Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

whenever folks talk about harry potter and separating artist from art they always have this indignant 'OH SO IM A BAD FOR BUYING THESE BOOKS?' but thats not the real issue. the reality is that many will BELIEVE you are bad, and that is VALID. its not your choice what others think of you

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

Reading a paper on stress whilst watching the rugby; clear where my stress (now relief!) is coming from rn 🫣 <3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Love Self Esteem at Glastonbury so much that I almost spontaneously clapped, at home by myself, for the end of the first song. Is proxy-cheering a thing?

Words to live by.

Leafie🌱@leafiedraws.bsky.social · last yr.

this goes without saying but if you like something u should study it. like ask yourself what you like about it and what inspires you to learn about it. be curious!

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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Important and uplifting truths here. Worth clicking through to read the whole 8-post thread.

Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer@kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

Trying my first #adventofcode and tempted to rewrite my TS answers in rust 🦀, like the Bake-off-baker-who-always-adds-unnecessary-macarons that I know I am

Other phrases I’ve come across about pins and needles (mostly from the creative minds of small children)… 7. I have fizzy boots on 6. My arm has gone sparkly 5. I have thorns and prickles 4. I have crumbles in my foot 3. I have sprinkles in my toes 2. My foot went dizzy 1. I’ve got pins and weasels

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‘Andor’ Season 2 Sets April 2025 Premiere Date on Disney+

'Andor' Season 2 has set its Disney+ premiere date.

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One thing many activists I admire have in common is that they don't see hope as a fleeting thing that just visits when things are good. They see it more like a skill you practice or a muscle you build. As Mariame Kaba succinctly put it, "Hope is a discipline". friendsofattention.net/sites/defaul...

Watching the Madoff documentary on Netflix, but every time they show a stock ticker I hear it in the voice of Johnk, the fourth Rice Krispie boy

How to Web Glaze 101 Let’s protect our arts from A|, if we can’t run from them, then let’s be their pain in the ass What is Glaze? Basically it will cloak your art to disrupt style mimicry so A| can’t mimic your art style. Then you only post Glazed artwork and DO NOT post the original one anywhere

obviously it was pea-hacking

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3y ago

No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes. The big question: was it scientific fraud? (Art: Harald Ritsch)

You know how I love weird treaty consequences? The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'. That's the .io domain everyone loves so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.

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Today is #NationalCoffeeDay and 1st Oct is #InternationalCoffeeDay ☕️ I like coffee! (Not instant though, because that’s clearly, if not the actual work, then at the very least a hobby of, the devil’s) So let’s do some coffee chemistry! Read on for a #Chemsky thread with @compoundchem.com🧵 (1/12)

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation of her work!

Another one I wouldn’t have found on my own but played because I was downstairs with the laundry and my device was upstairs (love Bluetooth). This is fascinating. And explains a lot.

THIS is why you'll NEVER hear a voice like Judy's again.

YouTube video by Wings of Pegasus

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Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏿‍🔬🐡🧪 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both 🧵1/n