Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.
One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
The time between Christmas and New Year's eve
Reading a paper on stress whilst watching the rugby; clear where my stress (now relief!) is coming from rn 🫣 <3 🏴
Love Self Esteem at Glastonbury so much that I almost spontaneously clapped, at home by myself, for the end of the first song. Is proxy-cheering a thing?
Words to live by.
Pilates makes a big deal about “neutral spine”, where you have to keep your spine the same as when you’re walking around, so engage core without scrunching; that might work. Reformer classes are great but $$, and there’s no-equipment versions too
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Important and uplifting truths here. Worth clicking through to read the whole 8-post thread.
I knock stuff over constantly, but quite often catch what I knock over(?!); I wonder if that’s a similar thing. It’s always baffled me, going to have to check this out now!
Trying my first #adventofcode and tempted to rewrite my TS answers in rust 🦀, like the Bake-off-baker-who-always-adds-unnecessary-macarons that I know I am
Other phrases I’ve come across about pins and needles (mostly from the creative minds of small children)…
7. I have fizzy boots on
6. My arm has gone sparkly
5. I have thorns and prickles
4. I have crumbles in my foot
3. I have sprinkles in my toes
2. My foot went dizzy
1. I’ve got pins and weasels
Black text on a white background that reads "when I would feel overwhelmed by what was going on in the world, I would just say to myself: “Hope is a discipline.” It’s less about “how you feel,” and more about the practice of making a decision every day, that you’re still gonna put one foot in front of the other, that you’re still going to get up in the morning.
One thing many activists I admire have in common is that they don't see hope as a fleeting thing that just visits when things are good. They see it more like a skill you practice or a muscle you build. As Mariame Kaba succinctly put it, "Hope is a discipline". friendsofattention.net/sites/defaul...
Watching the Madoff documentary on Netflix, but every time they show a stock ticker I hear it in the voice of Johnk, the fourth Rice Krispie boy
How to Web Glaze 101
Let’s protect our arts from A|, if we can’t run from them, then let’s be their pain in the ass
What is Glaze?
Basically it will cloak your art to disrupt style mimicry so A| can’t mimic your art style. Then you only post Glazed artwork and DO NOT post the original one anywhere
obviously it was pea-hacking
You know how I love weird treaty consequences?
The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD.
Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'.
That's the .io domain everyone loves so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is #NationalCoffeeDay and 1st Oct is #InternationalCoffeeDay ☕️
I like coffee! (Not instant though, because that’s clearly, if not the actual work, then at the very least a hobby of, the devil’s)
So let’s do some coffee chemistry! Read on for a #Chemsky thread with @compoundchem.com🧵
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Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation of her work!
Another one I wouldn’t have found on my own but played because I was downstairs with the laundry and my device was upstairs (love Bluetooth).
This is fascinating. And explains a lot.
My linocut portrait of pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball, a young Black woman in a lab coat, printed in indigo. Below her is the chemical reaction for Ball’s Process in violet. Above and around her is a branch of chalmoogra with green leaves and yellow fruit.
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏿🔬🐡🧪 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both 🧵1/n
Billboard of 4 green/black posters: - without autism there would only be more blah blah blah - without autism an apple might just be an apple - without Tourette’s, 100k people stood in a field may not have loved someone - without dyslexia, there might not have been any floating butterflies or stinging bees
hidden20.org did something a bit like this, but I think the billboards were UK/linkedin only
