Nikki thee Darling ❌️ 👑

It's wild that that much prime real estate is literally devoid of people 99% of the time.

🎯 "White people fear for ourselves what we expect [to happen] to others. When we are silent, we not only expect it, we accept that expectation and enable it."

Getting ready for the new year by unsubscribing from 99% of the emails that hit my inbox. @annehelen.bsky.social 's Culture Study is the 1% that survives the purge. #cleanslate #digitaljunkmail

Shout out to quality stepdads. You make a difference. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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An easy way to be less miserable is to switch from being anti-things-you-hate to pro-things-you-like.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Get civicpilled

The dancing monk: Why mature people don't chase total control The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But as philosopher Oliver Burkeman notes, there is a third way.

"The monk knows two things: 'I like dancing,' and 'I cannot make people like or dislike me.' And so, they dance.

This, for Burkeman, is what a happy life means. It’s one that lives in the joyful space between control and passivity."

Today I learned how to fix a malfunctioning double-hung window. To do so, I had to learn what a "balance shoe" is. Surprisingly, it bears absolutely no resemblance to a stiletto heel, or even a platform. 👠👡

Being on the receiving end of a good scalp massage really clarifies why your animal friends are always clamoring for head scritches.

This kid is alright

People who are looking for a way to fight Trump, I have it for you in one name: Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.

He's the poor guy who got pulled off the street, declared a gang member for no reason, then sent off to that hell-hole in El Salvador.

Fight for him because this case will unravel everything. 🧵

i believe in the indominable American spirit to hate one specific really annoying guy

This lengthy quote very much appeals to my try-to-see-all-sides, empathetic-but-contrarian way of understanding and responding to the world and its sins.

From a recent post on MattStoneIsTrying.com:

DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning Start with your closet. Identify all the T-shirts you haven’t worn in three years. Then throw away all your clothes, including the ones you’re wear...

There has to be a German word for a long-form metaphor that is darkly accurate but also extremely funny, like this is.