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That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life.
That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes."
- Kate Forster

"I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead.

I had a feeling lol

Do you have an opinion on Omorovicza? They're awfully expensive. I'm not sure the ingredients warrant the price.

Painting featuring a black cat to the right behind a row of irises in shades of pink and purple with long green stems and leaves

Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

Pregnancy and postpartum dynamics revealed by millions of lab tests Analysis of 300,000 pregnancies shows detailed physiological changes at weekly resolution in health and complications.

This is the best paper I've read in years. Validating to see there's significant data to support that women do not return to "normal" after pregnancy as quickly as many doctors or medical resources say. I hope this changes guidance and support for women 🧪🥽👩‍🔬🧬🍎 #news
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It's ironic that Joann is still price-gouging everyone into their inevitable demise..
(Still 20% off maximum. Wow, really?)

life is too short to sit at tables where i have to fight for a seat. i deserve to sit at tables where people genuinely want me there, not just when it's convenient for them. and if i can't find those tables, i'll build my own.

i would rather sit alone at a table of peace than be surrounded by people who only notice me when it benefits them and who never pour back into me.

i no longer sit at tables where i'm only needed when it's convenient for others.

i've come to understand that it's okay to walk away from spaces where i feel unappreciated.

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Over 40,000 people on the streets of Stuttgart, Germany last night.

People gathering to defend their democracy and send a clear “f**k you” to fascism, AfD and Elon Musk. 👏

(🎥 Tilo Berner)

I'll just post Philip Low's text here so that no one has to go to Facebook.

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34

While the Bible doesn’t directly address abortion, it does address immigration.

It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost."
- Frederick Buechner: Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary

"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us.

A grotesque headless cow that says "eat my fear"

NEW YORK (AP) - It seems David Lynch is too gruesome even for New York. The cow sculpture created by the director for a public art show is being returned to California without going on display, The New York Times reported Thursday. Lynch, known for the eerie 1990s television drama ``Twin Peaks,'' chopped off his cow's head and stuck forks and knives into its back. He also covered parts of the cow with a reddish, blood-like substance. ``I thought it was Charles Manson,'' city Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern told the Times. ``I don't know whether it's shock art or schlock art. David Lynch should stick to his day job, making movies.'' CowParade NYC 2000 features several hundred fiberglass cows decorated by artists and schoolchildren and displayed on sidewalks around the city. Lynch said he was disappointed to be excluded. ``Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?'' Lynch said. A cow by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was rejected before the cow parade began in June and sued the city and organizers unsuccessfully.

One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.

Lavender

Reading the numbers: 130 million American adults have low literacy skills — APM Research Lab About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 1...

Today, 130 million Americans—54% of adults aged 16-74—lack the literacy skills that many take for granted, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...

"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."
- Susan Sontag

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Gotta love ppl who work in book shops

Gonna be honest that I never understood why anyone liked TikTok in the first place. Oh yes, let's scramble my brain with really short videos filled with misinformation! Great!!

I learned HTML to post fanfiction on Livejournal in the early 2000s LJ heydays 😂

to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.'
–Hermann Hesse

'To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters;

You have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question - whether you can love yourself. And that will be the test.
- Carl Jung