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[headspace-hotel]

Songs I Liked Recently (and why)

I know a lot of good music and I am always discovering more good music. This is something I am egotistical about. I am always cultivating and upgrading my ability to appreciate all the beauty of the world. I am so happy to be living in a time when music can be recorded digitally.

Anyways these are the songs I liked the most recently.

Paris Texas - Everybody's Safe Until - It is a despair bop about suicidal, violent, and destructive urges, mixed with isolation and paranoia, that is so catchy! I love how there are multiple stanzas that sound so different, but they are layered over each other, and each one makes you want to dance! It expresses the feeling of not caring about anything, acting carefree as horrible thoughts scroll endlessly through your head.

Shockwire - I Drive The Speed Limit Cause There's Drugs In The Car - A nutritionally complete and mathematically perfect song, fulfilling all your needs for good music.

Telephunken - West Coast, East Coast - It is full of the feeling of going really fast and feeling badass. Easily one of the most addicting songs I've ever heard. I know it's about an expensive car, but it makes me want to rollerblade at a rave or something.

Flobots - Fight with Tools - someone on Tumblr recommended a song by this band to me, and I started listening to more of their music. The powerful, driving chorus to this song is so moving and inspiring with a beautiful message. I love the instrumental bridge that sustains these high emotions and the outro that feels in my mind that it echoes the Beatitudes from the Bible and socialist/labor rights slogans at the same time

Delilah Bon- I Wish A Bitch Would - anthem about murdering rapists, the vocalist pulls the screams out of the depths of her stomach seeming to empty out her lungs, with crunchy and textured instrumentals reminiscent of corrugated metal. Even if you are completely pacifistic, these powerful emotions are so yummy to evoke; yes, violence WOULD feel good, wouldn't it?

Norman Sann - Who Lied - The rhymes sway and slither with the instrumentation, giving a feeling of stalling and backtracking being lost in one's thoughts of despair and questioning then powerfully accosted with the necessity of realizing the truth. It delivers the message in an impressive way. But on top of the delivery, some of the phrasings and poetic techniques are more delightful to me than they should be (the 'CBD oil and lotion' stanza always makes me smile)

Kneecap - Liars Tale - blistering insults toward politicians and fierce anger but so catchy you have no choice but to nod your head. They rap in irish gaelic which is really cool. and now that I'm looking at the music video it has zombie margaret thatcher (???) cool

Xican- Flor Antigua - the slow, strutting beat of the drums is so intoxicating and flows with the rapping so beautifully and the female vocalist has a rich and lovely voice. I didn't understand the lyrics very much but when seeing the translation they are also really cool and poetic

Ryan Oakes and Missio - Supernatural - the low, wallowing growl of the "something stronger than lethal" refrain is so delicious. i think the artists' energies complement each other beautifully and the verses have very different tones that relay between each other fast but it all flows together, really nice

[plotrelevantlighter]

*vague Malevolent spoilers through season 6

Yall better love me for this one bc im usually lazy and edit in CapCut but I downloaded iMovie for this which is only slight LESS lazy bc I wanted to do specific pan and zooms. Mega super rough animatic I know, but I don’t commit and get the thing done in under two days it simply doesn’t happen. I ain’t an animator. 💀

Cannot express enough that this song literally dropped YESTERDAY and the hyperfix hit that hard and heavy. 😭 Have funnnnn

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Dysphoria Hoodie is so real but can we give a round of applause to Autism Hoodie?

u were always there for my autistic ass when textures were awful, the world was too bright & loud, eye contact needed to be avoided, and i didn't know what to do with my hands. u even let me use your pullstrings as a stim toy. truest ride or die bestie i'll ever know 🫶💖🫡

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"they're the same hoodie" that is FREQUENTLY CORRECT

[xx-obliviousfantasy-xx]

IM SO GLAD WE ARE IN AGREEMENT.

The hoodie is wear in middle school and highschool because I was dysphoric also happened to be the only hoodie I could wear that day that didn't make me feel like ripping off my skin and also the only hoodie that could successfully cover my eyes to block out the florescents because they wouldn't let me wear my prescription sunglasses and when I wanted to sleep I'd just pull my arms inside and hide in it inside the library.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sorry this addition made me so ANGRY on your behalf, remembering how schools inflict such absolutely TORTURE on students with sensory issues and health issues in general. and it all ties in to lack of childhood bodily autonomy.

it is absolutely insane the extent to which school students aren't allowed to take care of their basic bodily needs such as:

controlling their water/food intake (the fact kids have to ask permission to drink water is INSANE)

hearing protection for kids with noise sensitivity

light protection for kids with light sensitivity

(seriously what the FUCK is up with controlling kids wearing hoods/hats/sunglasses during class)

removing themselves from a hostile environment (having to ask permission even on the verge of meltdown to step out of a room/situation that is actively causing them pain)

not having every minute of their day scheduled and supervised on a level akin to literal prisoners (hint: we shouldn't be doing this to people in prison either!)

having a basic level of goddamn privacy

going to the fucking bathroom!!!

it is VILE how often school systems reject the basic human agency of their students. it causes devastating harm, and disproportionately impacts vulnerable students.

