Unabashed joy that comes from nowhere and paints itself everywhere. That’s my jam.

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"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Adulthood brings a little more agency, which is dope, but you’ll be shocked by how many people only mature enough to survive living the lowest form of a 'life' they can imagine. You never stop having your heart broken while watching people choose to suck.

financializing everything and creating tradable assets out of any difference in opinion will not be the great equalizer that folks think it will be. those you make the most will dictate directions. not indifferent to what we have right now.

A culture that tolerates and elevates pseudoscience will be at odds with the health of its citizens.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

We, as a collective people, can't afford to not explore the things that are causing harm to those around us. We -do- owe each other things. To name a few: decency, respect, courage, belief, communication, dare I say love(?). Among many other things, we owe each other the time and space and energy.

I'm of the opinion that questions can be beginning points for exploration. Like -why- do I think X or Y or Z about this person/these people? Where did that belief come from? What cultivated it? Who does it benefit? All beginning points. It's hard. But the point is to begin.

Fear, discomfort, animosity, internal struggles for understanding the self and those around you who are different from you, unwillingness to learn, unwillingness to explore emotional attachments, uncertainty--all of these (and more) are things that can keep us inside of harmful belief systems.

I’m not engaging with art on an output level. I don’t care how fast the machine does a thing or how many paintings or books the machine can produce. I’m looking at art as the creative evidence of human creativity and depth. If a machine does it instead, it says nothing to me. It means nothing.

I am at least 87% romantically attracted to anything Dijon is on.

Yes, the mustard.

Yes, the singer.

*shrugs*

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

Easy to scroll past atrocity. If you’re comfy in your bubble, imagine being hungry, going to find food, and meeting your end instead. You would think it to be unfathomable.

Begging you to face humanity, to care about folks being slaughtered all over the world.

If the world is going to continually take our breath away, joy should also be a reason. Healing should also be a reason.

Late to the game but the movie “Sing, Sing” is incredible. Colman Domingo and the entire cast (inmates playing as themselves) are stunning. Such emotional depth. Makes the case that art despite circumstance can heal. We need it.

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The line that stirs me in quiet moments and in loud: “it is not a measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

I hear calls for “civility”

I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility

Watercolor. Rays of light and color emanating from Mariame Kaba’s words: knowing who to be mad at is praxis.

This is the definition of “it doesn’t have to be this way.” Because what do you even mean people are locked in a hot shipping container and facing a threat of deadly diseases or bombs?

now wait a minute

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

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More than 5 million student loan borrowers are in default. Education Department says they will be referred to debt collection The Trump administration's announcement marks an end to a period of leniency that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. No federal student loans have been referred for collection since March 2020, inclu...

"The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said"

You ever hear a new (to you) song and think to yourself, “this would be a great first song on a playlist created to help a friend get through a tough time?”

I’m trying to compile worthy first-song-on-the-curated-playlist jams. What are yours?

(Mine today: Got To Be Mine by Vulfmon and Evangeline)