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Looking for audiobook recommendations for any (ancient) historical feel good fantasy/folklore fiction that's available on Libby Canada or Germany. Help please? Thanks!

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I dream of being able to study ancient eastern philosophy someday, taught by those who have lived those paths and not just academic theory professors. The way the world is going, I predict it will be of utmost importance to the human race.

I feel like there should be an extra field on the standard wellness depression anxiety questionnaire in these times. Not disproportionately anxious or worried

Every day we stray further from God's light

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

We have hit a new low. I overheard a person in a "spiritual growth" community talking about "habit stacking" - listening to spiritual course lessons while they clean, to get the max productivity out of the experience.

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to put us on this planet and make us pay to to live, when we didn't ask to be here. We could have all just been chilling in nothingness, no bills, no war, no calories to worry about.

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Wow Charles was having a really rough few years

Imagine two cows having sex. Now imagine them wearing tiny hats. What's wrong with you?

A friend of a friend got pulled over for speeding and had to work very hard not to ask the state trooper if his mother knew he was playing with guns. I know exactly how she feels. Everyone seems far too young and irresponsible to be in charge of things.

I whipped up another learning related Skill! Smaller than Learning Opportunities, but very complementary: interactive guidance through a quick research-backed psychological intervention that helps improve learning plans, motivation and commitment

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I’m just here to see how we end.

Being asked to join a group to help develop a product for AI wellbeing for educational institutions/students. I don't have much information about it yet, but not super well versed with AI product dev. What do I need to know? Can anyone help?

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A terrible thing about being 12 hours ahead of US time is that I wake up to a new horror every morning on the news.

They're raising the bar for torture so people won't be affected by less intense, yet horrible forms of torture. This is what normalising ill treatment looks like. If you haven't read The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, it's a good time to do so.

Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.

‘If I knew what I know now’ The richest white men in the world apparently all just learned how to read words in 2026

Not a single person who was ever told to "calm the fuck down" has ever calmed down, let alone "the fuck down."

I've been thinking about status signaling as a concept and I see some patterns. It appears to me that societies that were originally monarchies/clusters of monarchies, and were forced into becoming sovereign nations, still show signs of status as supremely valuable measures of success.

A primer for non-psychologists: expectations play a central role in our motivational system. We calibrate our behaviors against where we expect to succeed. imho, technology that scaffolds our problem-solving can be transformative when it opens new horizons of self-efficacy.

Listen, we need to let kids figure out what they enjoy learning about, and how they enjoy learning about it. The process of learning is beautiful and exciting, and thrusting worksheets upon worksheets to make them "learn" the thing schools think is important, is killing their joy for learning.

🧵 Reshares appreciated. Two sets of questions about audiobooks. (One for Indian readers, one for Indian readers who also write.) Disclosure first: I am a fledgeling audiobook narrator — about to finish my second book for an Indian publisher — so I have a vested interest in your answers.

When there was air, when you could breathe any day if you liked, and if you wanted to you could run, I used to climb those hills back of town and follow a gully so my eyes were at ground level and could look out through grass as the stems bent in their tensile way - William Stafford #Poetry 💙📚👀

Why Germans? Why? My mouth hurts from trying to say this 😭

What must one do here in order to shut out the same news recycling 24/7 and get more calming content?

Hillside cabin

This guy is genuinely a Voldemort 2.0 (as much as I can't stand JKR). This reminds me so much of the 7 parts of his soul preserved in secret places so he could come back and remain immortal.

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

7. Immigrants, asylum seekers, Muslims, women, transgender people, disabled people, students, protesters: anyone and everyone must be blamed for our dysfunctions, except those causing them. Ever more extreme “culture wars” (a euphemism for divide-and-rule) must be waged.

People keep telling me that AI chat bots know users really well through their writing style and thought structure. So I did a simple test - forced choice answers. Irish seaside book cafe owner or corporate strategist. It picked the latter for me. That's how I know AI doesn't know anything.

I have a huge bias, and am a broken record, but -- Postman makes a strong argument that video makes it much more difficult to discuss complicated issues that require nuance ia801705.us.archive.org/4/items/Vari...

We transitioned from a world in which the most charismatic talker won to a world in which empirical evidence & reasoning won (well, kinda). It was called the Enlightenment. We seem involved in a rapid, full-scale effort to reverse it. (Yes I realize I've never sounded so old. 👴)

From books to newspapers to blogs to Twitter to video -- each step of that evolution is doing more to discourage real, sustained, disciplined thinking & argumentation, to the point that I'm not even sure Kids These Days recognize those things in the wild or even know they exist.

I will never get tired of observing this masterpiece.

Narayan Krishna (1875-1949) was the first at many things: the first Indian to meet Leo Tolstoy (in Aug 1903); the first Indian to meet Thomas Edison (in March 1915); the first Indian to join a socialist party (in Portland in Dec 1906).

I'm a historian of anticolonialism and anarchism in the 20C. My first book, 'Anarchy or Chaos', is a biography of India's foremost anarchist activist M.P.T. Acharya, and I am currently writing a book on the Indian revolutionary movement in Europe, 1905-1918. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...

I have uploaded a few Indian anticolonial periodicals to archive.org, including "Bande Mataram" (Paris), "Talvar" (Berlin), of which only two copies exist, and "Free Hindusthan" (Seattle, New York). They are not in great condition, but good enough for research. archive.org/details/@ola...

Electric orange mac and cheese. The fancier it is, the worse it tends to be.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

Deleting almost all social media is working so well for me. I am looking for an alternative that's more personal, and has the potential to build actual relationships. Maybe a personal blog? Any ideas? I don't want to be cut off entirely from a global community.

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also if anyone hasn't been around tigers or leopards, their spray which they use to mark territory smells exactly like cooked basmati rice

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I wish I could write or draw or create beautiful poetry, to share all the beautiful stories of people I meet everyday through my work. Kind, compassionate, present, and loving. And yet, these are the people who are vilified because the power of their wisdom and kindness scares the imperial powers.🍉🇵🇸