Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social
- Cat herder & vibe-shifter
- Altruism bully & uncompensated over-thinker
Currently: On a quest to save democracy and the world for selfish cat-based comfortable retirement reasons
- Altruism bully & uncompensated over-thinker
Currently: On a quest to save democracy and the world for selfish cat-based comfortable retirement reasons
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Happy Valentines Day to Gaia 🌍
“Only when we’ve truly fallen back in love with the Earth will our actions spring from reverence and the insight of our interconnectedness.” —Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thiền Buddhist monk, Zen master, and peace activist
#WednesdayWisdom #Earth #Love #LoveNature
#WednesdayWisdom #Earth #Love #LoveNature
February 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Happy Valentines Day to Gaia 🌍
Maybe you DO know the harms connected with that thing you're enjoying, but do you also know the harms of letting your ego slam the door in the face of someone caring enough to try pointing them out to you?
Let love in. It heals. Let your ego be your baby, not your boss ❤️ [connect]
#enlightenment
Let love in. It heals. Let your ego be your baby, not your boss ❤️ [connect]
#enlightenment
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Maybe you DO know the harms connected with that thing you're enjoying, but do you also know the harms of letting your ego slam the door in the face of someone caring enough to try pointing them out to you?
Let love in. It heals. Let your ego be your baby, not your boss ❤️ [connect]
#enlightenment
Let love in. It heals. Let your ego be your baby, not your boss ❤️ [connect]
#enlightenment
On an infinite scale, there aren't any villains.
There are definitely heroes, though. They're the folks that SEE everyone and attach value to EVERYTHING. They don't actually burn brighter than anyone else, but love is the best attention-grabber in the universe.
According to cognition, at least.
There are definitely heroes, though. They're the folks that SEE everyone and attach value to EVERYTHING. They don't actually burn brighter than anyone else, but love is the best attention-grabber in the universe.
According to cognition, at least.
February 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
On an infinite scale, there aren't any villains.
There are definitely heroes, though. They're the folks that SEE everyone and attach value to EVERYTHING. They don't actually burn brighter than anyone else, but love is the best attention-grabber in the universe.
According to cognition, at least.
There are definitely heroes, though. They're the folks that SEE everyone and attach value to EVERYTHING. They don't actually burn brighter than anyone else, but love is the best attention-grabber in the universe.
According to cognition, at least.
The flashlight of your perspective vs the flashlight of my perspective = animosity, fear, division
The flashlight of your perspective PLUS the flashlight of my perspective = love, growth, peace
Understanding the scientific method lets you train your intuition to see misbeliefs as PART of reality
The flashlight of your perspective PLUS the flashlight of my perspective = love, growth, peace
Understanding the scientific method lets you train your intuition to see misbeliefs as PART of reality
February 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The flashlight of your perspective vs the flashlight of my perspective = animosity, fear, division
The flashlight of your perspective PLUS the flashlight of my perspective = love, growth, peace
Understanding the scientific method lets you train your intuition to see misbeliefs as PART of reality
The flashlight of your perspective PLUS the flashlight of my perspective = love, growth, peace
Understanding the scientific method lets you train your intuition to see misbeliefs as PART of reality
We're a harm-metabolizing species. The less harm we do, the more energy we have available to love.
It's impossible to survive with NO harm and because of that, we can never feel 100% safe.
Choose your valence, fighters.
Harms generate money and power.
Love generates safety.
#BetterDems
It's impossible to survive with NO harm and because of that, we can never feel 100% safe.
Choose your valence, fighters.
Harms generate money and power.
Love generates safety.
#BetterDems
February 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We're a harm-metabolizing species. The less harm we do, the more energy we have available to love.
It's impossible to survive with NO harm and because of that, we can never feel 100% safe.
Choose your valence, fighters.
Harms generate money and power.
Love generates safety.
#BetterDems
It's impossible to survive with NO harm and because of that, we can never feel 100% safe.
Choose your valence, fighters.
Harms generate money and power.
Love generates safety.
#BetterDems
Perspective narrows in cycles, generating bids for connection. But we ARE connected. We perform love and fear to remind ourselves of what our minds are too small to remember all the time.
We are safe and not-safe. We attack the web to survive and survival is an attack on ourselves. #enlightenment
We are safe and not-safe. We attack the web to survive and survival is an attack on ourselves. #enlightenment
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Perspective narrows in cycles, generating bids for connection. But we ARE connected. We perform love and fear to remind ourselves of what our minds are too small to remember all the time.
