It seems to me that what is unfolding in Minnesota is not an aberration but a reminder of something quietly unsettling about human nature. We like to imagine ourselves as stable, morally coherent creatures, yet the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment showed how swiftly we can be reshaped by the roles we are handed. Give someone a uniform, a mandate, and a narrative about who is “dangerous,” and the boundaries of empathy begin to erode.

How do you keep rice from sticking to the bottom of the damn pot? #foodstr

Browning meat is a reminder that worthwhile things often begin with a moment of intensity. #foodstr

The conditions are not optimal. They never were and never will be. We simply optimize where we can.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s security personnel were seen carrying the Laugo Alien.

Time is a tax on the body.

We rarely acknowledge just how eloquent the body is. Long before we utter a word, our posture has already delivered a small essay on our state of mind. We stand, sit, and move in ways that reveal—often against our will—our hopes, our fears, and the elaborate strategies we’ve developed to appear more robust than we truly feel.

Conflict is fighting to be understood. Connection is fighting to understand.

One of the most awful things about being a human being is that you’re constantly hurting others in small ways and large. Often through stupidity, exhaustion, narrow-mindedness, etc. Etc.

What mistake did you learn from today? #asknostr