Who doesn’t wish that poetry could change the world? But if it changes the way we see the trees bending, the eggs frying, the children rocking, then truly that wish has come true.

Momo-chan, pencil and ink! #dandadan #art #sketch #anime

I have resolved to learn how to draw recently, as I've always wanted to be an artist, so this is my current progress after a short bit, with a pencil sketch and inked version of Nia from Xenoblade Chronicles 3! #art #xenoblade #nia #xenobladechronicles #drawing

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

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First copies just arrived: COUNTLESS SANDS: MEDIEVAL BUDDHISTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS (2025) The publisher’s website is shipping now go.hawaii.edu/bXG

#utakata #snailshouse #fanart @rapparu.bsky.social the animation made me cry happy tears, I hope you like this drawing I made in response

In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...

"Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 [air pollution] fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people."

a really underrated issue in environmental advocacy is that *totally separate from climate effects* pollution is exceptionally bad for you and cleaning the air saves lives

at least six people have self-immolated at Red Onion State Prison. i heard about this yesterday for the first time. Nothing at all from mainstream outlets that I've seen. Happy that @theappeal.org wrote about it today. from @elizabethweill.bsky.social

*My* preferred ethnic group's romantic self assertion would be good. For we suffered bad things, which obviously makes my armchair fantasising about apocalyptic violence meted out upon our enemies good. Totally unlike groups who do bad stuff, who obviously have no similar excuses in their own case.

Hmmmm... deciding between starting a thread series on meditation techniques that may suit various needs of clients, interesting links between Buddhism and Islam, or the growth of a Global Religious Right and the need for a Religious Left to counter it....

A really interesting recent article: it gives several convincing examples of deliberate alterations made to the wordings of hadiths, caused by differences in theology and doctrine among Muslim groups of the first centuries, such as the Shīʿa, Ahl al-Raʾy, and Muʿtazila

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

If you liked my new Bugbear Dispatch essay, you might like this older one as well. conversationalist.org/2023/09/11/r...

Keeping up with academia on social media is bittersweet: I am able to access great scholarship without needing to be in a formal higher ed setting. At the same time, it makes my current situation that much more depressing, knowing I can't afford to even complete my BA for at least another year...

‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,’’ wrote W.B. Yeats, ‘‘for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’

For a brown woman, one of the palpable effects of the election- and this was exactly the same in 2016- is the ways in which white people feel emboldened to disrespect or harass me. I’ve had more interactions like this in public in 2 weeks than in 2 years prior to it. I mostly don’t feel safe.

life lessons by Aatish youtu.be/a5YYGPSV3qQ?si…

Kendrick dropping was truly the medicine I needed after the shitshow of this week. "Reincarnation" is the best track on the tape btw. Clearly no Buddhist bias involved at all 🥶

Another thought-provoking response 🧵 Worth reading and considering 👇🏻

Thinking is such a wild fun process. It generates so many possible ways to think about and act on the world, so many possibilities of art and enjoyment. But the thought = belief = faith false equivalency has people afraid that coming up with a bad idea means that they are evil and doomed. /4

in the midst of worldly desires and attachments one comes and goes alone, is born alone, and dies alone. after death, one goes to a painful or pleasant state of existence. each receives their karmic consequences, and no one else can take their place.

“The Buddha completely perceives the true characteristics of the Threefold World as they are: there is no birth or death, no ebbing or arising. Neither is there present existence and subsequent extinction, substantial reality or fictitious imagination, same or different.” All is one! 🪷 #buddhism

“‘Where do water and earth, fire and air find no footing? Where do long and short… where do name and form cease with nothing left over?’ And the answer to that is ‘Consciousness without feature, infinite, luminous all-round— here water and earth, fire and air find no footing.’” #buddhism

One should not neglect wisdom, One should preserve truth, One should cultivate relinquishment, One should practice for peace. MN140 "Exposition on the Elements"

What’s even more insane is the hubris of the ones running the show; my workplace which serves 95% BIPOC youth has only one person who is not white, which is me. The laziness/indifference of whiteness to prioritize convenience/comfort over the suffering of others is best exposed through this mess.

Oh my god. I had no idea: Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

I can confirm this first hand in my workplace, which is a mental health service that serves solely youth who receive Medicaid. Critical components of care such as treatment planning and even researching DIAGNOSES is being left to AI. If this were done to ANY other population, no one would be spared

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

7) Hanging out with friends is not organizing. It is necessary to rejuvenate yourself but learn the difference. If you are not confronted by social complexity (see above) whatever you are doing is not work. Don’t kid yourself that it is.

6) By the same token, stop fetishizing power. Normalize its refusal. Focusing breathlessly on the exercise of power by dimwitted fascists only helps their project of projecting power. Ignore it. Celebrate those who quit. Build them up.

5) Mock power. Fascists depend on the projection of invincible power. Take every opportunity to show the emperor has no clothes. Fascists depend on people craving proximity to power. Any sign of weakness is thus debilitating.

4) Learn to live with social complexity. If you write off the possibility of persuading your fellow citizens, fascists win by default. In practice fascist ideologues are few, but people think they can ride that tiger for their own purpose. Read Sarah Ahmed’s organization of hate. Weaponize love.

3) Accept that corporatized media will only amplify attention-hogging nonsense and eventually become propaganda outlets. Tamil farmers protested for 2 yrs and not one major Indian outlet covered it. Being aware of resistance efforts is vital to supporting them and preventing demoralization.

Considering Islamic Legal Theory’s (Usul) focus on language and linguistic nuances in conveying information through text, LLM AI may prove to be either a threat or a great helper and time saver for the field. May even open up new conversations previously neglected or unconsidered.

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Thread on #meditation in #mentalhealth: I have seen a recent uptick of anti-meditation content in mental health circles. In my experience, there hasn't been a single client I have had that proper meditation has not worked for. It seems the root of the problem lies in colonialism and capitalism.

Do you want to join a great Buddhist community on Discord? Well, the Golden Swastika Discord server will be good for you! (Warning: This is a Buddhist server that centers around traditional Buddhism, so no secular Buddhist takes) discord.gg/qFqrhdDB3x

Whereas most of my fellow Muslims would have disowned me, every single Buddhist monastic or clergy member I have encountered has encouraged me to work with the Muslim community and build bridges between the faiths of Buddhism and Islam. But Islam's rigidity has left a bitter taste in my mouth...

Incredible news. Jeff Younger, a deadbeat dad chastized by the court for refusing to pay child support and ran for the Texas legislature specifically to detransition his trans daughter, has lost all custody rights to Luna's mother. Luna will not be detransitioned or put through conversion therapy.

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