Marketing + comms pro, art-lover, polyglot, pianist, traveller, scribbler, global citizen 🌎
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Oh look! 15 years on Twitter.
Anyway, I'm hardly on this network these days. Find me in other places linktr.ee/nellleo 😉
Speechless and shattered. – at Ottawa, Ontario
This essay is by far the most personal piece I have ever written, and publishing it feels like the scariest—and most important—thing I have ever done.
It is about the hell that was my childhood, and how systems of power and abuse are created—and upheld.
guernicamag.com/the-protagon…
This thread is the new Twitter / X.
The comments on there. And the sheer insanity of the post. – at Ottawa, Ontario
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What we're seeing in #Maui is a "compound" climate catastrophe, where an immediate factor (in this case, unusually strong winds from the outer bands of a passing hurricane) interact w/ background state (extreme drought that has been in place for a month):
mauinow.com/2023/07/13/sever…
The equivalent of a person you don’t care about telling you in advance that they’re unable to attend a party that you haven’t planned yet 💅🏼
Nelly Leo~ retweeted
Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues.
Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself.
So, from the Soviet Union to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's what art says about who we are...
“There are so many skilled immigrants who qualify to come to Canada, but once they end up here, many don’t get the opportunity for the jobs their skill sets are for…You have engineers, doctors and dentists working in retail. That’s very strange to me.”
thestar.com/news/canada/2023…
“For this generation of immigrants, they are not going to work in low-skilled jobs and wait for 10 years to catch up and get to work as an engineer or as a banker,” she says. “They get their residency but they don’t even wait for their citizenship.”
What I took away from Ted Lasso and all that silent whistling
originelly.substack.com/p/th…
Nelly Leo~ retweeted
Listen to this AI generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd.
It goes so damn hard.
It's by "Ghostwriter977" on TikTok and it's blowing up on socials + streaming platforms.
UMG, which controls around 1/3 of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban AI.
A modern Napster moment.
Will be fascinating to watch this all unfold in real-time.
Bit weird to get a promo email to go to a spa when the very previous email they sent was about getting hacked 🤨@NordikSpaNature – at Ottawa, Ontario
