PSA: How to remove tracking info from links you share

In most article and blog post links these days, everything after the '?' is tracking info that's not needed to reach the web page. If you have an extra minute when you share links, it's great to crop off the '?' and everything after it to avoid sending any extra tracking info to Facebook, etc. It helps to test your edited link just in case you removed something that's required.

( examples )

After a while, you'll start to recognize the tracking keywords, like 'utm_source', etc., and strip them off with confidence!

ETA: more info in comments

June Sundown Healing Arts Newsletter

Allow yourself to be a beginner at handling this pandemic.
Adapt to New Risks

New book response at Curious, Healing. Have you read this? Comments welcome!

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Online sessions offered
I offer online sessions for body-centered trauma work via Zoom, Wednesday-Friday and one Saturday per month. I can help you manage triggers, contain emotions, settle your nervous system, and more. Contact me to schedule. I look forward to working with you!

I will resume in-person bodywork sessions when I am not putting clients at risk of catching COVID-19 through close proximity in an enclosed space.

Grieving in solidarity
My heart goes out to Black people murdered and traumatized by police, to everyone living in fear of violence and murder committed by the people in charge. My heart goes out to all of us damaged by the delusion of White Supremacy. Recommended reading for white folks: Me & White Supremacy: How To Check Your White Privilege, an interview with Layla Saad by Zoe Beaty.

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Links: Three videos grieving for Black people murdered by police

In so many ways, for so terribly many years, Black people have been saying to white people, "Please, care about us. Please, we are people. Care about what is happening to us. Please. Care."

Lauren Whitney: When did my baby become a threat to you?

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Trevor Noah on George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show

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“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed” by composer Joel Thompson. via calimac. 15 minute choral work. Watch this. Cry. Bear witness.

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Links: good news (about the bad news)

I keep hoping this is a turning point, and then things get worse. And then I hope maybe that's the turning point... Here are a couple of actual possibly good signs.

( Let's nourish hope where we find it. )

Stories! After surviving

Where the Sky Is Silver and the Earth Is Brass by Sonya Taffe (sovay). I think I missed a bunch of references in this brief story, even with a good grounding in Yiddish phrases. It refers to a lot of terrible things, but I liked the feel of it. Like maybe things can get better after all, after surviving terrible things.

On the luxury of deep thinking by Penny Wednesday. This is nonfiction. "Finally, when the burden of worry was lifted, presence could take hold."

the seasons of the ansarac by Ursula K. Le Guin. This was my favorite of the stories from "Changing Planes", with the people who migrated a long distance as a whole culture between one big city and a spread out agricultural area.

Pre-Apocalyptic Meeting Minutes, a poem by Marissa Lingen (mrissa).

Another great list of short story recs by mrissa Pandemic Spring Edition.

I started reading from the bottom of the list, and liked the first three I landed on!
Gender and Other Faulty Software by John Wiswell
Alien Invader or Assistive Device? by John Wiswell
An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands by Fran Wilde

Also, Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter by Emery Robin, even though or maybe because it so exactly conveys some of what we're going through these days, in a setting I'm familiar with. The ending... not sure if it shifted into fantasy, or allegory, or hallucination.