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"A mudança exige que as pessoas encontrem uma forma de sair de um movimento online disperso para um grupo com visão a longo prazo, com laços tanto físicos quanto digitais. É preciso que surjam estratégias políticas viáveis, não apenas seguir com uma abordagem de 'tudo ou nada, vamos queimar tudo'."

What’s funny is that Courtney Love and Zack de la Rocha are literally the last people I’d ever expect to probably have had selective mutism. As a teen, I consciously identified with “depressed, sensitive artist” types like Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke. Sadness felt much safer to express than anger. I grew up being seen as a “good, innocent Christian girl,” so anger felt like a forbidden emotion for me to express.

Can you import a CD from Japan and get a thank you note with a packet of matcha attached to it from Spotify? Didn't think so.

When you begin to decentralize your phone, you open yourself up for greater levels of self expression. I could try and put a digicam, iPod, notebook, phone, keys, wallet, and Nintendo DS into my pockets, but instead I opted to get a little backpack to hold my stuff in. It's green (my favorite color) and decorated with pins of my favorite bands and symbols from my favorite franchises

The sunk cost fallacy doesn’t always have to do with money. Imagine you’ve signed up for a new class offered at your university. After the first week, you realize that it doesn’t really match up with your interests and you’d much rather swap it out for something else. Luckily, you can still drop the class. Yet, when you think about it, and factor in that you've already handed in an assignment, you might still opt to stick with it. This is where the sunk cost fallacy kicks in, hand-in-hand with the status quo bias—our preference to keep things the way they are to avoid potential losses.

if you dial it all the way back over twenty years ago blogs weren't a place to promote yourself and your side hustle. Blogs were personal diaries. Most of us didn't have the same concept of OPSEC back in the early 2000's (lol Foursquare wtf were we thinking) and the idea of sitting down at the end of the day and pouring everything that happened into a journal entry was completely normal.

If I've learned anything from searching through old personal websites and blogs, especially on my blackwork journey, it's that these windows into people's lives, their interests, and their art, are precious. They document triumphs and loss, creative journeys and mentorship, and mundane, everyday life. They exist long past the point they are abandoned, time capsules in 0s and 1s, and with the help of the Internet Archive they can even outlive their creator