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Being sentient is humiliating.

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

#My politics from ages 18 to 23 to today haven't shifted all that much but they've changed shape #What's tangible is much less glamorous but it's what we have #Don't wait for a revolution #Help those who would greatly benefit from one today

finita--la--commedia

“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”

— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

#writings #favorites

parkchanwoohoo

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

maelwife

Kinsey scale for whether you’re more cloth or wire

dragon-in-a-fez

you can believe victims about what they experienced and also not want to torch the lives of the people they've accused without proof. that is a space you can walk in and usually it's not even that hard. I say this as a survivor of domestic violence. "believe victims" doesn't mean get torches and pitchforks any more than "innocent until proven guilty" means victims are lying. please please learn this "believe victims" isn't about the perpetrators it's about the victims

numinousobject

when the rigorous theoretician drops hints that they have a body

she was eating at the fast food restaurant when something snapped inside her, something ominous and her eyes got bigger and the blackness got bigger and she stood and took an egg to the middle of the floor right on the middle square tile and then she raised an arm and splattered the egg on that very specific square before returning to eat with big eyes bigger than before

I understand you completely.

#asked