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How a Canadian cliff diver used empowering messages to help overcome mental health struggle
After a journey to love herself again, Canadian high diver Molly Carlson is encouraging and supporting others to open up and speak their truth about mental-health advocacy and self-image.
#sports #health #selfimage #Olympics #SummerSports #Aquatics
cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/

How a Canadian cliff diver used empowering messages to help overcome mental health struggle
After a journey to love herself again, Canadian high diver Molly Carlson is encouraging and supporting others to open up and speak their truth about mental-health advocacy and self-image.
#sports #health #selfimage #Olympics #SummerSports #Aquatics
cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/

2025-04-25

Tubefilter: The #SkinnyTok trend is drawing scrutiny from E.U. regulators. “On TikTok, there are thousands of videos that offer advice for viewers who want to slim down. That archive raises some complex moral questions, and regulators in the European Union are looking for answers. The video archive in question is collected under the hashtag #SkinnyTok, which applies to videos that discuss […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/tubefilter-the-skinnytok-trend-is-drawing-scrutiny-from-e-u-regulators/

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-24

A quotation from Hoffer

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 37 (1955)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16479/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #ego #leader #nationalism #noteworthiness #pride #racism #religion #selfimage #uniqueness

2025-04-05

Washington State University: Study suggests a new way to curb social media’s body image toll. “Led by Jessica Willoughby, associate professor of communication at Washington State University, the research found that sending young women twice-daily text messages prompting them to reflect on the fitness content they encountered on social media significantly reduced social comparison—one of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/05/washington-state-university-study-suggests-a-new-way-to-curb-social-medias-body-image-toll/

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-03

A quotation from Cicero

No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
 
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #self-image #cicero #author #best #creativity #ego #orator #poet #pride #selfappreciation #superiority #writer #writing

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-31

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Reply to an invitation from Maud Howe to Julia Ward Howe’s birthday (1889-05-27)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #selfimage #age #attitude #birthday #forty #maturity #oldage #seventy #youth

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-27

Denmark gets its self-image shattered by a and a lawyer, proving even the happiest country can have its dark, drama-filled days. 🎬👨‍⚖️ The real Scandi noir: where IKEA meatballs meet legal scandals! 🍽️⚖️
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-26

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

When I speak of “the sinner”, I do not mean the man who commits sin: sins are committed by everyone or no one, according to our definition of the word. I mean the man who is absorbed in the consciousness of sin. This man is perpetually incurring his own disapproval, which, if he is religious, he interprets as the disapproval of God. He has an image of himself as he thinks he ought to be, which is in continual conflict with his knowledge of himself as he is.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/758…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #divinejudgment #ideal #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfcriticism #selfimage #sin #sinner

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-25

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-07-15)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4102/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brilliance #selfimage #coexistence #dolts #ego #genius #idiots #smarts

CALVIN: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
2025-03-22

BBC: ‘Chubby filter’ pulled from TikTok after user backlash. “A viral filter which made people appear overweight has been removed from TikTok, after the BBC reported it had sparked a wave of user criticism. Known as a ‘chubby filter’, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool took a photo of a person and edited their appearance to look as though they had put on weight.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/bbc-chubby-filter-pulled-from-tiktok-after-user-backlash/

2025-03-21

BBC: TikTokers call for ‘chubby filter’ to be banned. “TikTok users have told the BBC they think a viral tool which makes people appear overweight should be banned from the platform. Known as a ‘chubby filter’, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool takes a photo of a person and edits their appearance to look as though they have put on weight.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/bbc-tiktokers-call-for-chubby-filter-to-be-banned/

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-04

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I’m a genius, but I’m a misunderstood genius.
HOBBES: What’s misunderstood about you?
CALVIN: Nobody thinks I’m a genius.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-09-07)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4099/

#quote #quotes #quotation #brilliance #genius #misunderstood #selfimage #intellect #comic

Calvin & Hobbes comic, as described above, 1993-09-07

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