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What the New York Times Got Wrong About Gen X open.substack.com/pub/jonsmall...

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THIS is the serotonin hit I need on a Monday morning, so now I'm sharing it with you. Chills!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Things are not ok, but it's gonna be ok. Find joy in things within your control. In the little moments. In the community you have around you. These are the little things that can help us through the hard times. Many before us have overcome similar adversity and so shall we.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Oh.

submitted 12 days ago • 1251 comments

me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

submitted 13 days ago • 373 comments

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

submitted 14 days ago • 624 comments

When they go after students, they radicalize a younger, more energized population with less to lose. We know that the playbook they’re following eventually leads to their downfall.

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This aged well

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A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Although it's painful to see our society crumble, even as others don't yet recognize how much we've lost, today you're still petting a dog, texting a friend, enjoying an iced coffee, looking at the moon. Today, for some of us, our day-to-day lives are still full: we have each other.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" Pete isn’t running, but is still speaking out. This gives me comfort and hope.

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I thought we were done with showing up sick. I was in a conference room all day with people and at dinner they were all complaining about how sick they are. This was multiple people, is it a capitalism thing?

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submitted 35 days ago • 844 comments

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

submitted 36 days ago • 193 comments

Stories like this give me so much hope. They can try to take things from us, but we’re strong, millions of us, pushing back.

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Anybody have any ideas on how to get an old brain to run faster on startup? I don't want to replace the whole thing (tbh I have some apps I like and the desktop is finally coming together after 50 years), but I did a shutdown/restart overnight and this morning the indexing service is slow as hell.

submitted 43 days ago • 58 comments