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Yesterday I moved my gas lamp and a nest fell down. In the nest was an egg—which cracked—and a baby bird. The bird was moving and didn’t seem hurt. I had tallboy @HudsonDYang reach up and put the nest back (balanced on a piece of cardboard). Mama bird is back. Hope it lives. 🙏
Nature making short work of another cracked egg I missed 😬😭
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Jeff Yang
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I swear, if I were running I’d walk out to “I Punched Keanu Reeves” and then announce Keanu as my surprise running mate
I guess that’s my first campaign promise, it’s gonna be hella confusing with two candidates named Yang running
Ryan choosing to walk out to “Old Town Road” means he’s identified his key constituency as the underserved nine-year-old voter
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Jeff Yang
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I mean, the answer to this rather trollish headline is “yes, absolutely.” But a “movement” by definition never stops—if it does, it‘s history, not a path to the future. CRA launched a rocket; Searching, To All the Boys and #AlwaysBeMyMaybe kept it flying.
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The biggest evidence Crazy Rich Asians changed things for Asians in Hollywood isn’t how many other movies have sprung up in the past year, because, uh, it takes more than a year to make a movie. It’s the fact that so many creators are now getting meetings they never had before.
It’s vital to self-audit and especially to reaffirm how important it is for us to wedge open doors in the open position. But it seems weird to me to build a piece around questioning the impact of a single film vs centuries of racist history, less than a year after its release.
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Jeff Yang
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I’m going to push back on this. It’s not that ethnicity is “secondary” in #AlwaysBeMyMaybe. That’s like saying oxygen is secondary to human life. When you‘re immersed in something—when you breathe it and are sustained by it—you don’t need to forefront it.
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The characters in #AlwaysBeMyMaybe are Asian American through and through. They are culturally suffused by it. They eat it, they cook it, they sing it, they love it. It’s so normal it’s invisible. You forget you’re watching Asian American characters in an Asian American world.
And that is the same alchemy every Asian American who grew up watching FRIENDS experienced. An all-white New York? Not weird! Totally normal!

That’s the subtle way centricity reinforces supremacy. And why works like #AlwaysBeMyMaybe that are normatively inclusive are so vital.
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Sarah Winnicki
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It is the N. American songbird breeding season, AKA time for my annual #bird & #birding PSA:

Don’t kill #cowbird brood parasite eggs/nestlings! It is illegal and likely doing more harm to your birds than good. How? Behold, a mega-thread: 1/37

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Before I start, know I’m going to be citing lots of academic articles that are likely behind a paywall. If you want to know more about the articles and can’t access them please DM me! Science should be available to everyone, but that is an argument for another time. 2/37
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og ♡ (nsfr)
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Sope au in which princess Hoseok is locked away in a tower and one day his enemy since kids, Yoongi, the doctor’s son stumbles with his cute deer pet upon the tower and he reluctantly saves Hoseok
Hs: why did you even save me? I know you've despised me since we were kids
Yg: Thought I might use the money plus what was my father going to say if he knew I saw you in a tower but didn't rescue you?
Hs: whoever rescues me gets to marry me too and now you've ruined it
Yg:like hell I'm gonna marry you.
He petted the deer’s head.
Hs: i don't want to marry you
/obviously/ but I'm saying no one is gonna marry me cuz /you/ saved me and whoever saves me, gets my hand
Yg:do you want me to put you back in the tower?
Hs:no
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Mekka Okereke
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🤔 Imagine how silly a plan to combat "Islamic terrorism" online would sound, if it only banned accounts of low-level foot soldiers, but specifically protected, elevated, and promoted Osama Bin Laden's account...

And then ran ads against the engagement that his hate generated.
There's a glaring hole in our threat model that leaves us powerless to stop the spread of these toxic thoughts:

1) The most vocal and influential white nationalist on earth, is Donald Trump.

2) But our entire society is constructed to show deference to powerful white men.
So if the person inciting terrorism happens to be a white man, we have only impotent tools to use:
* An egg
* A "scathing dissent"
* A woolly hat

Remember, Osama was an influencer. A talker, and a funder. He never really tooled up and put in dirty work himself.
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AndyHS
@AndyHS
Down at Board of Supervisors meeting December 11,2018! District 2 Supervisor Seat is vacant at least until March 2019 Special Election. If run off is needed than June election as well. I have heard Councilman Brandau and Nasreen Johnson are interested in the spot.
Among Consent items are Placing Palm Bluffs Water Tower on County’s Register of Historical Place, Adjourn in Memory of Mrs. LaVerne Coelho.
Continue proclaiming of the local emergency status of extremely high levels of tree mortality.
Supervisor Magsig talks about Christmas and Thanksgiving and thanks county employees and the privilege of working here as Supervisor. Quintero quotes Henry Van Dyke poem. Consent item # 50 pulled by a member of public. Rest of items approved.
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AndyHS
@AndyHS
Down at Ballots+Brew Event at Full Circle Brewery! Former City Hall Staff Georgeanne White, Fresno Bee editor and KVPR reporter. Hosted by @fresnoland with @DaniBergstrom moderating.
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Yesterday, I visited one of our key strategic partners, who also doubles as my Rabi. Usually after the normal business talk and mappings, we spare some thoughts for our beloved Nigeria. Let me just share a bit of some misconceptions that is killing us as a people. (Thread).
Democracy; In its origin (Greek)& etymological sense, it means a composite of demos & kratos. Demos can be translated as “the people” (qua “native adult residents of a polis”) & kratos as “power,” democracy has a root meaning of “the power of dPeople.” But power in what sense? 🤔
Let me back track a bit to point out that when Democracy was first envisioned, it was designed in such a way that only educated people within the society were able to vote. Women and slaves were not allowed to vote. This wasn’t due to racism or misogyny (sexist).
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