Not enough people talk about how lonely healing is. And how as you heal the pool of people you can connect with or spend time with shrinks, significantly.
I'm going with toxic positivity, Adderall, and maniacally obsessing over sex to get thru this fascist power grab. Might fuq around and ruin my whole life. Wonder what everyone else's slide back into the hole will look like.
This week I tweeted about my new successful grant 🎉🎉
But you know what else happened this week?
I failed....A.L.O.T. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
A thread 🧵of everything I wasn't excited to share with @AcademicChatter
3. Learned helplessness: when we aren’t modeled how to solve problems, find solutions, & aren’t given the ability to leave abusive situations— learned helplessness can happen. This robs us of our ability to be resilient adults.
So the big NYT article about California high speed rail is not actually saying anything new. It's the latest from a former LA Times reporter who spent the last 12 years writing based hit pieces about the project. I shut my blog down years ago. But it's time to debunk him again.
Vartabedian wants you to believe the CA HSR project is expensive because of political forces that wanted to serve riders rather than serve empty farmland. He criticizes both the routing via Palmdale (population ~500K) and via Fresno-Bako (population ~3M).