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Living with an abuser kills your soul and steals your joy.
We are not a Christian country. Never were.
We legislate food insecurity.
Rubber, Glue, and Teflon
I've realized that it's not possible to totally keep oneself from the thoughtlessness and cruelty of someone else's words just through determination to rise above and not let it in.
Some of it inevitably takes root, no matter the attempt to be indifferent, and to focus on one's own path, to be useful but not invested.
The truth? I don't know how people can justify, in their own minds, being so horrible to someone else...yes, I do. THEY TELL THEMSELVES *AND THAT PERSON* THAT THEY DESERVE IT.
#MentalHealthCaregiver #MeanPeopleSuck
postcard c1910
I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
The Commodore 64 was released 40 years ago this month in August, 1982
I remember playing Attack Of The Mutant Camels on this thing...
Star Trek 1x04: The Naked Time, 1966.
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Executive Order 9066, issued on 2/19/1942, authorized the removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to sites further inland. Over 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them U.S. citizens, were incarcerated.
File Unit: Executive Orders 9041 - 9070, 1/26/1942 - 2/24/1942
Series: Executive Orders, 1862 - 2016
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006
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What do you say to people who genuinely believe that the Covid vaccine is making women infertile?
I guess I'd say that they are misinformed. No peer-reviewed study exists that supports this conspiracy theory. I'm sorry they genuinely believe it, but that doesn't make it any more true than genuinely believing the earth is flat makes that ridiculousness true.
And as long as we're talking about it, I also want everyone who is eligible to be fully vaccinated and boosted like RIGHT NOW, because we are transitioning from societal behavior and rules that increase their chances of survival to societal behavior and rules that are going to leave them behind after two years of coddling them.
Consequences are coming and I don't want anyone reading this to get sick because they chose to listen to lunatics instead of scientists and doctors.
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis
Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
I’m an ant biologist and I’d like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.
Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!
That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.
it’s also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me
Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.
Remember lions? Fellow apex predators?
Yeah, they spend 16-20 hours of the day laying around, socializing, raising Cubs and napping.
The last 4-8 hours are spent hunting.
Wait wait, they’re not a primate so they don’t count.
How about Orangutans?
Well, they spend 90% of their time awake just hanging out in food-rich areas, eating fruit and leaves, socializing, raising children, and chilling.
Well, they’re not people so it doesn’t-
How about Stone Age people in Europe?
They probably worked 3-5 hours per day, every day. (Though seasonal changes in food scarcity could change that)
Laborers in ancient Egypt worked 8 hours, with an hour break at lunch. They did this for 8 days, then rested 2 days. That sounds familiar. Except… they also had regular time off for festivals and holidays, and only worked for about 18 out of every 50 days.
Artisans in imperial Rome generally worked from 6am to Noon, and then had the rest of the day off… and only worked for half the year, due to all the holidays and festivals they got off.
But that’s too easy, what about a Peasant in medieval England?
6-8 hours per day, with Sundays off, Farm workers put in longer hours at harvest time but worked shorter days in winter when there are fewer hours of daylight. Economist Juliet Schor estimates that in the period following the Plague they worked no more than 150 days a year, due to the long holidays and many festivals.
Ugh, let’s go poorer. 17th century France. Starvation was afoot for the working poor!
During the reign of King Louis XIV, the workers of France had it tough, and hunger for the poorest was a fact of life. The typical working day was as much as 12 hours long, but two hours were set aside midday for lunch and perhaps an afternoon nap. Nevertheless, the Ancient Régime is said to have also guaranteed peasants, labourers and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days.
So what changed?
The industrial revolution, baybe~~
New factory owners could work their employees to the bone due to a lack of regulation and abundance of cheap labour.
The typical factory worker in mid 19th-century England toiled away for a soul-destroying 16 hours a day, six days a week, 311 days per year!
