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Wednesday check-in!

How're we doing?

What've you done this week to help someone else?

What've you done this week to help yourself?

Remember to breathe, move your body, hydrate, & find something to laugh about.

Ship of Fools - Bob Seger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDsZ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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NEW: Our experts, along with @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social looked into how Instacart was deciding prices on grocery items across the country.

What we found will shock you.
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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He told me he isn’t worried
about catching the flu or Covid
because he doesn’t know anyone
who has the flu or Covid,
instead what he’s worried about
is the odd “something”
which it seems everyone has,
and though I wanted to scream
instead I said:
masks protect against that too.
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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REMINDER - Turn your phone off & reboot at least once a week to improve its performance and make it harder for hackers to use malware & spyware on your phone. And remember, it's a passive listener. Hold important conversations in person away from phones & other devices.

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Get in the habit of turning off your cell phone (for at least 2 minutes) and rebooting it at minimum once a week. This allows it to clear its RAM and can clear out some (not all) malware, which in turn improves your phone's performance and can help prevent hacking. (1/6)
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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If they respond
(and they will respond)
to the mask you wear
and the precautions you take
by telling you
that at this point
nobody cares
about the pandemic anymore,
remember: the fact
that they feel so compelled
to tell you this
is because your actions
are proving them wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It's said on the Statue of Liberty that America is a home of exiles...our nation has constantly taken positive steps forward on issues of racial justice & equality. But over & over again at the same time, it made backward steps...the persistence of white backlash.

--Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

-- Ai Weiwei
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Apparently in the UK
hospital admissions for flu
have hit a record high
with the NHS warning
that the UK must prepare
for the“worst year ever,”
but here across the pond
we are ready,
yes, here in the US
we are quite ready,
we are ready
to keep pretending
that everything is fine.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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When you hear people say
(and you will hear people say)
that they’ve gotten sick
and now they wish
they had worn a mask,
calmly and kindly tell them
that they missed the chance
to prevent their current infection
but they can still wear a mask
to help prevent their next one.
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I have heard that in Spain
they are bringing back masks
in hospitals, primary care,
and long term care environments,
but here in the US
we are bringing something back too
unfortunately
what we are bringing back here
seems to be yet another winter
of everyone falling ill.
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Contact your STATE legislators (ballotpedia.org/Who_represen...) and ask them to oppose unlimited dark money influencing elections in your state.

(1/4)
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I have been informed
that today
is a day for giving
and in that spirit
if you would like
to do something
to show you give a damn:
you can wear a mask,
and if you
really do give a damn
you can keep wearing it
even on the days
that are not
specifically for giving.
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Wednesday check-in!

How're we doing?

What've you done this week to help someone else?

What've you done this week to help yourself?

Remember to breathe, move your body, hydrate, & find something to laugh about.

I'm Only Sleeping - The Beatles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OE...
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Before he ventured
into the cold
my colleague prepared:
he put on a heavy coat and a scarf,
he donned a hat and gloves,
and as I looked
at his unmasked face
I realized that he was willing
to take precautions
against the cold,
just not against
catching something
worse than a cold.
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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REMINDER - Giving Tuesday is great, but it's not practical for all organizations, especially small ones. Do your research, look at orgs working on issues important to you and evaluate their presence and impact, then, support them how you can when you can!

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In just 12 years, Giving Tuesday grew from being a simple Twitter hashtag in a fundraising campaign of New York's 92nd Street YMCA into a globally recognized day of giving. In recent years though, many smaller non-profit organizations have moved away from running big Giving Tuesday campaigns. (1/8)
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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As we talk
by our trash cans
my neighbor recounts
the deals he got
but he notes he’s worried
the steep discounts
are a recession indicator,
and then he notes
how everyone in the stores
was coughing,
and as he notes this I worry
that’s an indicator
something else is getting worse.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

-- Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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If you
wake up tomorrow
and need to travel
I hope that you
will take care
and travel safely.

And if you
wake up tomorrow
and feel unwell
I hope that you
will take care
and not travel at all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Never, never, never give in!

-- Winston Churchill

RESIST!!
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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As we stood in line
at the supermarket
the woman behind me
looked at my mask
and said she was just getting over it,
and the man at the register
said he had it last month,
and the woman in front of me
said she just keeps getting it,
but no one seemed willing
to admit what “it” was.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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As she recounted
a disappointing dinner party
my work friend asked
if I knew the feeling
of being with people
(of being with good people)
but still just feeling
profoundly alone,
and as I adjusted my mask
I looked
at my friend’s bare face
and simply said:
I know the feeling.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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By now
you have probably seen reports
about how H3N2 Flu
is spreading dangerously
in Japan,
but before you tell yourself
that you need not worry
as you are not in Japan,
remember:
you may not be there
but that doesn’t mean
that this virus
won’t find its way here.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Feel good Friday! We need to remember to celebrate every win!

Starting w/Spr 26 admits, Johns Hopkins will charge no tuition & give addl aid for expenses & other fees if student family income is under $100k.

What good thing are you going to do for someone else & for yourself today/this weekend?
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM