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  1. natalie

    Chapter II – Exploring the city

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    from the book The Weekend: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Drea Saturday morning, Paige walked towards Oeiras station and took the local train for a 20-minute ride with a sea view towards Cais de Sodre Lisbon station. She passed by little towns such as Praia de Caxias, Alges, and Alcantar Mar, looking out the window… Continue reading Chapter II – Exploring the city
  2. @KellyPratt27125

    Visual Assignment Pt. 1

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    The information about taking pictures was interesting. Having taken multiple architecture research classes, I’ve already taken part in several lessons about taking photos using a camera. Most of the information presented in my digital studies course reiterated what I already knew. One suggestion that I would like to consider for future photos is to take […]
  3. Downes

    All Packed Up

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    May 19, 2022. Here's my bicycle all packed up and ready to head out for a three day practice ride this long weekend. Very busy day today, as in addition also prepared my slides for my CNIE talk coming up next week. https://flic.kr/p/2oBBGem
  4. Downes

    87

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    May 18, 2023. This is my mother and Bernie celebrating her 87th birthday at the home in the city. She's not mobile and requires a lot of assistance but Bernie and his daughter Debbie are there every day and the staff are also really good to her. It's ...
  5. Downes

    Office Tree

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    May 17, 2023. This is an apple tree in bloom just outside my office in the city. It was a work-in-office day today (plus two hours in a traffic jam right after) but I got quite a bit done - project closing report, online course, more corporate paperwo...
  6. Downes

    Morning Surprise

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    May 16, 2023. This flower appeared in the tree in our front yard. We were not expecting a flower; the tree is just this scraggly bush we've been allowing to grow because it's too much work to remove it - and then, suddenly, this! It appears our bush i...
  7. natalie

    The Weekend: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Dream

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    OUT NOW! Listen to Chapter I – JANUARY Lisbon, Portugal — March of 2022 Paige is sitting at her desk in her retro loft apartment, a 19th-century mansion in the trendy Real area. She looks across the room and remembers her early days in Lisbon. Seven years had passed since she’d first set foot on the… Continue reading The Weekend: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Dream
  8. @KellyPratt27125

    Introducing KP

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    This is my first blog post for the Digital Storytelling class at my school, the University of Mary Washington. Below is a brief introductory sound clip about me. I hope you enjoy it. In addition to being a student, I am an avid lover of fur babies. I have a pet ferret named Bandit. She […]
  9. @BalladofE11442

    About Me

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    Blog Post One   I am currently a rising sophomore in college. This site has been created so I can put down my original novel ideas and what I have already written. Now I have posted on Wattpad before as another area of writing. I am in the process of w...
  10. Downes

    White Crowned Sparrow

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    This is a white crowned sparrow in our back yard. As you can tell from the sparrow guide birdwatchinghq.com/sparrows-in-canada/ it's just passing on migration to the north. First one stopped and now we have a half dozen. Worked from home today, much l...
  11. meredith

    Projects Lately

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    I think it’s about time that I dust this blog off! via GIPHY It’s been almost a year since I last blogged about one of Reclaim’s first Flex Courses in Reclaim Ed Tech, and now we’ve completed the first year! Throughout that year we’ve put on several flex courses, workshops, and even planning for a […]
  12. Downes

    Ottawa Tulip Festival

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    May 14, 2023. Our walk this week took us to the Ottawa tulip festival, where we spent a cool but sunny afternoon enjoying the spring flowers. Nice win by the Blue Jays too. https://flic.kr/p/2oAzvuN
  13. Downes

    20230511_184823300

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    May 11, 2023. Choir and orchestra in the Byward Market, Ottawa. I took a quick break from the conference to get more hot sauce and pasta from the European foods store at the market. https://flic.kr/p/2oA8Tmj
  14. jgieseking

    If All Dating Apps Are Based on Grindr, We Need to Talk about Cruising (Part I of III)

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    The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these apps based their designs on, or even against, the first successful dating/hookup app: Grindr. In other words, developers imitated, refused, or even outright copied design, functionality, and structure to sell apps to straight people, lesbians, and other gay men (as the identity grouping went a decade ago, per big tech). Most importantly for my interest in lesbian, bi, queer, trans*, and sapphic (LBQT*S+) people’s experiences of dating and hookup apps, this evolution of dating apps from Grindr requires us to understand that all dating apps are based on—even by being designed alongside or against—the social and cultural hookup/dating norms of an app designed for, by, and about cis gay men, e.g. cruising.

    In other words, this means that all dating apps are created from and/or against the

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