I used to like Greenday. Now I love them!
My motto for 2025 and beyond is:
"Go where you are appreciated, not merely tolerated."
From baristas, friends, family, acquaintances, medicos, shops, car mechanics, anyone I deal with. No reason to accept less. Life is too short. 😎 #life
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
Accepting all the valid views and experiences shared here.
But also recalling, things just like this were said of the ‘Slacker Generation’ in the 90s. Bougie coffee drinking takeaway binging spendthrifts! Kids these days! Then the baton passed to the avocado toast mortgagees. Now we are here.
In the spirit of Machiavelli ‘The Prince’: “There is nothing more necessary than to appear” to be religious… Similarly, he advises how important it is for the weak to make a public display of allegiance to those perceived as more powerful, in times of uncertainty or conflict…
commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else
I love the high symbolism of good storytelling, poetry, art & dreams. We had millennia of such symbolism in our species. Although lately I worry about a little cohort of people whose symbol-circuitry might be malfunctioning. When stories carefully crafted with beautiful symbols are taken literally?
This video on Honey is absolutely wild and worth a watch
you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
That speech: “we are not the past. We are not traditions. We are what we do next”.
It’s us. They’re all of us.
We just watched this - it’s a work of art.
The composition of each shot, the staging - so dramatic, symbolic. The actors have such gravitas. The factionalism of the group is well-observed. As it really is.
The story is a metaphor of our times, culture wars, polarisation. The twist at the end? 👌
Musk thrusting himself into German politics once again, following the incident at the Christmas market: “German Chancellor Scholz Must Resign Immediately.”
This is exactly what he did during the UK riots in the summer. Trying to inflame a situation to disrupt government. He must be stopped.
*sighs* it shouldn’t have been contentious, but there you go.
Q: is it his job
A: no
*shrugs*
It's not just that Tesla would have died many times over without government subsidies (~$9b in ZEV credits, ~$1.5b in federal consumer rebates, $465m in DoE loans), it repeatedly scammed these programs. It got the DoE loan under false pretenses, and hundreds of millions from faking battery swap.
This administrative burden is true even in ideal scenarios. Every person ever involved in my healthcare, Drs, admin, insurers, has been great & I have felt well supported. But - these extra admin reqs would be excessive even for healthy ppl. It is a terrible trial when unwell.
You guys, the rhetoric in this thread is unbelievable. You all pay attention to Zuck now, because NOW you have a president you don't like?
Zuck LITERALLY asked congress TO THEIR FACES to REGULATE social media.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihu0...
I wish more AI tools were like the RAW denoise in Lightroom - a wild technological improvement that breathed new life into my old cameras, made me love taking photos all over again, and which feels like all the training is in service of making new art, not merely stealing the old
Good with money and business?
Three bankrupt casinos?
Liked the way he talked?
Being laughed at in the UN assembly? 🤦🏻♀️
We’re dealing not just with alternative facts, but alternative realities.
news.temple.edu/news/2016-10...
Fuck I think we totally forgot that part in Dune Pt. 2 about not falling for charismatic violent folk heroes fueled by vengeance who look like Timothee Chalamet in a hoodie
I can see he has Goodreads selections for chronic back pain management, too. Can relate. Fusion & hardware in the same position, with additional revision surgery as well. But I’m in Australia, dealing with a different kind of health industry. He’s clearly at the end of his tether.
As someone who has also had a spinal fusion operation (mine was cervical) and years of horrific pain, I think the x-ray photo on his profile is far more important in understanding the shooter's motivations for attacking a health insurance CEO than any retweeting activity or Goodreads reviews.
Bill Clinton: "People are losing faith in the institutions and in many many places, they're gonna reward the people that destroyed their faith."
You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.
Draft CSIRO GenCost confirms solar & wind still best options. Even after billions are spent on nuclear reactors they would need substantial re-investment to survive the 80yrs Peter Dutton is claiming & no commercial small modular reactors exist. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A cargo cult of networking… brilliant, Joan.
Many of my artist friends wrestle with the guilt of not marketing & networking enough. But their observations are similar; the efforts never benefit them, as much as the platforms selling time & attention.
(Their offline efforts are the most rewarding).
