FooshCore

Here I yap to my heart's content. I hate a lot of things

[fooshcore]

Ontarian realtors are on another level compared to Quebec and British Columbia. I got a dude who was only responding with ''yeah'' and ''ok'' like, is a dialogue too much asked? And another dude, holy fucking hairballs, was cold during some exchange, even raised his tone at me because his thick accent was just too hard to understand at time. He was pressuring me a lot, even called me twice and texted me and sent me videos of rentals after I told him I already found a place. To top it all, he even had the audacity to send me photos of his realtor award. Sir... you were the fucking worst I've ever had so far. Kindly fuck off

[fooshcore]

Job and Rental

Shit has been rough recently. We just found a place after having been refused from everywhere else, and I am still in the lookout for a job. I did an interview that went well last week, but I will only get an answer in 2 weeks. Mostly every other place don't even reply, and the rare that do don't even bother giving an interview. The job market is disgusting and the employer are abusive and way too selective. Entry positions, even retail minimum wage, requires experience. Mostly every job requires experience. Our generation is cooked, and the next one is doomed

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[fooshcore]

Canada and its limited train expansion due to CN and CPKC

Alto just announced that the high speed train will very unlikely reach the Gare du Palais in downtown Quebec city, and one of its reason is the CN train system that owns the railways. It is also likely the CN train system is the reason Ottawa and Toronto might face the same issue. Other important reasons are also at play. In Canada, the industrial train companies like CN and CPKC have priorities over Canada's already thin railway system, and often have precedents over transit system and even VIARAIL. This often impedes large scale development of our transit systems

In Toronto, the expansion and frequencies of its GO train is impeded by the priority that CN holds over rails existing in the GTA. In Vancouver, the West Coast Express only operates toward downtown during the morning and to the suburbs during afternoon rush hour because the CPKC owns the rails.

VIARAIL trains often have to wait aside for a CN trains to pass for the same reason. CN also imposed a speed restriction on their recent trains for security reason. If we want better transit system in Canada, the lack of available rails owned by VIARAIL and transit system needs to be addressed.

[olekssus111]

my robot of flesh and steel

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[the-marxist-mash]

It even crashes like a car in a ps2 game

[fagenthusiast]

[fooshcore]

Tonight is the night I'm flying back to Quebec

My godmother also died today.

And with the move and the money situation, I pretty much buried the feeling down quickly

[brainstatic]

Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.

[class-struggle-anarchism]

“Please don’t make me a joke… I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..”

 - Marilyn Monroe, last taped interview, days before her death

She deserved better than this

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Can I just also say, in addition to all this, that I’m still pissed off about the fact that Joe DiMaggio swooped in and gave Marilyn a Christian funeral before her Rabbi could return from a trip overseas? ‘Cause that shit is fucked up.

So many men who claimed to be in love with her, and not one could fucking respect her wishes, even in death.

[emily84]

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.””  — Marilyn Monroe

Also:

As one of the biggest Ella Fitzgerald fans, she literally helped desegregate her performances. Ella was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race.

Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg (Source: dmvnessa)

ALSO:

In August 1956, Monroe began filming The Prince and the Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier staring and directing. The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe. He angered her with the patronizing statement “All you have to do is be sexy” and his attempts to get her to replicate Vivien Leigh’s interpretation. She became pregnant and miscarried during the production, which heavily worsened her depression and increased her drug abuse.

A L S O , I will never forget watching a documentary about her once and, speaking about her marriage with Arthur Miller, the narrator said, verbatim: “America’s Brain had married America’s Body”. Like, literally, because he was a famous writer, he was entitled to personhood; she, being an actress, and a beautiful woman, was reduced to being “a body”. I have never been more enraged with her portrayal in the media. If you want to be dismissive of her,  literally come for you.

[amuseoffyre]

She was also chronically ill her whole life: she suffered from endometriosis with pain so debilitating that a clause was written into her contracts accounting for the days when she would not physically be able to work during her periods.

She was on courses of strong medication, had invasive surgery to try and limit the damage caused, and despite trying for a baby numerous times, suffered many miscarriages because of her condition. The miscarriages especially sent her into deep depression, since she desperately wanted to be a mother.

There is speculation that the condition may have been one of the triggers in her drug dependency as well, because when you have endo, you will take whatever you can to stop. it. hurting.

Marilyn Monroe was smart and strong as hell in a world that saw her as a sexy doll and nothing more.

[wiciclesatmidnight]

She deserves better

[blamebrampton]

Marilyn was a founding member of the Hollywood branch of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and had lifelong left-wing political views with a particular emphasis on racial equality. She formed her own independent production company that survived for several years and earned a credit as an executive producer on several films. Additionally, she was not only concerned for workers rights, she acted for them, using her own fame to stop staff being unfairly sacked from several of her films. She was a loyal, kind woman and her early death remains a great tragedy. Worse still, as OP notes, is the co-opting of her image by exactly the sort of people she would have loathed in life.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[scramratz]

My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.

