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  1. @pezmico @Wen This is important news. Read it all. Our "regular" news sources are disheartening. Read good stuff. BE HEARTENED.

    Take care of your heart.
    Daily #Cheer is very important! #Love #GoodNews
    Doom-and-Gloom kills. Don't let it!

  2. I have a free email subscription to "reasons to be cheerful".
    MAN, it helps.

    Here's a year-end posting:
    The Year in Cheer
    97 ways the world got better in 2025
    reasonstobecheerful.world/year

    #Cheer #Joy #Hope #Good #Positive

  3. A quotation from John Heywood (and a Happy New Year to all!)

    Let the world slide, let the world go:
    A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
    If I can’t pay, why, I can owe;
    And death makes equal the high and low.
                                  Be merry, friends!

    John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
    Ballad (1576), “Be Merry Friends,” st. 17

    More about this quote: wist.info/heywood-john/11825/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnheywood #ballad #attitude #care #cheer #cheerfulness #class #death #debt #devilmaycare #equality #happiness #humancondition #letgo #letitgo #lettinggo #leveling #lightheartedness #mortality #NewYear #nonchalance #unhappiness #woe #world

  4. A quotation from John Heywood (and a Happy New Year to all!)

    Let the world slide, let the world go:
    A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
    If I can’t pay, why, I can owe;
    And death makes equal the high and low.
                                  Be merry, friends!

    John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
    Ballad (1576), “Be Merry Friends,” st. 17

    More about this quote: wist.info/heywood-john/11825/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnheywood #ballad #attitude #care #cheer #cheerfulness #class #death #debt #devilmaycare #equality #happiness #humancondition #letgo #letitgo #lettinggo #leveling #lightheartedness #mortality #NewYear #nonchalance #unhappiness #woe #world

  5. A quotation from John Heywood (and a Happy New Year to all!)

    Let the world slide, let the world go:
    A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
    If I can’t pay, why, I can owe;
    And death makes equal the high and low.
                                  Be merry, friends!

    John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
    Ballad (1576), “Be Merry Friends,” st. 17

    More about this quote: wist.info/heywood-john/11825/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnheywood #ballad #attitude #care #cheer #cheerfulness #class #death #debt #devilmaycare #equality #happiness #humancondition #letgo #letitgo #lettinggo #leveling #lightheartedness #mortality #NewYear #nonchalance #unhappiness #woe #world

  6. A quotation from John Heywood (and a Happy New Year to all!)

    Let the world slide, let the world go:
    A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
    If I can’t pay, why, I can owe;
    And death makes equal the high and low.
                                  Be merry, friends!

    John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
    Ballad (1576), “Be Merry Friends,” st. 17

    More about this quote: wist.info/heywood-john/11825/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnheywood #ballad #attitude #care #cheer #cheerfulness #class #death #debt #devilmaycare #equality #happiness #humancondition #letgo #letitgo #lettinggo #leveling #lightheartedness #mortality #NewYear #nonchalance #unhappiness #woe #world

  7. 🎉🎅 Behold, the great #86Box #v5.3 update: because nothing screams #holiday #cheer like "localized #performance improvements" and "floppy #drive #sounds accuracy." 🎄🔧 Apparently, this is the gift no one asked for, but everyone will pretend to appreciate while secretly dreaming of anything else. 🎁💤
    86box.net/2025/12/21/86box-v5- #update #floppy #localized #improvements #HackerNews #ngated

  8. 🎉🎅 Behold, the great #86Box #v5.3 update: because nothing screams #holiday #cheer like "localized #performance improvements" and "floppy #drive #sounds accuracy." 🎄🔧 Apparently, this is the gift no one asked for, but everyone will pretend to appreciate while secretly dreaming of anything else. 🎁💤
    86box.net/2025/12/21/86box-v5- #update #floppy #localized #improvements #HackerNews #ngated

  9. 🎉🎅 Behold, the great #86Box #v5.3 update: because nothing screams #holiday #cheer like "localized #performance improvements" and "floppy #drive #sounds accuracy." 🎄🔧 Apparently, this is the gift no one asked for, but everyone will pretend to appreciate while secretly dreaming of anything else. 🎁💤
    86box.net/2025/12/21/86box-v5- #update #floppy #localized #improvements #HackerNews #ngated

  10. 🎉🎅 Behold, the great #86Box #v5.3 update: because nothing screams #holiday #cheer like "localized #performance improvements" and "floppy #drive #sounds accuracy." 🎄🔧 Apparently, this is the gift no one asked for, but everyone will pretend to appreciate while secretly dreaming of anything else. 🎁💤
    86box.net/2025/12/21/86box-v5- #update #floppy #localized #improvements #HackerNews #ngated

  11. A quotation from Addison

    A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

  12. A quotation from Addison

    A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

  13. A quotation from Addison

    A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

  14. A quotation from Addison

    A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

  15. A quotation from Addison

    A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

  16. Nationwide, just over a million children, mostly girls, participate in #cheer each year
    (some estimates are even higher),
    more than the number who play softball or lacrosse.

    And almost every part of that world is dominated by a single company: #Varsity #Spirit.
    It’s hard to cheer at the youth, high school or collegiate level without putting money in the company’s pocket.
    Varsity operates summer camps where children learn to do stunts and perform;
    it hosts events where they compete;
    it sells pom-poms they shake and uniforms they wear on the sidelines of high school and college football games.

    Each year, Varsity ships 4.6 million pieces of apparel,
    from $80 leopard-print “Cheer Mom” fleeces to custom uniforms covered in Swarovski crystals.

    Critics like Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert and the research director of the American Economic Liberties Project,
    claim that the cheer giant is a #monopolist whose dominance in its area rivals that of Google in tech
    and has had negative impacts for participants and their families.

    Varsity, based in Memphis, generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue,
    with gross profit margins at times topping 40 percent,
    making the company a cash cow for a series of private-equity owners.

    Parents have reported spending upward of $10,000 a year per child in competitive cheer,
    with Varsity controlling, by some estimates, more than 80 percent of that market.

    #Jeff #Webb, the man who founded Varsity, has been called “John D. Rockefeller with glitter”
    and the “Dark Sith Lord” of cheer
    by some of his detractors.

    Webb, now in his 70s, pioneered the gravity-defying acrobatics of modern cheer.

    He paired his innovations with a desire for control over every facet of the sport, which he pursued over the course of more than four decades

    nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazin

  17. Nationwide, just over a million children, mostly girls, participate in #cheer each year
    (some estimates are even higher),
    more than the number who play softball or lacrosse.

    And almost every part of that world is dominated by a single company: #Varsity #Spirit.
    It’s hard to cheer at the youth, high school or collegiate level without putting money in the company’s pocket.
    Varsity operates summer camps where children learn to do stunts and perform;
    it hosts events where they compete;
    it sells pom-poms they shake and uniforms they wear on the sidelines of high school and college football games.

    Each year, Varsity ships 4.6 million pieces of apparel,
    from $80 leopard-print “Cheer Mom” fleeces to custom uniforms covered in Swarovski crystals.

    Critics like Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert and the research director of the American Economic Liberties Project,
    claim that the cheer giant is a #monopolist whose dominance in its area rivals that of Google in tech
    and has had negative impacts for participants and their families.

    Varsity, based in Memphis, generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue,
    with gross profit margins at times topping 40 percent,
    making the company a cash cow for a series of private-equity owners.

    Parents have reported spending upward of $10,000 a year per child in competitive cheer,
    with Varsity controlling, by some estimates, more than 80 percent of that market.

    #Jeff #Webb, the man who founded Varsity, has been called “John D. Rockefeller with glitter”
    and the “Dark Sith Lord” of cheer
    by some of his detractors.

    Webb, now in his 70s, pioneered the gravity-defying acrobatics of modern cheer.

    He paired his innovations with a desire for control over every facet of the sport, which he pursued over the course of more than four decades

    nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazin