The longer I work in medicine, the more convinced I am that anxiety and depression are a just response in a deeply unjust society.

I'm just going to share this every time some powerful fool posts something hateful and then pretends it didn't mean what you thought it meant.

Today's Poetry Thread: QUESTIONS I love this one. Feel free to add poems.

As a working artist in his third decade of professional life, I've concluded that art happens when you take a big, numinous, irreducible feeling from the artist's mind, and attempt to infuse that feeling into a vessel - a book, a painting, a song, a dance, a sculpture, etc. 12/

The mind thrives on curiosity. The more we question, the more we grow, and the richer our inner world becomes.

"have you been to space?" gayle, i'm trying to live no more than a 5 min walk from a grocery store

"You look well" thanks I'm sublimating my desires in order to participate in civilisation

Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero": bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima… 1/

A mesh top if another great, comfortable choice for summer funerals. This says "I see through the facade of dress protocols, as life is too short for such silly things." Pair with flowy linen pants and slip-on shoes, such as espadrilles.

The average American has 3 eggs, but has demand for 15. So here are 12 photographs of eggs. I am a business man.

GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD

yeah that’s called thinking brother

Brandon You may be a PDF now.

A lot of centrists out there who'll speculate about sci-fi futures where we colonize Mars and live for centuries, but who'll also describe free buses and cheap public grocery stories as fantastically utopian.

when trying on a suit, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG oldhollywoodmusicals

I find it helps to develop an interest in things. Visit museums, hit up the library and discover-browse. Read widely. Learn new languages, new words. Watch old films. The world is a wondrous place but the sense of wonder is a muscle that must be cultivated like any other.

Fake people listening to fake music. Teachers using AI to grade papers that students didn't write. It makes sense once you understand that many tech moguls believe humanity has no purpose other than building the machines that will replace us. They view us as unnecessary.

Fewer.

Rest in peace, Chuck…