Sam

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Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography & Painting. Food. Baseball. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people.

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Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.

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I would *open* a cocktail bar named The Cogent Oyster.

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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.” Robert Frost #writer

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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” Margaret Atwood

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I was giving an actor friend some advice on writing and I spent 15 minutes explain how I’d just fucked up a script, rewrote, stalled, then finally got it. They had this idea that it was hard because they weren’t good. No, *the process is the art* . We need to share that relentlessly.

Something that has helped with this recently is watching videos of other artists working. Mostly manga artists for me but thats cause we use the same tools. Seeing them just put down lines and make mistakes and scribble helps get my brain out of that mode. Its been surprisingly helpful haha

【漫画制作】『フードコートで、また明日。』アナログ原稿メイキング【成家慎一郎先生】youtu.be 【コピック＆アイシーのエアコミケ3】4/30-5/5の期間で開催したオンラインイベントのスペシャル企画です。https://gtoo-event.com/aircomiket3/- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...

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When you see the everyday decency of regular people, it puts the behavior of our "elites" into rather stark relief. (tl;dr 23-year-old juror impaneled on a pandemic nonprofit fraud case is offered $120K in cash and *immediately* turns it in. Wild story, a credit to local reporting. Gift link.)

Juror in fraud case given bag with $120K, promise for more ‘if she votes to acquit,’ FBI sayswww.washingtonpost.com The alleged bribe came as a bombshell revelation in an ongoing trial over a massive pandemic fraud case tied to Minnesota-based nonprofits.

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"Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices, which tend to pull their ‘subject’ matter out of the larger contexts they exist in, to facilitate focused study." Nora Bateson

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As a kid I picked up a library book from my fave series back then. Once I was home and started to read a postcard fell out of the book. It was addressed to me. From my best friend. Who took the same book to her family’s vacation, used the postcard as a bookmark, and forgot to send it.

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Veterinary professional experience very high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide. It you love your vet team, PLEASE let them know. Get out some paper, an envelope, and a stamp to write a thank you note right now. ❤️ www.nomv.org/about/pet-pa...

Pet Parents | Not One More Vetwww.nomv.org Pet Parents: How to Support Your Veterinary Team The Problem A common assumption about the day-to-day experience of veterinary professionals is that they play with animals all day. While this assumpti...

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hate to break it to y’all but i make my bed EVERY morning and my life couldn’t be less productive

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HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY. Go to your independent bookstore! Do it now! Buy books! Tell the booksellers they are wizards, literal wizards, bibliowizards of the highest order! High-five them lest they turn you into a bookmark for your impudence!

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"You cannot fight the darkness. You can bring the Light to the darkness but Illumination is never a battle." ~ Paul Selig, The Book of Innocence.

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Thousands of people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored. Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?www.nytimes.com All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

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"Cigna built a computer program that allowed its medical directors to deny certain claims in bulk. The insurer’s doctors spent an average of just 1.2 seconds on each of those cases."

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said. www.propublica.org/article/cign...

A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.www.propublica.org Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...

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Pickles are how you show true adoration.

Caught a display of vintage Valentine’s Day cards outside the Smith College Rare Book Room and it has me wondering why modern Valentine’s cards are so insipid. Give me a pickle or a lobster with anatomical labels, you cowards.

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Having now learned that both libraries & professional wrestling have "jobbers" I'm imagining a professional wrestler called The Librarian who uses an encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling to win matches through finishing moves like The Catalog & the brutal Boolean Stretch

aren't jobbers mostly for libraries?

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georgetown is now offering cash incentives for faculty to "further embed AI tools into our educational practices" and it turns out the initiative is funded by a donor who is the head of "disruptive technology" for, wait for it, the world bank

Literally no one is asking for the stuff AI is being pushed for right now (which is everything). It’s the tech company version of fetch, and they’re determined to make it happen.

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection

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Undersea cable breaks “happen every other day, about 200 times a year. The reason websites continue to load...is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.” www.theverge.com/c/24070570/i...

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloatwww.theverge.com How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.

Is it possible that "re-cycling" plastic CAUSES micro plastic particles everywhere?

Morning coffee thoughts: War on drugs - about 40 years now: more drugs than ever War on poverty - decades long: Still much poverty War on cancer - at least half a century: More than ever War on terrorism-decades: Plenty everywhere Perhaps the wars CAUSE more of what is unwanted.

Reading is perhaps the most subversive thing we can do. - Percival Everett Someone should tell the young people.

I tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. - Kurt Vonnegut

Well if that wasn't a hoot and a holler, don't what ever would be.

I feel really good today. How do I bottle it?

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According to the New Yorker newsletter, John McPhee finally experienced his first earthquake today. link.newyorker.com/view/5ee1731...

Do you have to be a wackadoodle to be an artist? Just asking for my proverbial friend.

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How to test your eclipse glasses now to make sure they're safe and not dangerous fakes 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ecli...

Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake? Here’s How to Checkwww.scientificamerican.com You’re going to want to guard your eyes from the sun using legitimate protective gear

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