Editorial Red Pencil of Doom
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Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
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There's a particular sickness unique to the American mind that makes us believe roads, highways, and interstates don't need to turn a profit, but trains must.
My son and I agree we each could have written this very relatable post.
Cleaning up the storage/laundry room to make space for sewing and other projects, and boy howdy, there is a lot of dust in there. How does one underutilized room gather so much dust? #rhetorical
I don’t speak math, but I knit. My husband is fluent in math, but does not knit. This looks like a win/win, bridging the divide kind of book to me!
for all of my #dhmakes peeps: super excited about this new journal interlace-journal.org It builds on some of the fantastic work from Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel: www.toroidalsnark.net/mkbook.html 🧵🪡 💻
Interlace home page
Interlace: A Journal of Mathematics and Fiber Arts
interlace-journal.org
White peaches are worth the price.
More of this, all the time, from all our elected leaders.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay
A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians
Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...
buff.ly
I still don’t understand how we accomplished something this cool as a city, but we did. Yay, ancient peat bogs! Go, ancient microfauna!
"...they watched in astonishment a brown wormlike creature greedily munching through green clumps of algae as if more than 130 years hadn’t passed since its last meal. Equally oblivious, a host of life – water fleas, worms, plankton – danced and spun around it."
#invertebrates #hope
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
Lime sorbet and coconut ice cream. Lavender syrup on vanilla with a spritz (?) of whipped cream and maybe a tiny bit of lime zest.
I’m deeply amused by how superstitious a major sports home team championship run can make me and everyone around me. And also anxious (so anxious).
My mom freckles but he doesn’t. He is a lovely jumble of my weirdnesses and his dad’s, though: given a chance to roll a 3 or lower, he frequently does. But he’s his own guy, so we’ll have to see. Thank you so much for this.
My son definitely has the red highlights in the sun, but can tan, thanks to his dad. Kid also has a stupid high pain tolerance, which is a blessing and a curse. He hasn’t had to be given opioids for any reason yet, but forewarned is forearmed. He’s my kid, lol.
Just when I am ready to log off forever and go be a hermit in the woods, someone makes an off-handed comment and starts a super useful thread that gives me explanations for why my body (yet again) is so weird. So it’s not off to the woods for me yet; which is good. I hate moving. And mosquitoes.
I was wondering about this! Pretty sure my brown-haired son got it from me, and I got it through my brown-haired mother. I got the red hair, as did much of the rest of her family. Verrry interesting.
Uh…off to research this redhead type 2 opioid resistance thing a bit more. I knew it was genetic, but did not think it was the hair.
Same. Or they make me angry that I am still in pain but also too sedated and apathetic to get up and flip a table over it. Weird, weird combination.
I’ll tell Gary. But I am pretty sure Ayami still thinks it’s his fault.
Just yelled at a friend of mine to stop watching the game and jinxing it. #BlueJays
I had a shudder of revulsion just reading that. Good god.
Fascinating thread about moderation for online communities that could apply to all sorts of social groups.
Rather, it's not that modding necessarily makes you *hate* your users but that it necessarily sets up an adversarial and managerial relationship with your users, rather than a friendly one.