For the love of little green apples please just use the mic.

Aaaaand done with my last class and on to new adventures! holdfasttherapynw.com

Sadly the answer for most would be "die in childhood" sorry to be the downer. My Grandmother would have died trying (failing) to birth my Mom so I wouldn't have existed at all. (If I had I'd have killed my Mom for the same reason.)

Was away for a few days and Emma might have missed me.

Just finished Forest Euphoria and if you love Robin Wall Kimmerer you'll likely love this too. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

New bishop breath of fresh air. Told a room full of clergy that no, we don't get to define antisemitism for Jews "that would be like me (white man) telling Canon X (black woman) what counts as racism."

Assuming your fellow clergy cannot read instead of assuming that the church is complicated, many parishes have traditions that changing would likely be worth your job, etc is so my favorite thing about my colleagues. Let the reader understand.

The New Atheists kept the basic concepts of evangelical (lower case) Christianity and swapped out some vocab and iconography. The insistence that their Truth will (and must!) set you free is the same.

“The authors estimate that, if extrapolated to the US pop, more than 26 million older Americans may be experiencing *improvement* in functioning. ‘The current study demonstrated that the predominant narrative of aging as a time of inevitable & universal decline needs to be reconsidered’”🧪🛟

You know that part of Little House in the Big Woods where Laura rips her pocket out filling it with pretty rocks? I'm Laura anytime I'm on a beach, but modern fabrics are holding up better.

Maybe I'm old and grumpy, and my EMDR trainer is very old school but if your client is having trouble processing with some soulless light bar the solution isn't more tech it's CONNECTION. Even in EMDR it is the relationship that creates the safety to heal ditch the tech and use a damn wand for bilat

Very full day including trading in my beloved little Mac Air for a new one because nothing would run on its ancient OS anymore. I marched into a fancy mall, and a VERY fancy Mac store in my sweaty grubby trail running gear after an hour on trail and didn't care one bit. Perimenopause does bless.

I really need my allergy eye drops to show up.

100%. If I weren't married to who I am also would wire my work computer into the wall and not have wifi. The world was better when the Internet LIVED ON MY DESK.

An ignorant man cannot be pious.

My kingdom for running shorts that actually cover my ass. I'm almost 50, I do not want short shorts.

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Literally shitposting with you all as I check so many things off my "build my PP" todo list. So this is what happens when I ignore consequences and drink 3 coffees.... 😜

Finished a book last night that I started enjoying less and less as it went along and I realized how much I DISLIKED the protagonist. And then it did the "surprise ending" which clearly setup a sequel but meant this book was entirely unfulfilling and honestly great way to make me NOT read anymore.

Just a regular reminder gambling was incredibly heavily regulated for the 20th century because it corrupts everything and apparently our historically myopic society is going to learn these lessons all over again www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Well I caved and bought a "better mouse trap" the old wood and metal snap traps have always worked but we've got the world's smartest field mouse, he's cleaned out two snaps with no snap. New ones have covered bait area so 🤞

Do we have an issue with folks holding on to power too long in our society, absolutely. But do not come at me with ageist "no congressman/clergy/etc should be working at X" age. Nope, you don't get to set that limit and the idea that those over a certain age aren't competent is blatantly false.

"Get your head out of the sand, AI haters, it's coming whether or not you want it!" Do you think this is persuasive in some way Do you think "AI haters" will be *less* pissed off by reminding us a group of already rich and powerful assholes are dictating this future

Just a reminder: an academic achievement gap favoring girls has existed since early in the 20th Century. Early pregnancy and lack of GI Bill funding kept girls from college, not academics.

"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace. n.pr/48hkWLT

And truly a crisis I do not want to deal with and must because “the economy depends” on driving people to the brink of madness.

Exactly this. As I said last week - they think that LLMs etc are approaching consciousness because they know and care nothing about the depth and breadth of human consciousness including their own.

If you want to donate to help Palestinians, give to World Central Kitchen, the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, or other reputable NGOs. Not randos on the internet. No matter how “real” they seem. The trafficked captives being forced to run scams at gunpoint are very motivated to look “real”.

I really wish Jungians would branch out beyond Greek myth for the archetypes. There are SO MANY interesting mythologies full of often more helpful archetypes that can also bring a wide variety of cultures into the conversation. I find the Greek myths really limited.

Once again in a talk where people keep saying "35 was about as old as you get" and no that isn't how life expectancy works! 35 was the life expectancy because MOST PEOPLE DIED AS CHILDREN! Women also often died young bc of pregnancy but if you survived that? You could live into your 70s or 80s!

I would not categorize this as the main problem with using Pharisee as an insult. It implies it's a matter of respect for Jewish ancestors. The problem is that the word is loaded with antisemitic stereotypes, even if people don't know they are the ancestors of Judaism.

In our house baking is on hard mode because this one is always waiting for a turned back, for even a second. She will steal butter, unbaked cookie dough, anything really. Batch of cookies didn't lose any today, success.

It’s still early, but this is huge. Pancreatic cancer is almost always a death sentence, and a quick one.

This is like straight antisemitism right here. Just pure, uncut from the source organic hatred of Jewish people.

I (gen x) was raised by a village. Single childless women were the BACKBONE of that village. Elderly dudes, family friends, godparents, church members, neighbors. We absolutely must relearn that children should not be raised by 2 humans only and being a parents is NOT the only way to love (by far)

"So much love to give" brings to mind a point I don't usually see– We need to reclaim an imagination for what it looks like and means to be loving, caring adults in children's lives beyond parenthood. You have so many options that don't involve legally severing a child from their family!

My whole life goal is to ruin as many profit margins as I can.

We are Grey. We stand between the candle and the star. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Because we aren't a functioning democracy and our leaders are busy wringing their hands or actively malicious.

The age range in which birth rate dropped over 80% is among girls 15-19, by the way. Children. It’s actually a very positive thing that kids aren’t being impregnated. The GOP’s platform is pedophilia.

Everything you've been posting over the past 24 hours is completely ahistorical. 161 years after Emancipation, millions of lives have been damaged by the "reconciliation work" of the UDC. The UDC has had real-world material effects on Black Americans and this nation. www.vox.com/videos/2017/...

Seriously this series is one of those that I read and reread when I need hope for humanity. Buy them! (Or ask your librarian to get them.)

I mean. Rabbi over here. Really could not be much less Catholic than I am. And even *I* know that is some absolute nonsense. One does not simply walk into Mordor, and one does not "well actually" the ACTUAL POPE about Catholic theology.

How does intentional disinformation affect our collective reality-testing, and malform and reshape the collective psyche?

I don't use AI, I turn off AI features, etc. For work I had to (required) do a training that included interacting w an LLM to "test my knowledge" and friends that thing was the dumbest software on earth. How are folks 🤯 by these things? It was just a regurgitation machine! I'm baffled.

Sex is not something you should have to be convinced to engage in, and no one should be trying to convince you to engage in it. “No” should be the end of the discussion about it. The idea that a man can and should try to get to a yes is EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.

No one listens to me but this shit, these obsequious language calculators- are not ever for therapy. Really.

Angry OT God vs Nice NT God is antisemitic and also completely ignores the actual text of both books. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Time to repost this thread.

“A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked… when we saw tiny Earth,ppl asked our crew what impressions we had.& honestly,what struck me wasn’t…just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat, hanging undisturbingly in the universe…Plant Earth:You.Are.A.Crew.”🧪