Where the good days began: @original_reader@lemm.ee

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Cake day: June 6th, 2025

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  • Basically some reasonableness.

    Set boundaries. Meaning you probably should choose specific times to check the news. You could for instance check once in the morning and once in the evening. Or even only on specific days.

    Also curate your sources. Follow outlets that offer reasonably balanced reporting. Misinformation and sensationalism are your sanity’s worst enemies. For example, don’t get your news from social media (as is so common with many and which leads to a host of other issues…).

    Try to avoid doomscrolling. If scrolling starts feeling like sinking, it’s okay necessary to stop. You really don’t need to absorb every detail to be informed.

    And just something I personally found is to balance bad with good news. Spend time with positive stuff. Even in this timeline there’s good to be had.


  • There are so many examples for this. Some that come to mind:

    • “He has 30 years” instead of “He is 30 years old” (Spanish “Tiene 30 años”)
    • “How do you call this?” instead of “What do you call this?” (e.g., French: Comment ça s’appelle? I think German too)
    • “I’m going in the bus” instead of “I’m going on the bus”
    • “She is more nice” instead of “She is nicer”

    Apart from that, try explaining to a learner why “Read” (present) and “Read” (past) is spelled the same but pronounced differently.

    Or plural (or do I capitalize that here? 🤔) inconsistencies: one “mouse,” two “mice”; but one “house,” two “houses.” To be fair, other languages do that stuff too.