Category — Microblog Mondays

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I always click on life advice, figuring that it costs me 30 seconds to skim the list to see if anything jumps out, and this list grabbed me at the first point: “Don’t go to every fight you’re invited to.” Let’s just say that I saw the list on the perfect day to take that advice and use it.

While I’ll never aim to wake up before sunrise on a daily basis, I took #13 and #14 to heart.

What appealed to you on the list?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Neil Kramer always makes me think. He recently had a public Facebook post about the power of words vs. pictures. He writes:

People never get offended by my photos, but if I use the wrong word or phrase, people go crazy. This is nothing surprising. If I hold up a photo of a fire in a crowded theater, no one will care. But if I yell “fire, all hell breaks loose. Words have the power.

It made me think about how I’ve certainly been emotionally impacted by an image shared in someone’s feed, but I’ve never unfollowed someone on social media due to an image. Words, yes, I remove people from my feed due to their words, but not because they posted a particular picture. Neil’s point is larger: we stop taking in the information in the image when we focus on accompanying words because the words are more powerful than the image.

It may not hold true in every case, but in a general sense, it’s interesting to consider.

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I have reservations about calling a person a yuck, but what do you do when a favourite talk show, podcast, or fill-in-the-blank for your favourite interview medium has on a guest that you don’t want to hear? I mean, I know the simple answer is to skip the episode, but I’m curious if people skip the episode. Or do they listen, watch, or read because there are often openings or closings that don’t contain the words and thoughts of the person who annoys/upsets/distresses you?

Do you skip the episode if you enjoy the host but feel annoyed/turned off by the guest??

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Josh and I were reading an article about how to deter black bears, which Josh called my “how-to” guide so I could do all the things they said not to do. It said (so we will) not to leave out bird seed, chicken feed, dog food, or garbage. Maybe we’ll skip that last one.

But it occurred to me that if we got a dog, we would have a meat-eater in the house. We have had only vegetarian pets who eat the same things we eat. I mean, not all the same things, but I eat everything Beorn eats. Beorn and I often share an apple or vegetables, and he gets pieces of everything I’m chopping up as I cook dinner. He loves when I’m cooking because he knows he will get bits of food.

But if we had a dog, we would have a meat-eater in the house because a dog wouldn’t be happy with a diet of dry lettuce. It made me wonder how other vegetarians handle dog and cat food.

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I’ve been loving Deez Links’s hate reads. I don’t agree with all of them, and most I don’t have a strong opinion about, but this one I am firmly in agreement about: If you are the person who takes the group picture (or even a picture of a solitary person), send the picture. Do not say, “I just took the best photo,” and then not send the photo. Send the freakin’ photo.

I could not breathe reading this line because I was laughing so hard: “It feels humiliating to ask my friend to send them to me, to cop to an unspoken vulnerability (“I’d like to look at myself in case I look hot”) the same way buying a toilet plunger at 2 a.m. at the bodega alludes to urgent, obvious disaster.”

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