lilylivingstone.bsky.social
@lilylivingstone.bsky.social
Nursing, law, philosophy, teaching.
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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September 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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In the bookshop this morning:

PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”

CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *

CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”
August 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
He Announced His Intention to Die. The Dinner Invitations Rolled In.
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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my god he's perfect
August 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🌋 Russia: The tallest volcano in all of Eurasia near the Kamchatka earthquake epicenter began to erupt.
The summit of Klyuchevskaya Sopka is over 4.75km tall - a full kilometer higher than Mount Fuji in Japan.
July 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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this is very good
My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
nyti.ms
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
He has Frank's sign in the before picture
med.stanford.edu/stanfordmedi...
July 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?
By a former speech writer for Obama, David Litt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/o...
Opinion | Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Brief rain followed by blue skies.
July 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The Trump administration is now regularly raiding churches to deport Christians

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Southern California bishop suspends Mass obligation due to immigration fears
"There is a real fear gripping many in our parish communities that if they venture out into any kind of public setting they will be arrested by immigration officers," San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Roj...
www.nbcnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A great article on Erik Satie in the NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/a...
Satie’s Music Will Always Be Popular. But Will We Ever Understand It?
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Raw Milk — it’s not just e-coli…
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Despite being healthy, at 90 years-old, Daniel Kahneman chose to die by assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic on March 27, 2024. Peter Singer and another professor spoke to him a short time before he died.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | There’s a Lesson to Learn From Daniel Kahneman’s Death (Gift Article)
If we are to live well, we need to be able to ask when a life is complete.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Another horror:
Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia
A Democratic lawmaker is drafting a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database on thousands of children has been deleted.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Trump on calling Zelenskyy a dictator: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”
February 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Everyone needs to read this:
The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | I’ve Seen the World Our Trash Makes, and It’s Terrifying (Gift Article)
The world’s poorer nations have never stopped being receptacles for the West’s rubbish.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm"

by Niklas Serning

aeon.co/essays/i-am-...
I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays
For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm
aeon.co
January 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Insane threats are “musings” now.
January 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Medical debt will no longer be allowed to be a factor when lenders consider applicants for loans, according to a new rule finalized Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
New Biden Administration Rule Removes Medical Bills From Credit Reports Used By Lenders
The rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of millions of Americans.
www.forbes.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM