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Toby
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Guitarist 🎸 Songwriter 🎶
Studio Nerd 🎤 Cyclist 🚴🏻
🤘🏻Toby Ellis and the Breakdown 🤘🏻
This article basically restates every reason I left Twitter after 13 years on the platform. I'm glad I didn't stick around for the X era.
BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Not About One Office, One Country, or One Week
This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
IU is ranked on of the worst universities in the nation for free speech. Yay sportsball, I guess. #freespeech
Indiana University again ranks among nation’s worst for free speech, FIRE report finds • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana University is once again among the worst colleges in the country for free speech, according to a new report.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
“Once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”

#mindfulness
June 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"If you are waiting to be free of struggle in order to be happy, you could be waiting forever."
#Mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“We all have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.”
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"The truth of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"You are only confined by the walls you build yourself."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lies our freedom."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“The only thing standing between you and happiness is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't be happy right now”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Avoidance has a way of empowering the thing you’re avoiding."

#mindfulness
April 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"To get over the past you first have to accept that the past is over."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Although nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can begin now and make a new ending."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"If you enjoy something, there is no failure, because enjoyment itself is success. Remember that next time you hold yourself back because you worry you won't be good enough."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“You can’t heal if you keep pretending you’re not hurt.”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"So when you think about “being yourself” or “discovering yourself,” recognize that you aren’t searching for a fixed thing, but a process that is always changing and unfolding."

#mindfulness
April 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"What is going on around you doesn't matter nearly as much as what is going on within you."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"It's important to learn from suffering but just as important to not wear your suffering as a badge of honor."

#mindfulness
April 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Never apologize to others for their misunderstanding of who you are."

#mindfulness
April 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Despair is what happens when you fight sadness. Compassion is what happens when you don’t."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Life always offers us the opportunity to begin again.”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
March 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

#mindfulness
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
March 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM