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Trying to attain and maintain the elusive balance.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Women lose sexual interest when they're emotionally disappointed, and I’m not going to argue about that. A woman can love you deeply, stay loyal, support you through hard times, and still slowly disconnect the moment she feels unheard, unappreciated, or emotionally neglected. Most people think attraction disappears because of looks, time, or routine, but emotional disappointment is what quietly changes everything.

[blue @bluewmist]

You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[Tarig @AirTarig]

The way Quinta looked at Keke Palmer and said “KEKE!” lmaoo

[Scott Menzel @ScottDMenzel]

It’s strange watching what has happened to film criticism, but honestly, we allowed it to happen.

Studios allowed the fate of movies to be reduced to a Fresh or Rotten score while, at the same time, opening the door for virtually anyone to enter the space without any real standards or requirements. Today, anyone can wake up and decide they want to be a film critic, and I believe that has fundamentally changed the industry.

I also strongly believe that while critics can absolutely be fans, they still have a responsibility to be critical, even of filmmakers, actors, and franchises they love. The job is not to blindly support everything from people you admire. It’s to evaluate the work honestly.

A good critic should be able to say when something doesn’t work, explain why it doesn’t work, and back up that opinion with thoughtful analysis. If you can’t be honest about a bad film because you like the people involved, then you’re acting more as a fan than a critic.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Tony Blair: Wow, get a load of AI. We should probably cut welfare somewhat. Also, we should be involved in the Iran War for some reason.

Broadsheet columnist: Say what you like about the man, but the sophistication of his analysis is unparalleled.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[foxygen @foxypiano]

had to revisit Ike Okonta's Where Vultures Feast, after reading Françoise Vergès' essay: 'Racial Capitalocene'. crucial texts.

[Henry Vaughan @silexsc]

Edward Tufte's mother Virginia also wrote this nice book on sentence structure

[Jane's Vanity @JanesVanity]

@KarolinaZL If any light at all hits this lace, the black and gold sequins become a disco ball. Wear the bra layered under a deep V to show off all that glitter, or slip it on for a seductively shimmery dance party at home. Shop now > https://t.co/JnX4ykGk4C

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Sometimes I think about how nineteenth century abolitionists tried to get people to boycott cotton produced by slave labor, and people were like, “Noooo…I love my fashionable clothes too much and cotton produced without slave labor is too expensive and too hard to find.”

Yeah.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic. Thus far, only AI has lived up to this dream, as it's employed to make art and bomb countries without ever being an artist or a pilot.

[Sophie Bartlett @_MissieBee]

💡 Ideas for maths in year 6 this term

👇🏼 More ideas and details here including linked resources

🔗 https://t.co/xipcietbLX

[Manosai @manosaie]

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

[‏ً @itsnwts]

The same thing actually happens with fashion too. Sewing and liking fashion are seen as feminine activities, but 99% of the great designers are men. It's only "a girl's thing" if she's not financially rewarded for it.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious options to create a progressive party, one that dares speak out on the issues of the day, that actually communicates with a progressive electorate? It is hard to see at the moment whether the ambition or capacity exists within it.

It is worth noting that Starmer’s Party is only barely the official party of the organised working class. Whereas Labour had affiliated to it nearly every major trade union, today only just over half of union members are in party-affiliated unions. And even then some may leave. This is hardly surprising: as it stands its policies, Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories and Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point."

Read @DEHEdgerton's obituary for Starmerism

https://t.co/OldkYFx1dc

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO