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We want to make deals with the devil; in exchange we want truth, freedom, justice and fairness. Hmm.

The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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This is a generational gap right here. My generation doesn't use online as a social tool. With all of this, my original post remains about the ills of relying on online and what it is doing to us. There is no balance, and we are being used as tools for disinformation, and fragmentation.

the "fraternities" and "sororities" and the alums. Buying into the very same order or striving to attain it is probably not the way forward in creating an equitable world but then some of us just need step-holds, perches, and not hammers.

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And funnily enough, you will find these networks converging at ivy league colleges from where its leader stock is forged. The same as in UK. College alumnus, and academic certificates go much further, and that's where the world order will first have to be examined. The degrees...

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soldier stock and a deep network of entrenched "society" families. This is why you dismantle power structures and create a system based on merit. The world suffers its politics and presidents, it is a pity and a suffering. The idea of America funnily prevails. +

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America's long line of leadership has seen slave owning confederationists, a poker master, war mongers, functionaries, war "heroes", an embezzler, imbecile, senile, and a megalomaniac with strings tied to an evil madman because they all either came from privilege, old moneyed families, +

Think I hear that from older people. They like the internet for the same very reason. I get that offline is becoming rarer. Also know that the youngest generation is eschewing online in favour of finding activities offline so it takes them away from online so much since they were born to it.

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proximity and frequency. Sure you can join a lot of activities and have a great evening but that is not community or shared lives. And that imo is what is missing. Making a date with a friend, just shooting the breeze or doing chores/ errands together. Organised meets prob can't give you that ease.

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Meetups are not always connections. Allow me to explain. You briefly meeting, chatting but it does not grow and is fleeting, at times. But mainly people who sustain us see us often, hang out and make an effort to be there, don't just come in and out of our lives. Loneliness is dispelled by +

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For you, I completely get it and understand where you are coming from. I had a recent conversation about loneliness with a friend, and this what we have here cannot replace connection in the real world. But as long as we are here, it's easy, needs little effort but it does not sustain us.

Selecting the information we share, questioning how much we share, and how to share is basic training for a journalist. Since we all have journalistic powers and tools, it's a basic thing we need to learn about the responsibility to an audience. We need to care for another person's time.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley: “The Cognition Crisis Reverberates Across all the Crises we Have”

also wrote, 'The Distracted Mind', who has written several pieces on what he calls a cognition crisis. Our ancient brain was not built to break down so much information. We are coping badly. We need to protect our fragmented minds now. Be selective. Be mindful. www.resilience.org/stories/2018...

resilience.org

I’m writing a piece now framing this essentially as a cognition crisis that we are facing. I think the negative impacts are very broad.

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So here's my argument. We don't need to migrate from X to BlueSky or anywhere. In fact, it would be in our long term interests to not be on any social media. We should consider X, a lesson on how it pans out eventually. Also, here's an interview featuring Dr. Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist, who +

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Think we need to make stuff for ourselves, our own joy, and try practicing not putting it out. This is my controversial opinion about what plagues humans right now.

Ppl need to make other stuff. We don't need more social media apps, or apps.

Even as I RT these arguments about cow pee, COW PEE, it makes me question, what and why we as human individuals on earth are expending energy on pee of any kind. It really makes me feel an existential crisis, exuding from geographical pressures, that this is my world.

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feel flimsy, like a hobby

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This place still feels like Instagram, not going to lie. Albeit with more words.

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Context for non-Indians: An Indian billionaire's heir has a private animal facility where he is acquiring and transporting animals from the wild, which is illegal in India. He posits it as a sanctuary but the fact is that he is being allowed to keep wild species captive.

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No one is interested in my theories but have platform will post like all normies. My theory about Ambani child's zoo is a Noah's ark of sorts while govt decimates habitat. What other explanation🤷‍♀️ Interested in your theories, if any.

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Yes, a bit low on energy and time. But better placed this year, I think. Got some fragrant flowering creepers (juhi and one more), a mega size bamboo, betel leaf and bougainvilleas. Very standard stuff. They didn't have the shankapushpi I went for lol...

Picked some plants from the nursery yesterday, and there were almost no nurseries, except government ones growing up. You shared plants. You got cuttings from friends and fam. You even stole to propagate or asked strangers for seeds. Definitely did not buy.

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Copy editors became dispensable with digital journalism. Funnily enough, they need them more!

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Like the purposeful chicken shop security-in-charge. He's employed :)

🥰 happy to speak to you too!

So a friend made a compelling argument that the plan was to leave the hell site's owner and the right wingers all alone, like they already've been in their head. That seems like a plausible plan. But what do we do about the reality in India? Cannot leave the country. And why should we leave?

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Depression in Bengal is developing into a cyclone. Sounds about the right state of mind.

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@mrnarci.bsky.social I'm here for the cat bracket, where is it 😡

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I haven't been here in a long time. This happiness here is not by natural state of being. But I had a proper feast on Onam including palada!

Just here to see loaded tables and plates of thanksgiving feasts, you gluttons.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Trying to express a complicated thought in a flippant one-liner but the world has effectively learned the cycle of abuser-victim victim-abuser.

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When life doesn’t give you what it gives everyone, and sometimes so easily, know that your life is going to be filled with blessings that are not bestowed on anyone else either. #postinglikeanoldwiseperson

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Kris @cookieduh.xyz · 17/11/2023

Not justifying it. Frankly low in taste. Don’t think any copy like that would not be whetted by her team either. It’s a shock and awe effect. The mag that they imitate works exactly in the same way. They are just aping it.

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Your gender does not give you the rights to write an article objectifying someone and violating their bodies without their express consent .

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 17/11/2023

Got the attention they desired, tbh.

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CreativeWolf @creativewolf.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

"He sounded exactly like my nephew" says woman who lost Rs 1.4 lakh in AI voice scam — Vishing with a touch of AI. www.indiatoday.in/technology/n...

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🥲 and hope we build immunity against this virus variant of having to watch yourself.

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This is the profile pic of a broker who spoke to me today. I agree.

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Did some video recordings and had to sit through watching myself and I kind of still like myself but I do this things, at pauses with my face and mouth, which are awful. Ugh.

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Is the sound of a dog barking more annoying or the sound of children screaming?