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Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling/

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling
On behalf of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan Cabinet suspended its previous endorsement of Robert Spatz’s organisation Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC). This suspension is conditional…

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Yo @…, I'm #ActuallyAutistic!

I was WRONG.
The app Audacity does NOT have the URL
audacity.org...
INSTEAD it ACTUALLY got the URL
audacityteam.org
MY MEMORY IS PLAYING TRICKS on me!
#audacity #AudacityTeam

Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones: CONSEQUENCES of the strike #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russia-attacked-zaporizhzhia-with-drones.html

Fear not, orange cat is on the case! 🪴⁠🐈

Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson
called out Bob Kennedy as a
“heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths”
who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
And why would Kennedy be doing this?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
— one of the top scientists and physicians who quit the CDC in protest over the anticipated replacementof Dr. Susan Monarez with an anti-vax cra…

MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’”
If we let Bob Kennedy, MAHA madness, and his billionaire patrons redefine America as a place where only the strong survive, we will lose not just our health but our souls.

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Blade Frisch, Betts Peters, Keith Vertanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00202

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Purpose: Little research has explored the communication needs of autistic adults and how their needs differ from those of other disabled populations. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) can support these communication needs, but more guidance is needed on how to design AAC to support this population. Materials and Methods: We conducted an online, asynchronous, text-based focus group with five autistic adults to explore their social communication and community engagement and how A…

Audacity shocks! Russian UAVs attack in broad daylight, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/audacity-shocks-russian-uavs-attack.html

A councilman in Danville, Virginia, was attacked and set on fire on Wednesday over what police are describing as a “personal matter” not related to his position or politics.
According to a statement released by the Danville police department, the councilman, Lee Vogler, 38,
was attacked at the offices of a local magazine, where he is also employed.
The police said officers were dispatched at about 11.30am after receiving a report that a man had been set on fire.
Witnes…