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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1h

Some white folk get really mad at the very idea that someone might want to hear the opinion of a Black person, and not their opinion, in any context. They believe that their opinion should be valid absolutely everywhere.

This is weird.

Don't do this.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 9h

Are you Black?

This isn't complicated.

If I wanted to do a survey to learn Spanish speakers' opinion of a new law, question 1 might be "Are you a Spanish speaker?"

Then you bust through the wall like the Cool Aid man: "I am a political science professor! Survey me instead! Take it or leave it!"

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26m

I've actually gotten this done with all my print short stories and it's been pretty great!

It's a really subtle scent of ink on paper, but over time the molecules break down into this lovely "old book" smell

But I will NOT have anything to do with an anthology that smells of sandwich spreads

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11h

The fact that Huel was second highest for lead may explain some things about why silicon valley elite are tripping over each other to lose the hardest at Who Goes Nazi

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 18h

This was it! I just remembered it having something to do with whales

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 18h

That sounds like something @sarahgailey.bsky.social posted about cold water under the eyes to trick your brain into waking up but I can't remember the specifics

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

The real trick is anxiety

Just like a truckload of anxiety

Best way to get real good at daydreaming is to use galaxies as like a mental white noise machine to drown out the yelling in the brain basement

Anyway treehouses

Give it a hammock

Nice little stream

Falling water that jawn

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

*slow register

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

I think being on the show register would drive me bonkers too

Also traffic jams

It's like a low battery alert on a smoke detector but worse

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Okay but seriously, the human experience is a rich tapestry and people think differently and it's fine; there's nothing wrong with not being a daydreamer

It was just one of those moments of realizing that I'm apparently at the edge of a bell curve that I didn't really realize was a spectrum

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

The best I can do is more like surfing brain currents: sweep along on free associations

Which works well enough for what I'm trying to do but like my brain has two speeds: 10 and 11

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

You can start small; breathe like one treehouse into life in your mind

Give it some kind of cool rope bridge; those are fun

Or you can do an algorithm if you're into that

Just make one up, it doesn't even have to be efficient

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Right? Like surely brains just

Do that?

A lifetime in a faith community whose central worship practice is an hour of silent contemplation and I have always understood not thinking to be really really really difficult actually

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

(yes I know some people are aphantasic; I'm not judging you for not having highly visual daydreams; I'm just baffled about people getting bored in thirty seconds because like have they tried breathing a universe into creation in their minds? It's an option)

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

You're waiting for a crosswalk and you can't see stars forming in the ombre light of the dust between galaxies?

What are you looking at? The STREET?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Specifically there was a thing about having thirty seconds to kill and getting bored and I'm like wait wait back up

People can have THIRTY WHOLE SECONDS to kill and they don't reach second twenty literally hearing a brook babbling in a nameless forest where the air smells of loam and forever?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

this was to do with the default mode network so apparently most of the thinking I do is when I've "run out of stuff to think about" and the short circuit here is just the description

But I'm led to understand that most people can't switch into daydreaming as easy as sneezing and that sounds fake

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Spouse was trying to show me a thing yesterday about how important it is to be bored sometimes because important things happen to your brain when you run out of stuff to think about and I'm sure that's real but also

Run out of stuff to—?

Think? About?

You can do that?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

In

Deed

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

We have a responsibility to remind them that there will be no hiding from what they've done: they can quit and repent, or judgment will find them.

Which means denying them fellowship, communion, or a moment's peace in polite society. They don't belong among us until they repent.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

This will sound like a joke, but it's not: I keep thinking about the episode of Babylon 5 where a revival meeting sings about the final judgement: "I went to the rock to hide my face, but the rock cried out, 'NO HIDING PLACE!' There's no hiding place 'round here."

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

But the best version of myself would curse the ground they profane with their jackbooted feet—not JUST because they are evil, any not JUST because they disgrace this country, their families, and our constitution—

But also because they are wasting the miracles they should be.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Can I say that I am entirely equal to that responsibility?

No, I cannot.

I didn't used to understand why anyone would take comfort in the existence of damnation, but now I do. And if they don't think the devil will get his due, I don't forgive easily enough to pity them.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

The spiritual responsibility is this:

If we REALLY "hate the sin, love the sinner," then we have a responsibility to call them to repent, and to ensure they cannot hide among us from what they've done.

We have a responsibility to love their stained and wasted souls more than they do.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

I honestly believe Christians have a spiritual responsibility to shun ICE agents and make them unwelcome in society

This is different from the moral responsibility we all have to oppose the evil they do, and the patriotic responsibility to oppose their crimes

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

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