THAT nightmare became the standard by which western society began to judge “work-life balance” and anything gentler than the industrial factory’s unfettered brutality is considered “softness”
(So many people died being mangled in those machines. Hair handkerchiefs went into style during American industrialization because working women would otherwise get their hair caught in the machines, and be either scalped or be bodily pulled inside to die…. But that’s a horror for another time)
Americans in 2020 worked an average of 8.5 hours per day on weekdays, plus another 5 hours on weekends.
Taking out federal holidays and weekends, we work 262 days per year. Most of us get 5-9 sick days to take per year. (Yes, a fixed number, no matter how sick you really are), and usually either no paid vacation, or 7-15 days paid vacation, depending on seniority and the company. Unpaid vacation doesn’t have a max, but taking it often risks you getting fired.
Even comparing against the poorest laborers in ancient history the current working structure for humans is, frankly, inhumane.
We are mammals. Let us rest. Let us celebrate holidays and attend festivals. Let us attend to our homes and families.
Even the ultra wealthy folks who got their heads chopped off gave us more time off than this!!!
Someone in the comments said something like “humans are instinctively industrious and productive, as social creatures!”
Buddy, that’s a lie fed to you by capitalism.
In our default state, we attend to our families yes, but we also party like hell, lounge around, and make fantastic works of art just to be proud of ourselves. We made beautiful things for the joy of creating them.
Stone Age humans may have spent a couple hours hunting and gathering, but DEFINITELY spent loads of time painting every available surface. Time and weather washed most of it away, but some places like Arizona and Colorado still preserve a few of the endless murals made by ancient hands.
Evidence shows that the ancient world was COVERED in paintings and etchings - just saturated with images of birds and beasts and humans, sunsets and cool weather. We invented mythologies and painted about them. We did something impressive, and painted about it. We taught our children how to paint and lifted them into our shoulders so they could mark the ceiling.
In our most base state, humans will work enough to survive, but our instincts demand we use all other time to create art. We want to communicate. To make connections.
“Working” or “being productive” is not on that list.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Things I Fancy: A Boring Confession
Windmills Hot tea Yarn work History All things Scottish Board games Language, dialect, and accents Australia Predictable British murder mysteries Soundtracks and scores “Fat-dress” movies (Jane Austen-y productions) Fictional cowboys but not real ones Michael Fassbender Education Good kids&family books/shows/games Gnomes Seasonal decorations Cats Tower defense games Sherlock Holmes, particularly Jeremy Brett as Comedy/comedies Perfume Genius Audiobooks
Addendum Of Things Other People Seem To Be Obsessed With To Which I’m Indifferent At Best -- Beaches, concerts, Vegas, sunrises/sets (they’re okay), coffee, bestselling fiction, dogs, camping
Don't Speak
The Second Agreement is a good one; I strive every day not to take things personally. And I'm fairly "thick-skinned" by nature. But there are people in life who make little mean comments, just sucking the joy out of something you like or putting you in your place for some reason of their own and...it sucks. Even not taking it to heart, not holding a grudge, you can't take back that bad feeling generated when someone shows their ass. And they feel cumulative sometimes, just sitting there in your gut and holding back a lighthearted smile. I find myself pulling further and further away from people because I'm just not interested in processing their nasty opinions while continually striving to do right by *them* in speech and action. [And being a jerk in return/defense is not the answer, despite the much-shared memes...] Social media has made us all about how right our own bloody opinions are and how much we like the sound of them. That doesn't mean they're making a good or useful sound. Maybe, sometimes, just don't say it.
Sorrow fills you up
body and head and it's hard
to breathe, eat, or think
#life
#MentalHealthCaregiver
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was an article on your Tumblr back in 2018 that is worth updating and repeating now. There will be a Democratic candidate running against Donald Trump who may NOT be your 1st choice, NOT ideologically pure, HAS made mistakes in life, NOT really exciting you, and HAS ideas you find uncomfortable. Please start the process of getting over this right now instead of waiting till 11/03/2020.
I appreciate you reminding me about this.