Today's TWILT is the book Palaces For the People by Eric Klinenberg. It focuses on how infrastructure can be used to promote social equality. I was especially interesting in it because I work for a library and am always looking for ways to remove barriers to the access of knowledge.

Hey. I know you’re going through a lot right now. I am too. It’s rough, and it feels like there’s not a lot of people you can talk to about it, or who will understand, or who will care. But that’s not true. Depression lies. You are loved. You will get through this. I promise.

The other four quadrants are Manipulative Insincerity, Obnoxious Aggression and Radical Candor.

Today What I Learned Was the concept of Ruinous Empathy (what a lovely phrase!) as it fits into a care matix. Ruinous Empathy is what happens when you care personally about something or someone but do not engage or challenge it/them directly. It leads to organizational stagnation.

I am so sorry to hear that. I know that dread as well and I hope it is something that can be cleared up with a minimum of complications.

Alright, youre new here, so lemme tell you how it works. On this site, we are all Blue Mages. We can only use magic stolen from other users. We win arguments by posting lists of our health problems. And we Never. Quote tweet. Doulas

Well this is just delightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw

Today over lunch, as I often do, I went down a wiki rabbithole. My subject of inquiry was the humble huckleberry which led me to the New Thing What I Learned Today. My NTWILT is the expression "a huckleberry over my persimmon" which means either just outside your ability or just a little bit better

I will concede the point regarding privilege and it's something I should remind myself of more often to temper my opinion. I think, even more broadly, everyone can be curious about *something* and even if that desire is thwarted by circumstance, it is sad when even that is not present.

Going to give this site a try. I enjoyed following the people I followed on the bird site. They opened up new worlds for me, and brought enthusiasm and joy to the things they were passionate about. I hope to some day be able to provide the same.