Craig Froehle

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org Thanks for the heads up on it. I had not seen this one before. :-)

I'm increasingly reminded today that
it is rarely wise to give important jobs
to those who want them the most,
because those who want them the most
are almost always not those
who can do them the best.

I'm going to try a new approach to life: Don't worry about things changing unless either (a) it's my responsibility to manage whatever is changing, or (b) the net result of the change is overtly and obviously harmful.

Am curious to see if this lowers my overall stress. After all, change is inevitable.

Spending most of my social media time these days not here, but rather at:

• Bluesky (politics and general fare): https://bsky.app/profile/cfoh.bsky.social

• Facebook (special-interest groups and friends & family)

• Reddit (special-interest groups)

I still think my favorite SM platform so far has been Google+ ... it had great features and a terrific community (and politics weren't as toxic then). I don't think we'll see its like again any time soon, if ever.

If you're a Bluesky user and want to connect with me there, here's my profile (cfOH): https://bsky.app/profile/cfoh.bsky.social

@kbeninato@mstdn.party I still am completely dumbfounded by the federal court decision (at least one...maybe more than one?) that declared things like the Ten Commandments and the slogan "In God We Trust" to be NOT a governmental endorsement of religion. What the heck else would you call that??

A special free screening of the documentary Still Working 9 To 5 will be available nationwide, presented by the filmmakers, the League of Women Voters, ACLU, and others. This screening will feature a welcome message from Dolly Parton and a taped Q&A featuring the filmmakers and activists from the women's rights movement exploring workplace equity, the Equal Rights Amendment, and civil rights for women today in the United States.

Register at bit.ly/sw9to5 to watch for free 12/19 - 12/22

@pzmyers@octodon.social "If it came to that, I’d be on the Canadian side of the fight." Yup.

@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social Because sending in a frothing-at-the-mouth Christian Nationalist to get an extremist theocracy to back down from ethnic cleansing seems like a great approach. Won't be inflammatory at all. /s

@TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com that would fall under clause (b) above

@markmetz@sfba.social And I'd hate to have family in Taiwan right now. :-(

If you play the NYTimes 'Strands' game, this post contains the solution, so scroll on by if you wish to avoid it.

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In their listing of generations, which one did they omit? #GenX, of course. It's amazing how consistently ~65 million people are simply forgotten about.

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com I'm not sure that's not also mostly true of our modern banking system, though. And I say that as a crypto skeptic.

@eblu@wetdry.world Good advice as long as my fun doesn't come at the expense of other people's fun.

If we treat the world like a zero-sum game, instead of the "raise all boats" opportunity it mostly is, then we risk devolving into a truly toxic and dysfunctional society.

Not having some kind of link preview function is really unfriendly and greatly harms the platform's user experience IMO.

@RenewedRebecca@oldbytes.space Literally the definition of "survivor bias."

The propagation of "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is another manifestation of this effect.