A Merry Heart

Lady. 39. Bookish.Tall-ish. Shy-ish.

[siderealglimmer]

[reptiliannastyboy]

despite her efforts to evade me, i have finally filmed my cat playing my harp

[reptiliannastyboy]

Is a tiny cat playing a harp blasé to you people?? You don't even have time to give her a little like for her recital 🥺?

[jethroq]

[merryhearted]

Scary movie, Thai for lunch and a threatening cookie.

Another BFD down

[evilwizard]

sometimes while the devil you know is distracting you with his little dance the devil you don’t is sneaking around back with a cudgel

[grimoiremanifest]

meanwhile i'm trying to connect with the devil i kinda know but not like suuper well. we're acquainted, friends of a mutual friend, but haven't really clicked with each other and like it's sooo awkward whenever we try to hang out like this. god i wish somebody would like knock me out with a blunt force instrument right about now

[evilwizard]

the devil you don’t know uses his cudgel to knock the red party cup out of your hand. now you don’t know what to do with your hands while you talk. he laughs diabolically

[formlab]

12 Hands of Miles Davis and His Trumpet, Irving Penn, 1986

[chilehabanerochill]

Flor encendida

[baejax-the-great]

So there you are, number one employee at your company, team lead, bringing in more profit by yourself than the rest of the employees combined and everyone knows it. And then one day, against the advice of all the other team leads, the CEO violates a safety measure, and yeah, people start dying.

Everyone knows it's the CEO's fault. Everyone knows how to fix it. But the CEO does nothing, digs his head in the sand, and pretends like shit is normal. And people are dying.

So you, young hotshot that you are, call an all hands meeting and get a specialist to explain what the problem is. It's easily solved, but it will cost money, and that money is going to have to come from the CEO.

The CEO throws a shitfit. He doesn't want to solve the problem. He doesn't want to admit under overwhelming evidence that it's his fault. But he agrees to do so under one condition--he's not paying to fix it--you are. He's taking your bonus and you can get fucked. As it turns out, the CEO thinks you fucking suck.

Not a single one of your colleagues protests on your behalf, probably because they know that if they speak up, he'll just take their bonuses, too.

So what do you do? Do you continue working for Mr. "idc if my employees die as long as I get mine?" Do you quit? Do you take the wealth you've accumulated working for this guy and go home? Do you stab the worst boss you've ever had in front of every other employee at the company?

Anyway that's book 1 of the Iliad

[need-a-new-reality]

lol I thought this was gonna be about the Government defunding OSHA.

[baejax-the-great]

The rapacious and arrogant greed of idiots in power is the oldest story we got and it has not changed

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"can you explain this large gap in your resume?"

yeah I tried to move an image in Word

[samimarkart]

Some ducks I’ve been seeing recently!

[1percentcharge]

momentarily had the thought “shout out to my platonic harem” and then remembered that’s called friends

[sweet-honey-blue]

here are my favorite moomin comic panels because why not

[merryhearted]

February Book Report ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This was SO good (and the audio is read by the author, which was absolutely wonderful). Macfarlane’s style is lovely and evocative. His descriptions are full of heart and color and his personal narratives wind through the book gently making his arguments. Highly effective and entertaining.

What was interesting to me was how this book made January’s stinker relevant. While Macfarlane is trying to convince us that the bodies of water surging and sloshing all across the planet are alive and sovereign, I couldn’t help but reflect on how much of the human body is water and how essential to human health clean waterways are. Pathogenesis detailed the many, many times in history that contaminated and misused waterways had immediate and devastating effects on the health of the human population. Aside from that, my head has been filling itself with water metaphors. Not only are our bodies mostly water, but we’re almost born from it. A pregnant woman’s blood volume will have almost doubled by the time they deliver. In moments of great sadness, joy or stress, our bodies cry tears, returning a little of our water. Life was born in and, as far as earth goes, cannot exist without water. There are more bacteria and virus within a human body than their own cells. An echo of the life teaming in and on every river on earth?

Admittedly, i was already pretty sold on the idea, along with the responsibility of all people to protect and represent the waters we live alongside, and perhaps inside, but i found the book to be beautiful and entirely convincing.

[myjetpack]

for yesterday’s @guardian review

[ceramicdoggies]

[merryhearted]

january book report ⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 5.

This mf book. I am still mad. It was recommended SO highly by several people whose opinions usually don’t do me wrong, but lemme tell you. There has been wrongdoing.

The bait and switch Kennedy pulled is objectionable. The intro is fantastic! Wonderful, breakneck pacing and so chock full of facts to hold up his thesis that i began to take notes immediately. I was so excited to dive in. Should have stayed skeptical, because this dude drug me through seven chapters of unsupported claims, increasingly euro- and Anglo-centric focus and language, and, perhaps most damningly, a lack of science. It appears to be very well researched, however, i am confused by his focus. It is true that there’s not a lot of fossil evidence for illness in prehistory, and many illnesses don’t leave legible calling cards in our DNA, however, i was not persuaded by his theory. Additionally, as the book moved into the recent past, I was more and more disgusted by the language the author used to describe the courses and effects of colonialism, capitalism and chattel slavery. It seems to me that a professor of sociology would have a better grasp of the connotations of the words he chose and greater sensitivity to the tone those words set. My marginalia by the end of the book was just unhinged exclamations.

He does bring it home reasonably well in the end, making an almost conciliatory conclusion, sketching out a hopeful path for humanity to navigate the latest challenges of disease that is informed by our past, but by that point, i was so done with him that i had only hate-read to the end because january was almost over and this was my chosen NF for the month. eugh.

I finished this bastard, but I didn’t like it. It only got three stars because, despite the frustrating language and gaping lack of evidence, i did learn a lot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[transmonk]

I should be able to read books in one second because I need to know everything