Video: A feast fit for a hamster

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!

Watch more tiny animals enjoying Thanksgiving …

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My picks for #sundayread for November 19, 2017:

• Wade Kwon’s resume … in 10 tweets
• Even smart folks have a hard time detecting fake news, by @SamWineburg and Sarah McGrew
• Becoming Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. By @fstockman /via @nelson_aj
• Y’all Connect: Gender Avenger gives us its Stamp of Approval
• Running Free in Germany’s Outdoor Preschools, by Alice Gregory (via @kikiochieng)
• The Place Where Letters to @HillaryClinton Go, by @RubyCramer (RT @chrisgeidner)
• Flashback: Thankful for … Part 2
• Damage from fed funding cuts for Midwest public universities by @JonMarcusBoston /via @deborahblum
• Excerpt from “Big Chicken” by @MarynMcK enna (via @AustinLWilson_)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Two easy ways to test your site’s mobile design
• Below Deck: When working on a cruise ship goes wrong, by @LizziePresser (h/t @Longreads)
• AP analysis: FEMA rejects appeals worth $1.2B over a decade, by @DavidALieb and @RJFoley
• The Privatization Prophets: Dismantling public education, by @BisforBerkshire
• A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English, by @JesseSheidlower (RT @EvyCoul)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Word on the street

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 12, 2017:

• Video everywhere, including Facebook page headers
• The Beleaguered Tenants of “Kushnerville,” by @AlecMacGillis
• Crystal City: Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost DC masterpiece by Rodrigo Duran /RT @cave_interiors
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – 5 questions you should ask before guest blogging
• How to Fix Design, by @MattMcCueWriter, @SeanBlanda and Kiana S. (RT @bluescaper)
• The difficulty of finding an egg donor who is a racial match in Canada, by @DakGlobe
• Flashback: At a loss for words: Digital success for nonwriters
• Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Freedom (RT @MLekushoff)
• Plan: Cheap chemo drugs for 6 poor African countries by Donald G McNeil Jr /via @kikiochieng
• Flashback: From 2007, Magic City Mission … Live from Biloxi
• @JohnGreen Tells Story of Emotional Pain and Crippling Anxiety. His Own. By @xanalter
• VA hides shoddy care, health workers’ errors by @DonovanSlack, @MikeSallah7 /via @jonathanderson
• Small Towns, Big Potential, by Morgan Mercer
• What My Mother & I Don’t Talk About by Michele Filgate @readandbreathe /via @_Annie_Crawford

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Veterans Day!
• Y’all Connect – Video: Kristin T. Scroggin on how each generation uses tech
• The Birmingham channel: Speak loudly and carry a big stick

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Live stream of the National Veterans Day
parade in downtown Birmingham, starting
at 2 p.m.

A big thank you to all the men and women who have served in our armed forces!

The National Veterans Day parade starts at 1:30 p.m., with live streaming available in the video above.

New this year are fireworks atop Red Mountain starting at 5:30 p.m.

Map: National Veterans Day parade route

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Video: The 2016 National Veterans Day parade

Photo: Kaarina Dillabough (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for November 5, 2017:

• Do you need courage to write?
• Why Venture Capitalists Aren’t Funding Businesses We Need by @btschiller (RT @kikiochieng)
• The plot by Trump supporters to murder Somali refugees in a KS town, by @TedGenoways
• @HometownReads has a growing list of Birmingham authors and books #Bham
• How WeRateDogs Turned a Pet Project Into Profit, by Megan Greenwell @megreenwell
• Interview with actor @KevinBacon, by @HadleyFreeman (via @BaxterSally)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – How much should our brand post on social media?
• The secret lab hidden inside a famous London monument by @ZariaGorvett (RT @LiberMedia)
• The wilderness library, a lonely haven for books, by @PSainath_org (via @NamitaWaikar)
• Flashback: From 2016, Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 40
• Whitney Houston’s secrets, by @BernsteinJacob /RT @supajulie
• The Untold History of Charter Schools, by Rachel Cohen @rmc031 (RT @PPTAWeb)
• The Coming Software Apocalypse, by James Somers @jsomers (via @kachumbali)
• 10 years later, the aftermath of the infamous “2 Girls, 1 Cup” video, by @MilesKlee

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: Video: James Spann on successful strategies for social media
• Happy Halloween!
• The Birmingham channel: All Hallows’ Eve Eve

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: “This Is Halloween” from
“The Nightmare Before Christmas”

Happy Halloween! A holiday classic for your ears and eyes.

