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CourtneyC
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✴️ writer, thinker, fast-talker: "Survival by Book" on #substack, film, books, open source and open data, other stuff
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a good poem for the season--both festive and dark--by James Merrill

#booksky #poetry
December 8, 2024 at 10:35 AM
where are my #bernie people on this app?
December 7, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Here you go. vqv.app/index.html
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vqv.app
December 7, 2024 at 4:59 AM
I joined @dropsitenews.com in pre-ordering Refaat Alareer's book.

(I was able to buy two copies, 1 at amazon and 1 at bookshop.org, to help with the rankings.

Join me in helping this book make it into the world?

actionnetwork.org/forms/refaat...
Send Assassinated Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer’s book to #1!
December 6, 2024 marks one year since Israel assassinated Palestinian writer, poet and educator Refaat Alareer with a targeted airstrike on the second floor apartment where he was taking refuge with e...
actionnetwork.org
December 7, 2024 at 7:22 AM
the sun came out in Ghent today
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 PM
03December24
#filmsky #romcomadvent
"Home for Christmas 2"

Season 2 just as good, sly, tenderhearted, real, but also happy. Love this series, perfect Christmas viewing

youtu.be/_3j0qmWU5jo?...
December 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
to the Icelandic psychic in a lavender Santa hat who came up to me in Logan airport and told me I have a "radius of beautiful energy" and that I need to believe in it, thank you 💜
December 3, 2024 at 11:10 PM
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM
02December24
#filmsky #romcomadvent
"Christmas as Usual"

Such a sweet comedy! A woman takes her South Asian fiancee home to Norway for Christmas and hilarity ensues. Extra points for a running through the airport scene. 🤶🏻🇳🇴🎄

youtu.be/rg2yZQGYTmE?...
December 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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*Two writers, Thomas Frank and Joan Williams, provided sharp insight into the Democrats’ hemorrhaging of working-class voters eight years ago. The Democratic Party ignored their perspectives. We asked them to explain how we ended up here — again*

jacobin.com/2024/11/demo...
On Democrats and Class, the Writing Was on the Wall
Two writers, Thomas Frank and Joan Williams, provided sharp insight into the Democrats’ hemorrhaging of working-class voters eight years ago. The Democratic Party ignored their perspectives. We asked ...
jacobin.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:53 PM
you know you've been hyperfocusing when your Nest thermostat goes on eco even though you're in the same room
December 1, 2024 at 7:12 PM
so much this:

"even more dangerous than someone ignorant of statistics is someone half-ignorant of statistics."

the road to hell that we are on is a lot of things and one of them is an uncritical approach to p-values
Statistics, by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017) (cadlag.org)

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December 1, 2024 at 4:45 PM
01December24
#filmsky #romcomadvent
"Home for Christmas" season 1

(not the dubbed version!)
(yes a series or even single episode can count!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U2m...
December 1, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Decided to do an advent calendar of holiday rom/coms.

Rules:
- must feature a festive scene with sparkly lights
- must feature declaration of ❤️ in an airport, train, sidewalk, or similar
- if it's slightly more rom than com, it's ok, but it can't be "Decision to Leave" level sad at the end.
December 1, 2024 at 2:29 PM
introverting hard after all the holiday socializing 😆
December 1, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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Finally a meme about inflation that's consistent with actual trends in purchasing power
November 30, 2024 at 11:17 PM
this is the best gift📚🎁 ❤️

#booksky
We’ve done it! First starter pack: Books Podcasts. We’ve added some of our favourites, but who have we missed?

go.bsky.app/61TpUxy
November 30, 2024 at 3:28 PM
November 30, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Day 2
"Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs"
#FilmSky

#Movies
🎬📽️
#moviechallenge
November 30, 2024 at 3:19 PM
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 AM
late autumn, #Vermont
November 30, 2024 at 8:35 AM
hello, #geospatial and #GIS people. Where are the #mapmakers?
Hello to all the mappers on Bluesky #gis #geospatial #opensource
July 28, 2023 at 1:30 PM
my question re: both student debt relief debacle and affirmative action disaster, is why can't we just make college free? #freecollege
July 2, 2023 at 2:37 AM
I came here for @jdcmedlock.bsky.social's cat content.
July 2, 2023 at 2:10 AM
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By age 37, I've rejected the sad/crazy binary and simply run into the wall between the two, leaving behind a Parker-shaped hole like a vintage Loony Toons cartoon
At around age 50 you are taken to a room and the only way out is two doors. One door is labeled SAD and the other is labeled CRAZY. You have to choose one.
May 12, 2023 at 12:51 PM