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What Kin-Building Actually Looks Like The Future of Family

“I want to...ask for something and hear the word “no,” and feel emotionally safe in that exchange, but it’s not how I grew up. I grew up to believe that you only ask for help when you really need it, and at that point, it’s not OK for someone to say no.”

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MST3K for me 😊

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You’d think that at some point I’d stop being surprised that Sunday drivers are a real thing, but nope. Every weekend I’m like

#milestone First time I’ve been accidentally tagged in lieu of a celebrity 😂

February 14, 2025 On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...

February 14, 2025

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Conspiracy theories and beliefs against LGBTQ+ people are a recurrent theme in the political agenda, depicting them as evil actors in a larger plot, seeking to undermine societal norms, institutions,...

Connection & empathy matter.

Study: Positive intergroup contacts = less LGBTQ+ conspiracies beliefs bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"...higher quantity of direct contacts with LGBTQ+ people is negatively associated with LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs."

The original Shiba Inu doge meme

going back in time to tell myself this image is going to end the human race

lol there’s only one Joe this could be 😂 (unless it’s not, in which case DEFINITELY too creepy 😬)

I firmly believe that the “right” way to do art is to do it for yourself. Maybe others will love it, or maybe not, but you’ll still have gotten joy out of it.

Blc. Aka’s Aloha ‘Dream Dust’

The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I read this on dark days for a little solace.

Water bottle

I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:

- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more

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