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Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Front page of Chicago Sun-Times special section on the Rev. Jesse Jackson, showing an image of Jackson and the headline "He Was Somebody."

The Sun-Times and WBEZ have published about 20 stories and audio pieces this week about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, showing how his civil rights work intersected with film, education, Chicago mayors and much more. So, here's an ICYMI thread with some highlights. 🧵

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star: Spoons: Lavender background Hunger Scale: Red background Migraine Scale: Blue background Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Happy Black History Month!

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Roses are red
Violets are grue
In Ancient Egyptian,
Pashto, and Zulu

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Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

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Have never had it in my life and I'm agreeing with everything he says.

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

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I'm doing political science and communications (sociology) 🤣. Wild time for these majors

This is an amazing image, though, and makes total sense.

Gotta do the math with your hands!

Yeah, i found out this is still pretty rare. I met a lovely woman who teaches middle school and high school math. She was trying to figure out to get me some so I could study easier for assessments. You need one of those "i want everyone to know they can math" types 😂

I really really wanted to be a machinist or an engineer and I can't tell you how hard the push back was because I'm not good at math in the expected ways. Then my body broke due to over work and now I'm going down the social sciences pathway. 😂

Yeah it's weird. I can't visualize things in my head, but if I look at something I can tell how it's put together and it makes me really good at geometry and trig. Just a very visual and tactile learner. Hard to explain!

I found out that I'm a "have to physically touch math with my hands" to understand it kind of person and that is just not something that's taught at all. I didn't find out until I ended up in a trades career on accident.

Seattle has the strangest addiction to fireworks. Also, let's go hawks!!

These look amaaaazing

the accuracy of the lab is honestly killing me right now lol

Congrats Seattle and the Seahawks, the emotional journey my entire neighborhood went on was a thing to listen to.

Adding to the list

Howard Bryant's new book "Kings and Pawns" talks about why that happened and the intersection with Jackie Robinson

Mech games are always a good decision

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With that as the goal, and knowing you will treat the topic with care, I'm sure that article will be helpful. Heavy but helpful. We deal with a lot of difficulties due to the lack of resources and protective systems in place. A lot of those difficulties are not known or are poorly understood.

It's probably going to be triggering but it's also a very real situation that occurs. I think articles that outline these realities are helpful in both trying to navigate them and explain to others.

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I will take any and all clips of Throw Rogan being destroyed.
I'm sure there are people who despise Rodgers more than i do but I haven't found one yet. 😂

none of us are immune to propaganda or misinformation. i recently unwittingly reposted a story that turned out to be unverifiable & i have seen more fake stories circulating. yet ppl in the comments were stuck on "it feels emotionally true". that is a really dangerous place to be. that's not okay.