JessicaMCurrall

@profgalloway.com At the end of your conversation with Kyla Scanlon you commented on how much of the Admin's policies seem tailor-made to increase poverty & distrust. I think you're right.

This quote from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social also resonates with what I see happening.

10-Minute Challenge: A Vase of Flowers We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

@karenho.bsky.social
Have you seen the NYT's 10-Minute Challenges?

I love it so much.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social With regard to the fascism question, I found this distinction compelling & well-reasoned.

Solidarity

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

"His facts" are beyond the reach of right/wrong analysis, sir.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social In the spirit of military depictions: I’ve been rewatching Homecoming (Amazon Prime), & I’m curious if you have an opinion on its storytelling — in light of ops against US citizens, it feels prescient even w/its excellent Hitchcockian vibes.

it's jarring to think about how much federal funding used to go to stuff like cancer research, food safety, public health, science grants, and USAID and now it's private planes for ICE, $40 billion to Argentina and a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be

@pbsnews.org In the future when Speaker Johnson uses an “idk” response, please follow up that it is a dereliction of duty given his positioning in line of succession to be P&CIC to perpetually rely on deniability.

My thanks.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social First: thank you for the link. 2nd: do you ever get dizzy between the lies they tell & the strangeness of their lies?

Was degrading trust in the military part of Project 2025, leading to privatized mercenaries?

@rbreich.bsky.social Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I read this: America's white supremacy uses the most expensive form of subsidized feeding & housing (prisons, migrant detention centers) to purchase forced segregation of non-white + minorities by criminalizing their existence.

@christianaaroharle.bsky.social It is a direct quote from the original Declaration of Independence, edited for brevity. It's worth re-visiting in entirety.

And

It reads like a "to-do" list the current admin IS currently doing on how to reverse engineer dependence on a monarch.

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation & tyranny,....totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."
-- Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Screenshot of what I see when I click on the link. In greyscale it appears as The Boston Globe article under IDEAS, the headline of which is "The left knows how to have huge protests. The right knows how to win elections." The byline reads, "Democrats seem to have forgotten a crucial aspect of what sustains political movements." From that point, the rest of the screen is at full brightness and it is a The Boston Globe banner (possibly not the correct term for what this is, my apologies), which indicates that for $1 for the rest of the year it is possible to unlock news, sports, games, and more." It may be possible to bypass this, but it is not intuitive to me.

@full-duplex.bsky.social I appreciate that you are trying. It well may be that I am missing something. This is a screenshot of what I get when I click on the link at your page.

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I don't know what to tell you, @radiofreetom.bsky.social. This is literally a screenshot of what happens to me when I click the link. I cannot get to the article.

I acknowledge (a) maybe this is not a "paywall," it's some other thing & (b) @bostonglobe.com has bills of their own.

Poem by Jarod K. Anderson which reads, "I am not okay today. So, in the absence of okay, what else can I be? I can be gentle. I can be unashamed. I can turn my pain into connection. I can be a student of stillness. I can be awake to nature. I can sharpen my empathy against the stone of my discomfort. I am not okay today, but I am many worthy things."

I believe you that pain & fatigue are deeply real, @karenho.bsky.social. I believe that you're doing the things (drinking water, loving your dog, breathing), that help keep you moving forward...& that it is still at the edge of unbearable. This agony, too, will pass.

Be gentle with you.

Dear @bsky.app: I desperately need a symbol that signifies "I have read this" instead of a heart which suggests that I like or agree.

@thedailyshow.com He's second in line to be P&CIC: It's a gross dereliction of duty for him to play at being this ignorant.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Since this is a public-owned historical building, are there records that can detail if asbestos was used?

I have zero confidence that any precautions are being taken about items of clear value for preservation or containment of toxic materials into the air.

Gil Fronsdal: Thinking That Quiets Thinking YouTube video by Insight Meditation Center

@honey-goblin.bsky.social You may find this Audio Dharma talk with specific strategies on Thinking That Quiets Thinking to be interesting & potentially a comfort.

www.youtube.com/live/GEQZN4l...

Take gentle care of you.

I can't help but wonder: who the absolute fuck are these guys -- the construction workers? They're good with this?

Unreal.

That was my experience also.

YouTube video by Mother Jones To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the "TheoBros"

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Whenever I hear the ostensibly Christian TheoBros (youtu.be/hrK9S5YxJfE?...), there are many parallels to a narcissistic immature mysogyny describing the Lost Boys.

And now, these guys + their ilk, are running the U.S. govt & military.

Am I wrong?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Question: a gap I noted was with "advances of women’s rights are especially terrifying to a certain cohort". The article references Lost Boys radicalized to a self-serving version of Islam but does not consider the trend w/a similarly inaccurate version of Christianity.

The Narcissism of the Angry Young Men What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Your Jan 2023 article was featured in the Atlantic Daily today (19 Oct 25). Here again, I greatly appreciate your taking on a topic that is enormously underreported in the thoroughness, complexity, & discussion points you've provided.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

San Diego California: Police Dept. thanks the citizens for peacefully protesting. Once again there were zero arrests.

Image from www.wheretrueloveis.com that reads, "I choose love. I choose inclusion. I choose empathy compassion equality dignity diversity. I choose community. Kindness. Integrity. Honesty. Respect. I choose Justice. I choose facts. Peace. The Planet. I choose humanity. I choose love."

@rockksteady.bsky.social Know that you & your father are valued & appreciated.

Your worth is not determined by what you are able to do in the public square. Your worth is irrevocable.

My heart to your heart: Take gentle care of you, too.

@juddlegum.bsky.social In terms of actions that break the allure of cult-like trance, amplifying the hyperbole on how horrific their enemies are will make some of their community realize that they are wrong: it violates what people know about their own kin, neighbors, & what they see of strangers.

Muted orange tabby kitten with extremely long white whiskers lies with front paws over edge of a shelf. His facial expression conveys patient interest.

Do what you need to as self-preservation, @stabbyspice.bsky.social

This gentle kitten wants you to know that you are valued.

Continuing: "These guidelines involve obtaining and classifying samples from a healthy population of at least 120 individuals and then identifying the outermost 5% of observations to use in defining limits for two-sided or one-sided reference intervals."

Defining laboratory reference values and decision limits: populations, intervals, and interpretations This article provides a brief overview of various approaches that may be utilized for the analysis of human semen test results. Reference intervals are the most widely used tool for the interpretation...

"Reference interval development has classically relied on concepts elaborated by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Expert Panel on Reference Values during the 1980s...." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...