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Workers of the world……fuck each other nasty style!!!!!

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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Sometimes I put my face up against my dog while he's sleeping to feel his little lungs expand and his little heart beat and I am struck by the beauty of of life and the miracle of nature to evolve for thousands of years just to create one little guy and put him in my house

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Catherine Opie: 'Dyke Deck' (1995)

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oh. my. god.

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I've been musing a bit on that one post that went around during the recent holiday season, to which someone added their family tradition of Present Practice. My god! Imagine actually telling kids what behavior is expected, instead of expecting them to intuit it and punish them when they get it wrong!!

Separate post because this topic is a little tangential to that, but I think it does a great job of unearthing one of our very well-hidden internal biases, which goes as follows:

Good people don't need to be taught.

A good person (in this case, a good child) shouldn't need to be told to be gracious and grateful when given a gift. A good child should just know that a holiday tradition of gift-giving is a social performance to strengthen family bonds and that personal preference or genuine reactions are secondary to that performance. A good child should just know how to value gifts, how to express thanks, how to praise and compliment. No caretakers in their lives should need to put any effort into instructing or modeling these things.

Good people should just know how to be good. If they were really Ontologically Good, their inherent goodness would simply intuitively guide them to correct behaviors. If they can't do that on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

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...Which all sounds very reasonable and obvious, and surely a mistake that only fundie christian families would make! Except that people in the social justice sphere also do this all the time. It's not anybody's job to educate you. It's 2024, how do you not know this already? If you were a Good Person, you wouldn't need to be taught. You would simply intuit the correct philosophies and gravitate to them according to your superior internal moral compass.

If you were a Good Person, you would already know that everything you were taught by your family and/or background was wrong. You should have rejected it already. You should have cut off your family, your heritage, everything about your childhood and upbringing that was Bad and Wrong. You should have known it was all a lie.

If you were a Good Person, you should be able to find the correct way yourself. You should be able to seek out the proper educational resources, and distinguish them from bad advice leading you astray, and make sense of them all according to your own internal moral code.

If you were a Good Person, you would have found your way by the proper, dignified, official channels, not by reading a comic or watching anime. You shouldn't need entertainment or art to guide you. You should just know.

And if someone can't do these things on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

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these are my best friends in the whole world. my anchor when im in a storm. My lighthouse on a stormy night. The definition of i would know him by touch alone. Shout out to the keyboard bumps.

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share some promising developments about a nasal COVID-19 vaccine:

"THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED!"

Link to said study:

Link to thread on Bluesky: /profile/sailorrooscout.bsky.social/post/3kyoj6hgihr2v

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i used to do exactly this as a kid, i kept a journal of my mouse diet and a typical day was “one drop of juice, one almond, some leaves, one raspberry”. i made a cushion fort for my mouse hole. i think about that all the time. it was so lovely.

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your mental health is to imagine that you're a little mouse in a children's book series who lives in a hollow tree, and spend time planning out how your home would look, and where you'd put the larder where you keep all your jars of homemade blackberry jam, and what kind of cake you'd make to bring to the party that Mr Vole is throwing on Sunday.

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You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

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"Grandpa Kan" and "Grandma Tuk" have officially registered their marriage after spending over 30 years together! ❤️ (x)

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they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

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Another storytelling rule I think people should remember is the law of diminishing returns. If you keep on ramping up the stakes higher and higher and higher, after a point it gets to where the audience can’t really care anymore.

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i really want to believe that grief is love with nowhere to go, but mostly it is horror. mostly i am terrified.

i am rarely sad. i am always small, turning around at the mall to find my mom isn’t behind me anymore, except i’m 34 and she’s never running back around a corner to scoop me into a frantic hug.

it’s horrifying. i don’t find comfort in things that make me feel close to her. they just emphasize that she’s not here. i make myself do it anyway because my therapist says i should. i agree. i don’t feel better. but i’ve done the alternative (avoidance) and that ends way worse.

i cry and get a migraine.

last night i woke up from a bad dream with the word “mom” leaping from my mouth.

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I just want queer safety and queer happiness

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this beautiful equation contains the six most important constants in mathematics