I posted this on twitter, but thinking a lot about my senior yearbook quote in the context of the toast. I am so glad this incredible community exists, I am so glad to be a part of it, long live the toast.
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
Today I am wearing a NWHL #bestkessel shirt and a HRC hoodie to celebrate the matriarchy, and my heart is so full of love for this place and for all of you.
omg there are now 5 pages of comments so this will be so buried but when I was making calls for Hillary in CA I opened my little "personal pitch" by talking about how much HRC meant to me as a young female scientist and seeing that up there and hearing from Hillary on the toast is AMAZING.
6am for me as well and while I set a reasonable alarm apparently my brain was so worried about totes that woke up about every hour last night to check the time. There was a weird moment in the middle of the night where I was convinced it was actually 6am EST so I had to be up at 3am. Not my most coherent night of sleep.
I've found it useful to think of it more as a live chat than something that is archived, especially with the big channels. For the smaller channels I scroll back and read through things I've missed, but for the really active ones I don't even try even if I have the time, which has helped a bit.
Slack can distract you constantly BUT if you have multiple slack accounts you can pretty heavily change the notifications between different groups/channels (this may seem obvious, but at least for me I was super overwhelmed with the slack chat at first because it drowned out the notifications for my actual important work slack until I figured out how to way tone things down. Decreased notifications + some getting over my FOMO about it = it can now be completely consuming when I have nothing else to do but I'm better at ignoring it when I do have things to do). Slack's default is definitely aggressive on the notifications and the settings are not always in the most intuitive place, but it's definitely possible to get it to leave you alone.
Also, in a random but hopefully not too weird/creepy aside, I saw a lax mom bumper sticker (in SF, where there is not much lax) and thought of you the other day
It's not quite what you're looking for, I think, but for a meta view I highly recommend On Immunity by Eula Biss. It's a really beautifully done look at our relationships with vaccines and where some anti-vax sentiments come from. I think it definitely falls into the category of a writer approaching beliefs she doesn't agree with with empathy rather than dismissal and was really useful to me to think about how I approach these things as well.
YES, this. I think there's a lot of vitriol coming from Bernie supporters that I know isn't coming from Bernie himself but I think he increasingly has a responsibility to speak to. Like for fuck's sake, his supporters turned on Elizabeth Warren when she endorsed Hillary and her social media was just flooded with horrible, violent, misogynistic and condescending comments. I know this is only a small number of supporters, but it's very prevalent and loud, especially in the online space, and Bernie/the campaign has to know hat. I wish he would just come out and say he doesn't condone that behavior.
I think the frustrating thing for me is that he is fading, but Bernie himself hasn't accepted that he lost. Like, it's over, and it's time for him to gracefully concede rather than continuing to talk about taking it to the convention. In the end, the "Bernie or bust" people are probably a small number of votes, but it's still harmful, especially since the alternative to party unity is Trump.
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