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Song for today youtu.be/NDVOzW4dXL0?...

All of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

I don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.

we need education of the heart, not just the mind

"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay." The bird in the heart – Terry Tempest Williams on the paradox of transformation and how to live with uncertainty

my grief matchmade me to my joy

What I observe over and over is many people don’t actually care about violence — sexual violence, domestic violence, so forth. It’s something we see reflected constantly, in how our media treats victims, in our media assumes the best of and protect powerful men, despite evidence to the contrary.

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

On the last day of Pride Month, the Supreme Court has voted to allow states to bar transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports. Their stated goal is to deny constitutional protections for trans people, and this is just another box to check on their list.

In case you, too, needed this today:

Being diagnosed with Autism and ADHD helped me understand why I struggle in complex bureaucracies and with filling out forms. I can’t tell you how much money I left on the table at my last job because I couldn’t navigate the reimbursement process and so I just opted to go without or eat the costs.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

there are as many ways to be beautiful as there are people on this earth

I love it when someone creates so many obstacles in an attempt to “help” and “motivate” me that it actually prevents me from doing a thing that is hugely important to me. I said person could understand that this tactic is the opposite of motivating…it makes me feel like giving up entirely.

This is fun: spellbeeswax.com

Song for today: Reflections by Diana Ross and the Supremes youtu.be/FFXEWSr8-3A?...

Living as we do, on the precipice of many impending disasters, I feel an ache of nostalgia for each moment as it passes. I want to hold everything close to my bones, knowing on some level that the world around me is as beautiful and vibrant as it will ever be, at least for the foreseeable future.

becoming intimate with a ministry of loss has made me learn a ministry of love. via @raceforward

If are in the U.S. and want to hear the sound of societal collapse, have a listen to your local EMS, fire, and/or police scanner. What I hear on mine is tremendous despair - so many mental health crises; suicide attempts and completions; domestic violence; horrible car accidents; fights; homicides…

I will NEVER understand people who do have the means to alleviate another human’s suffering but purposely choose not to. It’s especially awful when folks are blamed for their own suffering or told that it’s “for their own good.”

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

There is no right way to be a patient in the U.S. healthcare system. If you don’t arm yourself with tons of knowledge, you are not being proactive and thus are bad. But if you are too knowledgeable, you are immediately suspect. And these are probably the GOOD times compared to where we are heading…

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Has anyone else noticed that our orange overlord has been much better dressed lately? I’ve noticed his suits fit better, his jackets are actually buttoned, and he has ties that aren’t red and dangling beneath the belt line. Makes me wonder if he is needing some assistance with dressing these days…

nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t... the photos here are remarkable records of the day, moving and chilling in turns

Gee maybe letting for-profit tech firms take over every function in universities was a bad idea?

When I was little, my older brother introduced me to this album, and I really identified with this song. It still hits over four decades later. youtu.be/hZw23sWlyG0?...

Our media is controlled by just a handful of billionaires and their corporations. And Trump is making things even worse. Here's how we stop it.

If you want an instant tonic for your day, here is Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (which premiered 202 years ago today) performed by a Spanish flashmob of 100 classical musicians www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/07/o...

#MorningVibe Choose to be a helper.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust”—and Congress should conduct oversight hearings & possibly impeach officials such as RFK Jr, the U.S. HHS secretary, according to a recently released report from @autisticadvocacy.org and AAPD.

We know autistics are more likely to have hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos. We know these lifelong conditions require complex care. Now we need more research into autistic experiences, so we can know which treatments and supports help. By @cjcrompton.bsky.social et al: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

9 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl delivered a set of staggering lectures about the meaning of life, which remained unknown to the English-speaking world for 70+ years. What a gift to have them now. www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/y...

It's me, the duckling who is about to force a smile on your face! 🐣 🪶

As someone who deeply values factual and reliable information supported with evidence, I was unprepared for how destabilizing it would be when the institutions that could (generally) be trusted to provide information became completely compromised. It’s disorienting, and clearly that is the design.

So this just conveniently justifies and generates support for his ballroom?? Totally not suspicious at all.

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

Dramatic video from Getty Images from behind the dais. They actually got Vance out before Trump. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vice-president-jd-vance-is-escorted-out-by-secret-service-news-footage/2273151734?adppopup=true

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

Karoline Leavitt being interviewed by FoxNews: “There will be shots fired” tonight.

Shots fired, the Secret Service rushes in, and they let Trump continue to sit there? And now they’re going to resume the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Trump still plans to deliver a speech? I’m not saying this was staged to boost Trump’s tanking approval numbers, but it looks odd.

So let me get this straight…they are going to resume the WH Correspondents dinner?? And maybe Trump will speak?? This is some fishy stuff right here…