Link Roundup! -The Toast

This Baltimore Sun report on police brutality is required reading before anyone has anything to say about the #FreddieGray protests:

Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson.

Bruce, guys. Sending all my love to Bruce. Also, super stoked that women get to claim the ol’ decathlon gold medal now. FEMALES ARE STRONG AS HELL.

The earthquake in Nepal is absolutely horrifying.

We are everywhere.

Loved this interview with Monica Byrne, partly because there was a genuine back and forth and OCCASIONAL DISAGREEMENTS, like HUMANS HAVE.

A migrant’s story:

Tatiana Kanga was nine months pregnant and had her 3-year-old daughter in tow when she set out from her native Cameroon, headed for Spain.

Kanga’s journey took her and her young daughter, Chantel, across the continent northward to Morocco. From there, they crossed the Mediterranean Sea in a rubber dinghy.

“It was an inflatable boat, with 17 people,” Kanga explains. “Seven of them were women, three children — and six of the women were pregnant, including me.”

my commitment to science is very limited, apparently:

“I wonder what Louis’s microbiota looks like,” I wondered aloud.

“We know,” Justin said.

“You sequenced his stool?” I asked.

“We did,” he said.

WORKOUT:

big shout to my pals who praise the wire for its realism but also have trouble believing the baltimore PD would do anything untoward

— nomchompsky (@nomchompsky) April 25, 2015

Nicole is an Editor of The Toast.

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hannahhdg 92p · 518 weeks ago

And things keep getting worse... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/27/40...

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kilks401 119p · 518 weeks ago

Pretty good interview with Michael Eric Dyson by Jamilah Lemieux for Ebony, for anyone who was curious about why he wrote the piece (ETA: on Cornell West in TNR, for those who missed this) and his response to some of the criticisms, http://www.ebony.com/news-views/mike-check-dyson-...

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Quinn_A · 518 weeks ago

The Girl in the Road is $1.99 on kobo today! I just bought a copy.

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Kai_Ko 122p · 518 weeks ago

Nicole! I love your workout postings, but I miss Feel The Burn. I have certain passages of old posts memorized, since I referred to them so often in my commitment to PICKING UP HEAVY SHIT.

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grumblyqueer 139p · 518 weeks ago

I am just blown the fuck away by the Baltimore PD payout information. Wrongful death by cop in Baltimore has a going rate from as high as $375K to as low as $35K. Thirty-five thousand dollars for a man's life.

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ppyajunebug 137p · 518 weeks ago

Lord, that microbiota article. Scientists make for the most interesting parents. I remember my first year of grad school, I went to a talk by a vision scientist who, as soon as his daughter was born, strapped a camera around her head so he could monitor how her gaze changed as she developed. His wife was not thrilled. I am both terrified and kinda looking forward to seeing my classmates become parents.

But keeping stool samples in the freezer with your food is going TOO FAR. I look forward to when this whole "the gut is EVERYTHING" fad passes. It's exhausting.

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Alli525 111p · 518 weeks ago

Bruce was just phenomenal. It's nice to see him break out of what one op-ed piece called a "Dad Knows Least" role. I don't watch KUWTK regularly at all (although the K&K spinoff shows are a guilty pleasure) but he's always seemed so disconnected, and he was so... connected in the special.

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winterbymorning 133p · 518 weeks ago

On a lighter note, can we talk about this absolutely terrifying robot that you're supposed to strap to the back of your head so that it can force-feed you tomatoes while you run?

Running while also having a ruthless machine around my neck that exists solely to shove things down my throat is my personal idea of hell, but ymmv.

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sausagedog 127p · 518 weeks ago

Does anyone have any advice for navigating tragedy with coworkers? The coworker I'm closest to is from Nepal, and many of his family and friends are still there. We're work-close, though, not friend-close, and I haven't heard anything from him since Friday. I feel that it may not be appropriate for me to bring up first, but I also don't want to be callous when he might appreciate support.

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pseudomona 127p · 518 weeks ago

So I don't know how well they've publicized the event, but my alma mater is having its first "Forum on Race in America" tomorrow (featuring guest speaker TNC!!!). If any Toasties are in the area, you should try to go!
http://web.jhu.edu/administration/provost/initiat...

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deleted5647547 126p · 518 weeks ago

Uggh the earthquake is so awful. I find it odd that CNN was weirdly focused on the avalanche at Everest and the people who were trapped at Camp 1 and 2. Like yeah, that's pretty awful but THOUSANDS of dead people in Katmandu. Uhh....so...

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plspassthePinot 121p · 518 weeks ago

<3 the daily workout posts, have 0 idea what they meaaaaan

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rkfire 117p · 518 weeks ago

Re: #Freddie Gray:
-Freddie Gray's wake was yesterday; his funeral service is today. Rest in power, Freddie Gray.
-Again, for any Baltimore Toasties: there's going to be an event at UB tomorrow evening going over the efforts to reform police practices in the 2015 MD General Assembly, how well they went, and what the next steps will be. It's being led by some really great Baltimore activists, including Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Baltimore Racial Justice Action. For more information, click here. I'll be there, and if you are there and spot me, feel free to say Hi. I'll probably be the only Asian woman there with an asymmetrical haircut.

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ppyajunebug 137p · 518 weeks ago

I just finished this fascinating article on a woman who works as a feminine image consultant, specifically helping trans women who want to appear more feminine. It's a really interesting look at how she works with clients to get them where they want to be while also being uncomfortable with a lot of the advice she has to give them (i.e. women don't interrupt people as much).

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catoclock 115p · 518 weeks ago

My (white) boyfriend was born and raised in Baltimore, and I've spent a lot of time there with him over the years. We live in New England now, and I've come to realize that how people talk about Baltimore is a pretty good "how secretly racist are my white friends" litmus test.

For example, we were out with some friends the other night and one of them was following the Red Sox/Orioles game on her phone, and at one point said, "hey, people are rioting in Baltimore right now." My brain was one step behind (thx beer) and I said, "oh wow, why?" and she responded, with some real venom, "ugh, I don't know, because it's Baltimore?"

At that point I'd caught up and was like "NOPE IT IS BECAUSE THE COPS KILLED A GUY AND ARE RACIST," but ugh.

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deleted182847 101p · 518 weeks ago

"also have trouble believing the baltimore PD would do anything untoward"

Soooo did they black out during all the scenes at police HQ?

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RuncibleSpoon 107p · 518 weeks ago

"House of Toast, which takes place at Drink, Shop & Do in Kings Cross, invites participants to create architectural structures made out of bread. Teams are awarded bread and jam for the best entries."

really, we should host regular events EVERYWHERE there are toasties, to represent the original House of Toast

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betsymurgatroyd 81p · 518 weeks ago

I really needed an Outlander recap/outlet this weekend. I needed to discuss the scene where Jenny laughs in Randall's face and also talk about why we are only allowed to see flaccid penii on premium cable (not in relation to that scene, but just in premium series in general).

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dancingcrowdesigns 111p · 518 weeks ago

GUYS DID YOU SEE THIS?????

sorry, shouting. I loved this SO HARD and I think you will too: http://therumpus.net/2015/04/build-a-bear/

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