Stephanie Harrison
@stephaniehson.bsky.social
I’m a philosopher working to build a compassionate world
Founder of The New Happy, author of bestseller New Happy: www.thenewhappy.com
My newsletter: stephanieharrison.substack.com
We are here to help each other
Founder of The New Happy, author of bestseller New Happy: www.thenewhappy.com
My newsletter: stephanieharrison.substack.com
We are here to help each other
It’s not complicated:
1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence
2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable
3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...
1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence
2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable
3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...
September 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It’s not complicated:
1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence
2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable
3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...
1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence
2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable
3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...
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As I and others have been saying for some time now. Please read this. It might make you be more cautious.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As I and others have been saying for some time now. Please read this. It might make you be more cautious.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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You, yes YOU, need to listen to this episode or Rare Earth from @helenczerski.bsky.social, about skyrocketing power demand from data centres. Particularly now that the UK govt is asking residents to use less water so it can cool the Slop Generator.
BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Powering Our Robot Overlords
The energy used by a simple internet search is increasing. Can we cut the cost?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
You, yes YOU, need to listen to this episode or Rare Earth from @helenczerski.bsky.social, about skyrocketing power demand from data centres. Particularly now that the UK govt is asking residents to use less water so it can cool the Slop Generator.
Not only is everything horrific right now, but we're also having to unlearn our ways of being (what I call Old Happy, or the ways that individualism/capitalism/domination have shaped us) and evolve into humans who are capable of making the new world we want. It's hard. Let's be kind to each other.
August 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Not only is everything horrific right now, but we're also having to unlearn our ways of being (what I call Old Happy, or the ways that individualism/capitalism/domination have shaped us) and evolve into humans who are capable of making the new world we want. It's hard. Let's be kind to each other.
this, and some of y'all used this as your blank justification to abandon masking and the common good, and refuse to see how that behavior led to where we are today
"Pre-exisiting conditions" is a framework put on disabled people to diminish our deaths.
That's why some disabled people are very mad about the NYT note, and we were also very mad at the CDC under Biden saying only people with four or more pre-exisiting conditions are dying from Covid.
That's why some disabled people are very mad about the NYT note, and we were also very mad at the CDC under Biden saying only people with four or more pre-exisiting conditions are dying from Covid.
July 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
this, and some of y'all used this as your blank justification to abandon masking and the common good, and refuse to see how that behavior led to where we are today
I hope this piece helps you to understand more of the psychology behind the genocide and equips you with the language and tools to be able to address it
stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...
stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...
Moral entitlement, or the moral get-out-of-jail free card
Being a victim does not prevent someone from doing harm.
stephanieharrison.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I hope this piece helps you to understand more of the psychology behind the genocide and equips you with the language and tools to be able to address it
stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...
stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...
Have you heard about the moral get-out-of-jail-free card?
July 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Have you heard about the moral get-out-of-jail-free card?
When you feel helpless, help more.
July 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When you feel helpless, help more.
Please consider donating to the PCRF here: www.pcrf.net
Send your receipt to hello@thenewhappy.com and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.
Send your receipt to hello@thenewhappy.com and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.
July 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Please consider donating to the PCRF here: www.pcrf.net
Send your receipt to hello@thenewhappy.com and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.
Send your receipt to hello@thenewhappy.com and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.
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In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
www.thegauntlet.news
July 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
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Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba
By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba
Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
n.pr
July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba
By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba
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“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.”
Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?
Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?
June 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.”
Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?
Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?
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The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged.
Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged.
Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
Zohran!!!!!! Hope lives!!! 🗽
June 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Zohran!!!!!! Hope lives!!! 🗽
AND on top of all these excellent reasons, OpenAI is collaborating with the fascists and AI is a tool of authoritarianism. Stop using Empire’s tool to do what humans should be doing—making art—to fight against it!!!!
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
June 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
AND on top of all these excellent reasons, OpenAI is collaborating with the fascists and AI is a tool of authoritarianism. Stop using Empire’s tool to do what humans should be doing—making art—to fight against it!!!!
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ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
Imagine being so craven that 5.4 million people show up to your anti-birthday party
June 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Imagine being so craven that 5.4 million people show up to your anti-birthday party
It’s only hopeless if we give up, because we are the hope.
June 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s only hopeless if we give up, because we are the hope.
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Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler."
Finally, someone says it to their faces.
Finally, someone says it to their faces.
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler."
Finally, someone says it to their faces.
Finally, someone says it to their faces.
no kings dot org
June 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
no kings dot org
On malignant normality:
June 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
On malignant normality:
For everyone asking, “How do they live with themselves?”
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June 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
For everyone asking, “How do they live with themselves?”
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It’s almost like empathy is required to sustain a relationship
June 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s almost like empathy is required to sustain a relationship
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
The world feels like it's falling apart. You feel like you're falling apart. What are we supposed to do?
I'm so excited to be joining my friends for this talk to show you how to be happy even now, and make our world a happier place too.
Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I'm so excited to be joining my friends for this talk to show you how to be happy even now, and make our world a happier place too.
Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Nice Book Club - New Happy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for the second installment of the Nice Book Club — a free, live event with Stephanie Harrison, author of New Happy!
✨ What if everything you’ve been taught about happiness is wrong? Stephanie...
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April 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The world feels like it's falling apart. You feel like you're falling apart. What are we supposed to do?
I'm so excited to be joining my friends for this talk to show you how to be happy even now, and make our world a happier place too.
Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I'm so excited to be joining my friends for this talk to show you how to be happy even now, and make our world a happier place too.
Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...