joesthoughts

Association/membership org non-dues revenue, membership growth/retention, and Visibilty professional. NCSU fan, book lover.

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

@Dipanshu_AI Thank you for sharing

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

Let me preface this by saying I'm southern and my grandma was really southern...but she would put a ham one of she had one, real butter, some salt and pepper, and she would slice potatoes and add them. It wasn't necessarily the healthiest thing she made but they were delicious.

[Elma @oelma__]

What can I put in canned green beans to improve their flavor? I hate them, but we're on a budget and have plenty of them.

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGovern: It took us forever to compensate the victims of 9/11, and here you have this $1.8 billion slush fund that doesn’t go through any committees or hearings. All of a sudden, they have the money to compensate convicted felons—people who attacked our democracy and tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

This is the most corrupt administration in our history.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

@JeffFlake Apparently you arent

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

@TheHerd @colincowherd Kelsey Plum was referencing the fact the Fever team probably wasn't there bc they had been out late partying the night before. Not a jab directly at CC.

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

@JohnRan15326718 @TheHerd @colincowherd They don't need a MAN, they do need someone with some business and public relations acumen

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Rebranding Indentured Servitude:

"Immigrants will have a choice; the concentration tents in Florida that will be washed out to sea after the first hurricane, or unpaid work camps at farms/hotels etc. throughout America. You'll be paid in lodging, meals, and work clothing."

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic nuns built America’s largest private school system, founding and running over 10,000 schools, colleges and universities

Image: Holy Trinity Catholic School

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

I don’t have to agree with what this student wrote — that’s not the issue. You do NOT snatch someone off the street over an op-ed. That’s the kind of thing you see in China, Russia, or Iran — not in the United States.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Targeting law firms for who they represent.
Removing things from museums.
Deporting legal residents without due process.
Threatening companies that raise prices.
Playing loose with classified intel.
Impeaching judges for their decisions.

We’re losing our country—fast.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Absolutely extraordinary: the Vatican announced that despite his critical condition, Pope Francis once again called the parish at the Holy Family Church in Gaza last night, expressing his deep concern and solidarity.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk. He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I’ll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Your tax dollars at work: Another $5 million blown so they can play celebrity at a NASCAR race, snapping selfies and soaking up the spotlight.

Meanwhile, their supporters struggle just to get by. Priorities.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just fired 20 immigration judges without explanation.

FACT: Courts are currently backlogged with 3.7m immigration cases.

This is IDIOTIC if you want to deport undocumented immigrants quickly.

[joesthoughts @joemusing]

@DrNeilStone This

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Dear Congress,

Our forefathers never saw this disaster coming, but here we are. If by some miracle we save this nation, do us a favor:

-Make 35 to 70 the age limit to run for president.
-No convicted criminals in the Oval Office.
-Overturn Citizens United, politicians shouldn’t be for sale to anyone, especially to foreign-born billionaire citizens

Do the right thing, for once.

Sincerely,
We the People.