Red on the head, red on the dragon. 🐉

Red curry is very good and good for you. 🤭

That’s the best! And it’s so fun to practice with native speakers, too. ☺️ I’ve never understood why people don’t enjoy learning other languages, or even just a little bit.

Pray for their souls, bc this sucks for them much more than it sucks for me. But that’s what happens when you pile more and more work on one person who’s severely underpaid. I have no sympathy left.

My incredibly large and wonderful Welsh family!

Maybe to brush back up on my Welsh as well. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

I forgot to bring lunch, so I’m just sitting here doomscrolling. 🥺

As usual, I do hope that I’m wrong. 😞 But actually, this is an argument they’re already making in the Texas border law case. (SB4)

If that happens, there aren’t many constitutional principles that I have faith will be able to hold.

All I can hope is that the cartels don’t get baited into a scenario on the border that could lead to the suspension of due process for Americans and the legitimization of arguments against birthright citizenship. They believe all they need to do is convince the courts immigration is invasion.

Of course. ☺️ I am formerly Catholic, and finding your account several months ago has given me hope that perhaps the entire Church won’t be sucked into the abyss of performative cruelty.

Those people will not break the habit until either they get bored (deprivation of the excitatory chemicals keeping them hooked), or they overdose on their narcissism and the consequence threatens their sense of material/psychological comfort.

Right now, supporters of authoritarianism are being fed pure and unadulterated dopamine rush 24/7, targeted individually on social media and reinforced relentlessly by traditional media, in an echo chamber designed to keep them addicted to validation at all costs.

There are ways to be a defender and a hero without punching down or bringing themselves to their level. But until they get beyond their carefully workshopped messaging strategies and engage authentically, they won’t ever find what actually works.

The problem is that the Democratic and progressive base will also hang them out to dry for just about any sign of ideological inconsistency. What their leaders need to do is recognize that all those calculations are out the window and people are SCARED.