A quote from Epictetus: βDonβt just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.β
From my stoicism-a-day calendar:
When this time is over (& it will be) & somebody asks me to describe its nature & spirit, I shall play this clip. It embodies the whole cruelty, nastiness, sneer, indifference, cockiness, glee, inhumanity, & evil. It proves they knew what they did was illegal, but they did it happily, voluntarily.
I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER OH, DEAR -- I BETTER GET STARTED ON MY HOMEWORK RADIO PROGRAM- - - SCIENTISTS ARE NOW WORKING ON A NEW SUPER-ATOM BOMB--- 2000 TIMES MORE DESTRUCTIVE- - - ( NANCY THINKS ABOUT THE ATOM BOMB, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH) SOMEHOW THAT HOMEWORK DOESN'T SEEM VERY IMPORTANT
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 15,1947
rebranding β¨trauma responsesβ¨
β fight / flight / freeze / fawn
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sharp / spiraling / silent / sobbing
ββNature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,β Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. βBut, it wasnβt.ββ
Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) π§Ήπ«§ππΊπΈ #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody
Seriously? Someone arrest his ass already.
For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.
@teachertapp.bsky.social
6 years, 10 months, 1 week and 3 days of using Teacher Tapp. Having had the app around 7 years (since 2018)! Only another 1150 days to reach 10 years! Fewer days than my current longest streak which started on 26 March 2020! π©βπ«π
January has been a hell of a year
Chat am i cooked
Man disrupts TV interview about women feeling unsafe in public spaces and refuses to leave GRANADA WOMEN SAFETY Tuesday 3 December 2024 at 5:52pm ITV Granada Reports journalist Anna Youssef was interviewing the mother and daughter when the man interrupted their chat
A mother and daughter telling their story about feeling unsafe in public spaces had to halt their interview - after a man interrupted filming and became aggressive. Gill Jones was speaking about a family night out which ended in a violent brawl after a stranger tried to sexually assault her daughter Beth Fletcher. But, just moments after they began, a man - who ITV has chosen to anonymise - appeared and sat in the middle of the park bench, between the women and the journalist.
When it was explained they were filming an ITV News story about a charity event and the man was politely asked if he could wait a few minutes to finish filming, he refused, despite there being other empty benches nearby. The man then became verbally aggressive and threatening and, for the safety of everyone involved, the group were left with no option but to leave the area. Ironically, the story they were trying to film was about a campaign by the charity Tomorrow's Women to create more safe spaces for women.
But we are told that we are overreacting though.
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it's that time of year again
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.
I found out what I want to be when I grow up
The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this striking image of Arp 142, a pair of interacting galaxies. Their close encounter has distorted their shapes and triggered a burst of star formation. A bridge of gas and dust stretches between the two galaxies, showcasing the violent and dynamic nature of galactic interactions.
Space penguin.
This is Arp 142, two interacting galaxies NGC 2936 and NGC 2937.
Processed by c.claude.
www.flickr.com/photos/27527...
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