So many students are forced to experience PREVENTABLE daily pain and discomfort resulting in long-term health issues and disability because their basic needs are ignored and trampled on by adult authority. There is no world where this is an acceptable norm.

[lohse]

I always wanted my life to be special, an adventure, but not without you. And it didn't happen until I moved back here. Without you, my powers wouldn't even exist.

[alexaloraetheris]

Help, my friends, a molecular biologist and a bioengineer, are arguing in the group chat whether apes and monkeys are 'the same thing' and I, an ordinary biologist, do not dare to put my foot in there for fear of my life.

[charmwasjess]

Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"

[baddywronglegs]

Except increasingly the cow is being treated as a respected contributor to meetings as we pivot to a moo-centric business model that principally produces bullshit

[crafty-butch]

having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

[crafty-butch]

by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee

good day:

make coffee

regular day:

put water in coffee maker

put coffee in coffee maker

turn on coffee maker

bad day:

take pot from coffee maker

turn on sink

fill up coffee pot

turn off sink

pour water into coffee maker

put coffee pot in coffee maker

open cupboard

get coffee filter from cupboard

get coffee beans from cupboard

put filter in coffee pot

measure coffee

pour coffee into filter

close coffee maker

turn coffee maker on

anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day

[kieraelieson]

This is actually a really good way of explaining this

[cryptotheism]

Finished Don Quixote. It's rare that a book ends and I feel a pang of real grief that the story will not continue. What a triumph of literature.

[wizardarchetypes]

People leaving comments on my posts about Indigenous knowledge as a science and its relationship with Western science like, "I know Indigenous knowledge is extremely valuable and important, but I only trust verified science." You're just racist. I'm not going to be polite.

Today, many scientists acknowledge the troubling attitudes that have long plagued research projects in Indigenous communities [...] But some Indigenous groups feel that despite such well-intentioned initiatives, their inclusion in research is only a token gesture to satisfy a funding agency.

That's you. You only want tokens for optics. You can't say, "I respect Indigenous knowledge but—" No, you don't respect Indigenous knowledge. Western science is not the only "real" science and your attempts to argue otherwise are racist. There is no argument.

[wizardarchetypes]

It's like I'm talking to a wall. All the time when I discuss my work as a wildlife & fisheries biologist, I discuss what I have learned directly from Indigenous people in my everyday work yet it's so clear that so many people hear that and think I'm bringing it up for what reason? To appear somehow progressive?

Has everyone just believed this whole time that I bring it up for optics?

Everyone nods, "of course he mentions Indigenous people," because they believe it would simply look bad for me if I didn't.

In fact Indigenous knowledge is a constant topic of conversation and point of reference when I discuss my work as a scientist who uses Western science because my work is useless without it.

I work with endangered species which are endangered solely due to continual colonial violence against people and the land. I can follow the Western scientific method all I want and publish 100 papers on how to fix salmon populations—and get nowhere without Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty.

Indigenous knowledge is not an afterthought to reference as back up to Western science. Believe it or not, we can and should lead any number of scientific projects with Indigenous knowledge.

You need to change how you regard Indigenous knowledge on a fundamental level.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

bagele chilisa's book 'indigenous research methodologies' was published in 2019, btw. it's focused on decolonizing current western research practices, but obviously to decolonize you have to understand how and why indigenous sciences deserve consideration in the first place, and what counts as evidence when we look at a body of research.

Indigenous Research Methodologies

[headspace-hotel]

western scientific method is not The scientific method its A scientific method because others have come up with similar

one of my favorite books to recommend people "plants have so much to give us all we have to do is ask" by mary sisiip geniusz talked about this, how her job as a knowledge holder was not just to transmit the knowledge her mentor taught her, she was also expected to test and verify the knowledge for herself and continue to build upon it

a lot of the ways she talked about that knowledge coming to be, involved repeated experimentation and repeated observation very interesting stuff

[morning-frostie]

jacksepticeye are you aware that u are kinda hard to make in tomodachi life

[therealjacksepticeye]

WHAT??? Everyone tells me every white dude with a beard looks like me! It sounds so easy

[vampirebroth]

not sure where everyones having trouble, my jacksepticeye came out wonderfully /silly

[therealjacksepticeye]

