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a collection of underrated tweets, part 3

(the series)

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Spin cycle

recaption

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I remember this time last year there being posts about how teachers survived the year with fidget spinners, dabbing, and water bottle flipping.

And this year, there’s been a school shooting nearly every week.

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Calypso’s island is magical. It supplies every possible demand Odysseus might have for food, drink, clothing, sex, companionship or conversation. He has only to pay over the coin of his self. His entire self. Calypso wants Odysseus body and soul. She wants everything about him. Physical, moral, and verbal. She wants the work of art that he has made of his own human being. And she wants it for all time. She promises to immortalize him.

When he rejects the transaction she’s baffled. Why would anyone choose to abandon a consumer paradise where he could live forever with a ravishing divinity? Odysseus’s answer is: “I know you’re a goddess and bigger and better looking than my wife, for you are deathless and ageless while she is a mere mortal, and yet, I prefer Penelope and what I really long for is the day of my return.” Odysseus’s answer sets up a calculus. He measures the infinite days and infinite pleasures of Calypso against the single day of his homecoming and the mortal attractions of his wife. The infinite comes up lacking.

Neither Odysseus nor Homer ever tells us exactly what the infinite lacks. That is, we never get an objective description of Penelope. We do not know if she is dark or fair. Odysseus no where itemizes the qualities that make her more desirable than a goddess. What becomes clear in the final stages of the poem however as husband and wife engage in a so called recognition scene that extends from Book XVII where Odysseus shows up in disguise at Penelope’s house to Book XXIII where she falls weeping in his arms and calls his name is that these two people are a match for each other in wits and ambiguity.

We watch Her throughout the six books seduce him by the simple tactic of never letting him know what she’s thinking. She dangles herself. She dangles the prospect of homecoming before him in a series of tantalizing interactions. She gives him clothing, a meal, a bath, a bed in the courtyard and several deep conversations without ever letting on whether she’s recognized him or not. Scholars still disagree on where exactly in the poem she decides Odysseus is Odysseus and she should welcome him home. Penelope’s power is the power of a meaning withheld.

—Anne Carson on the distinction between selling and selling out

lilacbreastedroller

one of the least helpful things ive been told as a neurodivergent person is “don’t half ass things”

if you can quarter ass something, do it! if all you can do is clean a corner of your room, or only read one of the two assigned chapters, or write the heading for your resume, or put all the papers for taxes in a pile, do it! if today isn’t a whole ass day, take pride in the portion of ass that you were capable of

don’t let neurotypicals work ethic define how you did today

adhd-community

I’ve reblogged this before but honestly it is everything to me.

keiko-kat

my dad always says to me, just work 15 min on it, if you only got to write the title is ok, after all, the next time you look at it, your brain is not gonna say “I can’t even start this” but rather “oh, look, it’s already started, lets continue”

just half ass, quarter ass, just start the damn thing, and the next time limpio at it, it’s gonna be easier to start again

adhd-community

I love that

swagintherain

The professor (Callie Rennison) who put brock turner’s face in a textbook definition of rape. Not all heroes wear capes.

fithoneys

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“Imagine it’s 2 in the morning, flood water is up to your eyes and you’re pushing an air mattress behind an apartment building. You’re pushing through water and debris, staying calm, trying to rescue families screaming for help and also you’re 13 years old.

13-year-old Virgil Smith rescued 17 of his neighbors during Hurricane Harvey.

When flood waters poured into his apartment complex in Dickinson, he and his mom, Lisa Wallace, took shelter at a stranger’s second floor apartment.

Virgil says he got a call from his friend in another building.

“He was like, VJ, can you come help us because you know that we can’t swim,” says Smith.

Smith says he swam back to his apartment, pulled out the air mattress his family uses for guests, and went to work, rescuing his friends.”

weepingbouquettyphoon

True Hero why didn’t they show this on the news.

skirtingissues

He’s the story the local ABC channel published about him.

the-bookshop

Source.

lagonegirl

It wasn’t just white men who participated in the ‘unite the right’ rally

alwaysbewoke

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Reports on the rise of fascism in Europe was not the American media's finest hour

So the Smithsonian posted this an hour ago. Just because.

glorious-spoon

The Smithsonian is pulling no punches.

valeria2067

“But the main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a joke. He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” His “countenance is a caricature.” He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan.

When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post.

Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.”

youngblackfeminist

We are literally. Repeating history.

annetdonahue

WE ARE ACTUALLY REPEATING HISTORY. The parallels are terrifying and they are very, very real.

Read “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson. It’s a good 101-course in this complete and total clusterfuck.

kmnml

Sigh.

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Our entire lives we have normalized Nazi ideals and leadership, turning them into a joke and relic of the past. Now that we are seeing these parallels, so many people choose to ignore them, and see this movement just as ridiculous and comical as we have portrayed them in the media for the past 70 or so years. So many people say never forget the holocaust, but so many others have never stopped to think about what that means.