RedKakusu

Leftist Ace Thing

[redkakusu]

The inner child is beyond a strange concept, the idea that your immaturity, and want for whimsy is nothing more than a remnant of something that now hides within, unable to be present as part of you. To think that I am not the child that I once was, I have not grown, but warped myself into something that has consumed what was once me, that it now hides within.

Even if that was true, maturity is not always needed, neither is the stone stoicness so often adopted as the exterior in whimsy's place. There is something to be said, that our words of healing, focus on us being trapped

[redkakusu]

Ok; perfection - The abstracted glorification of perfection, is undoubtedly one of the strangest subjects of the modern world, as if any "perfect" object is not held on its high plinth, made of the rubble of it's failed siblings

[noteforsomeone]

💧 Sustainable Water: Harmony in Every Drop

Water is more than a resource — it is life, connection, and reflection. To live in balance with nature, we can embrace mindful, sustainable practices that honor each drop. 🌱

Collect rainwater from rooftops, recycle greywater to nourish gardens, and create small constructed wetlands that filter and sustain ecosystems. Aquaponics and hydroponics allow plants and fish to thrive together, while careful irrigation ensures no water is wasted. Watershed management reminds us that every stream and river is part of a larger network, and our actions ripple far beyond our immediate surroundings.

In our homes, simple habits — mindful showers, efficient faucets, and conscious water use — extend this harmony into daily life. Sustainable water is not just practical; it is an invitation to slow down, observe, and act with care. Every choice, even quiet ones, contributes to a world that thrives, patiently and gently.

[redstonedust]

people will insist humans are naturally selfish when feeding the birds is a common hobby. when there are wildlife hospitals you can call when you find an injured fox outside. do we get anything from helping wild animals? i don't think so. it's not personal. it's just nice. it's something we have the resources to do, so we do it. i think thats worth remembering.

[homunculus-argument]

Being online and not knowing imperial measurements is fun because you'll be on the internet seeing memes all talking about being six feet tall like it's a huge giant massive hulking big man size and just once decide to look it up and it's just 183 cm. That's like... 3 cm above the male average here. You could be that height and nobody would remark on it because that's literally the most normal height to be.

And then I look up what 8 inches is in cm and jesus absolutely fuck that. If I saw that irl I'm going to lock myself in the bathroom and escape through the vents.

[bluewizardnonesense]

Yes gnomes are quite terrifying for their size and love to grab onto your leg but if you hold your ground and wait for it to pounce you can kick it across the room and they usually dont get up from that. Hope this helps <]:)

[homunculus-argument]

Perspective on the scale and on human anatomy: anyone who's capable of taking in 8 inches is theoretically capable of killing a gnome in the worst possible way by sitting on it.

[catchymemes]

[mananabuffins]

aight im drunk im 22 im cis im 99% sure this is a trans guy meme but,,, i experiuence this too dont worry this is a male experience i love u all ur wonderful and strong

[mananabuffins]

I meant to add captuons like ur calid and all thar shit vut i hit the wronfg button oops

[anarchobitchist]

Cis allies if you’re not on his level don’t even try

[homunculus-argument]

I could never own a parrot. They are splendid and delightful joyful creatures but I could not match their fucking whimsy. If I woke up at 4:45 am on a tuesday to the sound of some gleeful feather-cloaked varmint doing aerial somersaults all over the house while singing the world's most high-pitched whistle nightcore one-man a capella cover of Funkytown, I'd eat it.

[butchraskolnikov]

living in England when Queen Elizabeth II died was fucking crazy cuz i had to just sit there and see the government spend billions of pounds on her funeral while the cost of living crisis got worse daily. like oh the state can afford a massive funeral but you can’t afford to lower gas prices in the middle of winter? you’re just gonna let people freeze to death? you can’t bring minimum wage up to inflation? you can’t put caps on bus and train fares? you can’t give money to state schools and the NHS? you’re gonna let things keep getting more and more expensive while still wasting 15% of UK tax money on the royal family??? absolute joke of a country

edit: abt the taxes some people in the notes/comments explained it better than i did. wasn’t expecting this post to blow up like it did so i didn’t properly explain everything mb

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[redkakusu]

I would think this idea permeates our society due to it being intrinsically linked to capitalism itself.

Capitalism is built on the idea of perpetuity, it must get bigger, better, faster. So the idea that you have to be successful, forever, is needed to sell the lie; that it's good that Amazon is opening another data centre. It's good that Blackrock is buying more homes than ever.

ITS GOOD, I PROMISE

[animentality]

[bleeding-star-heart]

One: we will not be comparing schizophrenics to the vile monsters pictured above. The poor things have enough on their plate without being further demonized. Two: as an ex-Christian, it is very tempting to "no true Scotsman" your way out of association with less-than-stellar Christians. Plenty of morally upstanding Christians do it on the regular whenever they are faced with the actions of vile people who happen to share their faith. But the truth is, saying Trump and his cronies aren't Christians is just a way of avoiding accountability. Of shoving the sins of the Church onto its most sinful members and using them as a scapegoat. And contrary to what this person thinks, the "support network" of the Church is not a cure for people's sins. You cannot peer pressure bad people into behaving morally. At most, you can just make them pretend to be good. Especially because I am sure the evangelicals of today regularly "attend church"-that is, they enter a physical building to worship-and still they behave like this. The "living Church" is only encouraging evil just like it has since Constantine's conversion. Ensnared around the soul of Western Christianity are twin serpents: one is the power it has (or had) over vast civilizations as a whole, the other is a persecution complex. To reconcile these two opposing concepts, many Christians of all stripes imagine a "pure" version of Christianity as existing out there, one which is oppressed by the corrupt social order of the day. A social order which includes whatever corrupted form Christianity they think dominates society. If they are progressive, this corrupt Christianity is Christofascism. If they're not, it's any form of Christianity remotely aligned with progressive values. If they're wildly un-progressive, then it's any form that, well, isn't their denomination. TL;DR, there is no escaping Christian privilege by calling your enemies Satanic. All you're doing is entrenching it further.

[depsidase]

[anoctoberpepper]

This more than anything else has made me angry about AI. It's infuriating. It's stupid and unnecessary to do this to the environment. It's not making food. It's not powering cities. It's literally just doing busy work for us so we can cheat at life. It makes me want to break things. I HATE AI for hurting earth. My job is environmentalism. Nothing I do will ever make a fraction of a difference when I'm fighting this. I want to die.

[depsidase]

i feel this. cuz i agree. this so-called ai isn't producing anything we need. it isn't actually helping us do our jobs. it isn't actually making anyone's life easier. nobody fucking wants this shit. and it's causing nations around the world to blow past their emissions reduction targets that are necessary to avoid the worse of climate change. and wasting fresh water that is already a scarce resource globally. it's the worst. and it needs to stop. and people who use it should feel ashamed for using it. don't support this shit. you're adding to the destruction of our collective future for NOTHING.

i mean, cars and car infrastructure and car dependent cities are very bad for the climate. but at least cars can get you from one physical place to another. this ai shit is just lowering the bar of quality, originality, and intelligence while further increasing the already massive wealth and power gap from the richest and the poorest.

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"