Abbie

Let’s say you’re feeling good. Or bad. Either way, there’s a decent chance that your mood is just a mirror of the mood of the last person you interacted with. Talk with a cheery customer service rep on the phone, and you start feeling sunny too. Get stuck on a project with a grumpy coworker, and you start feeling down as well. A controversial 2012 study by Facebook even found that showing people more negative social media led people to post more negative posts themselves – without even realizing it. (The reverse was also true.)

From Gaping Void newsletter, an important reminder about behavioral contagion. It's in our DNA!

I dramatically changed my life when I changed my inputs.

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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What the hell? I have one meeting this morning and nothing else on my work calendar all week? What the hell?

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

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My elderberry bush has fruit.

i think of this whenever someone has some shit to say about abstract art

I largely don't read the news on the weekends. This has really helped my mood on Saturdays and Sundays, but hooooooo buddy Monday mornings hit extra fucking hard.

This video is on constant replay in the back of my mind as soon as the temperature goes above 90 degrees.

Good morning to everyone on the right side of history, and to them only! ☺️

Reilyn Turner & Rob Gale 🌹 #BAONPDX

RT: "I feel like family's such a big thing to look back on & play for, especially what's going on right now people being stripped from their families."

RG: "My heart goes out to everyone, I couldn't imagine my kids, me being removed from them."

How quickly these fucking idiot liberals that have been parroting “no one is targeting communists they don’t exist” shut up huh

If you are shitting on communists rn you are a fascist collaborator and not to be taken seriously

I'll always appreciate the beauty of the old Irish song "Go on Home British Soldiers". I played it in Syria to a friend who immediately vibed with it. I suspect many L.A. residents will too.

Nothing more natural than seeing an armed stranger and asking, "have you got no fucking home of your own?"

you guys ever feel like jd vance sucks

Cuban goalkeeper Raiko Arozarena didn't travel to Cuba for this week's key World Cup qualifier vs Bermuda, fearing he wouldn't be let back into the US where he plays for Las Vegas Lights. Cuba lost 2-1 and are now out of the World Cup. US policy affected the integrity of the tournament once again.

I hear calls for “civility”

I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility

HOMEWORK MACHINE The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen. Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be. Here it is — "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." Three? Oh me ... I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.

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My cousin bought one for my mom one Christmas. She still cites it as one of her favorite Christmas presents. Nevermind the air fryer or the slippers or the custom photo album I got her...

It was a great episode - I shared the recording with a lot of people who have been confused about parts of this Budget Season. Thanks for being a part of the convo.

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

humans have been migrating for millennia, the thought that some jagweed racist colonial government thinks it can dictate which patch of dirt belongs to which group of people is utterly absurd when you take two seconds to consider it

“but some of them might be criminals or hate America” join the club

“so you want just anybody to be able to come in and benefit from your tax dollars” uh YEAH

borders and states aren’t real, anybody who wants to stroll into the U.S. should be able to do so whenever they want, I don’t fuckin care

Nice! I love my Edifier speakers!

What set up did you get?

Has anyone else taught their therapist what the Fair School Funding Plan is? We spent a while chatting about how stupid flat taxes are, too. Everything's great in Ohio. Just great.