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@polexa

photo-taking, queer, internet junkie. also languages, cities, coffee, & (pop)culture. Connecting SF & Berlin.

Mostly Berlin
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Joined February 2008
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  1. 21 hours ago

    New bicycle parking at Heinrichplatz (maybe one day to be renamed Rio-Reiser Platz) – at Heinrichplatz

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  2. 23 hours ago

    I *really* 💙 's Department of Elections. Having helped scores of Americans abroad w/voter registration, I really appreciate all the info on website & super fast replies. I sent my address update form & got a reply in 8 minutes! Use to update yours!

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  3. Jun 9

    If you’re like me & vaguely recall the discussion last year about different BVG monthly transit passes/tickets to account for more people partially working from home… sadly looks like the idea’s been shelved (April 2021)

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  4. Jun 8

    Here’s the original author

    After a particularly beautiful & silly grocery store run with a loved homie, I wrote in my last newsletter about my deep love of the errand friend hang 🌱.
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  5. Jun 8

    I love errand hangs

    This is very normalized in my culture. The first time I asked an American friend to errand hang with me, she was so shocked I felt like I did something wrong. That’s when I learned in American culture, expecting company for mundane reasons is considered not independent enough.
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    Jun 7

    The Black Studies Program at Swarthmore College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of assistant or associate professor in the Black Studies Program, to begin in the fall of 2022.

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    Jun 7

    The cognitive dissonance involved in basically tweeting “If ACLU is pro-free speech, why won’t it fire employees who have opinions?” is just wild.

    Also, see if anyone can find the flaw with Bob’s logic here
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    Jun 7

    Wir freuen uns, dass das Bezirksamt in den kommenden Tagen zusammen mit niedrigschwellige Impfangebote in der Sporthalle Lobeckstraße in macht!

    -Schwerpunktimpfung in
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  9. Jun 6

    Tina Fey is moonlighting on German regional tv

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    Jun 5

    40 years ago the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US 🇺🇸, marking the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This is the story of how HIV spread around the world - and how it affected the LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 community 🧵.

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    Jun 5

    40 years ago today, the CDC noted 5 young gay men in LA with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. May this be a year of reckoning and remembrance and true progress.

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    Jun 4

    2020 universities: Black Lives Matter 2021 universities:

    a redacted email with the phrase above saying it's from the provost
    Here is an email from a department chair forwarding to their faculty a request from the provost to promptly identify "if critical race theory is being taught" in any classes at in Kansas. The incoherence of the purge makes it no less a purge.
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    Jun 4

    👋Help an academic👋 Are you working at a news organisation in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸? Are you working with AI or are helping to implement it at your news outlet? If yes, I would like to hear from you for my / research! 📩felix.simon@oii.ox.ac.uk or DM

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    Jun 4

    Nonetheless, I'm certain that Berlin's startup culture will be heavily defined by its handling of work councils. This trend is here to stay and any startup trying to suppress work councils will pay a price.

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    Jun 4

    This is one of the biggest issues for all tech workers in Berlin trying to initiate work councils: talent often comes from abroad, people don't speak German fluently and thus don't know much about German employment law and its very specific work council rules.

    No judgment, if you’re a tech journalist who doesn’t know much about trade unions, organizing or the difference between a Betriebsrat (Works Council) or Wahlvorstand (Electoral Council) slide in our DM’s we are happy to explain! We’ll put a press guideline out soon
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    Jun 3

    If you truly want to be a straight ally this month, check your company/medical practice/library/whateverthehell's intake forms and make sure they are inclusive and not written by bigoted time travelers. You will genuinely be making life easier for someone.

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    Jun 3

    "So I found out that my coworker has been selling gay indulgences"

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    Jun 2

    So hey, straight folks I know: I need to make it official that you no longer have any cover for eating at Chick-fil-a. Every fast food place has a sandwich of equal quality now. Just don’t do it. Don’t make me talk to you about it.

    Chick-fil-A’s profits are being used to push anti-trans state laws & kill the Equality Act
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  19. Jun 3

    Trying out Camo (attaching iPhone to my computer to use its camera). The people on this Zoom call said that they can't tell much of a difference though...

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    Jun 2

    The what the what now

    The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify.
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