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I've finally had the mental space over the holidays to make the switch to #niri off of #sway and I am already very happy with it. For one thing it seems Xwayland with scaling isn't broken anymore (of course the sway authors say it isn't broken, I'm just holding it wrong).

There is video. Please take care of yourself and your mental health. And please hold space in your heart this morning for the person who was shot, for their loved ones, for those who witnessed it.

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

Seeing more than schemas: the vmPFC represents imagery-rich mental scenarios https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393226000163 "Mental imagery varies dramatically across individuals", role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow