Beckett

Shape the world you want to see by how you respond to your own mistakes.

NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?

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Did you miss this story?
I nearly did.

You ever think most of the problem is just that the old white guys are only beginning to realize that they’ve been doing wrong all this time and they don’t wanna feel guilty, because they don’t wanna be punished, because they’re afraid?

Can we come back to curiosity?

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In Tennessee, a vote by public officials can send them directly to jail • Tennessee Lookout Dr. John Vile of Middle Tennessee State University writes a new bill to criminalize officials approving sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.

Do not forget that Tennessee voted to make it a felony to create a sanctuary city concept as a council person tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/05/i...

Done

If you're pissed off at the NYT, here's your chance to put my money where your mouth is.

This long weekend, I will donate $0.50 to @thecity.nyc for each of:
- every new Bluesky follower I get
- every new Bluesky follower THEY get
- everyone who reposts this post

They made a big point in the beginning of this campaign about saving the children, and yet they are finding ways to regulate women’s bodies and reduce our options to adopt
Whose children do they care about?

Anyone who has lived through the things she’s lived through deserves a life free of trouble and yet she continues to work for the greater good

At this point, it’s not about can you win, it’s about how you win.

Winning is inevitable

Karma has teeth

I think of billionaires like I think of kids, they need boundaries. Just like when you’re training a puppy you have to be firm, consistent, and compassion goes a long way

But when they nip at you, you have half a second to bop them on the nose and tell them no, before you go back to comfort/care

Which part of the picture were you raised to pay attention to?

What is it to love your country?

You know, that’s the funny thing about life to me. I can either be useful on my own, or let somebody else direct my path. Even if it means going alone, sometimes it’s the only way you can see what’s in front of you, when you get to your destination, you’re confident that you know what you’re doing.

Can you ever truly have what you need and be satisfied?

I bet there’s a whole bunch of folk like me, and I bet that we can find each other

I wish more people had a framework of when you see something fix something for the better

So they don’t even know that I am protecting them and their ability to shoot while sacrificing myself, but that’s OK cause that’s not their job to understand

And I have friends in every camp

They can come at me guns of blazing, and I’m still gonna be there with my chest out. Standing in front of anybody else that could be in harms way, because my whiteness is my shield and I will use it to protect my friends.

So as a non-binary individual, I stick my nose in the air and tell Southerners that I don’t give a fuck because it’s my home too

Yes, it is dangerous as fuck for Black people because white people are assholes
And it upsets me daily because they lack understanding that they don’t want to have because they would rather be comfortable than understand that the world requires compromise for us all to get to heaven

Power corrupts, and religion is a source of power

I’m traveling to the south in a month and a half.
Even if somebody were to put a gun in my face to tell me that I’m wrong for existing, I’d still love my home and I’d be sad that it’s people have been so misguided

May we find comfort in understanding the complexities of our universe