#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
A round of applause for inspirational teachers 🫶🏼👏🏼

#WritingCommunity #BookSky
October 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
My 8th grade English Lit teacher not only saved my life in a very literal way, but also renamed me and boosted my confidence in my writing skills.

Teachers who care really do make a world of difference in childrens' lives. ♥
A round of applause for inspirational teachers 🫶🏼👏🏼

#WritingCommunity #BookSky
October 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹
October 5, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Some thoughts are like seeds—underdeveloped and fragile. They first need time to grow into their infant form within the mind before they can be shared. #JungianPsychology #SelfImprovement
September 29, 2026 at 7:42 AM
The arguments we’re having today aren’t new. In fact, we were having many of the same ones more than 150 years ago during Reconstruction.

I recently sat down with Malcolm Gladwell to reflect on this pivotal time in our nation’s history, and the work that remains. Check out our conversation:
Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America | Reconstruction
YouTube video by Higher Ground Productions
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Fun Fact: We live in a time where people actually believe prices are too high because of President Biden, but lower than they’ve ever been bc of President Trump —

And their electorate justifies it by saying “both things can be true.”

They do this for a murderer of immigrants & rapist of children.
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There seems to be a total absence of nuance too. The options are presented as binary: Full-On Lockdowns vs. Unmitigated Spread.

The notion of hybrid learning seems to have been buried, along with the thought that those *who can* learn from home could be enabled to do that in certain circumstances.
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Notice that MAGA never refers to Putin as a “warmonger.” You know, the guy who started the war, bombs civilian population centers daily, & refuses to sign a ceasefire. Nope, according to MAGA, Putin isn’t the warmonger - it’s the people who support Ukraine’s refusal to surrender.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
truth,
as far as it goes
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yet Fascist ideology tends to formalize feral emotions in thick veneers of ideological (quasi- or pseudo- “intellectual”) justification, often with epic even mystic robing
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@allentien.bsky.social

Thank you for following!

We each possess ideological & theological beliefs. I politely pen lyrics & compose music into songs, but some are just comic sarcasm.

We create music to reduce listener anxiety, so our song/genre catalogue offers many lensed viewpoints.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Molecules are real

Science is a method

Uncertainty is a solid fact

Religion is a belief

#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
#SharedFacts

#Paradox does not exist in reality, only in human thought, due to limitations of language, that #GeneralSemantics can help overcome.

#Semantics #EmotionLogic #BrainFunction

#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
October 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This was my first pinned post here and one of the first posts I was kind of happy about. Right when I started actually using this place.
It is that the power exists at all, to speak on behalf of a god that does not exist. To impose a mythology on a Human Being without consent, teaching them that this mythology is reality.

That's what I am angry about.

The existence of this power is in itself an abuse.
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Really good as usual but let's please be careful to use both of these words carefully. *Both* propaganda and provocation are tools of the Fascist coalition and both are happening constantly.
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Getting my Kuhn & Piaget on, this makes sense to me to understand the profound and persistent polarization in the field.

We need a way to get less wrong, together.

Grapefruit for #VaporLock?

@profglantz.com @alexwodak.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @skipscorner.bsky.social
#ScreamTest / #CheerTest serves as the paradigm / schema / heuristic for many in the field of nicotine and tobacco research, and the continuum of risk cannot be assimilated.

#VaporLock
October 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM