Sam

Yes, if you want to talk about books or most anything that's not politics there's not much engagement.

Is there such a thing as the ice cream diet? Just asking, for "a friend."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."

- Hunter S. Thompson

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

This is big news— “British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time. March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, premier announces.”

Wasn’t that important to me, but I support no more time changes. So we’ll be on permanent PDT, Seattle won’t be.

Meetings can be good for artwork.

Misspelling is the new in-fashion.

Exactly why I try to keep on the sunny side.

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

“Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report has found that they come from a tiny minority of users…
just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts…”

Via @nationalobserver.com #UrbanTruth

Learn something new every day: about galoshes, a single one is called a galosh. From the French galoche.

Magazine cover A black & white cow, with a sailboat in the distance

Sunset, March 1904
NYPL digital collection

... as we entered we caught a strange note of gaiety and completion, as if this great building (the Chicago Art Institute) might be a hospital of sorts, but curing the unknown and non-specific maladies of the daily soul.

- Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side

#sundaysentence

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chicken-pox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.
- Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side

#SundaySentence

March In March the wind blows down the door and spills my soup upon the floor. It laps it up and roars for more. Blowing once blowing twice blowing chicken soup with rice.

March, from Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice, 1962

Casual Reading #oilpainting #art

📸 Alfred Stieglitz, ( 1864 - 1946 )
NYC, 1915.

In the category of learn something new every day . . Also, if you don't have enough to be confused about, give this a go ...

I was today years old when I first heard of "time crystals".

Does "make noise" = 'emit sound'?

The only place floor and flaw sound the same is in Boston.

“War does not abolish the power of tenderness and love.”
Kateryna Kalytko 🇺🇦🕊️ #nn

Who will organize overthinkers anonymous for email response overthinkers?

For context: in my course this semester -- ONE BOOK SLOWLY -- I am using the fact of reading slowly (11pp/class session, plus 2x/week commonplace book handwritten assignments) to emphasize the idea of pre-digital deep literacy as a technique and collection of techniques. I explain that reading...

Monochrome photograph featuring a hand stroking the head of a large horse which is only visible from the neck in side view all against a dark background

Flor de María Garduño, contemporary Mexican photographerr #WomensArt

French photographer Albert Monier
A winter night in Paris, 1953

#AlbertMonier #Photography #Paris

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

For the three people in the universe who have it on their Pre-Code film fantasy list: Edna May Oliver and Hugh Herbert dancing to "Pop Goes the Weasel." From Laugh and Get Rich (1931).
It doesn't get better than this. (I mean it: the film never gets better than this scene. Cave Spectator!)