This is like the best thing right now. If you don’t know about 31 minutos, it’s about time you check it out.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEqT...
This is like the best thing right now. If you don’t know about 31 minutos, it’s about time you check it out.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEqT...
I’ve always marveled at this.
This line from Anna Tivel’s song, “Holy Equation,” is a searingly acute commentary on where we are at right now:
“Good luck to the lucky few and God bless the rest of us fools.”
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21 Ways People Are Using AI at Work. A high school music teacher used the prompt “make it more Gen X” for helping her write rejection letters that were direct and “thoughtful, but didn’t sound like Mr. Rogers on molly”. 😂 [nytimes.com]
I was introduced to James Gleick’s book Time Travel via this article from The Marginalian. I was finally able to check it out and it’s been a fascinating read so far.
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/27/j...
The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues:
When things seem difficult, add a little simple syrup. Check out the latest from An Uncommon Commute.
#anxiety #depression #wisdom #taoism #jung #music
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Where first graders watch educational media, before the impact of eliminating federal funds:
* PBS - 45%
* Nickelodeon - 14%
* YouTube - 9%
(from a 2025 study by child development researchers)
Silence, solitude, and the art of surrender – Pico Iyer on finding the world in a Benedictine monastery www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/12/p...
Can’t say enough about The Pudding. These people amaze me. If you like math, funny fonts, and the creative process that is cutting an onion, you’ll love this:
pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
#onions #cooking #math
I love the simple and profound bits of wisdom sprinkled throughout Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea—like this one:
“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?”
#light #shadow #power
From Ursula K. Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching:
“What works reliably is to know the raw silk, hold the uncut wood. Need little, want less. Forget the rules. Be untroubled.”
#wisdom #education #literature
If you’re consumed with the virtual, maybe it’s time to dissolve back into the real.
#technology #art #nature #evolution
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Are you becoming more like a crab? Read the latest from An Uncommon Commute to find out:
#technology #education #music
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Will Euskara survive?
“I say yes, because I’m an optimist,” Errekatxo said. “Basque has its ups and downs, it evolves forward and backward, like life itself.”
Check out the latest from An Uncommon Commute: Blind Spots
#music #history #education
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It’s Never Too Late…
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Alan Sparhawk on not being broken…
ericwenninger.com/not-broken/
I’m loving this song from Bruce’s Tracks II: The Lost Albums
m.youtube.com/watch?v=55xR...
Check out the latest from An Uncommon Commute: Things as They Are
#gardens #news #uruguay #community #fear #anxiety #summer #ocean
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Defensa de la alegría - por Mario Benedetti
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Incredible.
Right on @annkpowers.bsky.social
Check out the latest from An Uncommon Commute: It Comes in Waves
#grief #life #death #loss #music #books #support #water #art
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Grief, "It Comes in Waves" - Here's how you can respond:
#grief #loss #love #death #life
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