and for executive function. So we’re in the ideal situation to make planning really hard, and the output of that is anxiety, problems concentrating, and brain fog.” She added that in remote work, we also don’t have a lot of outlets for releasing anxiety. “It’s made even harder, because we can’t just walk around and say hello to someone. Contact and that positive reward calms down the stress hormones and boosts the positive reaction to the brain. And makes you feel literally that connection to someone and that someone has your back.”
November 12, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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Bad parking is an epidemic everywhere
White Dodge Charger parked over the line by 2-3 feet and with the front wheel over the curb and fully onto the grass.
February 9, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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College papers continue to raise the bar for reporting on important issues
Daily Tar Heel front page: AREYOUSAFE?WHEREAREYOU?ARE YOU ALONE? GUYS I’M SO FUCKING SCARED. HEY- COME ON SWEETHEART- I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ANY GUNSHOTS? PLEASE STAY SAFE. BARRICADE THE DOOR OR IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AND GET TO A PLACE THAT CAN LOCK DO SO. MY TEACHER IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING AND I’M LOWKEY FREAKING OUT. I WISH THESE NEVER HAPPENED. STAY CALM AND SAFE - WE LOVE YOU. I AM SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING. I LOVE YOU. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? MULTIPLE VOICES AND LOUD BANGING. I’M IN CLASS EVERYONE IS LOSING IT PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY SHAKING. STILL GOING ON AND COMING CLOSER, HOPING IT’S COPS. I’M GONNA FUCKING THROW UP. KINDA WISH I HAD SOMEONE ELSE HERE THOUGH. PLEASE PRAY FOR US. PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED OR FORTIFIED. LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH. ARE YOU HOME? SOMEONE IS ALREADY SHOT. IT’S ALSO SCARY HOW UNPREPARED OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF WERE FOR THAT. I’M LISTENING ON THE SCANNER. I HAVEN’T HEARD ANYTHING YET. I
August 30, 2023 at 4:53 AM
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I had the pleasure of meeting a dog at the Marin Country Mart yesterday, and now you can, too. Meet... Bob Ross!
Roan Lagotto wearing a red harness with tongue sticking out
August 21, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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They finally opened the remodeled Apple Store in downtown SF, and apparently it was all to bring back Clippy
August 18, 2023 at 8:50 PM
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Tech billionaires love racism because it helps them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/opinion/richard-hanania-eugenics-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A whole coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires have lent their time and attention to Hanania, as well as elevated his work. Marc Andreessen, a powerful venture capitalist, appeared on his podcast. David Sacks, a close associate of Elon Musk, wrote a glowing endorsement of Hanania’s forthcoming book. So did Peter Thiel, the billionaire supporter of right-wing causes and organizations. “D.E.I. will never d-i-e from words alone,” wrote Thiel. “Hanania shows we need the sticks and stones of government violence to exorcise the diversity demon.” Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate, also praised the book as a “devastating kill shot to the intellectual foundations of identity politics in America.” Why are billionaires backing an unremarkable racist as he tries to find a place in polite society? Because his interest in a hierarchical society built on racism serves their interest in a hierarchical society built on class — and ruled by capital. It’s the same, then, as it ever was.
August 13, 2023 at 12:40 AM
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PSA. Also Portland has the best cards
August 6, 2023 at 6:23 AM
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Dog in Barbie crocs. Write your own caption
Medium sized black dog in park wearing four bright pink mini croc shoes on a walk.
July 25, 2023 at 1:21 AM
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Saw this car over two years ago, and it made me smile. I hope it does the same for you!
July 6, 2023 at 11:30 PM
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Human autocorrect
Post it on Aerie mirror corrected to read "You're so hot! So R you" Post-it at Aerie corrected to read "you're" instead of "your": You're beautiful <3 Don't let anyone tell you different! Post-it at Aerie corrected to read "you're" instead of "your": You're Beautiful <3
July 3, 2023 at 6:15 PM
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Japanese desserts are so pretty. Thanks @triketora.bsky.social and K Minamoto!
White and blue crocheted basket containing Japanese peach, loquat and muscat jellies in pretty individually wrapped servings
June 11, 2023 at 9:26 PM
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Plus New Zealand has the best candles
Photo of store shelf with realistic puppy candle (head of a brown puppy that looks like a doodle)
June 6, 2023 at 6:32 PM