[sterwood]

I haven’t used this platform in a long time, so I’m not even sure who is here to see this now, but Rachel passed away earlier this evening. She was in the hospital for what we thought was some kind of sinus infection and the combination of the various drugs she was given, along, perhaps, with one of her tumors (probably a cervical spine tumor) caused her to lose oxygen. The lack of oxygen, even though it was for such a short period, caused damage to her brain. She was pronounced brain dead today.

I met Rachel here. I posted one of those stupid memes that’re meant to goad people they have a crush on you and Rachel actually had the guts to do so. We began talking, flirting, and falling in love. When we first started dating, I was unemployed and she was living in run down dorms on UNLV campus. It was a mess in the most beautiful way.

But since that moment, I have loved Rachel, I have loved my wife, for 9 beautiful and wonderful years. And now all of that is over. Letting go of her hand this evening was the most difficult thing I have ever done.

I don’t know if anyone here still knows Rachel and I but if you do, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Hold on to her memory, whatever memories you may have of her, because that is how we preserve her: through her impact on all of us, both big and small.

[suredisaster-deactivated2024022]

[powerburial]

yeah baby im having raunchy visions of a naughty parallel world

-austin powers if he had shamanic farseeing abilities

[zytes]

kind of lame that graffiti is considered vandalism, while advertisements being forcefully beamed into my eyes via every inch of visible wall, road, and social media feed isn’t

[schwarz-gerat]

karolina kowalska - niespodziewane załamanie rynku reklamowego

[finfinfan1997]

Fin Fin costume actor Yuzuru Tsujimura describes the feeling of being "inside of a fin fin"

[archipelagoofliterarynonsense]

[ohnoproblems]

"hi welcome to mcdomnhalls, what can i get for you?"

"yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?"

"absolutely, do you want a meal or just the sandwich?"

"uuuuh hold on"

*fishes something out of my pocket*

"ranni what do i do?"

"oh? thou'rt committed, then, to the age i must usher in alone? the fries shalt grant thee the necessary vigor in the grim deeds to come. ah... but shouldst i add thee to the list? another kind soul, willing to let a stray fry slip into thine pocket... nay, forget mine counsel. forget."

*stuffs her back into my pocket*

"uhh yes please the meal would be great"

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[evilwizard]

you ask me why i have a doggy door installed in a window 6 feet off the ground and i put my fingers in my mouth and whistle. “here boy!” the FLAMING SKULL flies through the flap and starts gnawing on your forearm

[sterwood]

Hanging with a cool stray (besides the first photo, I’ve been editing him into random stock images). Names he has been given thus far:

Diva

Scone

Anemia

Dust bowl

Anthrax

[huffylemon]

[orbiyoo]

hollow knight is 50% off on steam right now. about $7.50 USD. for seven dollars you can irreversibly rewire your brain to have hollow knight disease, which is where instead of a brain there is hollow knight

[scavengedluxury]

[sterwood]

Rachel and I have recently been making friends with a stray that has shown up in her apartment complex. An adorable little thing: a little over a year old, super friendly, talkative but not annoying—beautiful. No idea why someone would leave him behind.

[sterwood]

[Image info: text from a review of Melinda Cooper's *Family Values* on Goodreads. it reads as follows: "highly rated by academic inflation, but has no idea wtf she is talking about.

case in point:

"While neoliberals called for an ongoing reduction in budget allocations dedicated to welfare — intent on undercutting any possibility that the social wage might compete with the free-market wage — neoconservatives endorsed an expanding role for the state in the regulation of sexuality. Despite their differences, however, neoliberals and neoconservatives converged on the

necessity of reinstating the family as the foundation of social and economic order. Their alliance would profoundly shape the direction of social policy over the following decades, culminating in Clinton’s radical welfare reform of 1996."

absolute non-understanding of what neoliberalism is."

Of course, on the day I consider giving Tumblr another try, after Musk was his typical dipshit self and decided to put a cap on post views, I ended up getting some theory-poisoned asshole trying to argue that Melinda Cooper’s excellent *Family Values* is the height of neoliberalism and academic decadence or whatever. A sign if ever there were one.

[sterwood]

Forgot to mention, this comes from a Goodread’s review of the book that this person wrote. They kept linking me to 3 hour YouTube videos about how Cooper is emblematic of the ‘academic elite’ or whatever and I just can’t be bothered with that. (3 hour YouTube videos are for weird speed running histories or deep dives into a story almost no one really cares about, not pathetic attempts to try and do theory outside the ivory tower.) I kept saying no to the YouTube videos so they directed me to the one star goodreads post. It’s just as vacuous as their Twitter posts.

[sterwood]

[Image info: text from a review of Melinda Cooper's *Family Values* on Goodreads. it reads as follows: "highly rated by academic inflation, but has no idea wtf she is talking about.

case in point:

"While neoliberals called for an ongoing reduction in budget allocations dedicated to welfare — intent on undercutting any possibility that the social wage might compete with the free-market wage — neoconservatives endorsed an expanding role for the state in the regulation of sexuality. Despite their differences, however, neoliberals and neoconservatives converged on the

necessity of reinstating the family as the foundation of social and economic order. Their alliance would profoundly shape the direction of social policy over the following decades, culminating in Clinton’s radical welfare reform of 1996."

absolute non-understanding of what neoliberalism is."

Of course, on the day I consider giving Tumblr another try, after Musk was his typical dipshit self and decided to put a cap on post views, I ended up getting some theory-poisoned asshole trying to argue that Melinda Cooper’s excellent *Family Values* is the height of neoliberalism and academic decadence or whatever. A sign if ever there were one.

[peelingmandarins]

“Many young Americans think that to know themselves they need to find themselves, and they hold the naive belief that if they could just strip off everyday life like layers of an onion they would reach their true core, unadulterated by other people’s expectations and the distractions of a fastpaced world. They believe that they have a true core, an essence, and that it sits inside of them waiting to be discovered, and that once they find it they will know whether they ought to be a doctor or a lawyer or a philosophy professor. Sometimes these young people go to Europe and work their way through Mediterranean countries picking grapes, confident that their true self will emerge somewhere en route to Italy. But people who believe that the self is like an onion and their true self is its core have not spent much time in the kitchen. Peel an onion down to its core and all you will find is air. You are not an untouched core. You are and will become the sum of your commitments, your choices—moral, intellectual, and practical—they amount to much the same thing in the end. To find yourself, don’t dig under the surface of your life. Look at what you actually do, at what you come to care for, at what you fight to defend. Look at the small choices you make every day in the classroom, in the way that you read and interpret and argue, and the big choices will sort themselves out by themselves.”

— 2003 - Tanya Luhrmann | Aims of Education | The University of Chicago (via hoursofreading)