https://twitter.com/lucy_hunt/status/1337031131607261184?s=20
I would like to aspire to be like this person.
Lucy Hunt (@lucy_hunt) Tweeted: The best email signature I’ve ever seen: “It is normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336975663564251136.html
I hope I never need these words. Do you hear me, kids? Fkn OUTLAST me. By a lot.
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My son died fourteen years ago today. If you’re struggling with the loss of a loved one, I have some promises for you. I promise this will not always be the first thing you think about in the morning. I promise you won’t always lie awake at night, sobbing until you can’t breathe. I promise you will not always feel that hard lump in your throat, like grief is a rock that cannot be moved. It can. I promise those waves of grief that knock you off your feet will become smaller, less violent. You will be able to stand and let them wash around you, not over you. I promise walking won’t always feel like you’re dragging your legs through treacle; breathing won’t always be something you have to remember to do. You will do both these things effortlessly again. I promise you won’t always be winded by someone else’s happiness – their social media updates and photographs. You will smile and feel glad that they have something so special, and that you once had it too. I promise you will be able to say their name without crying. That you will share a memory and feel wistful; sad, but not broken. I promise you will not always have to take the day off work on anniversaries, because you are unable to function. You will find something special to mark it, or you will treat it like any other day, and either is okay. I promise it won’t always hurt like this. Fourteen years ago a woman made me these promises, and I didn’t believe her. I sobbed silently as she told me how the years had healed her, and I thought she was wrong. My grief was different. You’ll think I’m wrong too, but in fourteen years’ time – or twelve, or five, or nine… – you will realise the rock of grief in your throat has washed away, and you will make these promises to someone else. Until then, be gentle on yourself. Grief can’t be rushed, and this is a particularly hard year in which to suffer a loss. Much love to you ❤️ The responses to this have been breathtakingly moving. I’m reading them all, and replying to your DMs as fast as I can. Thank you for your lovely words ❤️»
«Eighteen states, in other words, are making the preposterous—and democratically devastating—argument that the Supreme Court should throw out other states’ votes because they do not like the results. So much for federalism and states’ rights and all those other previously cherished Republican principles.»
I just finished watching The Queen’s Gambit. The second good thing in 2020. Just in time.
The awesomeness of that series notwithstanding, I’ll take the opportunity (ha) to muse on white European-descended “pop” TV.
Every mystery I watch is British and very white (except Luther, which is very Something Else and I won’t finish it). We throw in some angsty American “mystery” and we get Longmire. Also very white.
Why not a whole entire series centering on a Kenyan detective in Nairobi? (Or Lagos, but I’m not as familiar that with side of the continent. As if I’m some kind of expert, ha.) Plenty of intrigue there. There was that whole Foyle’s War thing, smack in the middle of WWII but somehow finding straight murder mysteries in the middle of accusations of treason and Nazism. I always liked that.
How about a murder mystery (series) set in Nairobi where racism and government corruption is just the setting but not the drivers of the plot?
Or… go. Why are we fixated on chess? I guess it’s primarily because the moves are more understandable on TV. But, surely we can do something with the subtlety of go. Is it that hard to understand? And throw some Asian-ness in and get… a riveting non-Western go drama. That anybody could understand.
And, yes, I really, really should finish watching The Wire.
This would be fun. I think I’d be ok with it.
https://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=11/03/2020&county_id=0&office=JUD&contest=0
Welp… looks like Republicans swept state-level judicial elections in NC. What the heck, NC? Did everybody just focus on the Presidential election and decide that was good enough? You do realize lawsuits about redistricting wind up in the state supreme court, right? Also, you do realize Phil Berger is the most political of creatures, right, and now he’s a state supreme court judge?
This. The whole thread is good, but this last reply is a nice stinger: Red-state Republicans (and their voters) with their appeals to the military are the same folks damaging the military, because… they’re… not very bright?
Amazing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-most-malicious-legacy/617319/
«Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.»
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