Jeff

Writer. Wordsmith. Gamer (Gregorin69). Nerd. INFJ; #BLM; Lawful Good; Fianna by day, Toreador by night; free thinker, absinthe drinker! (he/him/his)🏳️‍🌈

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Amplifying stories with 💖

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 2011, Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea opened a restaurant with no prices on the menu.

One evening, a woman sat down there trying not to cry.

Not because anyone hurt her — but because she had forgotten what it felt like to be treated with dignity.

She had been surviving on vending machine snacks, shelter leftovers, and whatever food she could find. Then someone placed a real meal in front of her.

Warm soup. Fresh vegetables. Dessert on a real plate.

The dining room was calm and welcoming. Cloth napkins. Proper silverware. Soft lighting. Small details that quietly told people: you belong here too.

Then the waiter walked over.

Her stomach dropped. She thought this was the moment she’d have to admit she couldn’t pay.

Instead, he smiled and left a note beside her plate.

There were no prices. Only a suggested donation.

And if she couldn’t afford to pay, she could volunteer her time instead.

No questions.
No shame.
No judgment.

She read the note twice, waiting for the catch.

There wasn’t one.

A little later, she stood at the kitchen sink washing dishes beside volunteers and staff. Somewhere between the warm water, the soap, and the quiet conversations, something inside her shifted.

For the first time in a long time, she no longer felt invisible.

That’s the heart of JBJ Soul Kitchen.

Dorothea Bon Jovi helped build the restaurant around one simple belief: everyone deserves dignity, no matter their circumstances.

No separate lines.
No labels.
No treating people like charity cases.

Guests who can pay help cover meals for others. Those who can’t are invited to help by folding napkins, setting tables, or working in the kitchen.

And beyond the meals, the restaurant connects people with housing support, healthcare resources, job guidance, and local services that can help rebuild lives.

What started as one small restaurant has grown into multiple locations across New Jersey, including spaces serving college students facing food insecurity.

Together, JBJ Soul Kitchen has served more than 200,000 meals.

When the pandemic shut the world down in 2020, they kept going. Meals became takeout. Families were fed. Jon Bon Jovi was spotted washing dishes while Dorothea helped keep everything running.

Millions know Bon Jovi as a rock star.

But one of the most meaningful things he and Dorothea ever built was a place where people could sit down, eat with dignity, and feel seen again.

Because hunger isn’t always just an empty stomach.

Sometimes it’s the feeling that the world has forgotten you.

And that little restaurant with no prices on the menu reminds people of something powerful:

You still matter.

You still belong.

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

🤯…😱…😍

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

BREAKING🚨: NASA Spacecraft Just Hit a Mysterious “Wall” at the Edge of Our Solar System.

Out there, far beyond the planets… beyond Pluto… where sunlight fades into darkness, something unexpected happened.

Voyager 1 — a spacecraft launched nearly 50 years ago — kept traveling into the unknown. No sound. No light. Just silence.

And then… everything changed.

Its instruments suddenly detected a strange, intense region. Temperatures rose. Energy surged. It was as if it had reached a boundary… a limit… a place where our solar system simply ends.

Some describe it as a “wall of fire.”

Not flames like we see on Earth… but a powerful, invisible force. A barrier between our Sun’s reach and the endless mystery beyond.

Imagine that for a second…

A human-made object, built decades ago, drifting billions of miles away… touching something no human has ever seen.

What lies beyond that boundary? Is it just empty space… or something we don’t yet understand?

Voyager keeps going.
Still moving.
Still sending signals from the edge of everything we know.

And the deeper it goes… the more questions it leaves behind.🌌

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

💯% this! The Toronto Islands are the city’s 💖

[Neil Pasricha @NeilPasricha]

Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney),

I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront.

I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony.

When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake.

Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario.

Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4)

Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7)

Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8)

Prime Minister Carney:

It is not too late.

Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake.

We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this.

We don’t need this.

We can already go anywhere we want to go.

I live right in downtown Toronto.

I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow.

I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year.

In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11)

Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins.

Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar).

We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here.

If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country.

We don’t want this.

This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.

Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12)

I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15)

Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised.

Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18)

Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19)

Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets.

Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached)

Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached)

(Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … )

We can’t afford this.

Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21)

Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23)

In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25)

Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28)

Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport.

(Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?)

Prime Minister Carney:

We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this.

Please say no to this expansion plan.

Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake.

At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33)

Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do.

The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country.

Would New York City pave over Central Park?

Would Paris put runways on the Seine?

We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford.

It's not too late.

Please say no.

Thank you,

Neil Pasricha

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[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Nature is not a luxury, but vital to our well-being on so many fundamental levels. Add your voice to the WWF campaign! https://t.co/Tpkvk6c1hf

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

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[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Adorbs! 😍

[youtooz @youtooz]

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[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Sharing a moment of extraordinary beauty. 💖

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it.

There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3.

At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day.

Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems.

Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love.

The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method.

At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be.

Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain:
仁智懷德聖虞唐，
貞志篤終誓穹蒼，
欽所感想妄淫荒，
心憂增慕懷慘傷。

In pinyin, it is:
Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng,
zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng,
qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng,
xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng.

Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng

The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief."

Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain:
傷慘懷慕增憂心，
荒淫妄想感所欽，
蒼穹誓終篤志貞，
唐虞聖德懷智仁。

The pinyin:
Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn,
huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn,
cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn,
táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén.

It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén

And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence."

That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu!

At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message:

詩圖璇玑，始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping."

Or reversed:
蘇氏詩圖，璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace."

Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle.

For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (https://t.co/4exP9zpqbc), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages.

Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (https://t.co/yW7aR73MPc).

Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems:

- The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens.

- Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy.

- It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions

- Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections.

So the Star Gauge is simultaneously:
- A love letter (expressing personal longing)
- A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival)
- A cosmological model (structured like the heavens)
- A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy)
- A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision

And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me".

Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age.

The heart at the center was filled after all.

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Stoked for the World Finals #OWCSWF25 https://t.co/j8358fo7x0 #

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Ford is making it easier to evict renters.

His government’s Bill 60 will make it easier for landlords to evict renters—right in the middle of a housing crisis. More families, seniors, and low-income tenants will lose their homes.

Take action and sign: https://t.co/rPplJyLU8R

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Bringing some positive vibes to my feed. 💞

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Arthur. I'm 72. I work at Second Chance Thrift Store on Maple Street. Been pricing donated clothes and organizing shelves for 9 years. Most people drop off bags without looking at me. I'm just the old man sorting through their leftovers.

But I notice everything.
Like the boy who came in last November, shivering in a torn hoodie. Couldn't be more than fourteen. He touched a winter coat on the rack, navy blue, barely worn, then checked the price tag. $12. His shoulders sagged.

He walked to the counter with a thin jacket instead. $3.
"That coat would fit you better," I said, nodding toward the navy one.
"Can't afford it," he mumbled.

After he left, I couldn't stop thinking about him. Minnesota winter was coming. That thin jacket wouldn't cut it.

Next week, he came back. Headed straight for the navy coat, touched it like it was gold, then walked away. This happened three more times.

Finally, I pulled the coat off the rack. Took it to the back room. Put a "SOLD" tag on it.
When he came in the following Tuesday, I was waiting. "Hey, kid. Someone bought this coat but never picked it up. Store policy, after two weeks, we have to discount it." I handed it to him. "It's $3 now."
His eyes went wide. "That's not... you're lying."
"You calling me a liar?" I said, pretending to be offended.

He bought it. His hands shook as he counted three dollar bills. Put it on right there in the store, zipped it up, and his whole face changed. Like he'd found armor.
"Thank you," he whispered.

I did that seventeen more times that winter. A single mom needing work shoes. An immigrant family needing blankets. A homeless woman needing socks. I'd move items to the back, mark them down, create "store policies" that didn't exist.

Then a customer caught me. Watched me do it.
Instead of reporting me, she donated $100. "For your store policies," she said with a knowing smile.
Word spread quietly. Regular customers started funding my "pricing errors." They'd buy $50 gift cards and leave them at the register. "For whoever needs it."

Last week, a young man walked in wearing that navy coat. But he wasn't fourteen anymore. He was in his twenties, college sweatshirt underneath.

"You're Arthur, right?" he said. "You gave me this coat seven years ago. Told me it was store policy." He smiled. "I knew you were lying. But you let me keep my pride."
He handed me an envelope. Inside was $500.

"I'm a social worker now," he said. "I help homeless youth. Because someone showed me that kindness doesn't have to be humiliating. It can look like a store policy."

I'm 72. I price used clothes that smell like other people's lives.

But I learned this, Dignity matters more than charity.
Help people without making them feel small.
Lie about the price. Bend the rules. Make up policies.
Let them walk out with their head up.
That's what changes lives."
.
Let this story reach more hearts....
.
Credit: Mary Nelson

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

The kind of news I love to see pop up in my feed. 😍

[GAY TIMES @gaytimes]

In a rare move for the notably private actor, Lee Pace has shared an adorable photo with his husband, Matthew Foley 🥹💕

https://t.co/iUC3uvFZv4

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Insightful and educational post (as always) by @doctorow

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Have you heard that tariffs are going to drive prices up? Me too. There's a good reason we're hearing a lot of talk about tariffs prices: tariffs are a tax that is ultimately paid by consumers.

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[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

I just backed Staked! - Super intrigued by this Next Evolution in Social Deduction on @kickstarter https://t.co/luUfzQfzgO

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

A perfect example of the beautiful work @MC_Etching does. Leave a comment on his post for a chance to win this whimsical lunar charm. 🤩

[Nix @MC_Etching]

Happy Monday, hope you're doing well!

Giveaway time! Etched green glass filigree moon pendant.
Same rules as always, no need to like, follow or share. Just drop a comment to enter, international open!

I'll pull a random comment winner Tues Aug 13th.

Be kind to each other.

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

@MC_Etching Beautiful work as always! 😍

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

@MC_Etching Any time! Wish you an inspiring week! 😊

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Been a while since I gave someone a boost on my timeline (quiet as it is here) — go check @MC_Etching out, he makes beautiful things out of glass.

[Nix @MC_Etching]

New month, time to start again.
Hi, I'm Nix! Your friendly internet kilted Beardo! I'm a self employed glass artist who does stock & custom work. Barware, jewelry & assorted Bric-a-brac.

Come by & take a look at my shops! Help support small business!

https://t.co/eY9eH1KGFq

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

This is so fucking sexy! Excited to bite into this series… 🧛🏻‍♂️🌹

[The Vampire Lestat @AMCsAnneRice]

We had our people call his people and, well, he's here.

The Vampire Lestat returns in the new season of #InterviewWithTheVampire, premiering on AMC and AMC+.

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

Beyond excited for this new CR animated series! 😍

[Travis Willingham @WillingBlam]

FIRST #TheMightyNein ANIMATIC SNEAK PEEK!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

[Jeff @JHarrisonWriter]

@outstarwalker Looks amazing! Love the colour palette and style you’ve chosen. 😍 I suppose the real question that begs to be asked: Is Astarion a regular? 😉