@myichen

General ramblings and retweets

 Boston, MA
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Joined August 2009
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I've seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level! An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out. Until I got up and looked down...(1
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Fun Red Line fact: At least between Harvard and Park, the Red Line is now 70% slower than it was when it first opened in 1912. better.boston/@crschmidt/109… #mbta

Christopher Schmidt (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In 1912, what is now the Red line opened. For the 4 stations (Charles/MGH wasn't built yet) between Harvard and Park St., it was measured by students from MIT as taking an average...

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Sweet! Pixel 7 Pro ranked #1 smartphone by @DXOMARK! dxomark.com/smartphones/

Smartphone Ranking | DXOMARK

The DXOMARK scores in the rankings below reflect the device’s performance and the quality of the user experience.

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Let’s be real: there’s a WHOLE lot of men whose lives, careers, and families have benefited from an abortion (including several “pro-life” GOP Congressmen). Men, we need you right now. You can get through in rooms others can’t. Your power matters. Speak up. This is about us all.
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Let's be clear: Republican Senators are blocking common sense gun safety legislation against the will of the American people.
Bloomberg
@business25 May 2022
Polling shows that 90% of Americans want their federal lawmakers to take steps to prevent gunmen from perpetrating horrific violence trib.al/xW4mXme

Another Gun Massacre Stokes American Rage

“When are we going to do something?”

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a stat that never fails to horrify, because us political leaders refuse to address it
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Insurance companies hate therapists. Here’s what most people don’t know therapists put up with to accept insurance (and how clients pay the price) 🧵
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If you don’t think representation matters, you’re probably well-represented.
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2. Here's another fun one: emojis to scale Get a sense of how the emojis that you use every day, compare in size IRL... From the 3mm mosquito 🦟 to the 9500000000000km Milky Way 🌌 xitter.cf/stephsmithio/status/14…
Steph Smith
@stephsmithio21 Jan 2022
This is super neat: emojis to scale h/t @ImJacobCohen 🚜<🦒<🦖<🏠<🛩️<🌴<🚎<🌵<🐋 javier.xyz/emoji-to-scale/
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Brian@brianlian28 Nov 2021
This is why travel bans do not work. Just because the new Covid variant is detected in South Africa, it doesn’t mean it originated from there. It simply means South Africa is highly effective at detecting emerging infectious diseases than the rest of the world.
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While you're waiting for my Google Pixel 6 Pro review, here are some photos of a duckie 😊 1: Ultrawide 2. Normal 3. 2x (it's a crop of the main sensor and not my favorite) 4. 4x Telephoto lens omg how  🤯 #teampixel #giftfromgoogle
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🤯 #Pixel6 Pro telephoto lens. Took this picture while sitting down, see last image for reference. Bee is within the purple circle. The Pro's camera zoom captured incredible detail of the bee on a blade of grass.
Bee on blade of grass

ALT Bee on blade of grass

Bee on blade of grass

ALT Bee on blade of grass

Grass with a purple circle showing where a bee is

ALT Grass with a purple circle showing where a bee is

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Good morning and Happy Hump Day to everyone who DOES NOT want to see COVID progress past Delta plus, Lambda, and every damn letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Today's the day that Canada exceeded the US for fully vaccinated. Congratulations 🇨🇦 And 15% points ahead in 1st dose. Your belief in the evidence and support of the science is abundantly clear 👋👋
Eric Topol
@EricTopol14 Jul 2021
With Canada vaccinating 1.2% of their population each day, and US <0.2%, they will exceed US fully vaccinated in the next 2 days. 1st dose, total population: Canada 70% vs US 55%
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"Let’s be clear — what you are doing is not about #climate action or responding to an emergency. It never was. This is communication tactics disguised as politics." @GretaThunberg’s blistering speech at #AustrianWorldSummit No more words. #ActOnClimate
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6 people got blood clots as a result of the J&J vaccine. 8 people were killed in this week's mass shooting. Maybe we're restricting the wrong thing.
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Michelle retweeted
WIRED
@WIRED15 Apr 2021
Google Earth has a new 3D time-lapse feature. Now users can navigate to any spot on the globe and see how the geography has changed over the last 4 decades. wired.trib.al/b6jit6I

Google Earth Now Shows You Our Planet’s Slow Deterioration

A new time-lapse video feature in Google Earth lets users see how humans have reshaped the globe over the decades.

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Yan Kung@KungLab18 Mar 2021
Are you sad and angry about the surge in anti-Asian violence? Wondering if there’s something anti-racist you can do? One idea: learn how pronounce Asian names! It doesn’t have to be perfect. Just try, and it will make a difference to your Asian friends and people you meet. (1/8)
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I didn't realize it was this much of a disparity between trust in media... this means to win back hearts and minds we have to do it through whatsapp groups, fb groups, etc.
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SFGATE
@SFGate12 Oct 2020
The California Republican Party is distributing unofficial ballot drop-off boxes across the state, and Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement the boxes are not only misleading to voters but illegal. dlvr.it/RjSHHy
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