A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.
 
[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…

“UK has kindly decided not to accept the refugees it helped to create”

by Laura And Normal Island News on Substack

@UKLabour

“The British government has decided it does not want to accept Palestinian refugees, but it’s quite happy to supply Israel with the weapons that create them. I mean it’s not reasonable for us to take responsibility for the consequences of our actions…”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/uk-has-kindly-decided-not-to-accept?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

It's not even a meme. It's more the typical reaction when I talk about it. Btw, I hate #RSD!

#TonyTulathimutte new book skewers liberal pieties.
"#Rejection deftly captures the berserking energies of the internet (in 1 story, #Twitter is marvelously described as “an improv class, press conference, intervention, Klan rally, comics convention, struggle session, & suicide hotline all booked in the same conference room”), but it also brings a deep imaginative sympathy to the new kinds of people that the internet & its rolling identitarian controversies are creating."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/magazine/tony-tulathimutte-rejection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU4.ixZI.sd546TpIWmnW&smid=url-share

Elon's crush on OpenAI
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-take-over-save-tesla-chatgpt-sam-altman-2024-3 #Musk #Altman #Tesla #OpenAI #FratBoy #rejection #AlienDreadnought #china

got a rejection today, but they gave a kind suggestion for the next time i submit some poems, so it's a small success!
#amWriting #amSubmitting #rejection

Wow. Bull's eye.

#adhd #neurodiversity #rejection @adhd

https://www.additudemag.com/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-and-adhd/

By continuing to allow for the #gay & #trans #panic defense to be a valid legal excuse under #Kentucky law, the #legislature sends a message to our #LGBTQ+ community that our identities are worthy of #rejection, #cruelty and #violence.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/12/02/gay-panic-murder-defense-anti-lgbtq/71758397007/

Key Biscayne police reject contract, other unions settle :

The bargaining unit covering officers and sergeants – about 35 employees – overwhelmingly rejected terms hammered out earlier this month.  
#AnaisPaez #bargaining #CarolineSaiz #contract #featured #labor #rejection #RichardWeiner #SteveWilliamson #union
#Miami #news

https://kbindependent.org/2023/11/28/police-reject-contract/

Alienated. #grickledoodle #alien #facehugger #horror #rejection #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

#Poetry #submission thoughts

After several years of this poetry submission process, it's taken on a certain subliminal/emotional rhythm.

I steel myself and send off a bunch of subs to various magazines

Occasionally this is followed by an #acceptance or two, usually very quickly. Honeymoon period.

Then I get to wait 1-6 months for the rest of the responses, and this is sort of a dull doomed feeling, because these are inevitably #rejection emails.

Always stinks to get a grant rejection. I'm glad I'm at a point in my professional life that it doesn't ruin my day, but it is still disappointing.

Rejection is a part of doing science, and these ideas are good ones, and we'll work to find money to fund them somewhere else.

I try to be transparent about how much #rejection I experience in my career, and I track paper and grant rejections on my website if you are curious

#FailForward

aurielfournier.github.io/rejection/

For every interview/application rejection, I receive, I apply to 4 new jobs to compensate for the disappointment.

Soon I will have the entire employer market covered and will have to found my own business.

Follow for more pro tips like these.

#Survivors & relatives of #Filipino women forced into #SexualSlavery by #Japanese in #WWII #dismissed #compensation package. #Rejection after #PresidentFerdinandMarcosJr. last Friday, urged #lawmakers to pass law for #reparation to the sex #slavery victims of Japanese.
An #ElderlyVictim said the move is #TooLate as most victims have already died and it cannot heal the #trauma , #discrimination & #suffering victims like her faced throughout their lives.

https://www.ucanews.com/amp/filipina-victims-of-sex-slavery-say-no-to-compensation/100703

Good advice for anyone dealing with the #rejection of a #manuscript.
https://journals.stfm.org/primer/2022/rodriguez-2022-0066/

"Five lessons to be learned from rejected manuscripts…: (1) rejections teach journal scope, (2) rejections teach process, (3) rejection should lead to resubmission, (4) rejections reflect writing effort, and (5) rejections happen to papers, not authors."

A wary Babette smelling all my slathered-on lotions potions conditioners creams retinols…and passing up cuddle time. #catsofmastodon #rejection #twitchingnose