Photo: Mirage II (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for October 29, 2017:

• 61 ways I’ve used blogging
• @Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World, by @MichelleDean
• How Trump Is Ending the American Era, by @EliotACohen (via @hmarston4)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – How long should my blog posts be?
• Birmingham’s @JimReedBooks remains staple for almost 4 decades, by @haleywrotethis #Bham
• How Important is Art as a Form of Protest? 50+ artists speak out (via @18thStreetArts)
• Flashback: Weaponize content
• @JudyWoodruff, the Woman of the Hour, by @KatieRogers (RT @ashleytressel)
• @AllenIverson’s long, hard road to immortality, by @JustinTinsley
• Flashback: Why limits matter in blogging and other creative pursuits
• GQ profile of Dwayne @TheRock Johnson, by @CaityWeaver (via @edsbs)
• Patrik Hermansson @patrik_h Went Undercover With the Alt-Right, by @JesseSingal
• Focus on Infants During Childbirth Leaves US Moms in Danger by @ByNinaMartin & @nprmontagne
• A Bunny’s Tale: @GloriaSteinem infiltrates the Playboy Club in 1963 (via @moorehn)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect – Video: Whitney Breaux on consistency in customer experience
• The Birmingham channel: Speeding through fall

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 22, 2017:

• Sponsoring Y’all Connect in 2018
• Rap on Race: Margaret Mead & James Baldwin’s Conversation by @BrainPicker /via @32degreeseast
• Africa, the World’s Next Great Manufacturing Center, by Irene Yuan Sun (via @kikiochieng)
• Comfortable language
• Blood, crime, gore: Invisible world of India’s police photographers, by @Paro_ghosh
• Interview with actor @VinDiesel, by @JenYamato (via @TicketSellers)
• Flashback: From 2007, a look at the Birmingham News’ Readers’ Choice Awards
• The Vampire Problem: Brilliant Thought Experiment by @BrainPicker (via @DrSteveMarshall)
• How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food (via @rapha_lapierre @EvyCoul)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Don’t tell a story just to tell a story
• Interview with actor-activist Robert Redford, by @MichaelHainey (via @BaxterSally)
• When towns run dry, by @YolandiG roenewald (via @WWFSouthAfrica)
• The great nutrient collapse, by Helena Bottemiller Evich @hbottemiller (via @4PFoods)
• Ebolawood: Liberia’s golden age of film, by @Thomas_Page (via @kikiochieng)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Learn to let go

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 15, 2017:

• What’s the next big social media network?
• I love this newsletter, Sunday Long Read #sundaylr by @dvnjr and @JacobFeldman4. Subscribe: http://sundaylongread.com
• David Halberstam, greatest reporter of our time, by @GeoffEdgers (via @Poynter)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Is blogging still a thing? Hell no.
• @DinawMengestu: “Immigrant is a very political term” (via @kikiochieng)
• @ioniemusic’s Dear Creepy Men of Music Industry: Please Stop by @AriHerstand /via @soundandmusic
• Flashback: Is blogging still a thing? Hell yes.
• Blind Traveler: How James Holman Became History’s Most Prolific Explorer, by @LucasReilly1
• Competing in America’s first all-female endurance road rally, by @WhitneyJoiner
• Vote 2017: Birmingham municipal election results
• The making of Colin @Kaepernick7, by @KentBabb
• Is a Baby a Luxury? By @MiraPtacin (via @Longreads)
• The Socialist Experiment: A new-society vision in Jackson, Miss., by @kt_gilb
• Why I Hate My Dog, by @RichardSGilbert

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect – Video: Jason Falls on analyzing social conversation
• The Birmingham channel: The parking lot chronicles

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 8, 2017:

• Weird but fun places to blog
• In Southern Magazines, Easy Pleasures and Hard Questions, by @RichardFausset
• The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth, by @rkrulwich (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Great ebook ideas to win new blog subscribers
• After lifetime of hiding, gay refugees seek protection in Canada, by @ZosiaBielski (RT @EvyCoul)
• Canada unveils plan to legalize pot, by @Justin_Ling (RT @mcinnescooper)
• Flashback: My communications credo
• Out of the bell jar: the Write Out Loud poetry club, by Barkha Prasad @Barkha2803
• What Best Transformational Leaders Do by @ScottDAnthony & @eischwartz (via @TheBusinessTN)
• Flashback: In 2007, an upstart beats an incumbent (and 8 others) to become Birmingham’s mayor
• Oral History of “Austin Powers” on the 20th anniversary, compiled by @TheRyanParker
• How Exxon-Mobil knew climate change was caused by humans, by @dana1981 (via @BHenergyservice)
• Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? By Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo (via @BuzzyRocket)
• In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust, by @MattGrantWriter

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: Video: Donna Francavilla on the magic of Facebook Live
• Vote 2017: Birmingham runoffs for the heck of it
• The Birmingham channel: More Southern than ever

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 1, 2017:

• Raised on radio
• What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? By @ZoeSCarpenter
• NYT on Wayne Flynt’s “Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship With Harper Lee,” by @JCrossleyHoward
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – A beginner’s guide to sharing curation
• It’s Time to Found a New Republic, by @DrDaronAcemoglu and @baselinescene (via @laz)
• The Mysterious Vision of Jeff Nichols, Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster Auteur, by @MsAmyWallace
• Flashback: A detour from the serious route
• Breaking the code: How Nigerian women are changing face of tech by @Yesmina_T /RT @kikiochieng
• The 2017 James Beard Award Winners: Reading List compiled by @HudsonGiles
• Flashback: From 2007, when Hoover High football coach Rush Probst revealed all (well, some)
• Sarah Layden @calmoots banned “Handmaid’s Tale”—we need it more than ever /via @ailenkadom
• The Women of the Alt-Right, by @SeywardDarby
• Is Anybody Home at Ben Carson’s HUD? By @AlecMacGillis
• Transgender Neb. airman finds acceptance during transition by @SteveLiewer (via @nelson_aj)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect – Video: Taylor Robinson on the secret ingredients for storytelling
• The Birmingham channel: The great escape

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 24, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: Building a mythology through storytelling
• The Resegregation of Jefferson County, Ala., by Nikole Hannah-Jones @nhannahjones
• Why Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids’ Grades, by @JonMarcusBoston (via @WidmeyerED)
• In the beginning: Revisiting blog posts for fun and profit
• Last-Mile Delivery and Rise of Urban Warehouse, by @JBreezeiii33 (via @commsource)
• The woman who never could remember a thing about her past, by @ErikaHayasaki /via @nxthompson
• Y’all Connect 2017 through photos
• How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl (RT @kikiochieng)
• The evolution of war photography, by Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli @gajapell (RT @malakyz)
• Flashback: 2007 preview of Ken Burns’ “The War,” plus @APTV’s “WWII: Alabama Remembers”
• How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art, by @CadeMetz (RT @EvyCoul)
• When Our Troops Are Abandoned & Neglected at Home: reading list on vets compiled by @markarms
• Hurricane Katrina: Beyond the Breach, by Wright Thompson (via @Longreads)
• Digital culture & Thoreau’s Philosophy of Communication by John @TinnellCUdenver /RT @zerecon

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Iron and nine

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 17, 2017:

• Communicating intent in customer service
• The Hijacking of $100 Million Supertanker Brillante Virtuoso (via @NeilRussellAuth)
• Review: Jason @Zinoman’s “Letterman: Last Giant of Late Night” by Tom Carson /via @loganhill33
• Y’all Connect: Download our 2017 photo app for free
• Motherhood Rooted: Asian & Pac Isl moms embrace ancient post-birth traditions by @MomoChang_oak
• Pauli Murray, Civil Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard of, by @KathrynSchulz (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: The comeback of copywriters
• Why do so many horrible people want neo-Georgian homes? By @BenPentreath /via @europabridge1
• The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes in Space, by Kim Tingley (via @bastimori)
• Y’all Connect: Slides from Y’all Connect 2017
• How an episode of “The Simpsons” is made, by Chris @Plante (RT @davedelaney)
• Bear attacks that changed our bond w/ wildlife by @KarinBrulliard /via @matthewmailbox @ACC_National
• The challenges of affirmative action in 2017, by @VivianHYee (RT @vsisson13)
• Travels in Pornland, by Andrea Stuart (via @Longreads)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: By the dark of the moon

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 10, 2017:

• Exercises for keeping writing skills sharp
• Questions for Me About Dying, by Cory Taylor (RT @AfricanFlute)
• Review of @BrentStrawn’s “The Old Testament Is Dying,” by @DavidTLamb (via @sagini)
• Twitter transcript for Y’all Connect 2017
• Infectious disease Q&A with @mtosterholm by Susan Perry (via @BushFoundation)
• @MargaretAtwood, the Prophet of Dystopia, by @RebeccaMead_NYC
• Y’all Connect: Winners from our 2017 conference and survey
• Translation as Activism: A chat w/ Philip Boehm by Jennifer-Naomi Hofmann /via @smartergerman
• What has caused such a crisis of faith in journalism? By @nndroid (via @JessicaMurray89)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Where to start blogging right now
• Woman’s Fight to Claim Her “Blackness” in Brazil by @Cleucl de Oliveira (via @kikiochieng)
• To Catch a Counterfeiter: Fighting Chinese Fakes, by @viaJoshHunt (via @kikiochieng)
• I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. By @RickPerlstein
• Why @DylanMatt hews gave his kidney to a stranger, and why you should, too (via @S3micolon)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Labor Day!
• The Birmingham channel: The ram and the obelisk

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: John Oliver with some tips
for Labor Day (and other holidays)

Happy Labor Day!