“I’ve heard more than one Afghan woman talk about how next the Taliban won’t allow them to breathe. That sounds very hyperbolic until you see them doing things like actually trying to stop women from being outdoors and enjoying nature.” theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…

Who cooked the last supper is the greatest book title ever. Just another proof women are superior 🫡

Hell yeah this should be the new standard. It’s time to really fight for more.

BREAKING: In a huge win for the planet, 18 jurists from the UN have found that children can sue their own countries over climate change under a treaty called the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children are now leading a powerful global shift in the law on climate.🙏👊

As a person deep into her 30s I can confirm that I would absolutely lose my mind if I witnessed this at a party

This is precisely how feudal landowners responded to labour shortages after the plague in the 1300s. They tried force, pain, even executions. They failed. Serfdom ended, wages rose and guilds (pre- unions) began. Like this bloke, they were on the wrong side of history.

My brother used to work in the HMRC high wealth department, "negotiating" with accountants on how much tax their wealthy clients should pay. Tax wealth, not income.

In 2014, a Congolese man in the tiny village of Kasulo, near the town of Kolwezi in Southern Congo was digging a hole in his backyard for the construction of an outdoor toilet. About 8 feet deep, his shovel struck a slab of a strange grey rock.

Wonderful colourised footage of Palestine in 1938 before Israel ever existed.

Making two paintings 🌒🌔

The bit about reading faster than people can talk hits home for me. Listening to video (or audiobooks or podcasts) is like processing information in slow motion. Also, we should talk about how people tend to trust video more, and how that’s messing with critical thinking.

This is what robots should look like. Task made. No dumb heads, bipedal locomotion, or human hands. THEY ARE TOOLS.

messes are clutters not just of things, but of intentions. that's what really makes them difficult to tidy

Alpha male boot camp: $15,000 An eighth of shrooms: $30

I want to read more pieces and hear more stories about those who enjoy marriage. Who enjoy their spouses and partners. Who enjoy motherhood. Who enjoy their jobs. Who enjoy their lives.

maybe your brain spends too much effort filtering what you want to say to make it acceptable to other people maybe this filter affects your thinking process & causes you to have fewer interesting thoughts in the first place

yesterday there was a very cool lunar eclipse in honor of it check out this stunning diagram of the motion and phases of the moon from the famed 11th c polymath al-Biruni

I love how you pray for something, it seemingly goes unanswered, and then one day you're at the center of the very thing that once felt impossible. The waiting isn't punishment. It is preparation. The Universe was conspiring so that you can receive the fullness of your request.