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things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

If you have a PhD or an MD you can say shit like “Doctor’s orders” and you sound authoritative and powerful but if you’re a step short of those and you say “Master’s orders” you sound cringe as hell and possibly corrupted by the One Ring, this sucks

anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

ohholydyke

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

amorphousgenderlesscryptid

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

normaloperafan

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

glasshomewrecker

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

existential-celestial

“There are definitely times when we must suffer God’s absence, when we are called to enter the dark night of the soul in order to pass into some new understanding of God, some deeper communion with him and with all creation. But this is very rare, and for the most part our dark nights of the soul are, in a way this is more pathetic than tragic, wishful thinking. . God is not absent. He is everywhere in the world we are too dispirited to love. To feel him — to find him — does not usually require that we renounce all worldly possessions and enter a monastery, or give our lives over to some cause of social justice, or create some sort of sacred art, or begin spontaneously speaking in tongues. All to often the task to which we are called is simply to show a kindness to the irritating person in the cubicle next to us, say, or to touch the face of a spouse from whom we ourselves have been long absent, letting grace wake love from our intense, self-enclosed sleep.”

Christian Wiman, from “God is Not Beyond,” in My Bright Abyss

lilyofthemohawks

God made the world for us to frolic upon it, literally made it all because he adores us. Creation is literally a love letter.

johnprinetimetv

I love this sentiment and! Also! It’s the opposite! God made this earth with its skies and water and critters and still felt like there was something missing. So God made us in the divine image. This world wasn’t made for us, WE were made for this world, and that’s just so cool

moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon

“I asked chatgpt” well I asked the boundless void that is both the source and the destination, from which all rivers flow, and to which all roads lead, and it told me that love actually is everything, and everything in the universe is sacred—from the tiniest bacteria, to the largest supernova—because the universe is one whole being; an infinite body of connection, experiencing itself over and over without end or beginning

I've always kind of regretted not pursuing optometry school, but I know I made the right decision for my mental health at that time.

But I'm just a biochemistry and calc course away from having all the prerequisites...

And I have a lot of downtime at this new job...

So.....?

#My 3.2 gpa still isnt very competitive #And being so far removed from my bio courses might be a problem #But if I totally kill the OAT maybe between that and my work experience I could get in?#I just feel so much more stable than I was back then and I really believe I could succeed now

baleful-meat-worm

apologies to anyone who followed me for tma. cow studies :) ❤️

adv3nturelust

May all of you find jobs and careers to support yourselves, your families, your pets, and may you never spend a single night dreading going to work the next day. May your jobs be fulfilling, safe, rewarding, prosperous, and healthy for you and your goals.

molabuddy

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

molabuddy

btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating

other-orchid

this post has genuinely helped me so i used it as inspiration for today’s hand lettering practice

gyrovagi

the problem with employment is it gives you money to purchase video games but it takes away your time to play video games. Mao spoke of this

sparks-and-such

Marx himself!

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”