I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty
it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you
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How knitting can help you kick harmful habits www.bbc.com/future/artic... by @eabrown18.bsky.social
One of my children (in medicine) doing research on using knitting as an affordable, accessible, scaleable and community building mental health intervention!
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The Alabama governor commuted the death sentence of a man, set to be executed, who was convicted under the felony murder doctrine — meaning he wasn’t the person to commit a murder.
Bolts reported last year on how Alabama is extraordinarily prone to prosecute people for murder under felony murder.
Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content
www.youtube.com/watch?v=joma...
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
Sunday school class when the teacher told me that kids who had never heard of Jesus and thus not "accepted him in their hearts" would go to hell. I was 9.
Here you go…
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more.
wantmymtv.vercel.app
Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh
bylines.cymru/environment/...
Similar to the Super Bowl Ring ad, companies are using dogs (and our love of dogs) to normalize and build permission structures around this unsettling tech.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
‘Of the four peoples in question – the Britons (Welsh), Irish, Anglo-Saxons and Picts (proto-Scots) – it’s significant that each group’s origin myth was first recorded by a writer of a different nationality.’
Barbara Newman on Britain’s origin stories.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The moral panic over ebikes while motor vehicle fatalities have shot up over the last 15 years…is annoying.
In the US,
32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011.
42,795 motor vehicle fatalities in 2022.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_v...
States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Back last year, Thom Tillis warned a group of us reporters that the One Big, Beautiful Bill would force states to cut home and community-based services. @slooterman.bsky.social reports how that is happening in Idaho. 19thnews.org/2026/03/idah...
Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."
Lorraine Schneider, 1967.
I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge
new iconic meme format just dropped
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
