@tedfrank Definitely merits a trip to see! Of course, be prepared to be ignored, cause yk, cats. Go to Iwatayama Monkey Mountain in Kyoto where you'll be happy to be ignored by the free roaming primates.
'The digital calico behaves a bit like an actual cat, in the sense that it does whatever it pleases. Visitors are only treated to a few brief appearances per hour, in between a stream of advertisements and music videos.'
https://t.co/HcZAL0wj81
Short passage from a lovely book:
"It does not work to simply know about a teaching and not use it. No one has ever been cured by merely looking at a bottle of medicine -- you must take it. We must apply the treatment. Likewise, teachings are meant to be applied."
Adeu Rinpoche
What a great & moving essay by Alexis Nowicki. She's incredibly gracious about having her life nicked for someone's else's very viral short story. (I don't think I'd be as understanding.) https://t.co/Nqq1ojni8d
The new Sundance documentary "Rebel Hearts" reveals how a renegade sisterhood of nuns in the ’60s fought the Catholic Church’s misogyny and altered society as we know it along the way. https://t.co/aw0uNSvI1a
Collective action is powerful. If Redditors can organize and mobilize to save a company from vulture capitalists, imagine what’s possible if the American people join together to demand economic justice.
A 22-year-old with no health care background boasted that his Philadelphia start-up could vaccinate between 500,000 and 1.5 million people — and make a lot of money doing it.
City officials gave them vaccines.
Then things went wrong.
https://t.co/AxDbV8vPRw
"The country must approach this moment in history with clarity of thought and purpose, not just for January 6, but for the centuries of actions and inactions that led the country to this point," @MitchLandrieu writes: https://t.co/LE95J3jKms