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[shitposter emeritus (on sabbatical) @jazzghost_pm]

I've spent years working on this and it really comes down to this:

Any single tiny thing you can do to feel like you're helping build a better future is more productive than 10,000 hours of dread.

[monk @mechanical_monk]

the concept of talent is an infohazard and a scourge

"i suck at drawing haha" yes because you never deliberately practiced it. you have the same amount of drawing skill as everyone else who never practiced, namely zero. you have exactly the level of skill that one would expect

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Carbon capture instead of stopping oil & gas

EVs instead of reducing car dependency

Ocean cleanups instead of stopping plastic production

Planting trees instead of ending deforestation

Ever notice how all the fashionable 'solutions' are all aimed at not changing anything?

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

why do we keep doing superfluous rework instead of pushing the boundaries of knowledge

this is from 1972

they chose a tactile standard because they understood you wouldn’t always be able to look at your controls and should be able to tell what you were doing without looking

[Faizal Hamssin @faizalhamssin]

Human rights issues are not complex; they revolve around the question of whether a group of people is seen to be less human than the others.

There are many ways to dehumanize people, but denying them access to a dignified existence in the society is one of most glaring ones.

[confessions of a 20something drama queen @liveauthentic_]

we don’t need new clothes and shoes every 5-10 business days. we don’t need new phones every year. we don’t need EVs when investing in public transit is right there. we don’t our packages to come in two days. we don’t need these things, esp bc the cost for it is too high

[•spooki•girl•cassiopeia•™ @sadgirlcassi]

stay engaged.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

The stay at home orders at the beginning of the pandemic were the first time many people had slowed down in years. It showcased the importance of community & caring for others over capitalism. And those in power did not like it.

[ltm @legotrillermoth]

i fuck with ethan hawke so heavy. if you don’t usually sound at least a little bit pretentious do you even really love anything?

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

The bit about reading faster than people can talk hits home for me. Listening to video (or audiobooks or podcasts) is like processing information in slow motion.

Also, we should talk about how people tend to trust video more, and how that’s messing with critical thinking.

[Ava @noampomsky]

every form of social media is a search engine for things you like (people, books, etc). if you mostly find things you dislike you’re using it wrong

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

healing an individual heals the world, because that individual is the centre of their own unique world—when they operate from a healed, whole place with others, they will naturally heal others, too. without trying. by just existing.

by extension: heal yourself to heal the world.

[Vaneesha Krish @VaneeshaKrish]

The fact that a farmers strike against forced eviction happened, turned violent and yet didn’t gain national attention today, says a lot about how much we overlook the importance of farmers’ rights and their role in food security. This is a national issue, not just theirs.