My mother tells me that when I meet someone I like, I have to ask them three questions:
1. what are you afraid of?
2. do you like dogs?
3. what do you do when it rains?
of those three, she says the first one is the most important.
āThey gotta be scared of something, baby. Everybody is. If they arenāt afraid of anything, then they donāt believe in anything, either.ā
I met you on a Sunday, right after church. one look and my heart fell into my stomach like a trap door.
on our second date, I asked you what you were afraid of.
āspiders, mostly. being alone. little children, like, the ones who just learned how to push a kid over on the playground. oh and space. holy shit, space.ā
I asked you if you liked dogs.
āI have three.ā
I asked you what you do when it rains.
āsleep, mostly. sometimes I sit at the window and watch the rain droplets race. I make a shelter out of plastic in my backyard for all the stray animals; leave them food and a place to sleep.ā
he smiled like he knew.
like his mom told him the same thing.
āhow about you?ā
me?
Iām scared of everything.
of the hole in the o-zone layer,
of the lady next door who never smiles at her dog,
and especially of all the secrets the government must be breaking itās back trying to keep from us.
I love dogs so much, you have no idea.
I sleep when it rains.
I want to tell everyone I love them.
I want to find every stray animal and bring them home.
I want to wake up in your hair
and make you shitty coffee
and kiss your neck
and draw silly stick figures of us.
I never want to ask anyone else these questions ever again.
one of these days weāre going to make it past the (somehow arguable) fact that āvi triggers jinxā to the 2.0 conversation that is ājinx also triggers viā
YUP. lied for a two years... And I'm the bad guy. You can't be mad if you made it public and exposed yourself.
Stop hacking into people's accounts. Screenshots or not you'd have to explain how you obtained them. And neither of you are adult or mature enough to admit any wrong doings. You're both enablers.
They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.
So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.
Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!
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U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Lib
Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.
That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.
Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.
Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.
Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.
It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?
Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.
*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.
**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.
I'm pretty sure that's the main reason for most of Trump's Executive Orders on day 1. A lot of them are unenforceable, others are blatantly illegal or even unconstitutional, but people will be distracted in the courts trying to shut them down, and it's splitting everyone's focus away from the few that are genuinely dangerous. Splitting people's focus is the one thing that Trump is genuinely good at, distracting the public while the Republicans are doing more subtle awful things in the background.
Corporations and stuff are also taking advantage where they can of "complying early" because they hate regulations.
Use the tracker.
Take notes of who's claiming the nothingburgers are already legal. They are doing illegal shit, actually, until Actual Law is passed, and as the trackers show, much won't be for ages if ever.
Take note of the genuinely hazardous shit that's got more than an ice sculptures chance at the equator at becoming actual law.
Try not to panic. Harder to manage shit mid panic.
Iām not home so I canāt work on thesešššI miss painting and also forgot to post these wips here
You canāt see it with these pictures but Agatha is going on the left Rio on the right and Wanda is on top playing with their magic(I know Rio is death and probably more powerful than Wanda buttttt idc)
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