“As a consequence of always tending to others, very little space is left for the
child to know or express her own needs. The only legitimate needs seem to be
those of others. Expressing her own needs is met with frustration, anger or
other parental emotions that link her needs with fear and shame.”
Nivida Chandra ,
The parentified child
(Aeon ,
March 4, 2022 ,
via Jason Kottke )
posted 12/19/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Looking back, what I had actually done is uncover evidence of the video’s
supposed legacy, rather than evidence of the inciting incident. I assumed that
because multiple people independently told me the same thing, that thing was
true.”
posted 10/25/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The spiders searched the part of the web where the cricket had been—the sheet
or the lines—which indicated a memory of prey location. And when Sergi stole
prey from the gumfooted lines, the spiders made more searches for prey that was
especially large relative to themselves.”
posted 11/27/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Whenever COVID-19 cases doubled, climate-related tweets
dropped by about 5 percent. The doubling of COVID-19
deaths saw climate tweeting decline by over 7 percent. … [A] big boost in
case counts could easily offset the arrival of a major hurricane.”
posted 11/5/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Both stars of the video had been telling opposite sides of the same funny
anecdote for more than 25 years, unaware of who to thank for their respective
brushes with fame.”
posted 10/23/2022 8:00pm ∞