[azspot]

“It is not from your own property that you give to the poor. Rather, you make return from what is theirs. For what has been given as common for the use of all, you have appropriated to yourself alone. The earth belongs to all, not to the rich. Therefore you are paying a debt, not bestowing a gift.”

— St. Ambrose of Milan

[fatal-blow]

god i wish more sources talked about "sex" hormones like this

ironically its in a book about female sex anatomy that ive come across it (Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross). everyone only wants to focus on the secondary sex characteristics and not the bazillion other functions of estrogen, testosterone, and co.

every body uses both of them!! for a million reasons!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!!!!

[wovi]

[zegalba]

aya takano

[primulaceas]

Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

[politijohn]

Source

[probablyasocialecologist]

Mindfulness is no substitute for a unionised workplace. Nap rooms don’t prevent us from working overtime – rather, they help us to do so. Free therapy may make a round of layoffs less psychologically agonising, but it does not prevent them from happening. Individualised workplace mental health initiatives can help us weather the ravages of capitalism with a smile, but they cannot address the root causes of work-related anguish. They do not even begin to touch on the underlying principle that each person must work for a wage to survive; a ‘fact of life’ that normalises mass death and alienates us from its horror. Workplace mental health interventions also have no internal politics – therapy may help the worker manage their emotions around being fired, or it can help calm the conscience of the boss who is doing the firing. Given this ability to boost productivity and smooth over the emotions associated with exploitative practices, it is no wonder that mindfulness, for example, was imported to the US workplace by Apple CEO Steve Jobs; and continues to be favoured by union-busting CEOs, for both themselves and their employees.

Micha Frazer-Carroll, Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

[amadryades]

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (via larmoyante)

[azspot]

“Our culture is nothing if not data obsessed, but taking a spreadsheet approach to the topic is profoundly misguided. Any set of checkboxes you come up with for a potential match including red flags can easily be manipulated. Many warning sings are only clear in hindsight. Honest people will take tests sincerely and the stricter those tests are the more likely they are to fail. The genuinely bad people will just lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want and this kind of screening unintentionally gives them the edge. Creating an unreasonably high standard means only people willing to cross any ethical line to meet it will make the grade.”

— A Vision of Love

[shallwerunawaytogether]

Nonhuman primates prefer slow tempos but dislike music overall - PubMed

Human adults generally find fast tempos more arousing than slow tempos, with tempo frequently manipulated in music to alter tension and emot

[shituationist]

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly of armed violence. What is a policeman? He is the active servant of the commodity, the man in complete submission to the commodity, whose job it is to ensure that a given product of human labor remains a commodity, with the magical property of having to be paid for, instead of becoming a mere refrigerator or rifle — a passive, inanimate object, subject to anyone who comes along to make use of it.”

— Guy Debord, The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy

[freshphotons]

Showing the rings of Saturn to Bronx street sex workers, Via.

[yeahiwasintheshit]

BAHAHAHAA! Ok

[capacity2]

What’s so fucking funny bitch

[analogmartt]

Artist, researcher, and botanist Chriss Cass and his giant water lilies.

Shot on medium format CineStill 400Dynamic and Kodak Portra 160 in São Paulo, Brazil. May 2025.

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[chantssecrets]

Tibetan Plateau

[dk-thrive]

The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel. Life today is too hard, too bitter, too debilitating for us to suffer new bondages, new captivities from those whom we love. This is how I am your friend: I love your happiness, your freedom, your adventure, in a word - and I would like to be, for you, a companion you can be sure of, always.”

— Albert Camus, (to René Char, 1957) in "Camus-Char: Correspondence 1946-1959) (Gallimard, 2007) (via Alive on All Channels)

[sevenseptember]

[funeral]

Unlike the usual analytic patient, we must remember that for the person carrying around a dissociated trauma experience, integration or "wholeness" is initially experienced as the worst thing imaginable. These patients do not experience an increase of power or enhanced functioning when the repressed affect or traumatogenic experience first emerges into consciousness. They go numb, or split, or act out, somatize, or abuse substances. Their very survival as cohesive "selves" has depended upon primitive dissociative operations which resist integration of the trauma and its associated affects — even to the point of dividing up the ego's "selves" into part-personalities. Analytic work with them, therefore, must involve "softer" techniques than the usual interpretations and reconstructions we consider mutative in analysis.

Donald Kalsched, The Inner World of Trauma