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Simon Weller

simonpweller

Today I am doing a code review of the meditation app @DoableDanny is working on. He graciously shared the source code with me. Jump into the the to learn the

Dr Louise Raw

LouiseRawAuthor

40 years ago today, young anti-racist teacher Blair Peach was killed by police in Southall, West London. He was 33. He was there because the Southall community had asked for

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

One of the first steps to understanding what’s happening in the world right now is to grasp that Make America Great Again is just a local version of Putin’s promise

Peloton Gulag

Quality_Account

Target HQ is in Minneapolis. For decades the company has been providing logistical support, funding and equipment to MPD and police departments across the country Target's Safe City Program. Established

Shelley Cook

ShelleyACook

I’m sorry, but all these people shitting on @bridgedrivein for their opening plan (which they admit isn’t great and they say they’re trying to remedy) is kinda garbage. Give them

Literati Bookstore

LiteratiBkstore

Ten Reasons Why We Must #SaveIndieBookstores, a thread: 1. Indie bookstores support new voices in ways algorithmic, online shopping cannot. Booksellers in indie stores take pride in finding, reading, highlighting,

Thomas Abt

Abt_Thomas

Here's an important @washingtonpost piece on a key structural challenge to police reform in America: the decentralized nature of policing itself. Read on.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/08/most-police-departments-america-a

Cornwall is a Nation

YesCornwall

What’s your top three reasons for Cornwall being the poorest part of the UK, in your opinion? Let me know what you think. Here’s mine:1. All economic and social

Mathieu Fenniak

mfenniak

Alberta's ABTraceTogether and Canada's COVID Alert app are similar in the basic way they operate, but have some significant differences. But the most important difference to me is that ABTraceTogether

Bea Jaspert 🕸

hogotheforsaken

THREADEvidence that "terf" is officially recognised as a slur: 1/ TWITTER:Twitter's UK govt head of PubPolicy @KatyMinshall agreed at @HumanRightsCtte that ‘terf’, like "bitch and cunt" is a gendered term,

David Harsanyi

davidharsanyi

Always be skeptical of stories that lack any on-the-record sources that tell you exactly what you want to hear. There is no way any reputable newspaper would have gone with

Dan Wentzel

danwentzel

Revisions for @metrolosangeles NextGen Bus Plan are out. Everyone should take a look at how service will be changed and streamlined for this. This approach of improving frequency has proven

Seattle Times Digital Union ⛰

STdigitalunion

Some (very exciting) news: We, the digital journalists of @seattletimes, are unionizing. .@seattletimes has been a unionized newspaper for decades. Currently, more than 100 journalists in our newsroom work under

Bronze Age Pervert

bronzeagemantis

The GOP is understaffed at local level and will naturally fall to the frogs in the next 5-7 years if things are allowed to take their course. Post-Trump, after 2024,

LANYChicago

LANYChicago

when you’ve been stuck inside for 2+ weeks with no human interaction when you’ve been social distancing from your friends/significant other and it’s starting to get to you when you

Benjamin Allbright

AllbrightNFL

The Aaron Rodgers story as I know it.Obviously Rodgers had been dissatisfied for some time. Several teams made post season inquiries this year, including the Rams prior to trading for