neighbor social gem:
@[email protected]
After reading about the evils of drinking, I’ve decided to give up reading.

A gem from a neighboring social:

"I believe in osmosis," she kept saying. "Just lie there, don't even try to listen. It will enter you."
- Karin reading to Sara
The Earth Spinner, by Anuradha Roy, p. 205
<https://worldcat.org/en/title/1309356861>
#reading #cosobooks

Meme for today (from neighbor social):

From one of the neighboring socials Clive Thompson raves about some re-discovered punctuation;-- it is so worth it.
https://saturation.social/@clive/109519516704936724

Zander says "you looking at me?" (photo by Susan)

Crooked Media - @CrookedMedia: "A lot of us need to realize ... if you have a wardrobe full of clothing that fits, a great way to participate in the slow fashion movement is to just wear the clothing you already have."

New ep of HotTake with @amywestervelt and @MaryHeglar out now! (from the birdsite)

I broke with the sun and stars.
I let the world go.
I went far and deep with the knapsack of things I know.
I made the journey, bought the useless, found the indefinite,
And my heart is the same as it was: a sky and a desert.

Pessoa (/ht Asiya Miya - @AsiyaMiya)
#CosoPoetry

Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 - @RachelBitecofer: Stop saying there's no shared reality anymore. Reality is reality & there is only one.

> Climate change isn’t a problem that can be solved by summoning the “will.” It isn’t a problem that can be “fixed” or “conquered,” though these words are often used. It isn’t going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them.

Elizabeth Kolbert, Climate Change from A to Z
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z>
[archive.today link](http://archive.today/9rhfz)

This essay hit me like a breath of fresh air:
Fight the tendency to see your life as a narrative journey. https://nautil.us/dont-treat-your-life-as-a-project-248266/

Zander in motion (photo by Susan)

today's grey-cell serving:
Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: “The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
~ Henri Bergson

Current mood from a recent online back and forth - "there is no escape from mansplaining" - we are our only hope. 🤨 😂 🙃

The Real Ben Simo (Not an actual frog.) - @QualityFrog: Developer, explaining that something wasn't as easy to implement as we both hoped:

"I tried. I'm not Frank Sinatra. I did it my way but it didn't work."
#software

Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: “Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.”
~ Thomas Bernhard, "The Loser" (1983)
<https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1558837617642258434>