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a human studies because she can

[smokeinsilence]

have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it’s no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don’t

[viridianmasquerade]

I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade. Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won’t talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend’s parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.

[i-have-thicc-deactivated2022080]

[antipoliticsde]

TikTok - Make Your Day

[laquimeradegupta]

Crisis climática, lucha de clases, desigualdad y pedagogía del opresor

¿Quién tiene que cargar sobre su espalda con las necesarias modificaciones que nuestros sistemas productivos ante la catástrofe del Covid-19 y la crisis climática que se avecina? Si queremos que sea justa no debería recaer sobre las clases populares de ningún país. No obstante, hay todo un movimiento pedagógico que ha tomado el control de los institutos del Estado español que educa a nuestros…

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[depsidase]

[holespoles]

"Fragile Handle With Care"

Roman Pankoy

[theglobster]

no more media analysis until we agree that all art is a sublimation of the desire to ritually sacrifice the king. yeah all of it. yeah even cars 2 and stuff

[theglobster]

the writers thinly-disguised [sublimation of the desire to ritually sacrifice the king]

[dovesndecay]

Microaggressions against polyamory in interpersonal interactions are important and should be discussed, but I do wish more of the conversation focused on the ways that systemic amatonormativity impact things like family units, taxes, healthcare, inheritances, housing, childcare, etc.

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

Amatonormativity and polyphobia are not just theoretical "people are kinda mean about this sometimes" -- they are real and materially impactful systemic issues, and they affect all of us.

[brightlotusmoon]

[cock-holliday]

The brothel thing mentioned above is a common myth and is not true, however, what is true is that modern zoning is still discriminatory against multi-family housing, queer partnerships, single parents, families of color, and non-nuclear family orientation--in renting, but especially in home ownership and construction of new homes.

"The vision of the home as a tranquil respite from labour is a patriarchal fantasy"

Is the nuclear family home an architectural tool of repression and social control? asks Phineas Harper.

Non-traditional Living Arrangements: Beyond the Nuclear Family by Kameshwari Pothukuchi

Poly people are not remotely the only ones targeted by this, but they absolutely are targeted by it too.

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[dailycatsblog]

[fongus-the-ninth]

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The time will pass anyway

[fictionalgod]

[headspace-hotel]

I don't even bother hardly to orrect my typos anymore. It is just affirmation that these words were typed by the hands of human being and not extruded by a fucnking AI

[headspace-hotel]

one of my professors was like (paraphrasing) "AI makes you sound the same as everybody else. The idea of a single "correct" English is racist and flattens the diversity of people. I don't care about grammar outside of the writing being understandable. I want to hear YOUR voice, Your dialect the unique way you communicate."

I have been more appreciative of the rough edges of human communication since chatGPT came to be. The misspellings and turns of phrase that real people produce.

The inherently flawed nature of an alive thing vs. the empty perfection of something that never had life in it at all

[kabaks]

"Trauma dumping" is one of the worst things to come out of online spaces in recent years I think

[kabaks]

I wonder what'll happen if all pain is defined as "trauma dumping" and you only "trauma dump" on your "therapist" 🤔

[40ouncesandamule]

One of the useful liberal tactics that has led to their continued crushing of the left over the last decade that has been under discussed is the tactic of blaming cooption/recuperation and sheepdogging on the "far left"

For example:

Black Americans put forth a simple demand that we, and ideally everybody else, not be executed by armed members of the state without trial. In a word: equality. Liberals can't answer that demand because it is antithetical to their project of maintaining the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Instead they give a bunch of shit that nobody asked for which annoys everyone and the right wing of liberalism is able to capitalize on that annoyance to generate a backlash to a demand that was never met.

Instead of dealing with the scourge of killer cops, the democrats kneeled in Kente cloth. This did nothing for Black people and only served to fuel the grievance of white people. Instead of dealing with the effects of redlining, the liberal hegemony got rid of Aunt Jemima. This did nothing for Black people and only served to fuel the grievance of white people. Instead of dismantling white supremacy, the liberals coopted, recuperated, and sheepdogged every movement they could while stoking dissatisfaction and grievance that was then blamed on the "far left"

In essence, the "far left" was blamed for the tactics the liberals used to suppress us.

This pattern can be seen across what are now being attacked by the leadership of the democrat party as "groups"

Whether it be women, queer people, black people, the dreaded "Latinx" (remember that "discourse"?), trans people, disabled people, or any other marginalized group: we asked for equality. Liberals can't answer that demand because it is antithetical to their project of maintaining the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Instead they give a bunch of shit that nobody asked for which annoys everyone and the right wing of liberalism is able to capitalize on the annoyance to generate a backlash to a demand that was never met.

As a result, the left wing of capital can convince itself that it needs to move even further right to win because the spectacle of them fighting against the actual left caused them to do stupid shit that nobody liked that was unpopular and they blame on the actual left whereas the right wing of capital can point at the stupid shit that nobody liked as proof that they are being oppressed by the mere existence of the stupid shit that nobody liked.

The ratchet only turns one way.

[kmoahglobalgirl]

The Gravity of Obsession: Human Devotion vs. The Systemic Tra

(Lovelyz / Nogizaka46 / Nakashima Mika / Apink / Kenshi Yonezu)

When we peer beneath the pristine, hyper-synchronized veneer of East Asian pop music, we frequently discover that songwriters utilize the language of irresistible attraction to comment on something far more expansive than a simple human crush.

In my latest deep dive, I map out how themes of cosmic orbits, gravity, and shooting stars serve as a brilliant architectural map of our internal psychology—a mirror reflecting what it truly means to survive under a crushing, inescapable system.

🌌 Act I: Lovelyz — “Destiny (나의 지구)” : The Organic Tragedy

Yoon Sang’s production creates a flawless astronomical allegory. Singing from the cold trenches of the Moon, locked in a rigid orbit around an indifferent Earth. It captures 아련함 (Ah-ryeon-ham)—the bittersweet ache of gazing at something breathtakingly beautiful through a golden fog, yet remain entirely barred from touching.

🚇 Act II: Nogizaka46 — “Influencer” : The Systemic Cage

Strips away the romantic illusion. Layers frantic acoustic guitar riffs rooted in traditional Japanese Enka (existential burden) with a sharp gaze at global hegemony. Are we chasing our own dreams, or a pre-determined track drilled into our heads since birth?

💫 Act III: The Orion Trilogy : From Fear to Freedom

Nakashima Mika — “ORION” : The fragile celestial witness. The terrifying panic of watching your sanctuary get slowly erased by the blinding lights of a harsh reality.

Apink — “Orion” : Quiet self-reconstruction. Internalizing the fading stars as a permanent, shifting lighthouse to guide the independent self forward.

Kenshi Yonezu — “orion” : The defiant binding. A raw, instinctual act of mutual rescue. Forcing a human connection to reject the numbness and write our own destiny.

Music can carry us part of the way there when nothing else can. Read the full cultural and lyrical breakdown on the blog and let's cross boundaries together! 🎧👇

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