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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 13h

Today's gremlin is hiding from wolves in a cave full of bears

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the urgent pushes out the important

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bsky seems to be crashing again. Most of my feeds are down and the rest aren't updating.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's gremlin is Monster-who-kicks-people

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is another realm Full of trolls and dwarves Of fae and siddhe Dragons and mermaids Puwugee and volcanic goddesses At the far end a mountain On that mountain a tree In that tree a bird That bird a phoenix And from that phoenix Hope springs eternal.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The nascent ability to perceive both worlds is neither comfortable nor entirely welcome

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's gremlin is a bedraggled thing with feathers

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's gremlin is a finely tuned, intricate machine, but the gears don't mesh

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An idle thought Plato was not wrong when he described his cave And Buddha was not wrong when he he identified delusion as the root cause of suffering. Where they went astray was in identifying delusion as a personal problem instead of understanding it as as social problem

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am not a linguist nor a literary critic, but three things or my head will explode. 1. Traditional grammars muddle syntax and semantics. For instance, "a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea" is a semantic definition, referring to the meaning of the word. 1/7

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Math doodles. Sorry about the bad handwriting, but it's traditional, and who am I to buck tradition?

Calculation of when temperature in Fahrenheit is half the temperature in Celsius. The answer is about -12.3F

Calculation of when temperature in Fahrenheit is twice that in Celsius. The answer is 160C

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the devil’s theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong. — Thomas Merton

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's gremlin is thirty goblins in a closet.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The end of a very long, very bad, terrible, no good day. (I hope)

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idle thoughts I. I used to think that philosophy begins with metaphysics. But maybe not. Maybe it begins with ethics. IA. But which ethics? IA1. The ethics of personal virtue IA2. The ethics (wisdom) to rule a state well? IA3. Or some blend of them both? 1/6

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do wish people would drop this incontinence implies incompetence. Frankly, it's ableist

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s fascinating to watch the world froth at the mouth at the idea of a black author using AI (based on an anonymous tweet) Meanwhile, the vast majority of white authors and content creators are using it with zero repercussion and without hiding it. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

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Thélyson Orélien accusé à présent de plagiat au Canada pour des textes publiés dans les années 2010

Selon le quotidien québécois « La Presse » et le groupe audiovisuel public Radio-Canada, l’écrivain, déjà soupçonné d’avoir utilisé l’IA pour son roman à succès « C’était ça ou mourir », a publié par ...

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am so screwed. I misplaced my passport. To replace it 4 to 6 weeks and a trip to Paris. But the application to renew my titre de sejour is November 7.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Inside you are two wolves And one very nervous rabbit

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hamlet: The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. [And later] Claudius: Give me some light away. Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To sleep Perchance to dream Aye, there's the rub For in that sleep what dreams may come? -- Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 (almost)

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah man. Like where are the bad goatee and the bongo drums?

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Srsly, "gay" as a pejorative? So 1990s.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

📽 #filmsky "The Men Who Stare at Goats" A beautiful send up of and yet also a tender homage to the New Age and to its little sister the "Star Wars" Jedi. A bitter critique of both the Vietnam and Iraqi wars. Gorgeous performances by George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges. 1/2

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And the elites set out to drive wedges between Black slaves and white servants, establishing greater punishments for Black Virginians. In 1705 the Virginia Slave Codes pulled all those regulations together and went further. They prohibited

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. — Malcolm X

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If your livelihood depends on money in exchange for labor (par example retail workers, warehouse workers, and also university professors), you are working class. 1/4

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Apparently in Germany Scrooge McDuck is called Dagobert Duck. Which is weird But also an excuse for youtu.be/jvAhXi5oMAE?...

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Le roi Dagobert

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What happens when #dyslexia is undiagnosed, why it is underdiagnosed and what to do about it. youtu.be/RkcPvBkAQt4?...

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"Stealth Dyslexia"

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I find it beyond irritating that there are so many places in Europe who are like “we can’t change the cobblestones! A horse shat here 300 years ago! History!” Yep, I’ll just bang the two shards of my broken vertebra together because you can’t work out sidewalks.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I cannot tell you how wrong this is. I’m an author and a library worker. Ebook lending gets people to READ. People who can’t go into libraries because people love airborne infectious diseases these days. People who can’t hold a traditional book up. People whose schedules don’t align with open hours

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is remarkable, once I started noticing, how few screen shots/art posts include any meaningful alt-text. For a site full of leftists, progressives, liberals and good hearted folk, it's kind of dispiriting.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

According to my little French grammar, a simple sentence consists of a noun phrase (the subject) and a verb phrase (the predicate) and maybe a "ajoint" phrase. But then it goes on to say that this simple sentence can take various modes and forms, can be extended in various ways, 1/

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More Peggy Lee. (This is one of the first songs I remember from Captain Kangaroo. The others -- "Would You Like to Swing a Star" and "High Hopes" -- left me cold [as did "The Little Engine that Could" though the Captain had nothing to do with that]) youtu.be/0bHFCP1WFWU?...

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Pass Me By

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🧵 When I was in seminary, I took a course that asked, "What is a sacred text?" It was a weird little seminary; so "sacred" really meant "what holds meaning for you? What might help you help your future congregants unfold meaning in their own life?" 1/2

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"In a mostly non literate society the division of enjoys vs does not enjoy reading is close to the literate, non literate division. In a mostly literate society, [it] is visible w/in the literate. But...this is not the same as the division between those who enjoy stories & those who don't." Thread

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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi, I'm raising money to support an Afghan refugee family here in Albuquerque. They're personal friends, and the dad was detained in El Paso a few weeks ago. They need help surviving while the amazing NM immigration lawyers work to bring him home. Please donate or share as able gofund.me/80de028f1

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Donate to Help bring Rahim home to his family, organized by Ben Chase

Help Rahim out of ICE custody and keep his family together We are asking our community… Ben Chase needs your support for Help bring Rahim home to his family

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