Michelle Hak Hepburn
@mhakhep.bsky.social
forests & people | sounds | embroidery
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When I wrote about John Comaroff in SAPIENS "The Case Against Harvard," I made the same argument so many women are making now.
Yes. We're mad that these abuses continue. But we're even madder that everyone has always known about it.
You just look away. Every. Time. You just look away.
Yes. We're mad that these abuses continue. But we're even madder that everyone has always known about it.
You just look away. Every. Time. You just look away.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
When I wrote about John Comaroff in SAPIENS "The Case Against Harvard," I made the same argument so many women are making now.
Yes. We're mad that these abuses continue. But we're even madder that everyone has always known about it.
You just look away. Every. Time. You just look away.
Yes. We're mad that these abuses continue. But we're even madder that everyone has always known about it.
You just look away. Every. Time. You just look away.
Cumulative impacts - enabling life to thrive of course can influence ability of other life to thrive
@WildlifeSociety discusses recent research revealing potential loss of seed-dispersing animals which could be reducing natural carbon capture in tropical forests 🌍
#Climate #BiodiversityLoss #TropicalEcology
wildlife.org/can-biodiver...
#Climate #BiodiversityLoss #TropicalEcology
wildlife.org/can-biodiver...
Can biodiversity loss drive climate change? - The Wildlife Society
Seed-dispersing animals are a critical part of a tropical forest's ability to capture carbon
wildlife.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Cumulative impacts - enabling life to thrive of course can influence ability of other life to thrive
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my moment has arrived
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
my moment has arrived
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When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public
July 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
“His death means that all of the directors of the hospitals in northern Gaza have either been killed or detained by the Israeli military forces.”
‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted
‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted
Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupied
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“His death means that all of the directors of the hospitals in northern Gaza have either been killed or detained by the Israeli military forces.”
This is so hard to learn and such an important skill, and even when you can do it sometimes it can still be difficult!
legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is so hard to learn and such an important skill, and even when you can do it sometimes it can still be difficult!
This makes so much sense - explaining yourself using clear language! Less jargon means more complete explanations
But when explanations are more complete, adding jargon decreases comprehensibility without increasing satisfaction. There aren't obvious gaps for the jargon to fill. We found this across a range of explanations, some with real jargon and some with made-up jargon (like the example)...
June 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This makes so much sense - explaining yourself using clear language! Less jargon means more complete explanations
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Having dealt extensively with @hrw.org both while in government and after, I have found them sober and serious on these matters.
They do not say this lightly.
Take warning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
They do not say this lightly.
Take warning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination
The Israeli government’s plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongo...
www.hrw.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Having dealt extensively with @hrw.org both while in government and after, I have found them sober and serious on these matters.
They do not say this lightly.
Take warning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
They do not say this lightly.
Take warning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
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this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
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Like, when they complain about the feminization of society? What they're really complaining about is the expectation that men will do the work that has traditionally been pushed onto women. Like caregiving. Or even just showing empathy and concern for others.
May 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Like, when they complain about the feminization of society? What they're really complaining about is the expectation that men will do the work that has traditionally been pushed onto women. Like caregiving. Or even just showing empathy and concern for others.
Same thing is potentially happening in my riding…
My riding, which was projected to go to the NDP incumbent, may turn blue because Liberals think strategic voting is "Liberals no matter what" and I haaaaate you so much.
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Same thing is potentially happening in my riding…
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Friendly reminer that if you oppose this kind of massacre on emergency medical workers, the US Gov't considers you to be aligned with terrorists.
Reminder that Israel initially claimed the murdered aid workers were “terrorists” who were “advancing suspiciously.”
Not only have they walked back that lie, it is now clear the soldiers fired continuously for over three minutes, reloading, at pointblank range.
A deliberate massacre.
Not only have they walked back that lie, it is now clear the soldiers fired continuously for over three minutes, reloading, at pointblank range.
A deliberate massacre.
April 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Friendly reminer that if you oppose this kind of massacre on emergency medical workers, the US Gov't considers you to be aligned with terrorists.
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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And Republican strategists are now getting nervous about Abrego Garcia's story - an innocent father of a 5 year child, a devoted husband of an American citizen and a union apprentice - they sent down to El Salvadorian gulag by mistake and not doing much to get him back.
From @washingtonpost.com
From @washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
And Republican strategists are now getting nervous about Abrego Garcia's story - an innocent father of a 5 year child, a devoted husband of an American citizen and a union apprentice - they sent down to El Salvadorian gulag by mistake and not doing much to get him back.
From @washingtonpost.com
From @washingtonpost.com
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The US is subjecting people to indefinite solitary confinement for having the temerity to try to enter the US through prescribed legal channels.
“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
April 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The US is subjecting people to indefinite solitary confinement for having the temerity to try to enter the US through prescribed legal channels.
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One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Radical acceptance is just forgiving the state of the world. Not tolerating it, not excusing it, but genuinely letting go of resenting the past because it doesn't do anything but make you feel bad and limit your ability to act in the present in ways that will make the future better.
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Radical acceptance is just forgiving the state of the world. Not tolerating it, not excusing it, but genuinely letting go of resenting the past because it doesn't do anything but make you feel bad and limit your ability to act in the present in ways that will make the future better.
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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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"That is not our choice. That is America’s, or at least the Trump administration’s. The democratic world must therefore regard and treat it as it does the other non-democracies: not as an ally to be consulted but as an adversary to be contained."
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February 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"That is not our choice. That is America’s, or at least the Trump administration’s. The democratic world must therefore regard and treat it as it does the other non-democracies: not as an ally to be consulted but as an adversary to be contained."
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Find the joy worth fighting for
February 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Find the joy worth fighting for
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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.