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Feelings about gay shit, poetry, engineering, data/AI, politics, religion, spirituality, energy, ?????? Trying to figure out how it all connects. Take what speaks to you, and leave the rest.

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Who's got the time?

11:01

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It's time for more of us to take the training wheels off of our brains. We are intelligent beings. We can figure this shit out but we gotta be willing to think critically about how.

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Art Class for Adults

[paulanancymillstonejennings]

Gemini

I don’t know how much longer this can go on,

This isn’t what I want anymore,

As much as I don’t beleive in the aspects,

And connotations of romatic love,

I yearn to be fooled.

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For once I want someone who’s going,

to make me feel special,

even though i know being a “special snowflake”

Is impossible.

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I just want once to be swept of my feet,

And made to feel the joy,

And observe the beauty of the world,

My cynical brain wont allow me to.

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I fear that the person to do this may have been you,

But I have gone into what we have all wrong,

Without expectation,

Without hope,

Dare I say,

Without feeling.

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Once again my rational brain,

Is argueing with itself,

One can never see the beauty,

Of the world at large,

Without being able to see the beauty,

Of feelings,

And self,

But I’m getting ahead of my train of thought.

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I cannot put these warped and confused,

expectations on you,

I cannot expect wild gestures,

Grand romantic gestures,

Without hint of provocation.

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There are two halves of me contantly in battle.

The logical rational main self

Vs

The small hopeful dreamer.

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Another favorite quote of mine, also from Grace Lee Boggs:

"We must transform ourselves to transform the world"

Let this be the winter of our discontent.

Endless thanks to @adriennemareebrown for introducing me to Grace in the article below:

Murmurations: Returning to the Whole

To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.

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Update: It's been a brutal winter. But so have I. Fuck ICE.

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If the government can sentence you to immediate death in broad public/daylight for even the suspicion you might have a gun, let alone actually having one, you don't actually have a Right to bear arms nor anything else.

You have conditionally-enforced Privileges, and they're being actively and deliberately stolen from you.

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"I began to seek out Humans. I avoided large parties of them, but it was easy to find individuals and small groups.

I followed them silently, dissected and enjoyed their scents, listened to their conversations. Sometimes they became aware that they were being followed, though they never saw me. My coloring had darkened and I hid easily in the shadows. The forest understory was usually wet or at least damp, and it was easy for me to move silently. The Humans I followed often made much more noise than I did. I watched a Human hunter make so much noise that the feeding peccary he was stalking heard him and ran away. The Human went to the place where the peccary had been feeding and he cursed and kicked the fruit the animal had been feeding on. It never occurred to him to eat the fruit or to collect some for his people. I ate some when he was gone."

- Octavia Butler, Imago, Exile, Chapter 5

[joen-lenawley]

Star…

Wars

Trek

—gate

Fox

—ship Troopers

you forgot ___

Voting ended onMay 29, 2025

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Another favorite quote of mine, also from Grace Lee Boggs:

"We must transform ourselves to transform the world"

Let this be the winter of our discontent.

Endless thanks to @adriennemareebrown for introducing me to Grace in the article below:

Murmurations: Returning to the Whole

To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.

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With the news out of Minneapolis today, I felt like it might be a good time to grab my copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower off of my bookshelf. I flipped to the first entries in 2026 from Lauren Oya Olamina's journal and found two Earthseed verses:

2026 Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

10 When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must- God is Change- People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power. They remember old hates and generate new ones, They create chaos and nurture it. They kill and kill and kill, Until they are exhausted and destroyed, Until they are conquered by outside forces, Or until one of them becomes A leader Most will follow, Or a tyrant Most fear. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

It really does feel more and more each day like our civilization is disintegrating. Maybe it deserves to.

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[greenvincentine]

I play it cool And dig all jive That’s the reason I stay alive. My motto, As I live and learn,            is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.

“Motto”   Langston Hughes

image: Marianna Rothen

[strathshepard]

Octavia Butler's notes to herself

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Hello, world!

It's been a long time since I've used Tumblr, but I've been feeling a need to create shit and put it out there for others who it may resonate with. I can't promise any of my creations will be any good or that all my takes will be hot, but I will do my best!

Anyway, enjoy a HR meme that I made as my new year's resolution for 2026.