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It's an Absolute Joy to Watch Their Little Brains Marvel
3/13/25
“I’ve never owned a kitten before this one, and I always kind of assumed that baby animals were born with implicit understandings of things like heat and what water is, but he’s really proving me wrong at every turn. This tweet was prompted by him sticking his arm shoulder-deep into my hot tea just now to see what it was. “This was honestly one of my favorite things about getting a kitten.
recall-all-republicans batboyblog: “In a country where the only real options are ‘Democrats’ or ‘Nazis who will hurt everyone,’ the only moral thing to do is not only to vote for the Democrats, but also do whatever you can to talk other people into voting for them too. When offered two dishes, one of which is poison, you don’t complain that the one that’s not poison is overcooked. I’m not sure why this is so hard for so many people to understand.”
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Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social): “A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last three years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that.”
Maya Angelou: “Trying to make it simpler, trying to make it beautiful, trying to make the language sing.” Graham, Joyce. “Making Language Sing: An Interview with Maya Angelou.” (Journal of Reading, vol. 34, no. 5, Feb. 1991, p. 409.)
SMBC: “Etymologically, the term ‘Armageddon’ refers to ‘Har Megiddo,’ meaning ‘Mount Megiddo.’ That hill still exists as part of the Tel Megiddo National Park. The park has a giftshop. You can do this: ‘Guess who brought home souvenirs from the Armageddon!'”
“Memories of the irreversible harm I caused others in the past. Me practicing self-compassion, acknowledging what I did was harmful and cdan’t be undone, but knowing that I worked on myself and have better coping skills and supports now and can choose to be kind to myself and others.”
Jay Shetty: “Never stop being a good person because of bad people.”
CFR: “To whom it may concern: I now realize that what I love in you is what I want to become. I must go now We’ll meet again, but until then, thank you for everything.”
Yung Pueblo: “Feeling without fueling. Emotional maturity is what happens when you can feel your heavy emotions without letting them take total control over your actions. Recognizing when your emotions are clouding your perspective and simultaneously not allowing yourself to make big decisions when your mind feels unclear is going to help your future self. This is especially helpful during challenging arguments, because it helps you feel the truth of your emotions without sliding into just making the argument worse because you don’t like how you feel. Having a sense of balance, where you honor the truth of your hurt, but you are also actively finding pathways to resolve the argument, is challenging but not impossible.”
Steve Blair: “Trump’s furious because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.”