I need a crescent Earth emoji stat!

This is a great idea. I’d love to be able to allocate my taxes to specific government agencies. I wonder how different the budget would look…

Almost missed the Artemis II reentry because I was reading.

Honestly, Brandy is living the dream. Consciousness is overrated.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Nice to know that even when you’re at the peak of human exploration, Microsoft will be there to malfunction. Like music, the glitchiness is a feature that triggers memories of Earth and soothes them. 😊

I just need to know if the lashes are real. Lol

I say I want ease, but truth be told, I love a complicated mess.

A decent man (from the Tao Te Ching).

The last line has me thinking of sci-fi pioneer and oracle Octavia Butler.

Hi! Are you doomscrolling? Political analysis and news updates can be hard to look away from, but you still deserve time to rest and recover. If possible, charge your phone away from your bed. Max loves you.

so it turns out if you shoot missiles at the country that controls The Straight Where We Ship Everything, it becomes very expensive to ship everything. Follow me for more hard-hitting geopolitical insights.

This is my face all the time now.

Too many women are living vicariously. They’ve been taught that having their own dreams is unimportant and that suppressing them in service of their family (spouse and children) is a noble price to pay. Imagine what life would be like if we released this idea.

I deactivated my IG months ago and haven’t looked back. I miss sending memes and chatting with some people, but my life has gotten way better without it. Not sure I’m going back. 🤔

Reminding myself it's no use gaming scenarios thinking about what's to come. It'll be here soon enough. And - just as I said in Dec 2024 - we'll look back on THIS moment as the good times and be upset we didn't spend it more joyfully and productively. So I'm going to ensure I don't have that regret

Me every time I log onto social media and converse with the bots.

Si seulement Sam Altman avait fait ça à sa place.

Never heard of this, but just finished reading it. Eerie indeed.

💯 accurate

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

I didn’t realize the proportion of troops dying in accidents was that high. What is going on?

People will read this and still argue it’s their money and they can do whatever they want with it.

So when MAHA folks say you should eat "real" food and not "processed" food, they're talking about..... sausage?

I will not be surprised when she’s confirmed.

What’s worse, we spread these fantasies to our children, leaving them ill-equipped for the world that actually *is.* We train them for an ideal and leave them exposed for the vultures to pick away at. Youth is a favored ingredient of exploitation.

There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.

How have humans survived this long? Kids will cough right in your mouth with zero regrets.🦠

Outdated and faulty worldviews contribute to us repeating the same mistakes. We don’t make the progress we want because we’re invested in untruths that feel comfortable.

California’s Attorney General says they have uncovered evidence of Amazon and its competitors engaging in coordinated price fixing to raise prices and boost Amazon’s profits. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Currently reading God Help the Child by Toni Morrison. At some point, I may try copyworking one of her novels. The way she puts everything together leaves me bewildered. She has an understanding of human nature that I just don’t have. 😅 I don’t get people.

Maybe social media was a bad idea…

I wonder if the natural response to being gaslit is to become enraged and polarized. Who has studied this?

BAFTA did a huge disservice to everyone. “We apologize if you were offended” is weak and off-the-mark. The organizers really need to do some reflecting and come up with something that actually addresses what happened & how they intend to repair the harms caused.

It’s amazing how people who don’t like each other insist on being/staying partnered/married to one another. I’m sick because it’s more of him is a wild thing to say. What is the point? (I know it’s all “jokes”.)

As incredibly disappointing as government is, it’s scary to think that things would be worse without it. Humans are completely fucked.

It’s hard to follow this case because I see stuff like this and become enraged. He knows damn well what doomscrolling is. It’s annoying that he gets to sit up there and gaslight and lie.

There’s a big difference between wanting to do a thing and wanting the benefit of having done a thing. Many are there for status, glory, money, or some false idea of themselves. In that context, this makes sense.

Decided to search Toni Morrison’s name on Bluesky to see what discussions I could hop into. Delighted to find out it’s her birthday today (among other notable people). ☺️

It’s easy to fall for propaganda because leading an unexamined life is normal and comfortable. How many people can name what they believe and know why they believe it?

I went quiet in Bluesky because I didn’t have anything to say. Across the board, from writing fiction to writing posts, I felt incredibly blocked. I realize now that I had more listening and more thinking to do. Lots of reading and writing personal notes has done wonders.

James Baldwin was onto something fierce when he said Americans don’t know who they are and want to be someone they’re not.

"Many of us are struggling with the mental aspects of what we are asked to do, who we are needed to be in this moment; I won’t deny the night terrors, the cracked molars, the irritability that grows from the need to continue doing capitalism while children are being caged."

Too many businesses use social justice language as a marketing technique. Very few are bout that life.

I’m starting to think I need to put my phone down altogether instead of swapping time-sucking apps for productive ones.

To those who only see numbers, AI is a boon. To those who love art, it’s repulsive. We are not the same.

If you’re someone who loves reading AND discussing books, I highly, highly recommend Pagebound. They’re still building out the app, but the discussions I’ve had there have been so good. I wish the rest of the sm apps were like it. The world would be a better place. #booksky

I have been buried in books and loving every minute of it! Decided to dedicate a chunk of my reading goal this year to Ms. Toni Morrison, and she does not disappoint.

I love reading. in fact I love reading so much, that I will re-read the same paragraph 10 times over, in an attempt to pay enough attention to register it properly