Category — Microblog Mondays

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I got deeply lost in this Reddit thread. I don’t usually frequent Reddit, but everyone was talking about this thread, so I hopped on and started traveling down the rabbit hole. People were sharing “secrets” of their field of work.

Some were common knowledge—there is more butter than you think in restaurant food—others were a surprise, such as the vodka inside being cheaper than the bottle. I feel bummed about foaming soaps, happy to know that discontinued scents get recycled with new names, and I’m not sure I’ll buy bulk nuts again.

It also made me realize that I have zero big reveals in my work.

What about you?

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There is a meme going around saying something like if you (a woman) has a credit card in your name or your own credit history or rented an apartment, etc, thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And all these things are true—her work during her career (before and during the Supreme Court) greatly impacted our lives.

But the point is… the woman who worked to get us these rights just died. Meaning, this is super recent history. 1974. As in, when my mother was single, she couldn’t get her own credit card. Older rights feel stable—if they haven’t changed in 100+ years, why would they change now? Younger rights feel tenuous, like they could be snatched away at any point.

I was trying to put into words why the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg feels so much larger than the loss of a single person. Anne Helen Peterson said it well: “If someone has only been granted rights in recent memory, it’s easy and understandable that a lot of us are imagining just how readily those rights could be taken away.”

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This is a very weird site. And you will likely get addicted to watching these videos.

The premise is that you are an astronaut, floating above earth, looking down at these moments. The site pulls in unwatched videos: “These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).”

Literally unseen. I tested a few, clicking in the top left corner to go to YouTube, and most had one view.

Go enjoy. (P.S. The site states: “The video switches periodically. Click the button below the video to prevent the video from switching.” In case you want to watch the whole video.)

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At the beginning of the pandemic, I thought I’d make my way through all the unread books on my bookshelf. And I am reading them… sometimes… but, more often, I’m reading my way through new books borrowed digitally from the library.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I thought I could turn it into a project: read everything unread on the shelves. I tossed it out mentally in the same way that I tossed out things such as re-organizing the basement or finishing a major photo project. Things that I wanted to get done, and I now had time at home to get done.

But I haven’t done any of these things.

Instead, I’ve purchased books along the way, adding to the unread pile instead of subtracting.

Maybe I just need to admit that I’m not going to check anything off the list, project-wise.

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There have been a lot of articles recently about passport privilege, which is the power your passport holds to get you into other countries without needing to apply for a visa. The US is tied for 7th with Switzerland, the UK, Norway, and Belgium. We can get into 185 places without a prior visa, and there are 41 places where a prior visa is required.

In 2015, the US had the most powerful passport in the world, but we dropped 7 slots as relationships changed. And this ranking doesn’t include all of the borders currently closed to us due to COVID-19.

So it’s not that we can’t go to those 41 countries; it’s that we have to ask permission first. The country can choose to deny us access, just as the US does sometimes to visitors.

We talk a lot about citizenship privilege—about the ease in which a person can live because they’re residing in the country where they were born—but we don’t talk a lot about passport privilege—the ability to travel where you want to go.

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