Dance above all sadness

[depsidase]

[ms-demeanor]

"Here is our child who is very orderly and has very black and white patterns of thought and is a very picky eater, she was diagnosed with autism at four and we worked hard to make sure she was accommodated through her education because she is easily frustrated when she doesn't see the logic of a teacher's approach or thinks she's being treated unfairly. Sometimes it's a bit of a struggle with the food, but we work around it as a family."

"Our other kid is very bright and is neurotypical as far as we know, but is very stubborn and argumentative and insists on wearing one ratty old jacket every day and eating the same breakfast and lunch every day and has a sleep disorder and is messy and forgetful and always loses homework and has gotten in a few fights "defending" other kids, oh and is also dyslexic but we worked through that so they read about twenty novels a week so at least they're not getting into trouble at parties or anything, even if we are a bit frustrated that they keep failing math and science classes while getting high grades in everything else. They'd be such a good student if only they put in a little effort or paid attention."

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

hate that I was understanding when I should’ve just been a cunt

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve started using chewing sticks to brush my teeth and tbh I’m surprised that zero waste people aren’t all over these things.

Chewing sticks are basically sticks from specific trees that you strip some of the bark off, chew to loosen up the inner fibers, and then brush your teeth with said fibers. You cut off the fibers every other day and strip off more bark so the sticks also force you to keep replacing your toothbrush a bit better than normal ones do because you’re literally whittling them down to nothing over time.

No toothpaste required because the sticks naturally have fluoride in them and being, you know, sticks, they’re biodegradable by nature. So no plastic from the toothpaste because there is no toothpaste and no plastic from the stick because it’s a stick.

Some brands sell them wrapped in plastic but you know, not all of them do that. And you can get a reusable container to put them in when you’re not using them.

But because zero waste people are super into finding complicated ways to reduce plastic usage I was surprised I’ve never heard of these things being discussed in the zero waste YouTube channels I’ve watched. They talk about like bamboo toothbrushes and refillable toothpaste and whatnot. Not chewing sticks.

I’m using them because I can just keep one in my pocket in its little container and they’re super stiff and my gums need strengthening according to my hygienist. (Note if you decide to use these things your gums might bleed the first few times because the fibers are so stiff)

I’m not really using them for environmental reasons but they seem like the sort of thing that extreme tree huggers would like. But no, the only people using chewing sticks seem to be me and people trying to make sure they don’t accidentally swallow toothpaste during Ramadan.

[depsidase]

[wearetryst]

'Providing intimacy is a real job. It takes time, effort, and skill that most people don’t have. That’s why so many people have a fantasy of buying a house through selling feet pictures, but almost none of them actually go on to do it!'

Sex Work's Many Transferable Skills

Here are five skills sex workers have that we should celebrate. Those who work at vanilla jobs regularly have their skills appraised and rec

[lexsang]

I thought this video was pretty well made and she references a few different resources that I hadn't heard of. And I always appreciate when people look at vamp history from multiple angles rather than just from one side of the divide.

(edit: I swear I added this link, but didn't see it when I looked back at the post. Idk, but it's there now.)

[depsidase]

[fangedbeau]

It's not okay to have Kirk step onto Pike's ship and admire her as if the thought of one day becoming Pike's successor already crossed his mind.

Firstly because you're doing a Picard reminiscing about the Stargazer, but forgot about the direction of in-universe time. How could you forget that?

But also because New Trek fails to convince me that Kirk would notice any difference between being on the Enterprise or on the Farragut, or any other Starship. Star Trek set designers used to be so good at redressing sets to re-use them as something completely different. But now everything looks the same when it's not supposed to be.

[fellahimedia]

Now that the Flotilla members have been released and with those photos of brutal physical abuse and sexual assault, can we admit that there is no line they wouldn't cross. Let's be serious the israelis know that even attacking the "untouchable" ie people with european and american passports won't cut off the aid they get from the very countries the members come from. Its a message to peaceful advocates everywhere that they are not hesitant to treat you like palestinian prisoners. And i think the lib zionist reaction that this is "ben gvirs doing" is so fucking laughable. If the israeli government really disapproved they would arrest him. This faux condemnation of ben gvir is a distraction from the fact that hes been given greenlight to do whatever he wants bc israel is a settler colony. Their purpose is eradication of the indigenous people. There are no red lines.

I said this before but there is no peaceful action or violent act that the israelis wont respond to with violence. And the israelis will respond to violence from Palestinians with incredible violence. But violence threatens them the most. When an iof soldier is killed, when a checkpoint is attacked, when a wall is breached after years of standing, it shows the holes in their power structure. It tells other palestinians that there are ways to hurt them, that they are not totally invincible. That is why they reacted to october 7th with horrific violence bc palestinians everywhere learned that a multi biilion dollar wall with latest technology can be breached with less. This is why standing with palestinians that raise guns and trying to meet them where they are is important. We wont ever raise an army equal to them, but we dont need to. Empires have come down with less. The FLN was almost completely disarmed and imprisoned in Algeria but France left only a few years later to a renewed rebellion.The French didn't leave bc their people "got tired of the war," their people got tired bc it was clear to them that the indigenous will always fight and their colony will never be secure. The US dropped millions of napalm bombs on Vietnam and left but they could have continued. These empires have the money and the weaponry but when they realize that no weapon will give them total control, then their effort will be abandoned. But under the oppressed who love their land, there will be traitors but there will always be those fighting no matter the cost. That is the difference and that is why armed resistance matters more than boycotts and more than flotillas. If there is no palestinian with a weapon, then there is no threat to israeli power

[anarchistmemedistro]

an asymmetrical and decentralized insurgency is nearly impossible to defend against

[fangedbeau]

Haunter (2013) is a great film.

But it would be even greater as a computer game. I'm thinking of a point-and-click adventure game. As player you would have to actively uncover all the layers of the mystery. You would have to choose whether to open that door, whether to pick up that ring, whether to tell what you know; and without the knowledge that nothing terminally bad can happen to Lisa, because of the remaining run-time.

And the most difficult part of the game, the part in which you will likely lose for the first couple of play-throughs — you don't have to play that if you don't choose to turn around and face the final boss fight. You can go straight to the afterlife, only that you would abandon Olivia and her family if you do.

[hagiomoto]

[fangedbeau]

The chicken apocalypse

The world is overrun with chickens. If they find you, they'll flock together, peck you to death and eat you.

Obviously, this is a ridiculous concept that you'd expect to see on something like Invader Zim or on Rick and Morty's interdimensional cable TV.

Note that: Just like pigs and sharks, chicken will eat anything. And taxonomically they are dinosaurs. I don't think The Birds and Birdemic suffice to establish the bird apocalypse as a trope, so the chicken apocalypse can't be a subtrope of that.

[fangedbeau]

The A.I. apocalypse, but instead of Skynet commanding autonomous Terminators, it's Lavender whose ability to kill depends on Israeli soldiers unquestioningly hitting every target the A.I. selects.

How likely is it to succeed in wiping out mankind?

[fangedbeau]

Babylon 5, but instead of the Babylon curse being backstory, each season of the five season arc is set on a new Babylon station that gets destroyed in its season finale; except for the season 4 finale in which the station gets abducted a thousand years into the past.

[fangedbeau]

Many so-called “christian” “conservatives” are anti-LGBTQI but not really anti-A+, since they want all kids to be ace until one day, when they're old enough®, they're expected to realise that they're demisexual.

[fangedbeau]

All the greatest Lovecraftian horror motion pictures are not adaptations of any story by H.P. Lovecraft.

There are some well-watchable ones that are based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth but inexplicably bear the titles of different Lovecraft stories. Funny how that happens.