We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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It's not "I suffered so you should too," it's "I suffered and no one else should ever have to."
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“…there’s another way to cope with anxiety about the future — sages like Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius offer plenty of practical advice for today’s voters who are navigating the relentless grind of this year’s presidential election. www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/u... #ryanholiday #dailystoic
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happy Juneteenth eve
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47 orgs from environment, health, agriculture, human rights & social affairs jointly announce the suspension of their activities on X. The "eXit" alliance sets an example for a democratic & respectful culture of debate on International Day for Countering Hate Speech www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-d...
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Exactly, emulating work as play can be positive childhood learning/social develmt. But when the 7th largest mass-market retail corp further invades the cultural mindset as the specific labor destination for young women, perhaps that’s a kind of late-stage-capitalist-brand-domination we don’t want?
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This is really good news: “Our findings indicate that reading refutation texts led to significantly fewer misconceptions and reduced negative emotions.” Next challenge: reading, period
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funny & sad that he probably still doesn’t realize the indiscriminate depth of racist ideology’s inextricable Klan fabric of Christian jingoism enforced with terror & currently fueled by replacement theory - no one is safe
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Thank you for this cogitation. I just wish we would stop calling them ‘conservatives’ & instead name them “far-right-anti-social-fundamentalist-racist-uniphobic-insurrectionist-fascists”. Or maybe the shorter option: “regressives”?
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So Target is selling an aspirational doll that works at Target as a checker, as an aspiration?
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“you are deserving of everything good you attract even when you don’t feel worthy enough, prepared enough or healed enough. embrace the unfamiliar waves that flow in your direction even if you’re still learning how to swim in them; they were meant to find you.”- billy chapata @iambrillyant
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Mediating Matters: to explore how architecture’s “orderly arranging of materials & bodies” affirm the discipline’s violent legacies of exclusion & how bodies that fall beyond dominant norms of the human disrupt these configurations thru non-normative entanglements w/matter www.criptic.org/agora-3
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hoping to see & experience more of this to reverse the device-based rewiring of engagement, social & cognitive interaction - away from virtual space & attention fragmentation to the natural flow of health-giving embodiment www.positive.news/society/dutc...
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“We tend to have this glamorized gaze towards history. And in doing so, we forget how it’s easy not to make room for someone who’s different…(The series) is an invitation to look at our lives…& see how many ppl different from us that we allow into our intimate circles.” www.cnn.com/style/omar-d...
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“…we depend on the both the climate system & animals such as bees, for food production…it’s the rapidly disappearing insect kingdom & stable weather req’d for agriculture that’s vanishing…Humans only undertake part of the work…weather & insects do…the heavy lifting.” tsakraklides.com/2022/08/22/f...
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My mother is horrified
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I would feel obligated to check all - at least that’s what my DNA report says
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So sorry to hear this after all you went thru before
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Do compiling layers of thickening anxiety due to the double standards of meritocracy, mediocrity & accountability (the gaslight tools of the matrix to enforce inequities) weave cynicism into your fatigue quilt and replace your grace with reams of intolerance? Or are you just fine?
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it’s just run-of-the-mill caucasity that rears it’s head when feeling uncentered
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“Trees are history, too. Count the rings. See which years were rainy and which years were stricken by drought. Steal trees and you're stealing history. Don't build your house out of history.”- Charlie Pierce www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Thanks Tim, hoping this place helps to reduce our cortisol levels
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