Reciprocity means treating others the way you want to be treated. Integrity means your language and your behavior line up. Reciprocal integrity means interpreting others’ language and behavior as charitably as you want yours to be interpreted.

there’s a marketing hook in here somewhere

I feel a tension here btwn the instinct, driven by our complete immersion in visual narrative media, to describe a char in physical detail & the perhaps wiser choice to keep details to a minimum, for wide ranging appeal within readers’ imaginations how are y’all handling this

nothing is cringe in itself. cringing is a response to imagined punishment. you cringed because in your head some simulated authority figure thought bad of the thing. you CALLED it cringe to be on the right side of that authority figure, and in doing so you became them

Parents of special needs children face an uphill battle that most don't see. Beyond the daily caregiving, they become full-time advocates in a system that seems designed to exhaust them. 🧵

haven't had much time to read lately, but recently finished Whalers by Kyle Farnworth & enjoyed the hell out of it a no-spoilers review for anyone interested goodreads.com/review/show/74…

I’d not seen this piece before and the gathering & quick summation of psychological types lends it a Glass Onion/Knives Out quality Would love to see a play based on this essay

REOPEN THE CHURCHES or schools, libraries, Ys, garden clubs, wherever your fellowship comes from but for Christ’s sake — literally — please go outside and make your own friends don’t let this guy make them for you

What haunts the dying is rarely sin as religions describe it. Rather, it is the sin of absence, of having been ghosts in their own lives. Of having let fear guard the chambers where love waited. Of having built monuments to security while joy knocked unanswered at the door

Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Planets Suite - Gustav Holst (LSO) Departures - Yojiro Takita The Good Place - Michael Schur

IME this is exactly right. At the exact point of no return, deliberate revenge has a definite, unmistakeable taste. It’s a deep, deep salt-sour bile It tastes like rotten soul and it’s proof that you have one and should better care for it

The scientific research replication crisis begins in the locker room

Part of a longer thread, but this piece of it strikes me as particularly universal

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“I 100% got all this - but the dinosaur bit was overkill” Not quite, bro. Mid 19th c, dinosaurs captured the English imagination. Megalosaurus scientific/religious discourse starting in the 1820s was big Dickens is doing the pop culture references of his day

“Some things only exist when you stop trying to see them” ❤️

My Belgian husband is two drinks into the evening and we have just cleared up his linguistic confusion on the difference between a tater tot and a teeter-totter

politics is possession. watch someone get infected with ideology. eyes change. voice changes. start speaking in someone else's words. possessed people think their thoughts are their own. but they're just channels now. left right doesn't matter. same possession different demons