Mel Choyce-Dwan

@melchoyce

Boston-based designer, WordPress core contributor, civic tech volunteer, and craft beer fan. Drummer. I design stuff at .

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    Sep 15

    november might kill me

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    Sep 16

    “Why do you want to be a doctor?” I answer without hesitation, “I want to help people.” “There are many ways to help people.” “I want to save lives.” “There are many ways to do that too. So I’ll ask you again, why do you want to be a doctor?” “Because I believe in it.” 1/

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    Sep 16

    I’m not saying the outcome will be the same but this is almost word-for-word what went viral on FB in Myanmar and Sri Lanka just before the incitement turned to massive real-world violence. In both cases Facebook did nothing even as innocent people were dying.

    72,000 shares on this post calling for the government to "wipe out" BLM and antifa. (For scale, Trump's best-performing post today got 17,000 shares.)
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    13 hours ago

    Facebook is a pro-Trump right wing platform and has been for years.

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    Sep 16

    Much like any service that assumes easy network access, “online learning” often has some harmful assumptions about class, means, and privilege baked into it.

    Excerpt from an article that reads, “In August, Paige McConnell became the first in her family to go to college — and the first to drop out. McConnell, 18, could not make online classes work. She doesn’t have WiFi at her rural home in Crossville, Tenn. The local library turned her away, not wanting anyone sitting around during the pandemic.”
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    Sep 16

    Bravery is often celebrated in the dark, in whispers. People sidle next to you afterwards in hushed tones "glad you spoke up." They send furtive texts away from the herd "I support you." Whistleblowers: unprotected--strengthened by an internal, unbroken moral compass, thank you.

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  7. Sep 16

    The skeuomorphism in music software is off the charts

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    Sep 16

    Join us tonight for Award-winning author weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons in conversation with

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    Sep 16

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    Sep 16

    I always say — people basically think that other people think like they do. If they're a liar, they think people are always lying, if they cheat, they think everyone cheats, if they're kind, they don't always realize when people are being shitty to them ...

    One of the current QAnon and PizzaGate subreddits, r/PedoGate has been banned. Two weeks after the mod revealed himself to be…a pedophile.
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    Sep 10

    The little moo he does 😁😁😁😁

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    Sep 15

    I hope in our righteous horror about the mass forced hysterectomies & sterilization happening in ICE facilities, that we listen closely to the disabled, Indigenous, Black & Immigrant women who have been reporting this same abuse for generations & were met w silence.

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    Sep 15

    Since we’re already running out of names for hurricanes this season, I’d like to humbly propose a new naming system as follows:

    American Petroleum Institute BP Chevron Dominion Exxon Fracking Gas Hess Independent Petroleum Association of America Jagged Peak Kinder Morgan Lukoil Marathon Noble Energy Occidental Petrobras Quest Repsol Shell Total U.S. Energy Corp Valero Whiting XTO Yuma Zion
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    Sep 13

    Is it Zoom Fatigue, or is it emotionally and existentially crushing to have to pretend to be chipper and attentive during your work's all-hand strategic planning meeting while hundreds of thousands of people are dying and the sky burns

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    Sep 15

    abolish ICE. abolish DHS. remember that we got both in the wake of 9/11. they are not wanted, but most importantly, they are not *needed*. we know of a better way because we *had* a better way, before our government wrongly passed the patriot act. abolish ICE. abolish DHS.

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    Dawn Wooten, the nurse who blew the whistle on ICE, just went on MSNBC. This is being done in our name.
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    Sep 15

    To be clear: I am not currently president. But if you chip in now, we can change that in November:

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    The President attempts to blame Joe Biden for not implementing a national mask mandate
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    Sep 15

    EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday we learned that women at the Irwin Detention Center in Georgia were forcibly sterilized. I learned that these sterilizations were performed by gynecologist Mahendra Amin, based in Douglas, Georgia.

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    Sep 15

    Our entire world is at risk bc of one small man.

    The Borowitz Report: "Air-conditioning is the answer," Donald Trump said. "It's the hydroxychloroquine of climate."
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    Sep 15

    It’s official: I’m running for Mayor because Boston should be a city for everyone. Now’s the time for bold, urgent leadership. Help fuel our movement: 👐

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    Sep 15

    HAPPY RELEASE DAY to These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever, an entirely engrossing, unputdownable debut about morality, desire and the darker shades of being human. AND it's deliciously queer. It's my all time favorite read and deserves all the hype!

    Picture of These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever stacked on top of a bunch of messily scattered Dark academia books like the secret history, if we were villains etc
    The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death.  Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust. As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, continued on Goodreads! No space here.
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