bmacDonald94

bmacDonald94, 19 days ago to random

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James A. Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 19 days ago to random

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that."
Bill McKibben

bmacDonald94, 21 days ago to random

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
Frederick Douglass

bmacDonald94, 21 days ago to random

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
Aldous Huxley

bmacDonald94, 23 days ago to random

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead

bmacDonald94, 23 days ago to random

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
Margaret Mead

bmacDonald94, 24 days ago to random

Playing for Change
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
(Robbie Robertson)

https://www.playingforchange.com/videos/knockin-on-heavens-door-playing-for-change-band-live-outside

bmacDonald94, 24 days ago to random

"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 24 days ago to random

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 24 days ago to random

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 25 days ago to random

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
Margaret Atwood

bmacDonald94, 25 days ago to random

"You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see."
Margaret Atwood

bmacDonald94, 26 days ago to random

"When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison."
Angela Davis

bmacDonald94, 26 days ago to random

"Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't."
Angela Davis

CultureDesk, 29 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to food

Apparently it's now a thing for dinner party hosts to ask their guests for money to help with groceries. Eater reporter Amy McCarthy says that's not OK, and offers some suggestions for cutting costs if you want to host but can't afford to. What's your experience with this? Pick as many answers as apply and share any fun stories in the comments.

https://www.eater.com/24083611/is-it-okay-to-ask-dinner-party-guests-to-venmo-you

#Food #FoodCulture #Cooking #Hosting #Etiquette #Poll

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bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

"But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be Pyrrhic. I don't think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we're now shifting the planet."
Bill McKibben

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

I am a refugee from Facebook for good reason and heard the stories about the bird site. I will NOT follow links to either site.
Thank you.

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

"Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
R. Buckminster Fuller

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
R. Buckminster Fuller

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

"War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left."
Bertrand Russell

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I need something to do.

For the absolute first time in my life I'm not filled with surging emotions. Today is like a tabula rasa for me, and I'm hoping to build on it.

I've been stuck in autistic burnout since I was 8yo. The only hobby I ever had was picking through rolls of pennies to pull out the wheatbacks, for one summer as a preteen.

I really could use something to do that isn't computer based. I have books, but want something more active.

Suggestions?