Humans are my favourite animal

People fall in to patterns fall in to people. Are you escaping your patterns, looking for new ones, or trying to identify your own?

[xternidad]

Silly Symphony - The Cookie Carnival (1935)

[billspreston-esq]

an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems

[billspreston-esq]

[ilyiwantusbothtoeatwell]

let me see you and stay

neil hilborn // text post – @rebeccabinch //  naudline pierre – through the clouds, 2020 // flintcoded, 08 –15 – 21 // the first bad man – miranda july // sade alandria zabala // georges bataille // @tristamateer // mess is mine – vance joy // @softhe4rted , i will – mitski // taylor jenkins reid, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo //georges bataille – the dead Man //

[sawasawako-archived]

writing is supposed to be difficult btw

[sawasawako-archived]

like i think it’s a process that leads you to confront yourself and if it doesn’t… it probably means you’re not being your bravest and most honest self in your writing. the reason why i love it despite it being so difficult is precisely bc i have to encounter myself in such a way in order to say anything meaningful, in order to create something that is greater than myself, bc i have stepped beyond the boundary of safety

[161afa1312acab]

[soracities]

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Another Middle-Class Black Kid Tries to Name It" [transcript in ALT]

[homunculus-argument]

The way people just assume that their experiences are universal. No thoughts, opinions or feelings about it. I'm just observing it.

"I'm not disabled in any way but I always go out of my way to avoid doing this completely normal everyday thing able-bodied people can do because doing that causes me physical pain."

Dude.

"I'm not gay or anything, but on average you really do see more good-looking men than you see good-looking women."

Bruh.

"It must really suck to have ADHD or something, I mean I forget what I was doing every 30 seconds and get yelled at about it at least twice a day, it would suck if that was like a clinical thing."

Brother.

"I'm perfectly happy being a cis man but wouldn't everyone rather be a woman if they had the chance?"

Ma'am.

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

But an unquenchable love for you has never left me...

{Quotes: Alejandra Pizarnik, Approximations/Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, October 7/chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’/sue zhao/ Sylvia path / Maggie Nelson, Bluets/Richard siken/Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses from ‘The Poem for the Reader’, tr. Mark Anderson ,paintings: pinterest}

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Web weaving about the untold story in you !

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Felice‎.”

[dimespin]

Ship dynamics

[patterns-people]

POV: I'm looking at the webpage for a "dinosaur" named "irritator" & the history of rick-rolling but this is still relevant to my world peace research.

[very-cool-office]

To be curious and joyful is most human; unpredictable and courageous is the most pure human, free of chains. But to be born or forced in to a cage is only ones circumstance—it is by definition, never chosen; one is never less than for that. People used to refer to this condition as a "curse", for it's consequences create a pattern that repeats itself. I think I'd rather prefer we went back to that word.

[very-cool-office]

I think that town criers should make a come back. What a fantastic service to have. What better way is there to make sure everyone is on the same page than to have a little dude running around, screaming about it.

[even-cooler-laboratory]

I'd argue that, technically, social media is town crying...town crying everyone can participate in. Would you say that that makes it better?

[very-cool-office]

Mm...in a way, extremely! It allows information to move faster! But it does mean you need to be more careful with how you intake that information; if people are too afraid and/or unknowledgeable to correct misinformation accurately, or to call it out accurately—misinformation can permeate at dangerous speeds.

[even-cooler-laboratory]

So then, what can we do about that? How do we avoid perpetuating this problem?

[very-cool-office]

Well, the best thing we can do is question it! Not always directly, of course; not everyone can tell you what their goals are. Be it because they have mal intent, or because they don't have an accurate grasp of the size of their scope (which is common, and has no relation to intelligence—only knowledge & the awareness knowledge offers), or because the subject hurts; the reason itself doesn't really matter.

What does matter is that we understand what we are doing when we ask questions; we are seeking information. We seek answers to acquire understanding. We require understanding in order to understand even these; what we're doing, and what we're saying.

[even-cooler-laboratory]

When you put it like that, it sounds as if understanding is mandatory for the success of communication.

[very-cool-office]

That would be because it is true; it is "the case". Understanding is mandatory for communication. If the other person does not understand you in an exchange, the communication was a failure. (Which isn't a reflection of you and your preformance; only the neutral state of reality.)

[even-cooler-laboratory]

So then, how does one acquire understanding?

[very-cool-office]

By knowing how to ask questions.

[even-cooler-laboratory]

And how does one ask questions?

[very-cool-office]

I'm still refining my answer to that one (assuming it can be refined further), but for now I believe this should point you in the right direction, at least:

Do not ever put pointless rules on how you communicate. Only use them when they serve a purpose; like keeping someone safe, or being received more clearly. You keep people safe by not attempting to speak in a tone of authority on things that you don't fully understand. When you do not make it clear that you are speaking an opinion, speaking based on emotion, or that you are using metonymy, or that you do not know enough on the subject to be leading conversation—when you don't make that clear; you are miscommunicating a tone of authority.

