Eric Stickland

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

Maybe we should let our kids go outside...could work, hasn't been tried yet.

"Kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger."

Pretty sure @jessesingal.com wrote this years ago...

Tribalistic people are the worst. They process the world in a more primitive, rigidly black-and-white way than my cohort, the anti-tribalists. In fact, I would go so far as to say none of them are to be trusted and we must take up arms to defend ourselves against them.

"It is, obviously, pretty goofy to turn an extremely threadbare outline of knowledge about a two-thousand-year-old Jewish activist named Jesus into a set of rigid ideological claims to absolute truth."

This looks like a Cybertruck co-branding promo...

Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

First concert since reconstructive ACL surgery 13 days ago- Jack White at Roadrunner, Boston.

Facebook is mostly useless to me now, but the Buy Nothing groups are still worthwhile and an occasional source of hilarity...

I *really* wanted to reply to this, but showed some restraint for once.

The Elflord and the Mayfly A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

I love this. I found it years ago and like to come back and reread it every so often. Perspective.

Vichada Province, Colombia, May 1998.

I was deployed there while serving in the USAF alongside Colombian AF personnel who had adopted these kittens.

After months of deployment, I was starved for physical affection, so I took great joy in being able to hold these two for a few minutes.

Really glad to see you posting here on Bluesky. I also found you via Rebecca Solnit.

Love this. Worth reading.

"And yes kindness and yes hope, but god damn it, you don’t wait for those things, you make them. A job to be done still needs to be done, regardless of the measurement of your hope. You feel hopeful. Make a call. Reach out. You don’t feel hopeful. Make a call. Reach out."

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

I'd go a step further and suggest we reschedule Christmas to mid-January at the earliest, maybe even push it to February. There's just way too much winter with nothing to lighten the mood.

I'm approx. 98% serious about this.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Goodbye Resistance, Hello Opposition For those of us who refuse to get in line, to accommodate the rollback of civil and human rights, what is our choice? I think the answer is opposition.

NEW: "There’s no time or purpose for fear. Previous generations defeated Hitler. Americans like you laid their bodies down for civil rights. They walked across beaches into machine gun nests. They crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridges into truncheons and horse hooves." open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

YouTube video by The Onion Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super Rich

Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super Rich

Your 2024 Therapy Wrapped Your 2024 Therapy Wrapped

Great idea, excellent execution. I just wish there was one personalized for me!

Please Spare Me All Hypocritical Outrage Over Hunter Biden's Pardon The same movement that supports and celebrates a criminal, vulgarian insurrectionist who pardons his criminal friends now feigns outrage. Here's me playing the world's smallest violin.

Please Spare Me All Hypocritical Outrage Over Hunter Biden's Pardon.

This is a man who pardoned his co-conspirators, including some of the vile, unrepentant individuals, such as Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort.

Trump voters don’t care.

Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100 Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.

“I remember saying to myself, ‘I don’t know who they are or where they are, but I’ll find the people who are fighting this, and I’ll join them.’ ”

“The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”

Wind of Change | Crooked Media

Echoing @johnwtucker.bsky.social and specifically recommending "Wind of Change":
crooked.com/podcast-seri...

BREAKING:

House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms.

When traveling abroad in tourist destinations, I've begun a practice of waking early to walk the city in the relative quiet and cool of the early morning. Watching Rome come alive in late June '22 was a highlight.

I remember how everyone laughed and laughed when they hired Dan Campbell. And understandably so, in some ways. However, he's obviously doing *something* right...

Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free “What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis At Haymarket, we

Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks that meet this moment in US history, including titles by Rebecca Solnit, Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. [haymarketbooks.org]

Everything is not as it appears.

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘The Onion’ Since Global Tetrahedron bought this publication several months ago, there has been significant chatter about who our company is and what it represents. Much has been made of my past as a tech entrepr...

Put simply, we understand that The Onion is special, and Global Tetrahedron’s entire executive team is dedicated to extracting all the value we can from that specialness.