Brilliant.

I found these suggestions on reducing time pressure and false sense of urgency very helpful and for me, very timely ;)

Some highlights:

The power of opportunity is not in what it can do for one person, but how it connects and strengthens bonds between people. When you empower a couple, you allow them to build a family. When you empower families, you allow them to build a community.

A system where there are no guarantees creates conflict. It creates inequality. A massive concentration of wealth in so few hands weakens connections between us and prevents new ones.

Very inspiring! I love how simply and organically this grew from an initial spark of inclination to be social with neighbors and have your morning coffee/tea outside into a much more connected neighborhood, even growing toward local political engagement, but starting from that point of knowing and caring for neighbors.

I appreciate how this emphasizes how individual our responses to caffeine can be.

Really appreciated this article nuancing communal vs. individual vs. commercial self care and offering inspiration toward collective & noncommercial forms of self care.

While these practices may be restorative in the short term, they fail to address the systemic problems at the heart of individual despair.

Communal self-care means creating space for others to tend to their needs and supporting them when necessary.

Pocket Casts has been my app of choice for awhile. Happy to see more free web player options, that does seem like it could help keep the podcast world open and accessible.

I appreciated these reminders in the face of ongoing catastrophes to practice "staying with the trouble, nurturing connection and care in apocalyptic times." Resisting the immediate move toward fixing & eliminating problems and practicing being with suffering, grieving, and responding with aid whenever possible.

The perilousness of our present moment—environmental, political, social, and otherwise—provides us with the opportunity to put our deepest values into action.

applaud messy, normal, mismatched, lived-in spaces.

we should admit that everything done in front of a camera is a performance, not reality; we should acknowledge that being welcomed into someone’s house is a gift of connection, not an invitation to judge.

Yes, yes. Loved this reflection. I will be cautious to not apologize for any beautifully mismatched lived-in spaces I inhabit in future <3

Some really excellent points here about education systems and how children could be more involved in the real contexts of their lives and less focused on abstract concepts that often don’t empower them and build skills they can feel motivated by.

I like the idea of gatherings of people reflecting together and discussing real local needs and how to address them. Seems like something that should take place at local city or town councils but maybe needs to be on an even more micro level, and involve more youth! That also reminds me of the Transition Towns movement, and how I wish they were more prevalent.

Changes in news consumption may also play a part. When newspapers were read on paper, all of the news—positive and negative—was printed together. Now negative news is king. Negative articles are almost twice as likely to be shared on social media as positive articles

This is an interesting idea to consider, like the shift from albums to individual song consumption, the curation of a set of content affects how it is received. Likewise, the idea of a balancing of topics in education.

More beautiful, creative "artivist" pieces here: https://bowseat.org/gallery/?gallery-type=art

Light, enjoyable brief history of Comic Sans. :^)

“Always remember, Judeleh. It’s all for lend.“ 💛

“Because everyone and their car stopped testing their stuff anywhere else.”

Really sad about this laziness around testing. I generally love using Firefox and have been happily off chrome for years but it can be hard to convince people to try it when their chrome experience is so smooth and so easily integrates with the google account that runs every aspect of many of our lives :)

One other pattern I’ve encountered is people trying out Firefox, happily enabling the more strict privacy respecting tracker blocking settings, and then being very frustrated when most websites that rely on heavy trackers are unusable. They think Firefox is the broken part perhaps not realizing it’s due to the overuse of trackers on websites they frequent and the strict privacy setting. And then they give up on Firefox and move back to chrome 😂