It's cooling off
Oct. 5th, 2017 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWhich would be great, but my pants are filthy smelly and I need to wash them. And it's too cool for my shorts.
Solution: I have got to get more than two pairs of pants this season. Seriously.
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Solution: I have got to get more than two pairs of pants this season. Seriously.
Self-esteem in kids: Lavish praise is not the answer, warmth is
Mona Lisa unveiled? Nude sketch may have link to masterpiece
One Hundred Years Later, the Tense Realism of Edgar Degas Still Captivates
The Curious Life of an Extra
Time lapse Dandelion flower to seed head (Check out the comments. It is startling to see how many people thought they were two different flowers!)
No. 2 if by sea: Outhouse tied to Paul Revere is excavated
Get Yourself A Treat
Video gamers have an advantage in learning
This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back
West Africa’s Most Daring Designer
Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen
Some Mother’s Boy
How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction
The Inside Story of the Great Silicon Heist
The Risks and Rewards of Student-Exchange Programs
Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?
Arresting Disabled Bodies
The Queen of Florencia
Puerto Rico’s eye-popping economic situation, in charts (Also)
Puerto Rico's Dairy Industry, Once Robust, Flattened By Maria
September Is the Strongest Hurricane Month Ever Recorded—Probably
“So mad I could spit”: a former disaster relief official on Trump’s response to Puerto Rico
The different media spheres of the right and the left — and how they’re throwing elections to the Republicans
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Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age
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More people than ever are dying in prison. Their caregivers? Other inmates
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Does a company that puts ankle monitors on undocumented immigrants provide a helpful service, or a debt trap for desperate people?
ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in 'sanctuary cities' around the nation
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Feds Demand Facebook Share Information on Anti-Trump Protesters
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New measurements show widespread forest loss has reversed the role of tropics as a carbon sink
This is not how the Senate is supposed to work
What Happened to Myanmar’s Human-Rights Icon?
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Date: 2017-10-01 09:10 am (UTC)Yeah, pretty much the only thing we were certain about was that "Brownie" is no longer in charge.
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Date: 2017-10-01 01:33 pm (UTC)Solution: I have got to get more than two pairs of pants this season. Seriously.
LOL! I can identify. I've a co-worker, who in lieu of doing laundry, decided to just wear every piece of clothing she hadn't been wearing in her closet. She's come to work in some interesting outfits...a jumper, a glittery gold disco top...
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Date: 2017-10-01 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-01 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-01 03:35 pm (UTC)”Our market-based health care system is concerned with profit, and it long ago decided that disabled bodies are not worth very much. Whenever that paradigm has shifted, it is because the people who own these bodies have jammed the gears”
I can ride the bus because ADAPT activists chained themselves to bus bumpers in the 70s and 80s. The ADA Regis are strongest on transportation because they defined the terms (and also because much transport Is funded Federally--compliance is required to run your system).
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Date: 2017-10-01 04:11 pm (UTC)I didn't realize that this is what it took. Good for them!
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Date: 2017-10-01 11:21 pm (UTC)If you're feeling visual:
http://adaptmuseum.net/gallery/index.php?/categories
or more like reading:
https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/we-will-ride-origin-disability-rights-movement-denver-0
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Date: 2017-10-02 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
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