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Noemi Ali

[important-cat-pics]

[dogsagainstbenitojuarez]

@moonlitmartyr

[automattic]

“I remind myself that I have run this fast before. Self-doubt is a smoldering fire. In a workout, the embers often flash. I don't want to give them any air. Every action we take helps to build our habits. Quit once and it'll be easier to quit the second time too.” — Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground

Automattic recently hosted @theatlantic CEO (and @atavist founder) Nicholas Thompson at our NoHo Space for an intimate conversation about The Running Ground — his new book on transformation, overcoming personal challenges, and the complicated nature of the father–son bond, all seen through the simple act of running.

This clip was one of our favorite moments. Nicholas strips down the journey of improvement in his life and career to the same simple process runners use to train. To get better, do the thing as best you can. Do it over and over.

🔗 The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

[treecitysessions]

[scoutbot]

do you veiw palestinians as people?

yes and i will donate and/or reblog

no and i will ignore or like

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

Donate to Help Ahmed family to travel to a save place, organized by Alaa kh

Hello everyone My name is Ahmed I'm from Gaza, i am engineer I created this li… Alaa kh needs your support for Help Ahmed family to trav

@ahmad-ziyad and his family are people. people with hopes and dreams and just as much internality as you or i. and they are living through a genocide.

and they need your - yes your - money to escape. do something.

[catchymemes]

[cosmicaldeity]

my dream is being surrounded by a bunch of hot people taking care of me

[guldaastan]

it's really messed up how palestinians need to share a picture of their child to gain sympathy from strangers on the internet in order to raise enough money to buy food in a genocide.

i don't think that they need to write an extraordinary post or make a catchy comic or post pictures of their starving children to be able to raise money for their families. it is dehumanising.

alaa has been fundraising for more than a year and still hasn't raised 50% of her goal. please be generous to her and her young children so that they can survive in gaza. her fundraiser is verified.

donate here

[telepathylove]

in the chillest possible way,

[allsadnshit]

Realizing I can't just shut down and push everyone away the second I feel misunderstood if I want to actually grow as a person and learn to tolerate discomfort enough to try new things and make my dreams come true with my own two hands

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

I know I don't shut up about this but frankly not enough people are angry about the 5-day/40 hour workweek (and I am AWARE a lot of people work even more than that). I feel like a lot more people should be absolutely furious that we only really have two days a week and some occasional hours in the evening to socialise, run errands, do chores, or relax.

It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.

We literally aren't meant to live like this and I'll never stop being shocked how many people just take it as the natural state of things and don't want to throw a brick through a billionaire's window every time they think of it.

[softwaring]

by tucker

[sakeofpower]

[ebb-is-learning]

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

[pissvortex]

[the-nothing-maker]

Hey! All of your drawings do not need to be completely unique from one another. Do you know how many versions and replicas of his Sunflowers Van Gogh actually did? Just draw that naked guy ten times. Reuse that colour palette. Do that pose again. Follow your heart for real, no one can care as much as you do.

[i-am-a-fish]

woah you're gender fluid? that's so cool. *drinks u

[manynamedshe]

People who perform manual labor should be not only given high and liveable wages, but unlimited access to healthcare and physical therapy to help manage the myriad conditions that come from doing back-breaking work.

Like this is not an absurd concept. It bothers me that people think that it is.