The self-actualiser vs the hedonist.
There is always a fitter, more attractive, more intelligent and more actualised version of yourself waiting on the precipice of work you are avoiding. You're not burnt out, you're just telling your mind the wrong thoughts. You're not exhausted, you just haven't found the right morning routine yet.
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The world is ending anyway so you may as well live as much as possible. Indulge in anything once. Pleasure is the point. Get naked, eat cheese, find the mayhem, Centre your entire existence around connection, pleasure and the immediate.
Relevant: The Burnout Society.
“Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?” – How personal taste fell out of fashion.
To flout or subvert stylistic codes you have to be fluent in them – and the higher up the class structure you sit, the more latitude you have to do so. Think of the lord of the manor free to indulge his sartorial eccentricities versus uniformed blue-collar workers. In theory, though, anyone can break the rules; the most experimental dressing in the 20th century came from grassroots subcultures such as punk and the New Romantics.
Stories of great urban planning & urban experiences. There are a lot of reasons why Dutch cities are so great, and it's not just bikes.
How do we cope with loss and grief?
Mary-Frances O’Connor studies the grief process both psychologically and physiologically. She is a leader in the field of complicated grief, a clinical condition in which people do not adjust to the acute feelings of grief and show increases in yearning, avoidance, and rumination.
(…) is an art project and clothing brand that produces reworked second-hand clothes, eco-friendly merchandise and other content. The origin of the label’s name lies in the Ghanaian term “Obroni Wawu” which can be translated to “dead white men’s clothes”. When first waves of second-hand clothes arrived from “the west“ in the 70’s the locals could not believe that such high-quality clothing could just be given away for free, so they assumed that the previous owner must have died.
Hecklers unwelcome. On James Acaster, mainstream audiences, and the Reform party.
In Hecklers Welcome, he invites the audience to heckle him as a way to confront his own fears of being disliked and difficulties with doing stand-up. His planned routine is all about ‘the boy’, the part of him that craves support and validation. But frequently the show will veer off track as Acaster dives into the immersion therapy he has designed for himself, in which he cannot get angry at the people heckling him.
Empfehlung von Ingrid Brodnig.
Klimafakten bietet zuverlässige Informationen zum Klimawandel. Und zeigt, wie Gespräche über Lösungen gelingen können.
Zwei- bis Drei-Klassen-Justiz in Österreich?
(…) so wird in Bezug auf die sog. „clamorosen“ Fälle – ein Austriazismus, der hier Fälle mit großer politischer und gesellschaftlicher Brisanz bezeichnet – u.a. das Bestehen einer „Zwei-Klassen“-Justiz in Österreich konstatiert, bei der für prominente Beschuldigte andere Verfahrensregeln als für Normalbürger gelten würden. Dabei hänge eine Anklage letztlich auch von Entscheidungen der (politischen) Weisungsspitze im Justizministerium ab. Die Vermengung von judiziellen und politischen Elementen führe zu Transparenzproblemen sowie zu einem „Rechtsgrundlagennebel“ und einem „Verantwortungsnebel“.
Sind Angehörige des Justizministeriums betroffen, könne es sogar zu einer „Drei-Klassen“-Justiz kommen, in deren Rahmen das Ziel schon vorab feststehe und dann eine rechtliche Begründung gesucht werde, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen.
Mabacher Award – Award für bewegte Bilder gegen Barrieren.
Der Mabacher Award soll das Andenken an den österreichischen Inklusionsaktiven Martin Habacher bewahren. Der bekannte Youtuber und Social-Media-Experte trat sein Leben lang unbeirrt für Inklusion ein.
Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose.
Quality frames (…) cost $4 to $8 to produce. Designer-quality frames, the kind that carry a Prada or Chanel label, run about $15. First-quality lenses cost $1.25 each.
Those same frames and lenses sell in the United States for $800.