#readinglistchallenge — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #readinglistchallenge, aggregated by home.social.
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Made it 110 days straight but my #ReadingListChallenge ends tonight. Hope to pick it back up later.
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This article is longer than I expected, but broken into sections, so I’m going to read a section a night for the next couple nights - a first for #ReadingListChallenge
“[W]hile authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters.”
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Tonight’s #ReadingListChallenge is about SF, but it could be about #SanDiego (or dozens and dozens of other cities)
“We cannot expect to solve problems when City Hall spends hundreds of millions of dollars and does not even move the needle. And that’s what’s happened with homelessness.”
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“Today the roadsides and public squares of America are replete with markers that fulfill their most basic purpose, offering a simple, often sterile recounting of an interesting moment in place and time.
But over the past century, many markers have also become symbols of the country's dark and complicated past, in some cases erected not to commemorate history but to manipulate how it is told.”
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/21/1244899635/civil-war-confederate-statue-markers-sign-history
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#ReadingListChallenge tonight making me wonder how long it would take to lay a million tiny tiles
“Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered an ancient dining room adorned with a series of stunning frescoes, each depicting a pair of mythological characters associated with the Trojan War. Measuring about 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, the “spectacular” space features a mosaic floor made with over a million tiny white tiles”
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I cheated and read a bunch more saved articles from my reading list today (bored), but posting this one for #ReadingListChallenge accountability
“You don't have months to fix 36% of the mail being delivered on time," Ossoff said. "I've got constituents with prescriptions that aren't being delivered. I've got constituents who can't pay their rent and their mortgages. I've got businesses who aren't able to ship products or receive supplies.”
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Sometimes you just need a little Wilson Cruz in your nightly #ReadingListChallenge
“Cruz would undoubtedly blush at the thought. But it’s true. He is an LGBTQ icon. He is an LGBTQ activist. As an out LGBTQ actor — one of the first — he has amassed a wealth of credits in roles that frequently elevate and celebrate our community.”
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This article is so long, I’m posting tonight’s #ReadingListChallenge before finishing it, but the author’s writing style is making it worth all the time
“Boeing is not a “stock market go up” company. Boeing is an airplane company. It exists to make vehicles that transport people and objects from one location to the other. People will not buy Boeing’s products if those products kill hundreds of people at a time.“
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“Black museums have long been “cultural anchors’’ in their communities, but it has been only in recent years that more have raised enough money and garnered enough support to open, museum leaders said. The institutions matter even more today as lawmakers in some states push to restrict the teaching of Black history and ban some books that tell this history“
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My 100th #ReadingListChallenge article! 🍾🍾🍾
Very happy with how well I’m keeping this article-a-day/accountability quote pace and plan to keep going — on my way to 200!
“Very few people realize there was a very large Kumeyaay village here,” said Rodriguez, standing in Old Town San Diego. “There were communities all through San Diego, all through the bay, all around on the Silver Strand, Coronado, National City and downtown.”
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#ReadingListChallenge about to hit a major milestone tomorrow (not to jinx it or anything)
“Calvin and Hobbes showed me, as it’s shown so many young readers, that there’s a way out: not through studiousness, not through politeness, and certainly not through following the rules, but through the power of the imagination to re-enchant daily life. If it gets you sent to your room once in a while, that’s a small price to pay.”
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After reading this for #ReadingListChallenge feel like shouting out my local news pubs #VoiceofSanDiego and #SDVoiceAndViewpoint
“It’s easy to portray what’s going on in local media as unprecedented and catastrophic, especially … during an election year where accurate facts and nuanced coverage matter more than ever. But Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-16/los-angeles-local-news-demise
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Tonight’s #ReadingListChallenge finally found where it all started going wrong —
“In 1907, the Rev. Michael G. Esper of Michigan warned his congregation that “the fad for supplanting the good old dolls of our childhood with the horrible monstrosity known as the teddy bear” would lead to falling birthrates.”
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“To go looking for traces of a person who was lynched is to encounter one erasure after another, beginning with a bonfire lit one winter afternoon. I’m tempted to fill in details: the stink of burning wool, mingled with the packinghouse odors of cowshit and blood. The flames gobbling up the fabric. A handful of white people lingering with fists in their pockets…
But see how quickly I’ve lost track of the man I’m trying to locate.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/fort-worths-forgotten-lynching-in-search-of-fred-rouse/
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#ReadingListChallenge making me remember when my husband gave me a thimble 🥹
“On the newly discovered thimble, capitalized letters spell out LYKE STIL AND LOVE EVER …Perhaps thimbles, worn on the finger during needlework, were considered an intimate (and therefore romantic) possession, suitable as a gift between lovers.”
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I’d honor a god of popcorn 🙏🏻 🍿 #ReadingListChallenge
“Spanish colonizers first encountered popcorn when they invaded the Aztec Empire, where popcorn, or momochitl, was not only eaten but used in decoration and for ceremonial purposes. In particular, it seems to have been associated with the god of rain, Tlaloc, with popcorn garlands and necklaces worn during festivities to honor him.”
