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Hearing Shania tell the story of when Prince reached out to her (about how they could make an album together on the scale of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”) makes me hopeful that someday we’ll get an official release of his incredible cover of her “Still The One”. https://www.tiktok.com/@zanelowe/video/7195241756701642026
Novelist, essayist, and activist Louise Jenkins Meriwether at a protest in 1957, wishing a MF would… She's still with us at 99 years old. #BlackMastodon

This is going under the radar, but looks like the CDC guidelines for masking are switching back to COVID-19 Community *TRANSMISSION* levels instead of "Community levels."

That means the CDC now recommends universal masking for **71%** of counties in the US, instead of only 9%.

#COVID #COVID19

Now that all three kids are home for the holidays, the silverware is disappearing at an unsustainable rate. What do they do with it? Sell it for drugs? All I want is a spoon. It’s my house. Why can’t I have one spoon in my own house?

Also their argumentative CEO, who left Google after what he himself described as dozens of HR complaints over his choice of language and analogies, is an active investor in surveillance drones used by authoritarian states https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/09/26/how-the-waze-ceo-helped-convince-an-israeli-drone.html

I don’t think this should be treated as a trustworthy online space, and I won’t be joining

For Visits With Michelangelo’s David, She Brings a Duster

The revered statue in Italy is not going to dust itself. That’s where Eleonora Pucci comes in.

RT @[email protected]

A man walks towards the steelworks in Hartlepool in 1963 by Don McCullin. Industrial scenes like this had a grim majesty to them.
I love everything about this photo, it is a masterful capture of a bygone age.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarcDavenant/status/1595319567957491718

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“A man walks towards the steelworks in Hartlepool in 1963 by Don McCullin. Industrial scenes like this had a grim majesty to them. I love everything about this photo, it is a masterful capture of a bygone age.”

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Go go #USA!
Got home in time for the third quarter of #Stanford-South Carolina womens #basketball and am wondering whether #sports people have migrated in the same numbers as academics. Any other Tara VanDerveer stans here?
I’m a civil rights lawyer. I don’t want to practice before a Court that’s compromised. I want a fair Court. Expansion would make this particular Court more ideologically balanced. Agree. But w/o a real, enforced ethics infrastructure, there will be 18 justices not fully disclosing financials, not compelled to recuse, praying in chambers w/their own faith leaders, going on trips w/groups filing briefs in cases before them, owning stock in indiv companies whose interests are before the Court.