Brennan Lee Mulligan in conversation with Amy Vorpahl, Adventuring Academy S1E2: “An old professor of mine had this great thing. He said, ‘On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology.’ Meaning before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.” ⁂

time-compass: Try actively listening for assurance. I found | just missed it because I was so preoccupied with my own thoughts, but really today’s assurance came in the form of my roommate offering to share the dinner she made. It came in the form of my coworker raising his eyebrows, impressed with my work. I found it in my father’s hearty laugh at a gimmick I showed him. People won’t sit you down and tell you directly; switch your overanalyzing from internal to noticing good things. (continued)

hisham hm on mastodon.social: I felt like sounding off in the YouTube comments section: (continued)

“Today I learned about a term called a ‘glimmer.’ Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and more.” ⁂

Brennan: My grandpa, with my grandmother, was going to a church in the South during the Scopes Evolution monkey trial. Inherit the Wind. (continued)

Sir David Attenborough: “If I die while I have a pet, let my animal see my dead body, please. They understand death and seeing me dead will allow them to mourn, but if I just never show up one day they’ll think I abandoned them. I know what it feels like to be abandoned and I never want anyone to feel that way, especially my dog.” ⁂

Frank Zappa: “I think that to talk about this matter and pin it to children and use the children as a tool in order to sell this uh political device because I think that there’s a a political concept behind shutting off access to certain types of information. If you can put your foot in the door by saying we’re going to stop dirty words, that literally means you put in force the mechanism to stop other ideas. Once that censorship board is there, they have to find things for themselves to do when they run out of dirty words. And they’re not going to unemploy themselves.” (continued)

vellichor (vell-ich-or), n. [Eng.] The strange wistfulness of used bookstores. ⁂

Scientist: “The escaped animal is a polar bear with the ability to survive in the Arctic and Antarctic. It exhibits massive mood swings like that of a manic depressive, and has equal sexual desires for both males and females.” ⁂

Rohita Kadambii: “I spent my childhood watching ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965) and ‘Cabaret’ (1972), so I really thought the rise of fascism would have more showtunes.” ⁂

Maya Angelou: “Trying to make it simpler, trying to make it beautiful, trying to make the language sing.” ⁂

odasrauttier: “Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.” ⁂

“ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they’re afraid of losing ideas only to never look at them again because the archive is now its own overwhelming problem.” ⁂