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Jeanette Winterson on Substack

"Friend" is an AI wearable device designed to provide "companionship + emotional support"— i.e replace human friendships. Its literally an AI chatbot that you wear around your neck. "Friend" just paid for the largest ad campaign in NYC subway history

And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen

headspace-hotel

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important part

its literally just a surveillance device

lullxbyblue

How are you supposed to just get up and go to school and go to work and come home and make dinner and fold the laundry and not want to kill yourself the whole fucking time.

Types Of People You Need To Hang On To,

Enthusiastic listeners. People who don't make you guess if they are mad. Direct communicators. The friend who helps you clean your room. People who are kind to those who can do nothing for them. Messy folks who repeatedly get it wrong but never stop trying to get it right anyway. Kindred spirits. Loud laughers. Pals who make the grocery store fun.

Loved ones who get as excited about your success as you do.

The person you feel comfortable crying in front of. Sing-in-the-car friends. People who text you to look at the moon.

People who text you just to say hi. The one you've known since childhood who you can go a long time without talking to but nothing changes. Those who understand the value of holding space. The mentor who pushes you to do better because they want better for you. Patient teachers. Healers.

Scrappy souls. Hard workers. Friends you can joke about hypothetical situations with for hours on end. The genuine.

Anyone who leaves you feeling good afterward, not just when you're with them. People who see your fault lines and say they have them too. People who don't say things cruelly just because it's "honest." People who don't start sentences with, "No offense, but..." People who are kind to those who can do nothing for them. People who call you on your bullshit in a funny way to make it easier to hear.

People who will take pictures for strangers, taking shots from multiple angles. People who don't make you feel bad for wanting to call it an early night. People who make you forget your phone. People who sincerely listen to little kids, who remember how hard it was to be small and young and not taken seriously.

People who always try their best to do the right thing, and attempt to make it up when they fall short. Anyone who tries, anyone who came to mind as you read this.

- Molly Burford

#idk how to tag this #desi academia #ig?#literature maybe?#oh #ik #people #tagging-this-post-as-people

metamorphesque

poems I loved in december

Paruyr Sevak, "To Go Mad"

Anne Sexton, "December 18th"

Ted Hughes, "Lovesong"

Chris Abani, "Ritual is Journey"

Franz Wright, "Untitled"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "A Prayer"

Willie Perdomo, "Maybe Under Some Other Sky"

Osip Mandelstam,'You took away all the oceans and all the room', (translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin)

Osip Mandelstam, "Tenderer than tender" transl. D. Smirnov-Sadovsky

Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Michael Miller, "December"

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "A Cloud in Trousers"

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”

Louise Glück, "Winter Recipes from the Collective"

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Listen"

Fear, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)

Hope, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)

Charles Bukowski, "a vote for the gentle light"

Marina Tsvetaeva, "I Opened My Veins" (translated by Elaine Feinstein)

orphic-mysteries

If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

brb-on-a-quest

Bestie. How dare you leave “do not mock the life preserver…” in the tags.

@onewingedsparrow

1980vibes

I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone.

kairenn-n

yes, babe, you’re sick and twisted, will you come back to bed- what? yes, of course you’re evil and irredeemable. now can you please cuddle with me

neometalpussy

do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

tenaciouszombiearcher

Knowledge is empowering

fluffmugger

you can literally get gender changers for like $3

pkducklett

And yes, that's literally what they're called.

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3

iwishyouwouid

There's something to be said for girlhood being lost and taken so young (the manuscript) and boyhood being clung to until the end of forever (Peter)

In another universe, me and you are still wearing the same uniform and eating lunch together.

geekdawson

one of the more valuable things I’ve learned in life as a survivor of a mentally unstable parent is that it is likely that no one has thought through it as much as you have.

no, your friend probably has not noticed they cut you off four times in this conversation.

no, your brother didn’t realize his music was that loud while you were studying.

no, your bff or S.O. doesn’t remember that you’re on a tight deadline right now.

no, no one else is paying attention to the four power dynamics at play in your friend group right now.

a habit of abused kids, especially kids with unstable parents, is the tendency to notice every little detail. We magnify small nuances into major things, largely because small nuances quickly became breaking points for parents. Managing moods, reading the room, perceiving danger in the order of words, the shift of body weight….it’s all a natural outgrowth of trying to manage unstable parents from a young age.

Here’s the thing: most people don’t do that. I’m not saying everyone else is oblivious, I’m saying the over analysis of minor nuances is a habit of abuse.

I have a rule: I do not respond to subtext. This includes guilt tripping, silent treatments, passive aggressive behavior, etc. I see it. I notice it. I even sometimes have to analyze it and take a deep breath and CHOOSE not to respond. Because whether it’s really there or just me over-reading things that actually don’t mean anything, the habit of lending credence to the part of me that sees danger in the wrong shift of body weight…that’s toxic for me. And dangerous to my relationships.

The best thing I ever did for myself and my relationships was insist upon frank communication and a categorical denial of subtext. For some people this is a moral stance. For survivors of mentally unstable parents this is a requirement of recovery.