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I recently spent about 20H up at Breitenbush, courtesy of a generous friend. The return to regular life, even after such a short departure, is... weird.

Such was my enjoyment of the company and environs, it didn't occur to me to take any photos!

30.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cartoonish Avatar above a QR code linking to Duolingo user “MugsyMLS”

Cartoonish Avatar above a QR code linking to Duolingo user “MugsyMLS”

Duolingo much?

28.08.2025 05:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

22.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 19255    🔁 8773    💬 36    📌 356
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The APPG Modern Languages has shared a Letter to The Times by Baroness Coussins, Co-chair of the APPG, in response to their recent leading article arguing falling languages uptake narrows young people's horizons (www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...)

23.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 12    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 4
A number of feet pointing to a central point

A number of feet pointing to a central point

Today is WORLD DAY OF FOLKLORE, which has been celebrated as a UNESCO initiative since 2018.

This is the anniversary of the day in 1846 when antiquarian William Thoms first used the term ‘folk-lore’ as an alternative to the more cumbersome ‘popular antiquaries’

Happy World Folklore Day to you all!

22.08.2025 19:01 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Podcast Episode · Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People · 08/19/2025 · 1h 19m

On today's Beautiful/Anonymous, our caller had to learn to walk and read in her 20s, and yet is a patent holding engineer and also badass clown. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

19.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0

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