Moderation in All Things
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Joined March 2020
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Katherine Rundell; this is precisely why powerful companies are investing billions to ensure that humans never dream again.
ALT “Imagination, which in adulthood we sometimes treat as a kind of optional extra that you can safely discard, is actually at the heart of everything. Imagination is at the center of political change. It is necessary for love to be able to imagine another persons’ inner life. It is at the heart, I think, of the great civilisations.”
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We’re facing an ever-worsening literacy crisis. Millions of brains have been scrambled by conspiracy theories & short-form videos. Curiosity is dying. Our collective intelligence is declining for the first time in a century. The solution is to read. The solution is to read.
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If there is even a small chance that President Trump is considering bombing Iran with a nuclear weapon then he needs to be removed from office now. Someone in his cabinet needs to step up and stop this madness.
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I need to ask for your help again.❤️ First, I want to say something important. My GoFundMe has now passed 50% of its goal. FIFTY PERCENT.
I genuinely cannot believe the kindness and generosity people have shown me. Friends, family, fellow musicians, people who have followed my career for years, people who found me through my family's story, and complete strangers.
You've helped make it possible for me to begin fighting this terrible disease, and I will never be able to thank you enough.
But I also need to be honest about something
**As incredible as that 50% milestone is, I'm still a very long way from being able to afford everything this fight is going to require.**
Even with medical insurance and financial assistance, the costs of cancer treatment are overwhelming. And this isn't a fight that's going to be over in a few weeks or months.
It's going to be a long road.
I've been thinking about something lately.
Between all my social media accounts, there are more than 100,000 people following along.
It occurred to me that if even half of those people contributed just ONE DOLLAR, that would be another $50,000.
Think about that.
One dollar.
I know times are tough. I know not everybody can donate. And I completely understand that. But if you're able to spare a dollar, or five dollars, or simply share my fundraiser with someone who might be able to help, it really does make a difference.
I'm not asking anyone to give more than they can afford. And if you've already donated, PLEASE know how incredibly grateful I am. Sharing this again would mean just as much.
I'm doing everything I can to get better.
I'm following my treatment plan. I'm showing up for the appointments. I'm taking the medications. I'm fighting like hell.
And I'm doing it because I want to be here for my daughter. For my family. For my friends. And for all the music and life I still have ahead of me.
Thank you for helping me get this far.
I just need a little more help getting through what's ahead. ❤️
GFM : gofund.me/72c4d35ab
#girldad #cancerjourney
Deb retweeted
You all need to understand that there is a well-funded movement to kill Wikipedia as an institution. The dream of an internet that provided universal access to knowledge was a mirage. It threatened too many powerful people, so now we have AI summaries and illiteracy.
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I very much want to be wrong, but I think this outbreak is going to get much, much worse. Attacks on healthcare workers, active conflict zone, porous borders, sub-optimal surveillance. A very bad combination.
Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries. apnews.com/article/ebola-dis…
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Red flags for narcissists/psychopaths:
1. Lengthy staring - Dark personalities do not experience discomfort in the same way others do so they use staring as an influencing tactic. This could be eye staring or following you around a room.
2. Watching your hands as you speak - Narcissists/psychopaths do not experience emotions because of brain anomalies. They look at your hand movements to try and understand what your emotional vulnerabilities are.
3. Smirking - Dark personalities smirk out of an arrogant sense of ‘I have fooled them all and I am amazing’. They also smirk when they hurt someone. The smirk can sometimes be just a tiny movement on one side of the mouth and the eyes are dull.
4. Charity - When a media story about a charity contains as much information about a person as the charity that is a big red flag.
5. Peering - When a situation is emotional the narcissist/psychopath may squint and lean forward almost as if studying the situation to try and understand it.
6. Housework - Oddly, there seems to be a trend that housework is not something they are willing to do. Using intimidating behaviour around housework is a red flag.
7. Expectations - Expecting too much or having limited concern for health and safety issues is a dark personality red flag.
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Want to know where teens use the most marijuana?
Here's a clue. Look where the industry is.
All 11 places with the highest teen use have legal marijuana. Maine leads at nearly 1 in 10 kids. None of the 6 lowest have legalized.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/15…
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you cannot read dostoevsky, nietzsche, kafka, virginia woolf, and every other book that makes you question your entire existence, and then expect to come out of it as the exact same person who opened the first page.
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It’s important to ask yourself, “How did we end up in a world where the act of reading is more embarrassing than not reading?” There’s a reason the children of CEOs attend schools where screens are forbidden while public school kids are increasingly unable to read. We’ve been fed relentless propaganda about how books are for losers because a literate population threatens the unchecked power of the super-wealthy.
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I was walking to the building where I work in Oxford when I passed three young girls speaking Farsi and I couldn’t help but run back and ask if they were from Afghanistan.
They said yes. It had been a few months since their arrival as refugees waiting in Pakistan, now studying at a local school in Oxford.
I was swelling with emotion. These girls just escaped 5 years of gender persecution under the Taliban. Erasure of their schools. And are now in Oxford, studying freely.
Thank you to the U.K government for giving them a second chance.
As a former refugee myself, we all just need one chance, as Canada gave to my mother and I.
Two sets of Afghan women, escaping two Taliban regimes, meeting in Oxford. All in the hopes of finding freedom through education.
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Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency.
My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago.
The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days.
Friday afternoon rolled around. No call.
She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety.
The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining:
“Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.”
My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?”
The receptionist sighed into the receiver:
“It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.”
My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying.
I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records.
The result was benign.
The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier.
A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive.
Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?
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I'm not very good at asking for help. But I think I'm going to have to get better at it. Since I shared the news about my cancer, something pretty incredible has happened.
Without me really coming out and directly asking, friends, fans, fellow artists and complete strangers have already donated more than $10,000 to help me fight this thing.
I don't know how to adequately say thank you for that.
But today, I do need to actually ask.
I need your help.
Even with health insurance and financial assistance, the cost of fighting this rare cancer is staggering.
Just ONE of the medications I now have to take costs approximately $300 per pill.
One pill. Every day. For at least two years.
That's roughly $219,000 for one medication.
I'm currently taking eight different prescriptions.
Then there are treatments, oncology appointments, testing, scans, hospital bills and everything else that comes along with trying to stay alive.
So... yeah.
This is the uncomfortable part where I swallow my pride and ask my weird, wonderful little corner of the world to rally around me.
If you're able to donate, even a little, I would be incredibly grateful.
And if donating isn't possible, sharing this helps more than you might realize.
We've already made it more than 20% of the way there.
Maybe, together, we can get the rest of the way.
I'm home. I'm getting stronger.
And I am going to fight like hell.
Thank you for helping me afford the fight. ❤️
GoFundMe: gofund.me/901359e09
#cancerjourney
