Connie Mayo

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Author of two historical novels: The Sharp Edge of Mercy (2022) and The Island of Worthy Boys (2015). Business analyst to pay the bills. Nerd. Cat lover. Don't make me choose between coffee and Chardonnay.
This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars are removed. It’s fully opened to everything else because cars are removed.

Language matters.

HT @_dmoser for pic
#urbanism #OpenStreets #streets #cars #city #cities #vienna #UrbanDesign #Transportation
A reminder of why we are trying to make a new and improved science community here on Mastodon.

Please help me boost. Instagram seems to be censoring influencers who are speaking out in support of Iranian protestors. My friend, bestselling author Marjan Kamali had her Instagram shut down after one of her posts when viral.

Is Instagram Censoring Influencers Who Support Iranian Protestors? https://bit.ly/3FqInnU #iran #instagram #censorship #meta #facebook

Is Instagram Censoring Influencers Who Support Iranian Protestors?

Instagram influencers posting against the Islamic Regime in Iran and supporting protest movement report that their accounts are being demonetized or blocked. Is Instagram censoring content creators for speaking out against Iranian oppression?

Forbes

I've been reading "Index, A History of the" and it's so geeky good. Insults in indexes, satirical indexes, people hundreds of years ago who thought indexes would make people lazy because they'd read the index instead of the book.

@clive Have you read it? I think you'd enjoy it!

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324002543

Index, A History of the

A <em>New York Times</em> Editors' Choice Book and a <em>New Yorker</em> Best Book of 2022 So Far<br /> Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads<br /><br /> A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives., Index, A History of the, A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, Dennis Duncan, 9781324050513

PSA---tis the season so please be careful.
Love turning on a lamp at 4:30. Really makes me feel alive!
Peanuts and the quiet pain of childhood – how Charles M. Schulz, born 100 years ago today, made an art of difficult emotions https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/charles-schulz-peanuts-biography-david-michaelis/
Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood: How Charles M. Schulz Made an Art of Difficult Emotions

“[Charlie Brown] reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human — both little and big at the sam…

The Marginalian
It’s #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that it’s possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, they’ll migrate over!
Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)