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Sumana Harihareswara

Learned from @nandinish today: Half of all working-age adults globally lack access to formal financial services

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families are governments - corporations are governments - schools are governments

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(This right after they referred to indigenous Americans as "Indians". Right in front of me.)

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Today, while talking with me, someone made that clapping-hand-on-mouth sound/gesture to refer to Native Americans. Yup, it still happens

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Tried to surprise coworking colleague with a perishable gift; they're gone this week #stymiedhalloumi

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(and if you haven't seen Hadfield's "Space Oddity" yet, there's a reason so many people are urging you to see it: youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo )

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"Space Oddity" is great; Hadfield hopesong: http://ur1.ca/du3la

Sumana Harihareswara Leonard Richardson

@nkjemisin I ate a world-class omlet this morning courtesy @leonardr and featuring RAAAAAAMPS. Mighty!

Sumana Harihareswara Mel Chua

youtu.be/08WeoqWilRQ I love this music video so much. Filmed a year ago, in New York. Paging @mchua .

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This year, in IRC/email, I helped tens of GSoC applicants with proposals. At least 3 assumed I was a man ("Thank you sir" &c.).

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Choose your own metaphor. http://ur1.ca/ds0px

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Know a medical professional or educator who wants to help #Wikipedia medical content get better? Check out @WikiProjectMed

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Today's random Wikipedia reading: Owlbear, the Lorsch Bee Blessing, & "For a Swarm of Bees": "Settle down, victory-women"

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Thanks Brian Wolff for this great idea: add "hello" to your IRC alert words so you know when a newbie shows up in your channel #cmgrchat

Sumana Harihareswara Wikimedia

"Your work will impact over 500M unique visitors per month". @Wikimedia hiring new Research Analyst hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTqrXfwr

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@cbracy On Obama's speeches thanking his campaign staff: http://ur1.ca/av2ph (including transcript)

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"Yes, the 90s are where I got my taste in music and clothes." "And some of your clothes." #stillwearingshirtsfromhighschool

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if you like fixing problems, #Wikimedia is the best place in the world, because everyone can help you and you can help everyone

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Different lang-specific *space* characters came up in bar chat Fri, reminded me of "if space is numeric" medium.com/close-to-the-machine

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hey @__get__ - crummy.com/2012/03/19/1 by @leonardr re C.E. Mackenzie's "Coded Character Sets, History and Development" (1979)