New Year, new Wikipedia list.
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Emily Sweeney does news clips on Insta for The Boston Globe where she's been a staff writer since 2003. She's from Dorchester, has a thick Boston accent. I found that she also writes a lot about Massachusetts crime and authored a book about John "Dropkick" Murphy, an amateur wrestler turned rehab host (yes, where the band got their name). Oh and she was the first woman to play hockey at Boston Latin (on the boys' team) and played four years at Northeastern.
@jessamyn She sounds absolutely awesome, even through that Wikipedian “Neutral” ooint of view!
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The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.
@jessamyn Oh my gosh, I’d never heard about this.
Thank you, Jessamyn.
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The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.
@jessamyn Thank you. Never heard of that. My dad was briefly a physician at FCP Alderson when I was little and I remember learning at an early age most of the women in there were in for similar.
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The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.
Stacey Kabat co-produced the Oscar-winning film about the Framingham Eight. She was a really active and influential person in Massachusetts politics getting the word out about domestic violence, primarily about protecting the largely-female victims, but also trying to get real rehabilitative outcomes for abusers. She did this work for about 20 years, got burned out, and is now a nurse.
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@jimfl She's a maternity nurse and a lactation consultant so I could see it.
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Stacey Kabat co-produced the Oscar-winning film about the Framingham Eight. She was a really active and influential person in Massachusetts politics getting the word out about domestic violence, primarily about protecting the largely-female victims, but also trying to get real rehabilitative outcomes for abusers. She did this work for about 20 years, got burned out, and is now a nurse.
There are a lot of types of jobs where it can be hard to get enough reliable source material to write an article about award-winning academics are one of them, dataviz folks are another. Margaret H. Christ is the chair of an accounting department at a business school at the University of Georgia and she is both of those things. Super plugged in and wrote a lot of stuff but all very profession specific. I did my best but I think this article came out well.
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There are a lot of types of jobs where it can be hard to get enough reliable source material to write an article about award-winning academics are one of them, dataviz folks are another. Margaret H. Christ is the chair of an accounting department at a business school at the University of Georgia and she is both of those things. Super plugged in and wrote a lot of stuff but all very profession specific. I did my best but I think this article came out well.
@jessamyn Thank you for my new exclamation when I'm surprised
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@jessamyn Thank you for my new exclamation when I'm surprised
@middleclasstool It was all I could think about when I was writing it. Like, if that was my middle initial, I might just omit it. And yet, very memorable.
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There are a lot of types of jobs where it can be hard to get enough reliable source material to write an article about award-winning academics are one of them, dataviz folks are another. Margaret H. Christ is the chair of an accounting department at a business school at the University of Georgia and she is both of those things. Super plugged in and wrote a lot of stuff but all very profession specific. I did my best but I think this article came out well.
@jessamyn Does… Does she have a brother?
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@jessamyn Does… Does she have a brother?
@gknauss maybe, but if she does I hear he's been kind of busy lately.
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@jessamyn Does… Does she have a brother?
@gknauss @jessamyn in 1996 I went to the Adobe Hallowe'en party dressed as a 9th century depiction of the crucifixion of Christ. Adobe had a policy that ID badges had your first name in a large font and caps and your last name in a smaller font, camel case. I forged a badge that read JESUS H. Christ. The badges were supposed to be difficult to forge. I used the fake badge for months afterwards.
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@gknauss @jessamyn in 1996 I went to the Adobe Hallowe'en party dressed as a 9th century depiction of the crucifixion of Christ. Adobe had a policy that ID badges had your first name in a large font and caps and your last name in a smaller font, camel case. I forged a badge that read JESUS H. Christ. The badges were supposed to be difficult to forge. I used the fake badge for months afterwards.
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There are a lot of types of jobs where it can be hard to get enough reliable source material to write an article about award-winning academics are one of them, dataviz folks are another. Margaret H. Christ is the chair of an accounting department at a business school at the University of Georgia and she is both of those things. Super plugged in and wrote a lot of stuff but all very profession specific. I did my best but I think this article came out well.
Tom Calhoun has announced nearly 1800 consecutive games for the St. Louis Blues and it was surprising that he didn't have a Wikipedia page. I am not great with sports stuff so I had to look up what a hockey announcer actually does (the organists I know about
) and how the Stanley Cup playoffs work. Most of what I know about hockey comes from Shoresy and Heated Rivalry Insta content and growing up down the road from Bobby Sweeney. This one was fun to write. -
Tom Calhoun has announced nearly 1800 consecutive games for the St. Louis Blues and it was surprising that he didn't have a Wikipedia page. I am not great with sports stuff so I had to look up what a hockey announcer actually does (the organists I know about
) and how the Stanley Cup playoffs work. Most of what I know about hockey comes from Shoresy and Heated Rivalry Insta content and growing up down the road from Bobby Sweeney. This one was fun to write.@jessamyn Amazed that the STL sports nerds hadn't moved on this YEARS ago.
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Tom Calhoun has announced nearly 1800 consecutive games for the St. Louis Blues and it was surprising that he didn't have a Wikipedia page. I am not great with sports stuff so I had to look up what a hockey announcer actually does (the organists I know about
) and how the Stanley Cup playoffs work. Most of what I know about hockey comes from Shoresy and Heated Rivalry Insta content and growing up down the road from Bobby Sweeney. This one was fun to write.I went to a concert called Endfest in 1992 which was a wild event with the Beastie Boys, L7, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and a bunch of others. The Wikipedia page for the event had a redlink for the venue where they played. So now there's a page for the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsap_County_Fairgrounds_and_Events_Center
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I went to a concert called Endfest in 1992 which was a wild event with the Beastie Boys, L7, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and a bunch of others. The Wikipedia page for the event had a redlink for the venue where they played. So now there's a page for the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsap_County_Fairgrounds_and_Events_Center
@jessamyn Time for my favorite game: What Does Setlist.fm Know About It? https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1992/kndd-1077-endfest-1992-23d6d46f.html
Not bad!
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I went to a concert called Endfest in 1992 which was a wild event with the Beastie Boys, L7, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and a bunch of others. The Wikipedia page for the event had a redlink for the venue where they played. So now there's a page for the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsap_County_Fairgrounds_and_Events_Center
The Democratic Socialists of America have been gaining ground in every election (they won seven out of seven races in Vermont yesterday). They have two national co-chairs. Ashik Siddique already had a Wikipedia page, but now Megan Romer has one too.
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The Democratic Socialists of America have been gaining ground in every election (they won seven out of seven races in Vermont yesterday). They have two national co-chairs. Ashik Siddique already had a Wikipedia page, but now Megan Romer has one too.
I helped a man at Drop-In Time start shifting his tech processes from his iPad to his laptop. His desktop was a background of many years of Vermont Life covers. He had a bit of a hand tremor so I set him up with a bigger cursor and showed him how speech-to-text worked. When I worked with someone else she said "Do you know who that WAS?" I did not. Turns out it was Tom Slayton, retired longtime editor of Vermont Life. No Wikipedia page (til now). An honor to write it.
