Just got home from a retirement party with my colleagues and a bunch of our dpt grad students. It was a very sweet and fun experience.
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Researcher studying language-in-use in clinical (and other) settings. Views my own. #emca #ConversationAnalysis #ethnomethodololgy https://sites.google.com/view/thalkowski/home
Imagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
If your immediate response to this isn't "fuck you, old man," you should just leave journalism entirely.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Senate Report Describes ‘Top-Down Culture of Cruelty’ in ICE Detention talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...
Senate Report Describes ‘Top-Down Culture of Cruelty’ in ICE Detention
A new report from Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) details shocking...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Classic joke from the Soviet Union: A man goes to a newsstand every day, looks at the front page of the newspaper, & leaves. The vendor asks what he is looking for & he replies, "An obituary." The vendor says, "Obituaries aren't on the front page!" The man answers, "This one will be."
It's pretty wild this basic suggestion, that the burden of safety falls on drivers operating multi-ton vehicles, is often met with derision.
Lloyd Alter@lloydalter.bsky.social · 7d agoDemographics being what they are, “walking while old” is going to be a growing problem. I have been banging on about this for years www.treehugger.com/complaining-...
WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
More and more uninsured patients are seeking care in emergency rooms and clinics, having lost their coverage under the Affordable Care Act after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies. Many are unable to pay hospital bills.
After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
nyti.ms
Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
"Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living." T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets.
Trump isn't just making life harder for working Americans, he flat-out doesn't care.
A rational, credible audience wouldn’t have been “awkwardly silent.” A rational, credible audience would have booed, and walked out. Staying silent as Trump attacks female reporters has been one of the biggest failures of a consistently failing American media.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump was met with awkward silence as he used a speech that was supposed to celebrate press freedom to attack a female reporter.
If you were "stunned" by Trump's hateful rambling performance, then you haven't been paying attention for the last decade. If you sat in "silence" while Trump attacked democracy and elections, then you have learned nothing. We need an independent, pro-democracy media. demdock.com/4w6emld
yeah I don't think you get to "oops, my bad" the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people - and counting! - because you got "carried away"
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2w agolet he who hasn’t ever gotten so carried away illegally impounding federal funds that they killed hundreds of thousands of people cast the first stone
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
washingtonpost.com
So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social
"Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school." #StreetsForPeople
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
July 19th - Harvey Sacks' birthday - born 1935-died 1975. #emca #HarveySacks scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
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Cleaning out the office, these next few weeks, and found these little mementos.
