Hello,
I’m a lurker here, but I stumbled across a post I think is interesting and important.
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Great share, thanks.
I have some…feelings about Peter Sagal (Chicago media is a small town) but he often has good insights. Thanks for sharing!! All can post in this thread as far as I’m concerned.
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This quote from the most recent Captain Awkward Patreon post. She’s been dumping some Notes App thoughts as she writes her book. I won’t share the whole thing out of respect for her livelihood, but it was very good and I consider her thoughts a worthy paid subscription.
- When goal is suppressing or avoiding awkwardness, all conflict becomes “scary” - creates a culture of compliance & assumption that conflict avoidance/de-escalation is only right (as in ethical and effective) path. Underpinning of whiteness. THIS IS KILLING US.
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crowbar levering up a rock and finding lots of scurrying things underneath
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Sigh
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If you’re looking for some happy/hopeful news, I’ve been loving this persons roundups of Good Queer News 
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I do think that if you’re socialized as a woman, you grow up having to adjust to all of the ways in which your freedom is being curtailed. You’re always waiting for someone to tell you what you can’t do. So then when you’re actually able to do something, you kind of never feel entitled to it. Every time you get something done, you’re like, ‘wow, I can’t believe I got it done.’ And I think that the men that you encounter in these films or in these novels, they have all the freedom in the world. And so when they can’t get something done, it’s their fault. And they can’t deal with that. They need to blame someone else. Because when you have the ability to do everything, and no one is stopping you, and you can’t get it done, whose fault is that? Who has made the choices that have resulted in that failure?
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Math does not come easy to me, but this article broke down the logic (“logic”) behind Humpty Tumpty’s tariffs.
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Also ignores that US companies would be more than happy to raise prices as well when their foreign competition increases their costs.
for example, if oatmeal from Canada goes from $0.95 while US oatmeal was $1, then tariffs bring Canada oatmeal to $1.05, you think US oatmeal will stay $1? or will it go to 1.04, or 1.05?
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$1.25 why not lol
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always expect to pay more for local after all
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Thought this might interest @ginja_ninja and maybe @NewGig
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I found this substack from reading the one you just posted and omg YES LIFE GOALS
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I am the weird rich aunt in my extended family and I LOVE it. My (now adult) nieces and nephews told me last Christmas that I was everyone’s favorite aunt and it was so lovely. I’m glad that they accept me as I accept them. (I’m actually a pretty boring minimalist who loves cats and who had a job that allowed for interesting travel destinations, but I seem exotic and rich to them, lol).
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Argh articles like this frustrate me because they’re trying to do too many things at once—and kinda failing at all of them! And the comments get at that a little better.
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This author is clearly on a press tour for her new book but I couldn’t be happier to read more of her thoughts!!
For so long, I had felt like my life was almost good enough, and I drowned in the deficiencies. But disability fundamentally shifted my perspective. Every day is difficult, and a worthy life reveals itself in our capacity to connect with each other, witness good moments, and tell the truth about our lives.
The shininess of my life before disability tricked me into thinking that with enough effort, I could shoehorn my whole existence into something ideal. My days now are slow, painful, and unpredictable. But my core belief about what a day should be has totally changed. I don’t think the goal is perfection, or even joy. I think it’s the courage to tell the truth to yourself.
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