Bryyt

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality; we take vows – spiritual vows, marital vows, oaths of office, become accountable for our words when we testify under oath in court or in Congress or just make a verbal commitment. Our words shape reality when we tell someone they're worthless or valuable, beautiful or ugly, beloved or unloveable, which is a bit like chanting "I believe that you will win." Or lose. A friend of mine reminded me that the word encourage literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up. It's not the only work we can do during this emergency, but it's an important part of it. It's a big part of how we express a spirit of defiance, of resoluteness, how we act with the knowledge that emotions and attitudes are contagious, be they fear or courage, strength or weakness, kindness or cruelty. Which is why it makes my head explode – picture this head as a volcano and these words as lava – when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics. There's a lot of "I believe that we will lose" on social media and in the news. One way it shows up is when journalists report on some of the rubbish spewing from the mouth of the geriatric clown/felon we have to call president as though his every utterance had the weight of law, as though words will become actions, as though the actions will succeed, as though they will not be met with opposition, as though they believe he will win.

Seems like time to re-up:
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

Good dads!

I love mine. I've had three stationwagons over the years. An Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser ( was extremely fun to drive), a Subaru Outback, and currently my VW Golf Alltrack.

Maybe he has been asked, tasked, or intends a return to podcasting with an agenda of propagandizing, and running cover for Trump and this regime.

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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.

She's disgusting.

He's weird.

This is great.

Or Superman

Fall On Me

He played the long game. Testing her, degrading her, hurting her. Checking what she'll believe, accept, tolerate. She needs to get away. This man is hurting her and enjoying it.

Keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul

--They Might Be Giants

Just making my way through the thread, blocking anyone insulting this amazing human!

This is so sad for him. That frozen gimbap is delicious! And I check every time we go, for the Korean pancakes. OMG, those were good.

25 years ago it felt like Silicon Valley was full of idealists trying to make the world better. Now we know these people lack empathy, the ability to make human connection, the humility to understand how their products can bring harm, and the integrity to mitigate that harm when it costs profits.

AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.

After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina the turtle finds the great outdoors Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her...

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her survival.

I want me and mine to leave Ohio but I'm anxious about the costs of selling, buying, moving right now and whether we need to conserve our dollars to sustain ourselves through what's coming. I'm cycling through flight, fight, freeze.

Thank you. Has me in tears. The swelling strings behind her powerful voice. So beautiful.

I love this.

I can't stop laughing. The layers. Like how will tomorrow's news top this level of farcical

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

There is a bigass wild turkey that struts along the side of a busy thoroughfare called Red Bank Road in Cincinnati. Often in front of the BMV. I love to see the Turkey of Red Bank Road. That turkey gives no fucks!

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

If it's okay to ask, are you taking the bee pollen for seasonal allergies?