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[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

insane to say but no amount of insults or buzzword caution will make me feel as remorseful as someone saying “youre being mean” does

[ethnostates]

real friends will copy your serial killer patterns when the police have you in custody so that the police think there’s no way that you’re the killer because you were in jail at the time of the murder

[hopepunk-humanity]

I firmly believe there’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ emotion. Only hurtful actions stemming from fundamentally neutral and natural human feelings. The idea that every thought we have has some kind of moral weight is just not realistic. Putting all our effort into only thinking and feeling positive, palatable, ‘pure’ things is incredibly harmful to ourselves. Give yourself permission to feel the full range of emotions. It’s how you choose to act (or not act) on them that really matters

[the-absurdity-archive]

I don’t think people are supposed to sleep alone

I think we’re made for cuddling

[kafk-a]

Nikki Giovanni

[kafk-a]

Rudy Francisco

[mahlerlove]

There are two types of white people

[closet-keys]

both these poets are Black

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

"its okay that person does [weird thing] because they have [condition]" no its okay that they do the weird thing because its not hurting anyone and sometimes people just do things you might think are weird and it doesn't have to be explained

[somanyjacks]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

[wormsslime]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

please be aware that your ancestors would be so proud and joyful over the number of carbohydrates you consume. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I am in earnest when I say, society was literally invented to provide access to carbs. you are flourishing as your forebearers intended.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the sheer number of people in the notes who misread this as ‘crabs’ and thought I was talking about carcinization…valid, all of u

[jn3008]

[ashfae]

I swear I felt my brain twist while I stared at this and tried to follow a particular segment.

[theriu]

That is SO COOL I’ve never seen one moving before!

[swagpaws]

god i hate how normalized diet culture and shit like bmi and calories are. bmi is based on eugenics. calories are a measurement of how much energy something gives u and not at all of how much weight or fat ull gain. diets have been proven to be harmful and ultimately unhelpful in actually losing weight. fatness has been largely proven to not be inherently unhealthy and doesnt inherently cause health issues.

if anyone has more good links to add on then please do and if anyone knows more on this stuff than me then dont hesitate to correct me!

[more-beanies]

FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD!! if you’re eating, ever, and even/especially if it’s hard, know that i am personally SO SO proud of you

[grenade-maid]

I think like, the death of Vine and Rabbit, Wikipedia constantly needing to beg for money, Discord depending so heavily on venture capital, Facebook turning towards spying on users to generate a return on all the venture capital that got them started, Adobe creative suite turning into a subscription rather than a single product you buy, the strangulation of streaming entertainment as every company pulls their content and makes it exclusive to their service, are all great examples of how like, it really doesn't matter if something is legitimately useful, efficient, or beloved, it is next to impossible for a service to exist if it doesn't make shareholders increasing amounts of money year after year. Which may seem like a "no duh" type of statement, but it's a very simple window into how the profit motive makes products and services worse, not better. And how that's not just a matter of certain companies or ceos being bad and greedy on an individual level, but is an inescapable factor of an economy where existence is dependent on generating capital.

[dog-girl-fag]

If I do something good because it makes me feel like a good person, is that technically selfish?

no, only if you're choosing to make others suffer to make yourself feel good

enjoying making other people happy is a great thing

[oudenonoma]

There is a Jewish story about a wealthy man who came to his rabbi and said “I have decided to build an orphanage, can you put me in touch with the relevant people”  

The rabbi was delighted to do it, and introduced the man to some charities.  After a few weeks, the man came back to the rabbi.

“I have decided not to build the orphanage,” he said.  “I realised that I was only doing it because I wanted to be admired as a philanthropist, my motives were selfish.”

The rabbi answered, “do you think the orphans will care what your motives were?  Build the orphanage!”

[mikkeneko]

I think there was a similar anecdote about Abraham Lincoln and a pig, but from the other direction

The Fable of Abraham Lincoln and the Pigs

Once Lincoln was traveling in a mud-wagon coach along a swampy, rural area. His fellow passenger was his good friend and US Senator Edward Dickinson Baker, who later lost his life in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff at the onset of the American Civil War.

While they were conversing in the mud-wagon coach, Lincoln remarked to Baker that in doing good and evil, all people are motivated by selfishness. Just as Baker challenged Lincoln’s assertion, their coach crossed a rickety bridge over a slough (a large swampy marsh.)

Abruptly, Lincoln and Baker glimpsed a mother pig making a terrible squeal because her piglets were stuck in the swamp, couldn’t get out, and were in danger of drowning.

As their coach started to head away, Lincoln yelled, “Driver, can’t you stop just a moment?” The driver replied, “If the other fellow don’t object.”

With Baker’s approval, Lincoln jumped out of the wagon, ran to the slough, lifted the piglets one by one out of the swamp, and carried them to the dry bank of the swamp.

When Lincoln returned to the coach, Baker remarked, “Now, Abe, where does selfishness come in this little episode?”

Lincoln replied, “Why, bless your soul, Ed, that was the very essence of selfishness. I would have had no peace of mind all day had I gone on and left that suffering old sow worrying over those pigs. I did it to get peace of mind, don’t you see?”

anyway I think the idea that good needs  to be externally motivated and that the giver isn’t allowed to benefit from it, even inside their own head, is extremely puritanical and nature and can be discarded

[a-method-in-it]

Listen! The fact that other people's suffering affects us and makes us feel bad is a sign that we as a species ARE pretty good actually. Your good deeds are not "selfishly motivated"; they are motivated by 5-6 million years of evolutionary pressure towards caring for our fellow humans. Doing good things for others because it makes you feel happy and not doing cruel or neglectful things to others because that would make you feel sad is not a sign you are selfish. Its a sign you are a good person, because those structures that do those things still exist in your brain, like they are supposed to.

[doomhamster]

Also: it’s okay if it’s intellectual and not emotional, or less so.

Empathy is the thing that makes us feel bad when something bad happens to other people, and it’s a great trait to have, but not all people have it, or have it to the same extent. And above all, you don’t need empathy in order to be good and moral.

Helping someone because you THINK it’s the right thing to do is every bit as valid as doing so because you’d FEEL bad if you didn’t. The important thing is that they got help.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[feminism135]

[machigaeru]

I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli

Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back

Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it

Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it

Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly

[memory-thought]

The span of human experience is so insane.

[romanocheese]

why would you hide this in the tags

i desperately want to learn hebrew right this very minute

[brawltogethernow]

Just read the word unties, but my brain decided it was a merge of aunties and uncles, pronounced UNT-eez.

[brawltogethernow]

I am delighted to hear this.

[dorbu]

really terrible but not at all surprising to have factual, real-time evidence that police would not shoot right wingers even if they formed a mob and stormed government buildings