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We are not a Christian country. Never were.

We legislate food insecurity.

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Rubber, Glue, and Teflon

I've realized that it's not possible to totally keep oneself from the thoughtlessness and cruelty of someone else's words just through determination to rise above and not let it in.

Some of it inevitably takes root, no matter the attempt to be indifferent, and to focus on one's own path, to be useful but not invested.

The truth? I don't know how people can justify, in their own minds, being so horrible to someone else...yes, I do. THEY TELL THEMSELVES *AND THAT PERSON* THAT THEY DESERVE IT.

#MentalHealthCaregiver #MeanPeopleSuck

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postcard c1910

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

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I remember playing Attack Of The Mutant Camels on this thing...

The Commodore 64 was released 40 years ago this month in August, 1982

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Star Trek 1x04: The Naked Time, 1966.

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Me IRL

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Executive Order 9066, issued on 2/19/1942, authorized the removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to sites further inland. Over 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them U.S. citizens, were incarcerated. 

File Unit: Executive Orders 9041 - 9070, 1/26/1942 - 2/24/1942

Series: Executive Orders, 1862 - 2016

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

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What do you say to people who genuinely believe that the Covid vaccine is making women infertile?

I guess I'd say that they are misinformed. No peer-reviewed study exists that supports this conspiracy theory. I'm sorry they genuinely believe it, but that doesn't make it any more true than genuinely believing the earth is flat makes that ridiculousness true.

And as long as we're talking about it, I also want everyone who is eligible to be fully vaccinated and boosted like RIGHT NOW, because we are transitioning from societal behavior and rules that increase their chances of survival to societal behavior and rules that are going to leave them behind after two years of coddling them.

Consequences are coming and I don't want anyone reading this to get sick because they chose to listen to lunatics instead of scientists and doctors.

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“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis

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Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

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Things I Fancy: A Boring Confession

Windmills Hot tea Yarn work History All things Scottish Board games  Language, dialect, and accents Australia Predictable British murder mysteries Soundtracks and scores “Fat-dress” movies (Jane Austen-y productions) Fictional cowboys but not real ones Michael Fassbender Education Good kids&family books/shows/games Gnomes Seasonal decorations Cats Tower defense games Sherlock Holmes, particularly Jeremy Brett as Comedy/comedies Perfume Genius Audiobooks

Addendum Of Things Other People Seem To Be Obsessed With To Which I’m Indifferent At Best -- Beaches, concerts, Vegas, sunrises/sets (they’re okay), coffee, bestselling fiction, dogs, camping

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Don't Speak

The Second Agreement is a good one; I strive every day not to take things personally. And I'm fairly "thick-skinned" by nature. But there are people in life who make little mean comments, just sucking the joy out of something you like or putting you in your place for some reason of their own and...it sucks. Even not taking it to heart, not holding a grudge, you can't take back that bad feeling generated when someone shows their ass. And they feel cumulative sometimes, just sitting there in your gut and holding back a lighthearted smile. I find myself pulling further and further away from people because I'm just not interested in processing their nasty opinions while continually striving to do right by *them* in speech and action. [And being a jerk in return/defense is not the answer, despite the much-shared memes...] Social media has made us all about how right our own bloody opinions are and how much we like the sound of them. That doesn't mean they're making a good or useful sound. Maybe, sometimes, just don't say it.

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Sorrow fills you up

body and head and it's hard

to breathe, eat, or think

#life

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“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There was an article on your Tumblr back in 2018 that is worth updating and repeating now. There will be a Democratic candidate running against Donald Trump who may NOT be your 1st choice, NOT ideologically pure, HAS made mistakes in life, NOT really exciting you, and HAS ideas you find uncomfortable. Please start the process of getting over this right now instead of waiting till 11/03/2020.

I appreciate you reminding me about this.

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MAD IS HELL

On Wednesday last, the 4th day of March in the year of our Lord 2020, I realized how utterly pointless and unconstructive anger is. That is, when it's not flat-out DEstructive.

It's one of those emotions that we tend to think of as having two sides, a negative and a positive: negative because it can lead to everything from irresponsible behavior to extreme violence; positive because it spurs people into action over injustice. What do we call this catalyzing pissed-offedness? Righteous anger!

I'm beginning to doubt its existence, or at least our understanding of it. Because it's too often self-righteous anger. And even when it's "a good cause", when we see something happening that shouldn't be (or see nothing happening when something should be) it's the compassion at the root of it, or the determination borne of it, that really drives meaningful action.

But most anger I've witnessed and experienced is frustration, tiredness, hunger, hurt feelings, pride, hormones, mental imbalance, personal inconvenience, or even sorrow. The pain or indignation is then bottled as outrage, shaken, and sprayed all over everyone in the vicinity.

Any which way, I'm monumentally weary of it, and I'm not going to take it anymore.