Basically everything in this picture relates to how you process emotional stuff, stress, PTSD, manic episodes, intense memories, etc.

It's all clearly damaged by Covid.

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/2/1/3

I’m going to be listening to The Professional Left Podcast starring @bluegal and @driftglass and you should too! Available where’er you find Pods or here:

http://professionalleft.blogspot.com

Me listening to the #ProLeftPod, probably↓

Next time Danielle Smith starts dog whistling about migrant workers remind her that migrant workers just saved her butt.

Thank you Mexican firefighters for coming to #Canada’s aid. 🙏

#Mexico

Incredibly lucky webcam shot from Platte Mountain Camera 1 on the #ParkFire.

For cameras all over California, bookmark https:\\alertcalifornia.org.

Is there any coffee left in that cup ... {Proceeds to tip the cup upside down} ... Yeah there WAS ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Justice Dept. Settles Lawsuit With Former F.B.I. Officials Targeted by Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/fbi-texts-strzok-page-trump.html?smid=tw-share

J'adore batshit #Paris psychogeographic parkour detours a Francais #Olympics feverdream #Seine dérive. Belle because, not in spite, of its flaws soaked in diversity/creativity/top tunes & mecha folklore horse! It really floated my boat! + it seemed to annoy all the right people!

At the Harmonie German Club, where our late friend Frank used to spend a lot of time. A little wake. #drink 🥂

Dance, art, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, the Louvre, Notre Dame, libraries, theater, balloons, diversity, equality, fashion, young athletes from around the globe floating down the Seine - the right wing's complains that the Paris #Olympics are too secular proves how far out of modern life they've drifted.

And how much freedom and joy scare them.

Mohammed Assaf, a 17-year-old from North Gaza, has just died due to starvation. Mohammed did not suffer from any pre-existing conditions, but he was severely malnourished, and his weak body couldn't survive the starvation.

Israeli occupation forces are using starvation as a tool of war and are currently starving North Gaza to death.

https://xcancel.com/HossamShabat/status/1816943478687076703#m

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#HossamShabat
@palestine

Ariel sketch

#MyArt

Tinker Bell sketch

#MyArt #TinkerBell

Look at the size of those thumbs, that’s got to be steroids.
#SocialMediaOlympics

Kind of awestruck at this #Olympics2024 #OpeningCeremony in #paris. The urban planner in me is floored at what a brilliant idea to showcase the history and culture of Parisians and France through the heart of the city itself. It's inspiring to see a city being used in a way that I don't recall seeing in my lifetime, but seems so obvious after tonight.

While I had doubts about Kamala 4 yrs ago, which I think were valid at the time, I started to see how she’d grown with Biden and I was pretty sure 8 months ago she might be the nominee. I was always quietly concerned about the age thing. I was comforted she was there.

ME: Hey, what's a Jumping Jack Flash?
MICK JAGGER: It's a gas gas gas
ME: Great. Thanks a lot. Very helpful

warmup sketch

#MyArt

The media is already failing in its duty to fairly cover Kamala Harris | Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris-media

#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025

Not holding out much hope that Trump gets sentenced to hard labour in a dilithium mine on Ruhra Penthe.

Towson Apple store union: Group secures first tentative contract agreement https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/towson-apple-store-union-TCQDV6AGRJEKJPYYVSX3THPZ7E/

Higher ed has a newish (?) data broker called Transact.

https://www.campusidnews.com/transacts-data-aggregation-platform-set-to-expand-into-campus-commerce-and-id-space/

From their own lips: "These transactions range from where they eat, if they attend their lectures, pay their tuition bill on time, where and when they move across campus, how often they do laundry, or how many Energy Drinks they buy at the library at 2 am before exams."

My students gonna adore this.

Who else wants to FOIA public institutions for who's selling/giving these jerks data?

Wearing JNCOs on a rainy day.

IYKYK

Thanks to Abby Normal

The left and right have very different ideas about what counts as fun

Vice President Harris — she’s making politics fun again!

This realization came to Kate Cohen sometime between the 26th and 27th political TikTok her daughter scrolled through with her.

It’s not just the pop-music-scored “Kamalanomenon” unfolding,

but the “candy-store array” of possible VP picks who might help Harris “crush” former president Donald Trump.

Yes, “crush.”

Kate describes a “we got this” glee
that feels almost foreign after so many years of “if only” wistfulness.

As she asks, “When was the last time it was this fun to be a Democrat?”


Meanwhile, GOP leadership reportedly wants to stop Republicans from having any fun at all with the Harris boom.

Alexandra Petri imagines us inside the room where politicians got their “don’t say the quiet part out loud” sensitivity training

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/democrats-fun-harris-biden-trump-olympics-elections/

I hate how NBC manages to take a 45 minute segment and turn it into three hours. I know I say this every two years, but NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is just not good.

LIVE SOON:

Olympics? What's that?
We've got a city to build #pathofexile #poe #settlersofkalguur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk03ce9noMY

Who did this?

Biden lifted sanctions on Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler? The man who is literally destroying the Congolese people, genocide for profit? How are Gertler and his cronies not being prosecuted as war criminals?
#BlackMastodon

if you bring this dude to my party you will be invited to more of my parties

Loren's Chipmunk Portrait Studio is open for business

TIL that chicken little is an anti nazi film to teach about the evils of mass hysteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Little_(1943_film)
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed50ye/til_that_chicken_little_is_an_anti_nazi_film_to/

🤑 👠💪🏼 #Harris2024 #YesWeKam

Just at the nice cafe, and sat with my coffee crush ... Giggles ... We were giggling and laughing at everything ... They had to get back to work ... They squeeze my thigh ... Melting ... Giggles

I couldn't date them, I wouldn't want to ruin their life ... Like I am older enough to be their mother and I'm trans

Hugz & xXx

This always amuses me when Trump says he's a family values guy:

…and I got surprised by these tubular yellow blossoms behind the fence today! They seem quite popular with the ants. #Bloomscrolling

Power.

The past few days have had Khmer family visiting. We either have no one or are overrun with people. I just hide out most times. Or give the wifi key to those in need. #today they leave. And I'm gone for coffee. I think my wife is gonna be gone soon as they leave for Preah Vihear province.