We are safe and not-safe. We attack the web to survive and survival is an attack on ourselves. #enlightenment
We are safe and not-safe. We attack the web to survive and survival is an attack on ourselves. #enlightenment
Yeah, we know. We knew.
Navalny wasn't perfect, but he was a dedicated force for good in a context too dangerous to survive. That kind of courage is worth a billion Putins, who know nothing but harm and selfishness and tyranny.
There are NO shadows that can win against the light.
#BetterDems
Navalny wasn't perfect, but he was a dedicated force for good in a context too dangerous to survive. That kind of courage is worth a billion Putins, who know nothing but harm and selfishness and tyranny.
There are NO shadows that can win against the light.
#BetterDems
Russia poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a toxin from a poison dart frog, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom said today.
Alexei Navalny was killed by Russia with frog toxin, 5 European countries say
There is “no innocent explanation” for the presence of the toxin in Navalny’s body, the U.K. said on Saturday.
www.politico.eu
February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yeah, we know. We knew.
Navalny wasn't perfect, but he was a dedicated force for good in a context too dangerous to survive. That kind of courage is worth a billion Putins, who know nothing but harm and selfishness and tyranny.
There are NO shadows that can win against the light.
#BetterDems
Navalny wasn't perfect, but he was a dedicated force for good in a context too dangerous to survive. That kind of courage is worth a billion Putins, who know nothing but harm and selfishness and tyranny.
There are NO shadows that can win against the light.
#BetterDems
The skillset EVERY politician needs: How to teach a brain traumatized by abuse and uncertainty how to prefer PEACE.
Teach an animal, teach yourself, teach a country.
#operantconditioning
#BetterDems
youtube.com/shorts/lCLy9...
Teach an animal, teach yourself, teach a country.
#operantconditioning
#BetterDems
youtube.com/shorts/lCLy9...
2026-02-13 - Hand-feeding Aggressive Ambrose - teaching brains to prefer peace
YouTube video by Vania Velotta
youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The skillset EVERY politician needs: How to teach a brain traumatized by abuse and uncertainty how to prefer PEACE.
Teach an animal, teach yourself, teach a country.
#operantconditioning
#BetterDems
youtube.com/shorts/lCLy9...
Teach an animal, teach yourself, teach a country.
#operantconditioning
#BetterDems
youtube.com/shorts/lCLy9...
OK, this is the rule.
If you lack skill to train an animal brain to PREFER peace, you cannot train your OWN brain OR a whole COUNTRY to prefer peace #operantconditioning
You GOTTA pass that test or you are UNFIT to serve.
Compassion-lifting is VITAL weight training for public servants.
#BetterDems
If you lack skill to train an animal brain to PREFER peace, you cannot train your OWN brain OR a whole COUNTRY to prefer peace #operantconditioning
You GOTTA pass that test or you are UNFIT to serve.
Compassion-lifting is VITAL weight training for public servants.
#BetterDems
February 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
OK, this is the rule.
If you lack skill to train an animal brain to PREFER peace, you cannot train your OWN brain OR a whole COUNTRY to prefer peace #operantconditioning
You GOTTA pass that test or you are UNFIT to serve.
Compassion-lifting is VITAL weight training for public servants.
#BetterDems
If you lack skill to train an animal brain to PREFER peace, you cannot train your OWN brain OR a whole COUNTRY to prefer peace #operantconditioning
You GOTTA pass that test or you are UNFIT to serve.
Compassion-lifting is VITAL weight training for public servants.
#BetterDems
They teach you to hate the reality of your own face in order to sell you camouflage that inflames your skin in order to make you an enemy to yourself in order to sell you a system of disconnected bunker boxes when really what your eyes were made for is to find beauty in others' faces.
#Enlightenment
#Enlightenment
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
They teach you to hate the reality of your own face in order to sell you camouflage that inflames your skin in order to make you an enemy to yourself in order to sell you a system of disconnected bunker boxes when really what your eyes were made for is to find beauty in others' faces.
