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ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this. you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.

i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy.

roachpatrol

i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet.

it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more.

have a cookie.

i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.

naamahdarling

feminesque

1. The universe is indifferent. We ought not be.

2. A good quote: There are two kinds of people. Those who think, “I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did.” And those who think, “I suffered; why shouldn’t they?”

3. Two good quotes by Kurt Vonnegut: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

And: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

ariaste

#hopepunk

thesuninperigee

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”

-Rebecca Solnit; Hope in the Dark

darkersolstice

@eirana-know-more

fuckingconversations

This is also called ‘Absurdism’ The meeting of Nihilism’s “The universe doesn’t care” and “But I will, despite that.”

sunflowerseedsandscience

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

pro-gay

apparently some nazi group posted this and how is that not the most relatable thing ever?

wenchyfloozymoo

lynati

NICE!

teenagerposts

Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me fucking go anywhere

aegis-of-the-sufferer

This but I also had no friends so I wouldn’t have anywhere to go if I was allowed

bitterlush

this is a thing! danah boyd is a researcher who has been studying social media for over a decade and in her 2014 book it’s complicated she argues that teenage social media “addiction” (which she also contends is like…..not actually a thing) is a result of the fact that “today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation” because “parents argue that these restrictions are necessary in an increasingly dangerous society, even though the data suggest that contemporary youth face fewer dangers than they did twenty years ago.”

as a result, teenagers are reclaiming these lost social spaces (which their parents and grandparents had in the form of mall hangouts, drive-in theaters, after school parking lots, etc) by using social media, where they can continue to “engage in crucial aspects of maturation: self-presentation, managing social relationships, and developing an understanding of the world around them,” aka stuff that teens are Supposed to be doing

oglach-uisce

shiraglassman

I’m in the weird overlap generation and I absolutely agree with this.

icetsvu

shinvermouthea

i think the whole “identity politics vs class analysis” debate can get a bit hung up on these categories that are both distinct and non-distinct. like yes, if you look only at race, class, gender, sexuality, etc as these boxes that you check off to see how privileged you are, your theory and praxis are going to look really weird and ultimately be unable to deal with lived reality. at the same time, saying that things like race, gender, and sexuality are unimportant compared to class also misses the ways in which class itself is predicated on race, gender, and sexuality. i cannot say how true this is in all of history, but i can say that since the inception of the american colonies class has been racialized. there’s a reason why native americans and africans were made slaves while whites were indentured servants; the existence of race allows for an underclass of workers without rights, whose exploitation becomes normative. this also allows white workers to give capitalists the noose to hang themselves with, because so long as they hold themselves superior to the best black people they will let capital exploit them however they wish. class is also gendered, but only insofar as it is also racialized. white women, whose offspring a white supremacist society considers superior, are kept out of the workplace, while women of color are forced into domestic and hard labor in an attempt to prevent them from reproducing. it’s why white women have a hard time gaining access to family planning, while women of color (especially black and indigenous women) have sterilization forced upon them.

you cannot understand the ways in which capital uses racism and sexism to perpetuate itself if you only see race and gender as things without materialist consequences, but at the same time you cannot understand class if you refuse to understand the ways in which class is racialized and gendered. it’s why so many queer theorists and lgbt rights organizations feel hollow; they lack class analysis. it’s also why “no identity politics discussions allowed” leftist organizations fail to really capture the heart of the issues of capital. these are not separate issues

kutzklutz

older white working class dudes are always so stuck in patriarchy but don’t realize it. good thing i grew up with them.

surprise surprise, it’s my job that we move with, not my husband’s. i’m the boss lady guys.

rainbowgyrl

ME!

slothwych

Sometimes I wish my parents had been more insistent that I be involved in one of their churches when I was a kid, only so that all the weird, sinful, blasphemous shit I do now felt even dirtier.

rainbowgyrl

I get the joke but as someone with RTS: no, you don't.

owk

bisexual culture is being very specific with the men you’re interested in but having absolutely no type when it comes to girls because they’re all so beautiful

notyouramelie

Hey

glowwormcentral-deactivated2021

[lawyer voice] mothers and fuckers of the jury-

hellenhighwater

DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN I THINK ABOUT THIS POST??? IM IN LAW SCHOOL THIS POST IS GOING TO RUIN MY LIFE

toontwink

reblog to ruin a law student’s life

tittytron

family: *says something incredibly racist*

me: thats racist

family: wow that is really offensive calm down and stop attacking people please your radical liberal beliefs are tearing this family apart

gothic1997

friend-called-boxcar

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

skajador

scientist: (gazing up at space) scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy

freshfriedtrash

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.

When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT

THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING

braincoins

I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.

“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!

But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”

devil-in-red-deactivated2019010

okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence

gallusrostromegalus

I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.

See this beautiful creature?

It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin. Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy. They could have given it so many cool names. Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!

You wanna know what they called it?

PING-PONG TREE SPONGE.

Good job, marine biologists.

fuckingconversations

I’d like to introduce you to my friends:

The Donky Dung Sea Cucumber

The “Pig Butt Worm”

The Slippery Dick, named because it’s very good at wriggling free of nets.

The Sarcastic Fringehead, named for its big, obnoxious mouth

And the MonkeyFace Prickleback which is named like a YA fantasy novel monster.

And, during a recent deep-sea expedition (Broadcast live, I was watching the stream while it was happening)

They came across a super-rare fish, immediately nicknamed it “Falcor” and spent a solid chunk of time just following it around, talking about how great the fish was, and how happy they were to see it. (Some of the video here)

Anyway, Marine Biologists are maniacs and wonderful people

boonbucks-city-beach

@terrible-tentacle-theatre

miceofpardise

To people who don’t like Halloween:

What’s your problem?

ao3tagoftheday

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: True aesthetic dedication

ameliacareful

Spouse is an engineer and I’m here to say steam DOES get hot, but it is quite possible to make a steam-powered vibrator that doesn’t. Think of a steam locomotive, where the boiler is kept hot but the wheels, which are powered by the boiler, do not.

So you have a boiler by the bed and then TUBES and LINKAGES, GEARS, COPPER, all the good stuff. Hell, the steam might even be used to generate electro-magnetism! So it weighs 30kg (about 65lbs). It’s awesome! Beautiful! Scientific! LOUD.

CHUNKA-CHUNKA-CHUNKA