I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.

The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.

"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.

You say "house", I think of a structure.

You say "home", I think of stability.

[sanchomps]

lineless sketches for @ultimatooo and @makoredeyes!

[fooshcore]

Yesterday, I went to see the manager of a cowbow store on Granville island. It's sounds so random, but when some of our European friends came to visit us, we went to that store and spent a long time just talking to that person, and it was a very personal and friendly conversation, and she wished us to see her again, so I did.

Never have I ever talked about my personal life to some employees/manager/store owner, but something about her was more than just the work. She had experience to share, a whole life to be inspired from. And she also listened, encouraged, understood.

And I hugged her at the end. It was a very good connexion, and I wished I had more before having to move out.

It was even more blatant as a few days ago, I met 2 other street photographers and I spent a few hours with them taking photos and talking about photography and diverse topics. If I had met them earlier or didn't have to move away, they could have been friends.

I was complaining I couldn't find friends, but I just needed time to find people for that, and things went too quickly.

[fooshcore]

Things started to feel better. The next coming months, even whole year is still gonna be difficult and uncertain, but at least there are objectives.

I will be coming back to Quebec in 2 weeks alone. Circuit and I will live separately because he has a place in his family in Ontario to help him, but it's his family, and I also wouldn't be able to find a job where he will be.

In the meantime, I'll be couch surfing at a friend's place until I find a job and then, maybe I'll find a place for myself or live with that friend until all our debts are paid and Circuit can move back with me again. I won't have my computer for quite a while, and I will be focusing my freetime on writing my book and my photography.

At some point, I'll have to choose what I want to do in life, and while I have ideas, I need time to choose.

Trying again as a flight attendant is definitely something I'd like.

But so is studying urban planning and transit system

Being a model? Interior designer? opening a business like a café mixed with something else like a thrift store or local products? All good ideas, and so little time for trial and error.

I'm also seriously considering doing all the steps to have an autism diagnosis. I'm growing tired of knowing what's going on and how it constantly affects me, but not being able to just say it to people without them downplaying what I feel.

On a more positive note, I think I'm over grieving my failure of these past months.

[ezuzi]

no, the bombing and deaths of thousands of palestinians, lebanese, yemenis, iranians, iraqis and people in west asia and africa are not 'distractions' for the epstein files. we get it you see our lives as less but it's just not. we matter.

[toskarin]

mind you when I ramble about getting blindsided by shifting trends and youth-popular franchises I'm not doing it with a voice of "kids are into stupid and bad things" so much as just kinda gesturing at the fact that, if you don't want to become the adults you remember being mean to you as a kid, you need to use this opportunity to practice being chill about things that aren't for you

lots of conversations to be had about what a uniquely vile system of youth labour exploitation roblox runs on as an enclosed microeconomy that conflates "the place I work" and "the place where I play with friends" to dangle the sword over their head and train them into young capitalists (in the strict sense of the word, that is to say, trying to create a passive income from owning a portion of a productive enterprise)

but that also doesn't mean people who care about it are like... dumb or wrong for growing up with things that aren't cool to you, yknow

[toskarin]

you're not always going to be on the cutting edge of things that will make you cool to people who are younger to you. things you like may be cool to them, because they are full people, but the fastest way to make it deeply uncool is by trying to impose a permanent atmosphere of everyone reaffirming that the world fell once you stopped being interested. you're going to turn everything you love into ghostbusters if you don't knock that off

it's just a profoundly good idea to develop a solid conception of the things you enjoy without seeking validation through forcing kids to respect it as superior to what they enjoy

that goes for everything. you're going to get told that you're old and annoying, and it's going to be because you are old and annoying. can't do anything about the former, but you can get out of people's hair about the latter

[fooshcore]

THIS! SO MUCH THIS!

As I am approaching my thirties, I wish to keep this in my mind because I remember how annoying people around me are about their interests, particularly with music in my case. We don't let young people enjoy current interests without bothering them with the "music from the past being subjectively better"

But in any subject, I find life to be more interesting when you keep an open mind and try novelties. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn't, and that's fine.

[drememoto]

let her in

[noknowshame]

I know we’re all like lawless nonconformists but you really can’t be texting and driving. that’s one of the ones you’ve gotta listen to for real

[aaaaaves]

There's several kinds of rules and distinguishing them is vitally important

-"don't touch the hot stove" rules that are for your own safety but don't really hurt anyone else of you break them

-"don't text and drive" rules that endanger you and others, important to follow

-"park closed after dusk" rules that as long as youre not being stupid, hurt nobody to break

-"don't strike without union authorization" rules that are actively holding back progress