#Enlightenment
#Enlightenment
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Weekend reminder: your brain runs on surprise. Tiny, unscripted bursts of ocean wonder—anchovies flashing, kelp catching light, a wave clapping deeply—aren’t distractions. They’re fuel. In an unraveling moment, choose stochastic joy. Let randomness keep you caring, returning, fighting. 🌊
#OceanJoy
#OceanJoy
Stochastic Ocean Joy
Why We Need More Wild, Unscheduled Wonder in an Unraveling MomentThere’s a phrase we’ve been playing with lately at Ocean Hoptimism. It began as a joke after a talk. Something muttered between sips of...
www.oceanhoptimism.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Weekend reminder: your brain runs on surprise. Tiny, unscripted bursts of ocean wonder—anchovies flashing, kelp catching light, a wave clapping deeply—aren’t distractions. They’re fuel. In an unraveling moment, choose stochastic joy. Let randomness keep you caring, returning, fighting. 🌊
#OceanJoy
#OceanJoy
Ohio is one of the most captured states. I swear the people here are smarter than this but also the dumb ones are very loud and incredibly aggressive.
They're STILL fighting ballot initiatives that won huge and propping up criminal energy interests.
They're STILL fighting ballot initiatives that won huge and propping up criminal energy interests.
Anti-renewables policies are mounting across the U.S. In Ohio, an effective ban on wind and solar is taking shape.
A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind
The state is mulling a bill that calls for all new generation to be “affordable, reliable, and clean” — but its strained definitions would exclude…
www.canarymedia.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Ohio is one of the most captured states. I swear the people here are smarter than this but also the dumb ones are very loud and incredibly aggressive.
They're STILL fighting ballot initiatives that won huge and propping up criminal energy interests.
They're STILL fighting ballot initiatives that won huge and propping up criminal energy interests.
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If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.
February 14, 2026 at 4:10 AM
If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.
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CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act
We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It!
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act
Take this up, the people.
Do some intuition training (aka skepticism / critical thinking / fact checking / misbelief debunking) in honor of <insert appropriately smarty-pants saint> who blesses us with increasingly discerning bullshit detectors.
Do some intuition training (aka skepticism / critical thinking / fact checking / misbelief debunking) in honor of <insert appropriately smarty-pants saint> who blesses us with increasingly discerning bullshit detectors.
Today is Friday the 13th, which I herby declare is Data Science Awareness Day!
We love to repeat a story that reinforces our own nonsense; let's never stop.
But as we do this, let's promote awareness of how data science methods help us counter cognitive biases and arrive at better conclusions.
We love to repeat a story that reinforces our own nonsense; let's never stop.
But as we do this, let's promote awareness of how data science methods help us counter cognitive biases and arrive at better conclusions.
February 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Take this up, the people.
Do some intuition training (aka skepticism / critical thinking / fact checking / misbelief debunking) in honor of <insert appropriately smarty-pants saint> who blesses us with increasingly discerning bullshit detectors.
Do some intuition training (aka skepticism / critical thinking / fact checking / misbelief debunking) in honor of <insert appropriately smarty-pants saint> who blesses us with increasingly discerning bullshit detectors.
Have to bring my dog for another blood draw tomorrow because the vet's office lost the sample they took from him last week.
So, what do we think the odds are there's an ethics-forward vampire working at my vet's office just tryna get by?
#hypothetically
So, what do we think the odds are there's an ethics-forward vampire working at my vet's office just tryna get by?
#hypothetically
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Have to bring my dog for another blood draw tomorrow because the vet's office lost the sample they took from him last week.
So, what do we think the odds are there's an ethics-forward vampire working at my vet's office just tryna get by?
#hypothetically
So, what do we think the odds are there's an ethics-forward vampire working at my vet's office just tryna get by?
#hypothetically
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First, Heated Rivalry. And now this. CANCON is BACK.
The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
First, Heated Rivalry. And now this. CANCON is BACK.
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DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants.
The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.
Cashing in on cruelty.
The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
As the Trump administration hunts for massive detention sites, politically connected real estate brokers are lining up t
www.levernews.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants.
The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.
Cashing in on cruelty.
The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.
Cashing in on cruelty.
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🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Ohio’s sweeping new voter purge law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Voting rights groups sue to block Ohio law that purges voters without warning
At stake, the plaintiffs argue, is nothing less than the fundamental right to vote.
www.democracydocket.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 PM
🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Ohio’s sweeping new voter purge law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The body-mind's whole job is to take in "food" and sort out what's toxic vs nourishment.
