#pride and dignity

[harvestheart]

80 year old experienced his rent being raised $400 a month and could not afford it and couldn't move. With pride and dignity, he decided he had to go back to work. Students decide to help.

[natalieironside]

"The boycott didn't work" It was never a boycott. It's not a mass action. It's just me, saying "I can't be a party to this if I ever want to look my reflection in the eyes again" and "I can't waste my time cultivating friendships with people of such low character."

Have you never made a choice purely for your own benefit and stubborn pride before?

[Edit]

This is about your little game. This post is about how y'all are people with no character, yellow bellies, and spines made of warm, wet spaghetti. Don't bother telling me all about it; I'm just going to block you and then forget you exist because it's less than stepping on a roach to me.

[corpsentry]

pick your battles

[darlingod]

Cardan, finding any reason to look at Jude: oh we’re talking about death? (😏) I know someone that’s gonna die HEY JUDE

Going even further,

Cardan: oh we’re talking about gardening? (🥳🥳) I know someone that’s made of dirt YO JUDEE

[ravensvalley]

#Gay&TransPeople

Yes… I follow many Gay and Trans People as many of them follow me too.

I know that many of you have noticed it and have stopped following me.

So for all the other concerned followers, if it's the way you see the World you better unfollow me right now because I will.

For the remaining ones, have a wonderful day folks.

[thegreatgremlingang]

felt very inspired and drew a few pictures of the twin prides smoking joints with Wei Wuxian gripping a bag of weed and Jiang Cheng looking mad about the whole thing on my math sheet

if this reaches fifty notes I will show it to you

[sigmaelxgr]

Vorhim Kegran, Morag Tong agent

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

"From a Documentary on Science"

“It is miraculous,” the surgeon says, “To place electrodes deep within the brain, And see these patients, trembling in their chairs, Each stand and walk, like normal people do, And so regain their human dignity.”

The television host across from him Nods placidly, with just the slightest smile. The lighting, and the set, and cutaways, All make it seem impossible to doubt His words or deeds or hopes for all mankind.

But, still –

Perhaps it was like Santa Claus, you know, A pretty fable Mother told to me, To soften life’s hard edges for my sake, When she had said that dignity was mine – For me, alone, to squander or to keep.

But now I’ve learned the gray and dreary truth: Whatever makes me worthy of esteem Is held completely in the public trust Revocable without recourse or right, When strangers, in disgust, avert their eyes.

--By Ann Magill (@capricorn-0mnikorn). Poem #12 in my 30-poem chapbook The Monsters' Rhapsody: Disability, Culture, & Identity (copyright 2016. Lulu.com).

Link goes to the Lulu store. You can also buy it from Amazon. But buying it from Lulu gets me a few more pennies in royalties.

[nucarnivalincorrectquotes]

Eiden: Oh god, no. My reputation.

Eiden: Wait, no, I don't have one

Eiden: My pride

Eiden: Wait I don't have that either

Eiden: Uhhhh...

Eiden: MY DIGNITY

Eiden: Wait, no, shit, not that either

[irequirealobotomy]

Trans person with a boner in a bath. Thats what I like to call a hard boiled egg

[jackmkelly]

every time i reread this i end up thinking about jacks hat grab at the end of santa fe btw

[rhodesmusic]

jesus christ impaled on a wednesday i hate hate HATE it when christianity is brought into mathematics. people pushing their agenda by saying shit like "this beautiful mathematical thing proves the existence of GOD" or "GOD made math and we're just discovering it". that is SO fucking rancid for so many reasons and half the time the people that say those kinds of things hold math in a purely qualitative sence in their mind, thinking that because they got a mandelbrot zoom in their reccomended they eat breathe and shit math out their asshole on the spiritual level

no matter how hard our education systems bastardize the subject, compressing their concepts into a pristine meaninglessness to cull the young person's imagination across the land, nor how well their nouns verbs and adjectives describe what we see in the universe, mathematics at it's heart is a form of SELF EXPRESSION. nothing, NOTHING I SAY in this world we live in would be as FUCKING PSYCHOTIC as to suggest us to dwell over how a bunch of IMAGINARY IDEAS relate to one another along patterns and symmetries, other than OURSELVES. we started doing math because it offers a kind of fulfillment unlike any other artform. the difference between mathematics and other arts is that our culture doesn't see it as one.

mathematics is not about facts, or even worse, about "rules", but rather about the IDEAS that went into drawing such conclusions. similarly, the only thing more beautiful than math's polyhedra, infinitely intricate fractal shapes, and other pictures such as the ones abraham and jacob here put in their thumbnails, are the MADE UP IDEAS that constitute them, ideas that we have thought up for no good reason other than we find doing so lovely. wonderful. fulfilling and completing.

if some BRICK LICKER named EZEKIEL went out to an art fair and proclaimed with their righteous ass vocal cords, "all these paintings, all these works of art, all of these were drawn by GOD and HERE'S WHY", they'd rightfully be told to go off and HUFF DICK, but when it's mathematics it passes with nodding heads because our culture doesn't see math as any kind of self-expression, instead as a bunch of statements and sedentary pictures to worship, bend over, and take cock for to achieve some higher level of virtuosity.

"but how can the Mandelbrot set have infinite complexity as you zoom into it, that has to be god right there!!!" perhaps if you ever pondered the distinguishing complex numbers, how recursive processes ballet with its algebraic structure, the geometry unfolding into chaos along an infinitesimal boundary, all things that DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING EXIST IN OUR WORLD BUT WILL STILL BE THOUGHT OF FOR OUR SAKES, LEST WE LET THE IDEA GO COLD AS WE SHIVER IN THE ABSENCE OF THE WARMTH OF ITS SIMPLE CHARM, then you wouldn't resort to implementing an omnipotent figure in order to fulfill your inclination to have the wonder be explained by anything besides the creativity of humans.

oh, but questioning the words of the bible? now that's sacrilege.

HOLY SHIT.

[squishiest-wizard]

every day essek thelyss wakes up

[traumatizedjaguar]

I’m sorry but human rights should never be a debatable subject.

[fishareglorious]

the last time i was this excited at seeing a character trailer it was when molar office outis dropped and i was eating in a mang inasal...

[hyperlexichypatia]

You're better off for having made the regrettable decisions you made when you were younger. Sure, you regret them now, maybe looking back on them causes you pain, and now you devote your life to taking away other people's right to make those same "mistakes" so they won't have to suffer as you did, but you're still better off. Making a decision and realizing "Wait, this was a BAD decisions. I DON'T want this!" was a necessary element of your process of learning what a good decision is, or what you do want. That bad partner you dated, that bad investment you made, that irrevocable mistake made you who you are. No matter how much you insist otherwise, you're better off. Does that make you angry? Offended? Ready to send me furious denunciations for how unforgivably presumptious I am to have the absolute audacity to tell YOU what's best for you in your OWN life? Good. It should. You have every reason to be angry at what I just said! I don't know what's best for you! I'm not you! I don't know your personal lived experience! That's absolutely correct! Presuming that I know what's best for you better than you know what's best for yourself is absolutely offensive! But that's what you're doing. That's what you're advocating. Consider that I do not have, nor am I advocating anyone else to have, any legal, social, or economic power over you and your choices, but you are advocating that you (or someone) have legal, social, or economic power over someone else's choices. Everyone deserves autonomy. Everyone deserves dignity of risk. Your regrets are not a good reason to violate someone else's basic rights.