between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge

between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge

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Doing a lap before I commit to a location

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🤩 Also shout out to the intrepid 13 year old from a woman who was bullied out of enjoying Kid Halloween at 11

MPR News@mprnews.org

At the Minnesota Children’s Museum Halloween party this year, MPR News got a look at some of the attendees' costumes. For 18-month-old Maya, it's her first Halloween ever. "She’s starting to get the part where if you open the bag you get candy," her mom Leslie said.

My kind of back to school media

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org

New from Robert Ceresa: Between 1920 and 1932, Black Texans built 464 schools with room for 57,330 children, 31 teachers’ homes, and 32 vocational shops. The money tells the story. Black Texans contributed $392,851 towards their construction.

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everyone should develop a principled politics. without it, you are a leaf blowing on the winds of popular opinion. other people's machinations becoming your own opinions without you even realizing it.

between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge reposted

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Almost everyone in my family but me is a monologuer; those who aren't are interrupters; it is exactly the struggle it sounds like

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

This has gotten worse in the last decade or so. It’s become difficult to talk with people I genuinely like. And the moral binary of typical/divergent has codified into the belief that it’s more important for people to talk than it is for others to feel heard. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...