From my stoicism-a-day calendar:

When this time is over (& it will be) & somebody asks me to describe its nature & spirit, I shall play this clip. It embodies the whole cruelty, nastiness, sneer, indifference, cockiness, glee, inhumanity, & evil. It proves they knew what they did was illegal, but they did it happily, voluntarily.

I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 15,1947

rebranding ✨trauma responses✨

❌ fight / flight / freeze / fawn

✅ sharp / spiraling / silent / sobbing

‘“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. “But, it wasn’t.””

Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) 🧹🫧💚🇺🇸 #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody

Seriously? Someone arrest his ass already.

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

@teachertapp.bsky.social

6 years, 10 months, 1 week and 3 days of using Teacher Tapp. Having had the app around 7 years (since 2018)! Only another 1150 days to reach 10 years! Fewer days than my current longest streak which started on 26 March 2020! 👩‍🏫🎉

January has been a hell of a year

Chat am i cooked

But we are told that we are overreacting though.
1/2

it's that time of year again

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.

I found out what I want to be when I grow up

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

Space penguin.
This is Arp 142, two interacting galaxies NGC 2936 and NGC 2937.
Processed by c.claude.
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