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jrehm
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Taipei/Hong Kong. Accidental rescue dog pack. https://www.instagram.com/lantauvizslas/ I read, travel, trail run and take ok photos.
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The trail is an amazing public/private initiative. We have done 3/8 sections. If you'd like to read more here is the official website taipeigrandtrailen.gov.taipei If you are interested in tackling it I'm happy to share resources/advice or even join you for a section.
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I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.
terrific profile of Marc Andreesen. Turns out most of the stuff he's big mad about never happened. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Yesterday I learned about the Taiwanese Mountain dog. I now know the boy I rescued was one and whoa what a history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_...
This. And if you have ever had someone see your pain and recognize it as such instead of judging. More Abduls in the world, more seeing and less look at me.
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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There are those who want to be seen and then those who just want to see
VIVIAN MAIER was a Nanny for 40yrs who unbeknownst to anyone spent her free time taking over 150,000 photos of whatever interested her. 2yrs before she died her photos were found in a lock up she’d failed to keep up payments on and her decades of incredible work suddenly exploded upon the world.