Nina M
@ninamoses.bsky.social
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Stick a fork in me, I'm done
May 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Stick a fork in me, I'm done
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Verso Books has made ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
In Solidarity with the Students.
Following the arrests of hundreds of protesters at Columbia University, students have gathered on campuses across the country demanding that their schools stop doing business with Israel. In solidarit...
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April 26, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Verso Books has made ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
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I’ll stop flogging this piece soon, but I just want to say: I am tremendously thrilled and humbled by the response it’s gotten, especially since I was pretty sure I was mostly going to get yelled at
The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi deat...
defector.com
April 26, 2024 at 2:12 PM
I’ll stop flogging this piece soon, but I just want to say: I am tremendously thrilled and humbled by the response it’s gotten, especially since I was pretty sure I was mostly going to get yelled at
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This is the most American headline I’ve read in a hot minute
April 23, 2024 at 2:53 AM
This is the most American headline I’ve read in a hot minute
Oh, so Baby Reindeer is just going to continually devastate me. That’s cool I guess
April 16, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Oh, so Baby Reindeer is just going to continually devastate me. That’s cool I guess
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In the United States, relaxer and perm sales are down amidst studies linking relaxer ingredients to various health issues. But in some African countries, like Tunisia, Kenya, and Cameroon, sales are actually increasing. (Via The Examination) capitalbnews.org/black-women-...
As Many Black Women in U.S. Abandon Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer, Sales Climb in African Countries
The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners, like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals.
capitalbnews.org
April 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
In the United States, relaxer and perm sales are down amidst studies linking relaxer ingredients to various health issues. But in some African countries, like Tunisia, Kenya, and Cameroon, sales are actually increasing. (Via The Examination) capitalbnews.org/black-women-...
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a bucket of RATS can be filled in ONE NIGHT
or try it on BATS if they're NOT in FLIGHT
you can buy it onLINE and it ain't no TROLL
it's the BEASTIE BUCKET for PEST conTROL
October 26, 2023 at 6:11 PM
a bucket of RATS can be filled in ONE NIGHT
or try it on BATS if they're NOT in FLIGHT
you can buy it onLINE and it ain't no TROLL
it's the BEASTIE BUCKET for PEST conTROL
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Google apparently had to release a "verbatim" setting so that you can get decent search results. I tested it and it does seem to help
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...
How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix...
lifehacker.com
March 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Google apparently had to release a "verbatim" setting so that you can get decent search results. I tested it and it does seem to help
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...
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FIRST RULE OF THESAURUS CLUB:
YOU DON'T TALK, DISCUSS, CONVERSE, SPEAK, CHAT, CONFER, DELIBERATE, GAB, OR GOSSIP ABOUT THESAURUS CLUB.
YOU DON'T TALK, DISCUSS, CONVERSE, SPEAK, CHAT, CONFER, DELIBERATE, GAB, OR GOSSIP ABOUT THESAURUS CLUB.
March 1, 2024 at 1:32 AM
FIRST RULE OF THESAURUS CLUB:
YOU DON'T TALK, DISCUSS, CONVERSE, SPEAK, CHAT, CONFER, DELIBERATE, GAB, OR GOSSIP ABOUT THESAURUS CLUB.
YOU DON'T TALK, DISCUSS, CONVERSE, SPEAK, CHAT, CONFER, DELIBERATE, GAB, OR GOSSIP ABOUT THESAURUS CLUB.
Just finished Georges Perec’s “The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise” which was excellent. @molars.bsky.social review captures the rolling hilarity and sneaky pathos www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/ge...
Kevin Hyde reviews Georges Perec's The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise - Asymptote
The Art of Asking Your Boss for A Raise is an attempt at exhausting a loop of conditionals. It is a carefully controlled thought experiment. It is a sitcom that takes place over decades. It's a "C
www.asymptotejournal.com
February 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Just finished Georges Perec’s “The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise” which was excellent. @molars.bsky.social review captures the rolling hilarity and sneaky pathos www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/ge...
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imagine letting the guy that can’t properly make a hubcap put a chip in your brain
February 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM
imagine letting the guy that can’t properly make a hubcap put a chip in your brain
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Congratulations, you've invented writing, what will you use it for?
Mesopotamia: Law codes!
China: Ethics!
Greeks: Philosophy!
Romans: Rhetoric!
Norsemen: Just teach me how to spell "A curse upon the man who moves this rock."
Mesopotamia: Law codes!
China: Ethics!
Greeks: Philosophy!
Romans: Rhetoric!
Norsemen: Just teach me how to spell "A curse upon the man who moves this rock."
February 2, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Congratulations, you've invented writing, what will you use it for?
Mesopotamia: Law codes!
China: Ethics!
Greeks: Philosophy!
Romans: Rhetoric!
Norsemen: Just teach me how to spell "A curse upon the man who moves this rock."
Mesopotamia: Law codes!
China: Ethics!
Greeks: Philosophy!
Romans: Rhetoric!
Norsemen: Just teach me how to spell "A curse upon the man who moves this rock."
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January 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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One of the great mysteries of modern life is that every microwave comes with a popcorn button that the instructions on every bag of microwave popcorn tell you not to use
January 15, 2024 at 2:27 AM
One of the great mysteries of modern life is that every microwave comes with a popcorn button that the instructions on every bag of microwave popcorn tell you not to use
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The boys and I figured we’d ask ChatGPT to help us solve a clue from the Times crossword.
January 9, 2024 at 11:57 PM
The boys and I figured we’d ask ChatGPT to help us solve a clue from the Times crossword.
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Doing bar trivia on a team with Reacher and The Special Investigators and it is not going well at all. Every question it's like "do you remember when we" and then some shit about a drug bust gone wrong or a big bar fight or whatever. The topic is geography. Fucking get it together.
January 8, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Doing bar trivia on a team with Reacher and The Special Investigators and it is not going well at all. Every question it's like "do you remember when we" and then some shit about a drug bust gone wrong or a big bar fight or whatever. The topic is geography. Fucking get it together.
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When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.
January 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM
When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.
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A particularly striking example of how divorced the public discourse on “antisemitism at Harvard” is from the actual situation at Harvard: the person who wrote this has never taught a class at Harvard Divinity School. I teach Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, and I teach about all these topics…
December 29, 2023 at 1:21 PM
A particularly striking example of how divorced the public discourse on “antisemitism at Harvard” is from the actual situation at Harvard: the person who wrote this has never taught a class at Harvard Divinity School. I teach Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, and I teach about all these topics…
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Reluctantly crouched
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
December 22, 2023 at 5:29 PM
Reluctantly crouched
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
“Removing some of the lugubrious monuments beloved by conservative Southerners will allow an appreciation of the internal diversity of a war that claimed about 620,000 American lives.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know
The Alabama men who fought for the Union in the Civil War were expunged from history.
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December 20, 2023 at 4:49 PM
“Removing some of the lugubrious monuments beloved by conservative Southerners will allow an appreciation of the internal diversity of a war that claimed about 620,000 American lives.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...