If you're excreting pus to re-sell for power, cash, and illusions of safety, making it palatable burns up your soul. Exciting because dangerous.
Life recycles. Eat more sun, fewer shadows.
#enlightenment
If you're excreting pus to re-sell for power, cash, and illusions of safety, making it palatable burns up your soul. Exciting because dangerous.
Life recycles. Eat more sun, fewer shadows.
#enlightenment
February 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The body-mind's whole job is to take in "food" and sort out what's toxic vs nourishment.
If you're excreting pus to re-sell for power, cash, and illusions of safety, making it palatable burns up your soul. Exciting because dangerous.
Life recycles. Eat more sun, fewer shadows.
#enlightenment
If you're excreting pus to re-sell for power, cash, and illusions of safety, making it palatable burns up your soul. Exciting because dangerous.
Life recycles. Eat more sun, fewer shadows.
#enlightenment
If you're doing a speech for a generalized audience, don't trigger the orcs by suggesting eating meat is a bad thing but ALSO don't trigger everyone else by whipping out a Hobbit leg to gnaw on.
OK, got it?
Good.
Empower those MOST sensitive to injustice to action.
#BetterDems
Connection 101
OK, got it?
Good.
Empower those MOST sensitive to injustice to action.
#BetterDems
Connection 101
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
If you're doing a speech for a generalized audience, don't trigger the orcs by suggesting eating meat is a bad thing but ALSO don't trigger everyone else by whipping out a Hobbit leg to gnaw on.
OK, got it?
Good.
Empower those MOST sensitive to injustice to action.
#BetterDems
Connection 101
OK, got it?
Good.
Empower those MOST sensitive to injustice to action.
#BetterDems
Connection 101
I lost my taste for @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social when he let his mind be seduced by the kindness of predators.
Has he circled back to compassion yet or is he still letting status addiction convince him setting "winning" as his highest value will keep his kids safer?
#BetterDems
Has he circled back to compassion yet or is he still letting status addiction convince him setting "winning" as his highest value will keep his kids safer?
#BetterDems
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I lost my taste for @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social when he let his mind be seduced by the kindness of predators.
Has he circled back to compassion yet or is he still letting status addiction convince him setting "winning" as his highest value will keep his kids safer?
#BetterDems
Has he circled back to compassion yet or is he still letting status addiction convince him setting "winning" as his highest value will keep his kids safer?
#BetterDems
If you fart in an elevator and call it, "Clearing the air," that's funny.
If you BELIEVE it's clearing the air, that's toxic.
Funny is safe. Self-delusion is not. Empathy tells you the difference.
Hold your farts, you cowards. OWN your mistakes.
The world is smelling you now.
#BetterDems
If you BELIEVE it's clearing the air, that's toxic.
Funny is safe. Self-delusion is not. Empathy tells you the difference.
Hold your farts, you cowards. OWN your mistakes.
The world is smelling you now.
#BetterDems
February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
If you fart in an elevator and call it, "Clearing the air," that's funny.
If you BELIEVE it's clearing the air, that's toxic.
Funny is safe. Self-delusion is not. Empathy tells you the difference.
Hold your farts, you cowards. OWN your mistakes.
The world is smelling you now.
#BetterDems
If you BELIEVE it's clearing the air, that's toxic.
Funny is safe. Self-delusion is not. Empathy tells you the difference.
Hold your farts, you cowards. OWN your mistakes.
The world is smelling you now.
#BetterDems
"Woke" HAD to be distasteful because a society addicted to #Enlightenment finds toxic products and ideas distasteful.
Fear and anger FEEL like power, addicting us to self-loathing & separation.
But money-go-up takes the world down.
Seek balance between EATING life & LOVING it.
#BetterDems
Fear and anger FEEL like power, addicting us to self-loathing & separation.
But money-go-up takes the world down.
Seek balance between EATING life & LOVING it.
#BetterDems
February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"Woke" HAD to be distasteful because a society addicted to #Enlightenment finds toxic products and ideas distasteful.
Fear and anger FEEL like power, addicting us to self-loathing & separation.
But money-go-up takes the world down.
Seek balance between EATING life & LOVING it.
#BetterDems
Fear and anger FEEL like power, addicting us to self-loathing & separation.
But money-go-up takes the world down.
Seek balance between EATING life & LOVING it.
#BetterDems