People who aren't taught to consider that not everyone knows what they're talking about (or whom have been tricked in to not keeping it at the front of your mind—which is most people, at this point) will get confused, and it isn't fair to say that that is their fault.

After all, we too have been tricked in to forgetting that knowledge is literally power; any and all attempts to sabotage the gaining of knowledge is an attempt to prevent them from losing power over you. The knowledge that that is the case results in us all partaking in the spread of hatred; as the lack of this and all knowledge sustains it's power over our minds, and subsequently our lives.

So, in conclusion—make sure you are always understanding and if you cannot acquire being understood and if you cannot figure out how to understand something, it is your societal job to figure out why even if it's just in your head, for your own sake. It keeps you and everyone around you safe to do so.

[even-cooler-laboratory]

How profound.

[very-cool-office]

Indeed!

[mrlovenstein]

Secret Panel HERE ⏰ tapas.io/episode/1832729

[gsirvitor]

[a-frogge-bip-a-smal-beastie]

WHAT

[papasmoke]

Losing my mind remembering that pic chelsea manning posted of the extremely undercover and not at all obvious fbi agent who was tailing her after her release

[papasmoke]

[verminsblood]

what kind of sixth sense do american have to recognize fbi agents that easily

[demonius-darkblade]

to paraphrase her, its always the shoes.

[pedro-martines]

americans please explain to a foreigner, he looks like some random dude to me

[imnotafeddammit]

1. They all have the same haircut, almost everybody in law enforcement and the military have the same haircut due to regulations.

2. They all wear the same shoes. Same boots, and same overpolished dress shoes.

3. They act different. Shifty eyed and always on their own.

4. They’re kinda really bad at their jobs. I’ve encountered plenty of “undercover” cops outside of bars that ask questions no regular person in their right mind would ever ask. “How are you getting home?” “Who did you come here with tonight?”

5. America is a police state on a budget. Most officers are poorly trained, fbi agents require a 4 year degree (I think), but lord knows how much training they actually get. And the dumb kids from your high school always become cops.

It’s always the dense as a brick kid, with something to prove that becomes a cop. The kid that mouth-breathed and couldn’t chew gum and walk at the same time.

[derkartoffelkonig]

Their shirts are never form fitting so they can conceal a weapon and cuffs.

Always look at the watch, it’ll be expensive but in neutral tones (uniform standards strike again).

They will always sit where they can see their target and the nearest exit.

They will have a partner who is less obvious but wil point a recording device (phone or camera) at you. Check elevated positions, it gives them the clearest view to track you and keep an eye on their partner at the same time.

[jimmyfury]

One time when i lived in phoenix, I was driving home through residential streets from Panda Express on April 20th and there was a 40something year old white man standing quite literally in the MIDDLE of the fucking road wearing a brand new straight from the store weed jersey (jersey #420 with a big pot leaf), a wornout old raiders hat, regular-fit straight leg jeans, and cop shoes. This man proceeded to try to wave me down to stop since I was driving slowly (again, residential neighborhood) and as he did so fully yelled “You buying bro? You buying? 420 bro 420 you buying?”

I almost choked laughing so hard. I couldn’t stop myself from just yelling “NO THANK YOU OFFICER” as i drove by him.

[brunhiddensmusings]

for the past 60 years law enforcement, military, and even literal espionage/intelligence based organizations have assumed that rigid conformity to dress code was more important then actually training how to go undercover, blend in, or understand what the fuck theyre doing largely because the ‘we are infallible’ mindset is too strong for them to consider they might not be doing very good

[official-lucifers-child]

shoutout to the two “undercover cops” who were at my school to monitor the student body for a week, acting like “substitute assistants” and literally all of the kids immediately recognised them as cops and everyone would address them only as “officer” which annoyed the hell out of them because “we aren’t cops” like sir you literally have your badge in your back pocket and a taser what fucking substitute assistant would have an actual police badge and a whole ass taser??

[crazy-pages]

Just a casual reminder that this is what secret police are. Like, this is the literal definition. Police who are (badly or otherwise) pretending to not be police.

[swampgallows]

i know this has eight billion notes already but i love sharing these images

[chaoticchickengremlin]

This thread reminds me of this story lol

[felcemartello]

This sounds bonkers to me because in Italy it’s forbidden for cops to bait you to commit a crime, if they do and you cave in they end up in jail

[3liza]

it is 100% legal for cops to lie to you in the united states, about anything they want to, at any time during any contact with you. they do plenty of illegal stuff too but never get in trouble for it

i got one of these guys one time responding to an internet ad to buy something (maybe Craigslist? i cant remember). he tried to bait me into prostitution and when i said no and “are you a cop?” there was the longest, most awkward pause you have ever seen before he just said “….no.”

they can lie to you about being a cop too, the thing you see on tv about “cops have to tell you they’re cops” is bullshit, i only asked because i wanted to see how he acted. anyway yeah this is why Americans seem so squirrelly to Europeans

[obama-stolemy-vcr]

This is always good info to have and REALLY came in handy in 2020

[thetetrarchyofcassidy]

Learn to spot pigs in human clothes