I think the idea of self-care has become really warped, so I'm switching to making "maintenance and morale" bigger priorities in my life. Maintenance is eating right, sleep, hygiene, cleaning my apartment, doing all of my laundry. Morale is seeing friends, fun adventures, hobbies and takeout orders
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Shout out to the good folks at Blue Ridge Public Radio (based in Asheville, NC). They’ve battled power outages in the past 48hrs but have stayed on the air throughout most of the storm and flooding. If you live in western North Carolina, they’re a great resource for news and emergency info.
Lyme survivor, battling to the very end. Safe journey, Kris. "Kristofferson said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" on his tombstone: Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free"
I am so very tired of having to protect myself from companies that used to be useful. :( Thank you for sharing this!
Project 2025 not only remains an excellent window into where the Right currently stands ideologically, it also focuses our attention on who the people leading the reactionary authoritarian charge are – a toxic bunch, driven by the desire to dominate others.
I wrote about the dynamics that keep Project 2025 on the public’s radar and have prompted the media to cover it in a distinctly different - and better! - way from how the mainstream political discourse usually treats the extreme Right. How Project 2025 Became Toxic. New piece:
The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme Right
It had so many good jokes for adults, it didn't dawn on the most conservative at the time that the tikes were soaking up how to recognize fakes & grifters. Didn't save us from falling for a few (politicians being experts) but overall, I think that and MAD Magazine gave us skepticism. Even BOC!
COMICS NEWS: This was always the dumbest trademark allowance the USPTO ever granted, giving Marvel & DC joint ownership of the term “SUPER HERO”. And now it’s over! Hooray: Good riddance to a dumb thing! Go forth and use “super hero” in your comics marketing! www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal has canceled a set of "Super Hero" trademarks jointly owned by comic giants Marvel and DC at the request of a London-based comic book artist, according to a Thursday order.