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Advice You Will Ignore Since posting my story of burnout, I have had no less than 5 conversations with people in similar places. All people in the so-called helping professions, all doing good work, all exhausted. I used to teach classes on self-care, but if I did it now, I wouldn’t call it that.…

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On the Other Side of Burnout I’m not sure when it happened. Maybe it was taking Nancy off the ventilators and watching her die as a result of the drugs she just couldn’t beat. Maybe it was when Liz died when relapsed and someone gave her laced heroin. Or before she died, when she was severely…

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I'm writing: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/02/17/im-writing.html

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Re: The Super Bowl and Whiteness: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/02/10/re-the-super-bowl-and.html

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I went to a restaurant and ordered the surf and turf but they must have misheard my order because it was a lovely NY Strip followed by a horrible entitled wealthy woman lecturing me about how oppressed she is.

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Thanks/hat-tip goes to @hughlh.bsky.social for this helpful link explaining resilience targeting and how to create your own "psychological go bag".

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Most Democratic response to the current coup sound a lot like, "I intend to collaborate with my colleagues to write a sternly worded letter..."

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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

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"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it--elementary kindness. Enough to eat. Enough to go around. The possibility that kids may grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Apparently, Substack is still a Nazi bar. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

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The reference shelf: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/31/the-reference-shelf.html

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I am so tired of finding out when I was not the one who fucked around.

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Doing some simple video editing on Windows 11, and need more than Clipchamp can do, but don't need anything I have to take classes to learn. What are we using out there now? #RIPWindowsMovieMaker

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Now, it seems my options are: Use our locked down ecosystem and if you want to change literally anything, it's $30 a month. Or Learn python and markdown, create a virtual server, and open a command line before you write a word.

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I know I'm entering my grumpy old man phase, but my WordPress blog in 2007 was super-customizable BY ME. With no real tech knowledge, I installed it on a server in 5 minutes. Writing on it was intuitive. I could Google, "How do I ____?" and there were answers on the first page of search results

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Trying to figure out blogging outside of the Wordpress ecosystem (where I've been for ~17 years) is so frustrating. Designing websites and writing on websites are different hobbies.

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Notes for week ending 25-1-25 It was a short week, in the sense that Monday was a holiday. On the other hand, since the inauguration on Monday, this week has been a hell of a year. Of note: Monday I turned off the news and reformatted my office somewhat. I intend to start making videos for…

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Two kinds of people: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/25/two-kinds-of-people.html

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My news stack: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/23/my-news-stack.html

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My desire to stay informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.

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Biloxi Beach in Mississippi 🌴❄️ 📸 Lauren Tedford

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Not nothing: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/20/not-nothing.html

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A pastoral prayer, on the eve of the inauguration: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/19/a-pastoral-prayer-on-the.html

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Notes for week ending 25-1-18 The kitten is Baby, who we are trying to find a home for. You can read about him here. My week was largely dominated by a trip for the Day Job. (I'll start writing about the Day Job as I get one last piece of the puzzle in place - perhaps in February). I was gone…

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There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…

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EFF doing the lord's work, as always.

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The other days: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/17/the-other-days.html

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Weeknotes: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/14/weeknotes.html

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Thus far, this so-called New Year seems suspiciously like the old year.

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Notes for week ending 25-1-11 It was cold this week (even the cats hid under the blankets), and I didn't feel all that good, and I had a couple of big meetings at the day job that sucked all the oxygen out of everything. So, not much got done this week. Worth noting Installed flush lights in both…

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It's Saturday, so I hit send on the essay I wrote this week for the people who support my work, I hit send on the email that tells folks what I write on my blog this week, and then I'm off to finish painting the kitchen. Someone once called home ownership a perpetual to-do list, and I felt seen.

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I think there’s a misconception out there that good writing means phrasing things in a way nobody ever has or would—that if a sentence feels familiar in the mind it fails. The opposite is true. Good writing is phrasing things in a way everyone has always wanted to and recognizes in their hearts.

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Not for me.: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/09/not-for-me.html

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These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

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A millionaire co-founder of real estate investment firm, who bragged about not paying taxes, offered to throw cash at any concierge private fire department to protect only his house. We are living in the age of selfish plutocrats. (The account was subsequently deleted.)

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Legacy: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/08/legacy.html

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Saving your Facebook content before you leave.: https://www.hughlh.com/2025/01/07/saving-your-facebook-content-before.html

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Exporting the data (posts, pics, messages) from my Facebook account and just learned that next month, I will have been on there for 20 years. Whoah.

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