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(Thomas E. Murray via temurray.com and Wikipedia) History can be fickle. We know many who are left out of the pantheon of great achievers in just about every discipline possible. People of color, women and religious minorities have been overlooked or have had their achievements belittled or forgotten for hundreds of years. For some reason, history forgot… ncG1vNJzZmirpa%2Bur7rErKeepJyau2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ismKS6or%2BMnmSmraKnrrp506GcZp%2BVo7a2v4ymmJygmaOy

Here at Cappuccino, there are few things we enjoy more than shining a spotlight on people who are irredeemably awful. Not just awful at what they do, but also awful as human beings determined to enrich no one’s lives except their own. Low hanging fruit, you say? Sure. But no one can argue that low hanging fruit isn’t just as delicious as the kind you have to climb the tree for.

My Feathered Friend My feathered friend, at last returned, I prithee, stay a while Come, rest thy wings and ease thy mind, let nothing thee beguile. From whence thou comest I know not, but I’ll not hold thee fast, for long, I’ve wanted thee to come, now thou art here at last… Read more 3 months ago · 2 likes · Joyce ncG1vNJzZmijkam1s7XNnpylmZmjsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ismKS%2Fr8WMrZ%2BuqqOZrrp5zaKlraBdmrGqwMiopWZqYGeBgMHTppasp6WnsKaJhGt9m6qfrMCmcZF%2FnaKbpJ68r3LUraSYpZWZtra5nKucmpyVp38%3D

If ever there were a piece of clothing I got asked about, it is these pants. First of all, these pants are expensive. They are quite literally: luxury stretch pants. If spending $860 on a pair of pants grosses you out, just stop reading. That being said, I write about shopping for a living and take product reviews super seriously: these pants are one of my favorite purchases from the year.

The term is of course from George Orwell’s 1984, in which people are arrested for thinking thoughts that fail to align with the party’s ideology. More generally, we can think of “thought crime” as consisting of (alleged) moral wrongs that consist in having illicit beliefs or belief-forming tendencies which are serious enough to deserve punishment. The paradigm uses of the term “thought crime” are in scare quotes — i.e., the “thought crimes” are things that some ideology deems it wrong to think, where the person using the term does not agree with that ideology.

Photo by Jennifer Bonauer on Unsplash I shared on both Threads and Instagram that I made an effort not to use certain words as I wrote my book Othered. Before I tell you what those words are, I want to talk about why I avoided including them. (To be fair, if you do read Othered, you will find some of these words in there, but I qualify and/or specify what I mean.

My LinkedIn feed seems awash with folks announcing their departure from PacBio, which is only natural in the aftermath of recently announced layoffs. Most of these seem to come from the closure of the old Omniome site in San Diego. I have only a passing association with Omniome having done a little bit of consulting very early on. From what I understand Omniome had a pretty complicated and interesting history, I hope someone writes is down sometime.

My cat was a legend. An icon. A king. He made cat haters say, “this is the only cat I’ve ever liked.” Dog lovers would nod approvingly as he played fetch - “this cat is actually cool.” Even cat lovers, who approach even the most recalcitrant with fondness, would make comments like, “I’ve never seen a cat be so friendly.” When I would walk into Greenwich Village Animal Hospital for his annual check up, Dr.

My mom is terrific. I got really lucky. I understood she was a better than average mom by the time I was a teenager, and as I’ve raised my own family, I’ve come to understand how really, really good she was at parenting. I’m one of 8 kids (four girls, four boys), and my siblings are kind, smart, creative, interesting, hard-working, and actively engaged in bettering the world around them. Here are 25 stories/observations [5/11 update: I just added 3 more stories so it’s actually 28) about my mom that I hope paint a picture of how I ended up a liberal feminist designer and mother of six, even though my mom has always been politically conservative, and I’ve never heard her call herself a feminist.