A soft, illustrated graphic with the heading “Choose people who…” surrounded by small drawings showing connection and support. Each image represents qualities such as inspiring you, valuing you, thinking about you, lifting you up, including you, being there for you, looking out for you, helping you feel loved, and respecting you. The overall tone is warm, gentle, and encouraging, with muted colours and simple, friendly illustrations. Picture by @simply_anxious. In

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” William Shakespeare

A kind word, a moment of care, a little encouragement… it all matters.

Notice who you have, and who you can be for others. 🧡

#kindness #connection #gratitude

Art by SimplyAnxious

When someone has it

Humpback whales perform an incredible bubble feeding spectacle right in front of a lodge in Canada. Witnessing this behavior is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Laundry as art

[📸 Helga Stentzel]

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

The grift that keeps on grifting.

The candy heir vs. chocolate skimpflation The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients.

The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients. n.pr/3N2lYUx

This song makes me happy in so many ways. It’s like the Animaniacs meet Toto 😁🌍

🎶🎵🎶🎵Please take a moment to listen to this beautiful talented family paying tribute to lives impacted in Minnesota by ICE. Please share.🎶🎵🎶🎶

@davewhamond.bsky.social

@mwuerker.bsky.social

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Blu Rays of the following. Kolchak The Night Stalker The X-Files season 1. Fringe season 1.

I've got X-Files for old people, X-Files and X-Files for young people.

#booksky

Hey, so, WTF is up with this?

The Dangerous Revision Of Jan 6 History On The Official WH Website As I wrote to you last night, five years on from January 6, Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the insurrection.

Last night I wrote to you about Trump’s desperate efforts to rewrite history. Today, on the taxpayer funded WH website, he’s using our resources to pursue Orwellian 1984ish revisions. It’s our job to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
Native American proverb

Sadly, the mess we are in….2025.

The Columbia Broadcasting Systems' Descent Into Hell #ABlueView🧵1/3

#CBSNewsMAX

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin