“My mind is not boggled!”
#PreservedStories
Folks, please remember that while our focus this week has been on trying to get the families stuck under Israel’s bombs in the North to relative safety in the South, our families in the South need your continued support for the basic necessities of life.
You’ll remember Aseel as she was our very first Gaza Verified member.
Every week, she tries to raise $500 so she can feed her family of six.
Her fundraiser isn’t doing too well this week.
(She still has a little over …
@… 😅 I was going to ask how you remember these ten year old talks but I remember some of yours too! barcamp at slowdown!!
@… years ago I read a "helpful hint" that boiled down to: form a sensible association between (a) the person's name and (b) the situation in which you met. A word-association-thing to ensure that you will you remember the name.
I tried it, once, at parties. At the second party, I clearly and correctly remembered the person's name:
Frid…
Remember when people a year and an half ago discussed for months why “they’d never hit a hospital”?
That was when the world should collectively have started sanctions and a boycott.
Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/24/fan-practices-of-memory-and-remembrance
Far cry from the Uptown I remember from the 90s.
If I were one of the remaining small business owners, I’d be working like hell to get the weird back. Where there’s weird, there’s life.
It is surprising the amount of apps I have to login after reinstalling the system.
I had logged into my first three pages of apps, but man, I keep finding more apps I forgot I launched just with spotlight and it is a long tail of passwords.
And I often don’t remember if I had used google/github/apple as a shortcut to login.
Remember Trump telling how extremely safe Washington DC was now..... Ofcourse he was lying.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/…
I remember a time when at least folks in the West tried to pretend they were civilised and cared about things like human rights and democracy. Now even that pretense is gone. Now it’s “might makes right, motherfucker!” And “yeah we’re douchebags and barbarians, what’re you going to do about it?”