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oliver 🌊 @ogettell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

me after trying to erase the past

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 30/01/2025

One of the major points of doing DEI (or whatever you want to call it) is a labor insight that lots of people out there could be excellent air traffic controllers or anything else etc, but racism, sexism, whatever drives them out of the workforce until you don’t have all the best people for the job.

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oliver 🌊 @ogettell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Clear and helpful info on the air quality situation in L.A.

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Thomas Curwen @tcurwen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

“If we think it’s wildfire, then we tend to maintain wildfire as the principal problem — with wildfire control as the solution. However, there is no evidence to suggest wildfire control is a reliable approach during the extreme wildfire conditions” www.latimes.com/california/s...

latimes.com

Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts

For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.

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oliver 🌊 @ogettell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

this hit me like a sledgehammer: “[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.com

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

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oliver 🌊 @ogettell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

from "A Visit With Joan Didion," New York Times, 1977 www.nytimes.com/1977/04/03/a...

Screenshot of newspaper scan:

Q. There's a certain esthetic to the way you live. You once talked about using good silver every day.
A. Well every day is all there is.

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