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Long awaited afternoon thunderstorm

While this site is more about photos that represent my memories of Israel, often as I form them, there are other ways to share memories. This afternoon we are enjoying a long awaited afternoon thunderstorm. We don't have much rain for much of the year, so

While this site is more about photos that represent my memories of Israel, often as I form them, there are other ways to share memories. This afternoon we are enjoying a long awaited afternoon thunderstorm. We don’t have much rain for much of the year, so when it does arrive, it feels like a meaningful event for me. Here are the sounds of today’s storm. At least it getting started. These storms…

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#afternoon rain #rain #storms

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Ben Shemen Forest

The Ben Shemen Forest is a popular hiking, biking, and strolling location on the outskirts of Modiin. The city has a couple of organised events there each year that are great opportunities to get out of the city and breathe in some cleaner air.

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#forests #hiking

A run around Anabe Park in Modiin

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#on foot #parks #running

Visiting ANU - Museum of the Jewish People

We visited this wonderful museum twice, in August 2021 and again in August 2023. It is well worth visiting, and the displays are really nicely done.

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#museum

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tornadointhetundra

Okay so I did some research, very basic research, on the user base of tumblr and how many of us there are.

There are at least 300 million unique visitors worldwide on this site. Over 500 million blogs.

Listen. Tumblr is $30 million in debt. This is Super easy for us to solve.

If each user gifts one blog crabs, which costs slightly over $3, that would be roughly $600 million at least. Far more than enough to get Tumblr out of the red zone.

If we want tumblr to stay afloat and not change something as integral about their operating system, we need to show them they can be profitable without reducing themselves to common social media sites. What we have here is special. It is different. We are the social media site people run to when theirs collapses and for good reason.

If we want this to work, we have to make it work. We can even make it into a game. Just how long can we outlast the other social media sites?

anotherpaul

Certainly worth trying!

wilwheaton

"i wanna be the person i needed when i was her age”

I hear other adults who also suffered as kids talk about how we want to be the person we needed when we were young. And it is beginning to dawn on me that on the other side of that choice are the people who needed someone, didn’t have that person, and instead of choosing to be that person when they grew up, they chose to perpetuate cruelty and selfishness.

And they act like they are tough and strong and powerful because they don’t let anything get to them … but that’s all a lie they tell themselves.

The truth is, they’re weak and afraid.And when they can’t sleep at night, they know it. And the scariest thing in their reality, the thing they will run from their entire lives, is that they will be found out and exposed.

It takes courage and strength, vulnerability and dedication to be the person you needed, because when you are that person for someone else, part of you remembers and relives that you never had that. The people who choose indifference or cruelty aren’t strong or courageous enough to allow themselves to feel that pain all over again, so they just inflict it on others. They know they’re weak, they know that beneath the mask they are afraid. So all they have is cruelty, which is honestly the easiest thing in the world. It’s the path of least resistance for the people of least courage.

Being cruel is so boring. It’s lazy. Anyone can be cruel. It takes real hard work to be kind.

Make the choice to be the person you needed, and commit to doing the work. Practice it, and break the cycle.

I have been struggling with how to respond to/handle/cope with the current batsh*t crazy political environment in Israel. Particularly the s

I have been struggling with how to respond to/handle/cope with the current batsh*t crazy political environment in Israel. Particularly the so-called "Judicial Reform" legislation that our current government is pushing forward at a rapid pace. I asked ChatGPT how it suggests a Stoic would respond to this. It seemed to offer pretty sensible advice.