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#optimism

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Milcom Miasma

A pragmatist's perspective.

I read an article in bed this morning about developing a healthy mental outlook for daily life as you get older. The following conversation was the result.

Me to Mrs Miasma (also still in bed): "What helps you develop a positive attitude to the start of your day?"

Mrs Miasma: "Pants."

She's not wrong.

#Optimism
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

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Wisdom in Space

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
-- Noam Chomsky

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NoamChomsky #Optimism #TheFuture

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Sci_Burst

There are many reasons why we love #solarpunk stories - but our top one is their positive psychology & radical #optimism for the future 🥰🙌💯 and that those hopeful futures ARE achievable 💪

Listen to our season 3 teaser to learn more reasons why we love solarpunk:

🍎 Apple podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
💚 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3D979
🎥 YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=QX99VGFe

#scicomm#popculture#sciencepodcast
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Orwell

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

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Anna Simpson

@JesusEstrada

Too horrifying to even consider, right? But you've always known it, and Da Vinci's Mona Lisa smiles because it doesn't matter.

We exist. Let's live Existence until it's over. Nothing else matters.

It's going to be wonderful. Go to www.nuevaera.info and you'll see a glimpse of Paradise

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#jokes #Elon #Trump #milei #freedom #optimism #space #science #mathematics #Nothing #StaffMembers #sign #pictures #darkness #deep

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Anna Simpson

@JesusEstrada

So you're forced to commit suicide. I know, you've committed horrific crimes and can't live with them, like educate your children, genocide, working for money, torture... Don't try it any more. You can never commit a crime, no matter how heinous, that Death won't forgive you for. Take this forgiveness in advance and experience Paradise before you die.

#usa #books #music #humour #humor #AI #satire #parody #funny #fun
#jokes #Elon #Trump #milei #freedom #optimism #space #science

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