"A monk walking through the woods came across a couple strolling and answered their greetings. 'And what do you do?' the woman asked. The monk replied, 'I don't do anything. I live here." She insisted. So did he. She thought of life in terms of what one does for a living, but the monk did … Continue reading And What Do You Do? I Live Here.
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Unfucks
https://twitter.com/TeaRoomBetty/status/1354213974452162562 Unfucks is a word I didn't even know I needed in my vocabulary.
Mirror, Mirror
Joe Biden is going to win. But what people of color have long understood should be clear to everyone now: Donald Trump is not an aberration, he’s a mirror. And that ugliness we see in him is America’s. https://twitter.com/derekjGZ/status/1323985212964036611
Not Inferno
"…the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek … Continue reading Not Inferno
Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot
"Fast tools don’t just allow users to accomplish tasks faster; they allow users to accomplish entirely new types of tasks, in entirely new ways."—https://www.benkuhn.net/progessays Change the tool, change the outcome.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Twitter: “Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth.”
Marginal Gains
"The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together," he explained..."—Matt Slater, "Olympics cycling: Marginal gains underpin Team GB dominance." BBC. August 8, … Continue reading Marginal Gains
Discordian Quotes
"Unfortunately America ran out of its strategic anger reserves that time we all thought there'd be no more Twinkies."-Discordian Quotes
Handwashing: The Litany Against Fear
h/t Damien Williams
Political Parties are the Sam’s Club and Costco of Opinions
"The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk."-:Paul Graham, "The Two Kinds of Moderate." PaulGraham.com. December 2019.
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