1.07.2021

organizing

What's the correct way to organize your bookshelf?

if you have a fair number of books, and if you ever plan to find one again easily, by genre is the only way to organize!!! within genres, I also group by author, series, subject, chronologically, and, sometimes, book size. which is why I try to stick with the medium format of soft covers. looks better.

1.05.2021

january 2021

spent a lot of time on the job boards this month so usually had something on in the background.

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (2018), Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017), my Scientology movie (2017), scotch: a golden dream (2018), vice (2018), the search for general tsao (2015), kasama: infinity (2018), bombshell (2019)

BBC - 'Butterfly child' given life-saving skin
Politico - ‘Coward’: MAGA internet turns on Trump
GQ - Is Your Beloved Outdoors Gear Bad for the Planet?
BBC - The 432-year-old manual on social distancing
Medium - Why Everyone’s Suddenly Hoarding Mason Jars
AP News - Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
AP News - Vaccine rollout hits snag as health workers balk at shots
Buzzfeed - The Pro-Trump Mob Was Doing It For The ’Gram
NYT - Pence Reached His Limit With Trump. It Wasn’t Pretty.
Vice - The Emerging Fetish of Laying Alien Eggs Inside Yourself
Vogue - A Fashionable History of First Ladies on Inauguration Day
AP News - EXPLAINER: Why do the media call races in US elections?
NYT - Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
Defense One - Pentagon Won’t Throw Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump
Atlas Obscura - Meet the Photographer Hunting for the Scars of Soviet Rule
Complex - How Crocs Capitalized on Streetwear and Came Back From the Dead
Vox - The big decision before Elon Musk, now the richest person in the world
Bloomberg - The Rich Are Minting Money in the Pandemic Like Never Before
The Economist - The Japanese authorities understood covid-19 better than most
Foreign Policy - ‘We’re in a Worse Place Today Than We Were Before He Came In’
Smithsonian - How the Pledge of Allegiance Went From PR Gimmick to Patriotic Vow
NYT - Beyond Impeachment, a Push for Ethics Laws That Do Not Depend on Shame
The Guardian - Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Business Insider - Trump administration staffers are getting snubbed while hunting for jobs.
Buzzfeed - Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next To Insurrection Posts
FiveThirtyEight - The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration
The Undefeated - Attack on the Capitol shows America’s racial double standard is alive and well
Washington Post - The $3,000-a-month toilet for the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner Secret Service detail
Washington Post - Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios, data shows
Politico - ‘He has an obligation to them’: Attorney for ‘QAnon shaman’ asks Trump to pardon rioters
Salon - Government study shows taxpayers are subsidizing “starvation wages” at McDonald's, Walmart
The 19th - About 700,000 parents with young kids left the workforce in 2020. For many, loss of child care was to blame.
Refinery29 - Like Other Republicans, Meghan McCain Only Cares About Fixing A Problem Once She’s Experienced It
ProPublica - He Made a Minor Mistake Filling Out an Unemployment Form. Then the State Demanded $14,990 From Him.
Toronto Star - How a ‘Schitt’s Creek’ character stirred debate about actors faking accents and Hollywood’s diversity
SB Nation - Philadelphia is greasing up lamp posts with Crisco to stop Eagles fans from climbing them after the NFC Championship
Business Insider - Bumble removed its political filter after people said they used it to lure conservatives who were at the Capitol riot into sending incriminating evidence
Business Insider - Some among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement
Business Insider -  Leaked documents show White House blocked a critical government website to recruit election workers during the COVID pandemic and while Trump railed against voter fraud.

Reuters - Why Indonesia is vaccinating its working population first, not elderly
I absolutely agree with this strategy. 

CNN - The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women
"According to new data released Friday, employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, signaling that the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is backtracking. Digging deeper into the data also reveals a shocking gender gap: Women accounted for all the job losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000."
"It also highlighted another painful reality: Blacks and Latinas lost jobs in December, while White women made significant gains."

Yahoo - Column: U.S. billionaires are done with Social Security taxes for 2021, but you'll pay all year
"...by eliminating the payroll tax cap entirely, would make Social Security indisputably solvent for at least 40 years..."