@flexghost @msbw #Xhitter has always been about the #LookAtMe culture. It's always been about #Narcissism. It's the equivalent of a 3 year old putting their underpants on their head in a living room and screaming for attention #LookAtMe from #DrunkMommy and #DrunkDaddy: lots of #Dysfunction to go around from the parents as well as the kids.
Excellent (long) piece!
“Apocalypse From Within: How American Imperial Decay Fuels Nuclear Risk: Why US Dysfunction is the Greatest Nuclear Threat”
by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack
“High-profile warnings from figures like Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, suggesting a declining America is uniquely prone to nuclear first-use, underscore a visceral fear demanding rigorous analysis”
https://open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p/apocalypse-from-within-how-american?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
Interesting that it is less prevalent among the young and the old but a notable prevalence among adults aged 30-60 years
Post-COVID Cough Linked to Neurological Dysfunction
Coughing appears to be more closely linked to neurological dysfunction than to classic respiratory involvement.
I made the mistake of trying to spring clean the garden room/my study on a day after I had a full 8h sleep for the first time in >6mo.
Thing is my brain is working well enough to remind me I that I apparently hate absolutely everything and everyone and now I am too pissed off to clean and am just leaving everything like a dusty bomb went off in here.
Gonna go sit with my dog on the sofa and get another early night so that I can get right back to hating everything BRIGHT AND EARLY. #dysfunction
#webIndustry & #AI by @baldur
"Even the #paidjobs when they happen have much lower budgets and are employing fewer people.
This #dysfunction means that the “adjacent but still in the industry” jobs that used to pay for the #passionprojects are fewer and farther between. More and more people have to rely on unrelated day jobs (or spouses) to stay in the industry and the cold hard truth is that most of them will burn out and leave eventually."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/
Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced
Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples
The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering
Recognizing unhealthy dynamics in our family relationships is crucial. But have you ever paused to consider: could your relationship with your career also be unhealthy?
Seems like we're reaching a point where people are willing to put up with their own family dysfunctions less and less. This is likely why estrangement, for some, is a far more viable option than it ever used to be. The results of the recent presidential election aren't slowing this down either. #family #dysfunction #politics
fallow days take root
mounting to crushing summed weight
of emptiness borne
#MastoPrompt: #nourish #NegativeSpace
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #loneliness #starvation #drought #dysfunction
#Catiline Was Wicked
The Catilinarian Conspiracy of 63 BCE was a symptom of #dysfunction in the late #Roman Republic. It foreshadowed the rise of Roman imperialism.
Instability & Corruption
The conspiracy emerged in a climate of intense rivalry and public corruption that was dominating the political atmosphere of the late #Republic.
Recognizing unhealthy dynamics in our family relationships is crucial. But have you ever paused to consider: could your relationship with your career also be unhealthy?
Also, it's very easy to lose sight of the principle that it's always a people problem—to treat the problem as an almost material thing, an object, that needs fixing.
I've made this mistake too many times. It's cost me.
As Gerry Weinberg would say, "There's always a problem and it is always a people problem." Believe otherwise at your own risk.
As an engineer AND ESPECIALLY AS A MANAGER, I've encountered this so often.
Be wary. There's often **political** reasons for entrenched patterns like this, particularly when they are dysfunctional. You are likely to piss off someone who has motivated self-interest in keeping things this way.
Attempting to modify these sorts of behaviors risks activating an organization's immune system.
Ask me how I know... 
#changemanagement #dysfunction #organizations
https://botsin.space/@picardtips/113080945461155083
A chief architect of #Project2025 is ready to shock Washington if #DonaldTrump wins a second term #federalgovernment #civilservants #federalemployees Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University history professor and author of “Strongmen: #Mussolini to the Present,” criticized Project 2025 as “a recipe for mass #chaos, abuses of #power, and #dysfunction in #government.” https://apnews.com/article/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd #democracy #congress #executivebranch #dictatorship #fascism #legislation #regulations #justice #courts
The #Constitution means whatever the #JohnRoberts court says it means, even when that meaning conflicts w/the basic principles of American #democracy.
It is against this backdrop of institutional #dysfunction & #judicial arrogance that President #Biden, fresh from his decision to leave the campaign trail in favor of his vice president, introduced his three-point package of #SupremeCourt reforms.
The #BloodBrainBarrier, a network of blood vessels and tissues that nurtures and protects the brain from harmful substances circulating in the blood—is disrupted in #AlzheimerDisease. Now, researchers at #MayoClinic and collaborators have uncovered unique #molecular signatures of blood-brain barrier #dysfunction that could point to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-vascular-brain-linked-alzheimer-disease.html #healthcare #publichealth #dementia
The bill that cleared the #House sets up a clash — & likely a prolonged negotiation — w/the Democratic-controlled #Senate as the 2 chambers work to reconcile & merge their separate versions of the #legislation in the months ahead. Earlier Fri, the Senate #ArmedServices Cmte released its version of the #NDAA totaling $923.3B.
This is exactly what happened last year, a fact many Democrats lamented angrily on the House floor this week.
While it's fun to catch up on recent series and film making ( taking notes on #Cinematography , #Soundtracks, #Production, #Vfx, #Writing) the overwhelming thematic dominance of #Xenophobia, #Violence and #Dysfunction in our storytelling is...worrisome. Throw in advertising for hair loss and skin disorder treatments , automobiles and barbecues and the whole experience turns into a knotted ball of bizarro. Yikes !
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