It’s freezing cold. Global warming is solved!

@kendrawrites.bsky.social Yet another optical illusion crane post!

As always: corporate developers don't exist in these stories. They're not mentioned, not interviewed + DEFINITELY not named as one of the causes of friction as large-scale wind/solar sites.

Why not force a corporation to share benefits, instead of forcing communities to accept not getting them?

I'm sure this is of no interest to anyone here.

www.factmag.com/2015/11/30/d...

Take off the table the idea that this is an empirically sound and responsible argument (it's not). Instead, let's focus on where this way of talking about universities comes from and who it serves, based on recent historical precedent.

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In a quest to steer away from amazon and stop buying books that take up space, I joined my local library and WOW I forgot how incredible libraries are! In an age where you pay for literally everything, it's amazing to have a free public resource.

A record number of women were elected to statehouses last year. But in the Southeast, where some legislatures are more than 80% male, representation is lagging as lawmakers pass bills that most impact women, like near-total abortion bans.
www.propublica.org/article/stat...

So often, I write with great fire and frustration b/c the utter scale of sexual violence Black women experience and the traumas we carry are met with an immoveable apathy.

But there is always decency, and I'm glad my Bison brother TNC reminds me of that. Immensely proud🖤

apnews.com/article/tane...

'It’s hard to think of any comparable social institution that cost so much and covered so much physical space and then imploded so quickly. As always, the story is far more complex than any tidy summary can encompass.'

I know the plagiarism isn’t the point and is distracting us all from more important points, but for what it’s worth: It’s been the norm for my entire career to explicitly tell UNDERGRADS not to cite Wikipedia, but to follow cited reliable sources linked in Wikipedia articles and cite those instead.

Every semester I talk w/my students about the power of citation - it's not just ticking a box or giving appropriate credit, it's also a form of politics + poetics, a way of entering conversations you want to be part of, of making community, and it's its own form of writing.

I don't know who needs to hear this but wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Considering I had to lean over my friend with my big lens and shoot out her car window, I think this turned out pretty well. 🌿🪶

Oh, snap!

In 2017, Trump inexplicably named former Epstein prosecutor Alex Acosta his Labor Secretary. Acosta then attempted to slash funding for sex trafficking victims by 79%.
unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/trum...?

that’s meep in the corner

According to the latest CDC COVID-19 wastewater data, we are currently in the second-biggest surge of the pandemic.

It will peak in the next week, with ~2 million infections per day. During this surge, ~100 million people total (~1 in 3 people in the US) will likely get COVID.

Read this @nytimes.com interview with @hannahritchie.bsky.social!

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