#Despair

Everyone is gonna do what they do. But I want to be clear what's infuriating. It's two-fold. Politically, the suggestion that black women should sacrifice their free expression because you
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Hating, demonizing, envying anyone for the color of their skin is racist. I’m not going to bow to racism just because it’s popular to hate white people. I won’t change
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Anglo-Catholic: by strengthening immune defenses beyond what they would otherwise be, the vaccine shows us nature elevated by grace. Lutheran: the vaccinated are released from bondage to the law of
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The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's
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Story idea I've had for a long time and still want to touch on. Woman who draws the supernatural struggles with anxiety and depression. Meets a woman who brings light
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Ironically, I'm doing better at coping in a healthy way with the decay of democracy in my country than I am at coping in a healthy way with the way
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I don’t know if this is true, but if it is, I truly despair. Sunday Times reporting Cummings had long been ‘haunted by fear he could end up in prison:
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after last night, i'm seeing a lot of people expressing despair and wondering how to find hope. i've shared some thoughts on that before, but i think they're worth re-upping
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I've a confession to make, I've been struggling with the whole BLM movement and agenda, the close ties to ANTIFA, Marxists, Communists and generally anyone willing to be an anarchist.
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There are a lot of people who seem to want our COVID-19 response to fail, because that would confirm their belief that SA is an unmitigated disaster. Has the response
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We are going through something together. A kind of collective trauma. Or shock. Or grief. We will react with a multitude of emotions. Sadness. Despair. Fury. Reflection. Kindness. Hope. Fear.
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Dear Democrats,You chose your horse, so you're holding the tab when the race is over. If you can win with Biden, good for you, but Democracy has taken yet another
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Final Cut library files get enormous if I'm not careful so I need to do memory management every few months, transferring this one 350+ GB file is going to take
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I used @amitvarma's Seen & The Unseen mug to drink coffee. A few observations:1. The coffee started tasting like tea at one point. I realised this is because everything contains
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The same scepticism that makes our generation more immune to whatsapp fwds than older generations also makes more of us into nihilists in a manner incomprehensible to those who believe
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭This is a difficult thread to write.I want to explore, just for a moment, my feelings about the impact of 9/11.The title comes from a track by @Thrice,
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