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Please continue to post things that bring you delightโwhether it be humor, art, music, pets, storiesโwhatever.
Thatโs not to be instead of your fear, anger, or worryโbut as a healthy source of balance.
In this grim context, I donโt want the small pleasures of life to be stripped away while weโre distracted. Fight to keep that part of you active and engaged too.
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Happy Sunday CoSo! After tons of cleaning and laundry and baking, itโs downtime before starting dinner, which today will be Danish meatballs, also known as frikadeller:
https://www.danishfoodlovers.com/frikadeller-danish-meatballs/
Popped up on my playlist #CoSoMusic
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
https://youtu.be/oLSOzcEQjiE
So excited: The Diplomat season 2 dropped on Netflix on Halloween, and Iโm finally going to watch it:
6 countries with temporary residence visas for U.S. citizens. Portugal sounds nice .
Several people have asked me how to support/protect libraries in the coming four years. Here's how, straight from a librarian: https://danialexis.net/2024/11/09/heres-how-to-help-libraries-in-the-second-trump-era/
What I am using:
(only a suggestion)
Chat = SimpleX
https://simplex.chat
Email = GnuPG
https://www.gnupg.org/download/
or
GPG Suite
https://gpgtools.org
Also:
All things Proton. VPN, Mail, and file sharing
The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Memories are not only stored in the brain but
are affected by other cells in the body. This is a complicated but fascinating read:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-memories-brain-human-cell.html
Rage, rage against the dying of the light