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No accountability quote for #ReadingListChallenge tonight as it was a listicle and it’s hard to choose just one
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Catching up on more articles about #FaithRinggold after her recent passing #ReadingListChallenge
“As an artist, one of the hallmarks of her style was a “keen, often tender focus on ordinary Black people and the visual minutiae of their daily lives,” writes the New York Times’ Margalit Fox, adding: “For Ringgold, as her work and many interviews made plain, art and activism were a seamless, if sometimes quilted, whole.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/faith-ringgold-dies-paintings-quilts-stories-180983798/
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I wanted to like this #ReadingListChallenge article on quilting more than I did
“Piecing together a quilt for a practical use—for warmth rather than display—is called piecing for cover. It is an eloquent metaphor for the solace that quilting gives. There is no end of this wretched war in sight, and there is an election looming. If things go badly in November, I’ll probably want to quilt a shroud large enough to wrap half the country.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/piecing-for-cover
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My brain is overwhelmed by a book about jails and news out of NY, so I needed a light #ReadingListChallenge tonight
“Besides participating in almost every aspect of the Wordle multiverse, the Sussmans do the daily geography-based Worldle and logic-based Murdle. They also do the New York Times’ Connections, Letter Boxed, Strands, and Mini Crossword puzzles.”
https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/wordle-connections-nyt-hint-word-new-york-times.html
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CW: Didn’t realize the auto-generated pic would be so disturbing
Nothing like trying to mark off a #ReadingListChallenge article about the history of the KKK and finding it mentions the place you’re living in
“In #SanDiego, former Klansmen gravitated toward the Silver Shirts, a Fascist militant group that attacked Mexican laborers and union organizers and stole arms from the US military.”
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I did read an article for #ReadingListChallenge tonight but I’m not posting an accountability quote
Remember that old Twitter saw about how “retweets do not imply endorsement”? Feel like posting a link would imply an approval of the article’s central thesis that I just don’t know if I agree with
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More art — and more articles off my list #ReadingListChallenge continues…
“Although Dutch Wax Prints became the symbol of African postcolonial identity, they are essentially a product of the colonial era. Some believe this symbol was imposed on Africans by the West, while others insist they reclaimed it and turned it into an expression of power. Yinka Shonibare was intrigued by this ambiguity, and so his lifelong fascination with fabrics began.”
https://www.thecollector.com/yinka-shonibare-african-fabrics/
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“Hundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art … demanding that the most visited museum in the US publicly call for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and commit to preserving Palestinian cultural heritage. The protesters unfurled a 30ft by 50ft collaborative quilt featuring sewn, painted and printed designs by more than 60 artists expressing solidarity with Palestinians.”
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#ReadingListChallenge tonight was a fun little read
“Like any experienced engineer, the first thing I tried was turning everything off and then on again. It didn't work.”
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#ReadingListChallenge beams up some Star Trek info tonight
“Backers of the project on Kickstarter have been notified that Sci-Fi World Museum will open to them in Santa Monica, California, on May 27, with general admission beginning in June.”
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For the first time, feeling like I need to post a second quote from a #ReadingListChallenge article
“[W]hile xenophobia appears to be fairly universal among human groupings, the invention of a white racial identity was motivated from the start by a need to justify the enslavement of Africans. In the words of Eric Williams, a historian who later became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, “slavery was not born of racism: rather, racism was the consequence of slavery”.”
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Coming up on 3 months of #ReadingListChallenge — haven’t broken the thread yet
“The [October 2020] Pew poll found that half of white Americans thought there was “too much” discussion of racial issues, and a similar proportion suggested that seeing racism where it didn’t exist was a bigger problem than not seeing racism where it did.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea
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Tonight’s #ReadingListChallenge is my fav interview with a quilter — wide-ranging, interesting and inspiring
“In a quilting community that is predominantly white and middle-class—reflective of those in this nation who have at their disposal the means and time to buy fabric and sewing machines…—Dr. [Chawne] Kimber broke down barriers. She inspired hundreds of politically engaged quilt makers, who have followed in her footsteps by using the medium for social activism.”
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“Ford said that many women have written to her sharing their own experiences of being sexually assaulted, and those “letter writers” inspired her to write her memoir. Ford now stores boxes full of those letters in her dining room.
“We have made it through 30,000 [letters] so far, and all I know is there is more than that left to go,” she said.”
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Tonight’s #ReadingListChallenge is almost 2yrs old but still relevant
“Imprisonment has the greatest impact on communities with more people of color, the data shows. In #CityHeights, #BarrioLogan, #Encanto and Southeast #SanDiego, incarceration rates are roughly double the state average … meanwhile, residents in #Encinitas, #LaJolla and #Coronado — some of the wealthiest areas of the county — are about half as likely as the average Californian to be living behind bars.”
https://inewsource.org/2022/08/31/san-diego-behind-bars-mass-incarceration-prison-gerrymandering/