It’s like looking into a mirror of sadness, regret and the ravages of time

[valtsv]

wait but if i have a self-destructive relationship with guilt and responsibility and you have a self-destructive relationship with guilt and responsibility then who's sacrificing themself to ensure that this plane stays flying long enough to have a chance of landing safely

[valtsv]

oh. we. we made it. we're still alive. both of us. wow. yeah, no, it's fine i just... wow. i did NOT see that one coming! did you... no no no this is great!!!!!!!!! it's perfect, actually. couldn't be better. well, what now, huh?! i don't suppose you made any plans for what to do afterwards if you... no? no, of course not. well, that's fine. everything's fine. isn't this great? aren't you happy? i'm SO happy. there's no one alive happier than i am! because i'm still alive. yep. that's right! still here. still right here. hey, isn't that funny? after all that, it just... worked out in the end. almost as if nothing ever happened at all! isn't that just crazy? doesn't it make you feel crazy? i don't even know what to do with myself now. i don't know what to do. i don't know what to do. i don't

[transhuman-priestess]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[transhuman-priestess]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

woo i am such a fan of dramatic plants. just prissy fucking plantlife, be it unreasonable or implacable or ostentatious. plants, man

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

u know what yeah, let’s talk about weird nonsense plants

1. Living Stones

these plants imitate rocks. who does that?

imagine deciding to straight up evolve into rocks as a defense mechanism. i had a whole rant planned but now i’m remembering that i have, in the past, on multiple occasions, daydreamed about being a rock. like that has been a recurring theme in my rich inner fantasy life. i would not forsake the opportunity to evolve into a stone.

2. Hooker’s Lips

ostentatious. flamboyant. vulgar. garish. randy. dare i say whorish? yes. this plant is whorish.

pucker up you hussy

3. Hoya Hearts

overused trope. lacks subtlety and creativity. truly, they just went with the first thought to pop in their head, no brainstorming involved. “ho ho ho i’m just gonna grow into a fucking HEART, that’ll show em!” Needy & basic bitch. looks cute on a desk

4. Lifesaver Plants

manages to be both psychedelic and disapproving. reminiscent of a prudish great aunt–but like, one who did a lot of LSD in the 70s. evidence of an alien lifeform who crash landed and then decided, fuck it, i’m gonna rent a one-story in the midwest and decorate it with vintage wood paneling & floral upholstery. probably smells like stale weed and glass ashtrays

5. Happy Alien Flowers

yes that is their NAME. sort of anticlimactic, but take a gander:

they are absolute sluts for drama, as demonstrated by the little hussies pictured above are YELLING AT ME. they bring to mind seagulls engaged in a Shakespearean blood feud. this flowers have committed aggravated manslaughter and probably got away with it too.

6. Bat Plant 

aka Cat’s Whiskers aka Devil Flower. how fucking emo is that??? this plant listens to mcr and is probably the gay cousin. they never got the hang of eyeliner but that doesn’t stop them from trying, bless em. their impetuous devil-may-care persona is hindered by their crippling social anxiety. i’m immensely fond of this plant. they’ll come into their own once they graduate and move away from college, but in the mean time they sit with the tech crew at lunch. you go little Bat Plant! 

 7. Dancing Plants

total band kids. also called Semaphore Plants, bc they look like they’re trying to flag down a plane. nifty fuckers 

in conclusion, three cheers for whiny, namby-pamby, scatterbrained plantlife

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so you’ll reblog THIS and my Non-Comprehensive List of Cursed Bird That Piss Me Off, but Whimsical Creatures Failing To Tempt Me Into The Ocean is where tumblr draws the line huh

[wheres-lostboy]

I am absolutely delighted to show you this orchid the ‘Naked Man’. It’s an orchid native to the Mediterranean and it looks like a lil dude with a tiny penis

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

PROPORTIONALLY SPEAKING

[morning-frostie]

jacksepticeye are you aware that u are kinda hard to make in tomodachi life

[therealjacksepticeye]

WHAT??? Everyone tells me every white dude with a beard looks like me! It sounds so easy

[candydandyorsomething]

SPEAK FOR YOURSELVES FOOLS

[therealjacksepticeye]

ITS BEAUTIFUL

[pinkdovess]

this meme is so niche

[obscenicon]

[duckdotcom]

[shutupmerlin]

A series of events:

1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet

2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday

3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my boss’s drawer

4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put it on his desk

5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form

6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work

7.

[shutupmerlin]

Happy 2 year anniversary to the post that my old boss allegedly now has framed in his office, next to the recovered photo of his children.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

love it when my fellow they/thems refer to themselves with gendered language specifically to make situations gayer and/or funnier.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew an enby who got married and they both referred to each other as "my wife." until the other spouse transitioned, at which point they became husbands.

the cherry on top? introducting each other to new acquaintances as "my ex-wife and current husband"