ex professor, mom of two small kids, lost my job and decided to Just Do Things use that free will 🎉
Connecticut, USA
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Mary Paul retweeted
When the last several Harry Potter books were released, we had midnight book launches attended by millions. Children, in some cases very young, finished these 700 & 800 page books in a single day. And now people are telling me I made it up, that this couldn’t ever have happened.
Mary Paul retweeted
"I don’t care how many jobs you've created if your employees live in poverty."
- Abdul El-Sayed 2019
Mary Paul retweeted
Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy
"Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me"
"You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over"
"And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost"
"Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it"
"You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future"
"And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means"
"And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"
Mary Paul retweeted
The poorest Americans lose and the richest gain under Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” per the Congressional Budget Office.
Average yearly change in household resources, 2026–2034:
Poorest 10%: -$1,214 (about 3% of income)
Richest 10%: +$13,622 (about 2.7% of income)
Mary Paul retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
Mary Paul retweeted
The richest Americans’ wealth has exploded since the 1970s, and the gap keeps widening, per WSJ
Real household wealth growth since 1976, adjusted for inflation:
Top 0.001%: about +3,400%
Top 0.01%: about +2,300%
Top 0.1%: about +1,250%
Top 1%: about +650%
All households: about +330%
The very richest have grown their wealth roughly 10 times faster than the typical household.
Mary Paul retweeted
i frequently say shit to my husband like "i know im being a snippy asshole right now, i feel like shit and can't snap out of it, so i either need space or the understanding that i don't mean it" and it works so much better than apologies after the fact
