#humanity is good

[eggsaladstain]

thinking about those canadian reserachers who gave cats EEGs by making them wear little knit caps so they wouldn't play with the electrodes

Source: Non-invasive electroencephalography in awake cats: Feasibility and application to sensory processing in chronic pain

[mask-knife-is-buggys-wife]

Getting emotional thinking about how we taught a computer to sing for the first time and immediately made it sing a love song. It will always be our first instinct to love

[kallistersbullshit]

going through the "humans are good" tag right now to hear stories and shit about, yk, how humans are good - I was LOOKING for stories and stuff like that.

honestly the amount of posts I've seen with like 0 notes/1 notes is making me sadder than I ever expected like PEOPLE. LISTEN. PLEASE.

I want everyone to hear how awesome we are DESPITE out problems. i don't want people to look through that tag like "these are all so dumb humans cause death and pain and destruction" yes we do all of that but can you see the GOOD?

it would be do much better if instead of sitting still claiming that we're beyond redemption we could get up and just. Be better.

go to that tag right now. Yes, you. Right now. look through ideas of happiness and hope and caring. look through stories of community and loving and helping each other. look through how amazing humans CAN be, and then look at the notes. At how many people are seeing what you're seeing.

because if you do that, and if everyone else does that, if we REMEMBER it and take in the idea that we can be good, then we can actually bring that out and become better as a community

[cyarskaren52]

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A TikToker by the name of hustlanani, who identified as a DC college student named Sanai, has raised over $150,000 after helping a homeless man with prostate cancer in a video that's gone viral.

In the video, Sanai said she was vlogging her trip to the grocery store when a homeless man asked if she could buy him tea. She noted that the man didn't ask for money, so she offered for him to join her on her grocery store trip. During their walk, the man revealed that he needed his medication refilled for the pain he was experiencing. The college student took the man to multiple pharmacies to have his prescription filled and made a stop at Starbucks for tea.

When the man told her that he stayed at a church, Sanai decided to check him into a hotel room for a night. The TikTok video of Sanai helping the homeless man, who has been identified as Alonzo, garnered over 12 million views. Social media users praised the college student for how she helped the man. As of Thursday (February 1), Sanai raised over $150,000 that she plans to use to "make sure he has a place to live, new clothes, shoes, a bank account, doctor's appointments, a phone, etc," she wrote on GoFundMe. Sanai said she plans to document the rest of their journey on her TikTok.

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[TikTok: hustlanani]

[byeagra]

humans genuine care for animals always got me crying. it’s one of the things that consistently keeps my faith in humanity. reading the “bears remembered” section of the north american bear center’s website always makes me remember.

they had two older black bears, ted and honey, and the one thing they stress throughout both descriptions is not only how much they will be missed, but that they will NOT be forgotten.

humans will find something to care about and love it, no matter what. they buried these bears next to each other. they took the time to post pictures of them on their website. every single photo of them has a description. they wrote them eulogies, telling their stories from even before they had the bears.

you were so loved, this says. you were here and we loved you and we will not forget the love we had for you. you were important to us. we miss you.

[truedarksword]

I’m in awe of this man. Absolutely incredible human being.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

I'm in such a "Humanity is Good, Actually" Mindspace Right now.

It feels kinda weird to be sitting at such a positive baseline attitude, but I really like it. I couldn't imagine feeling this way two years ago.

Like yeah, Shit is bad. The world is getting hotter and more wild, But things are changing for the Better, at least personally, and as I improve, I can improve it in turn!

More people are speaking out against injustice, and the climate, and thing are changing.

Even as smoke from a distant wild fire wraps around my home, It'll blow past in time. I know it will. It always has.

I don't have the eloquence and the focus to describe each and every way that I love life and the things and people in it, despite the hardships, despite the cruelty that I've been through and suffered, as well as the pain that I took and used to hurt others, I've Changed.

I'm not just trying to be wallpaper, With my chin up, head down, eyes forward, mouth shut, with my back against the wall to stay out of the way. I'm learning to to carve my out my own space instead, and put myself together, and be myself, instead of trying to break myself down, to hide and be so unobstructive and noticeable that I end up hating myself when I stand out.

I feel good about myself, and the future, and where I'm going and What I'm doing.

I spent so long trying to be anyone else, to be able to do whatever was asked of me, and just grit my teeth no matter how uncomfortable or bad I felt doing something, but now?

Now I can do kinda whatever I want.

Yeah, I still need to work on voicing my discomfort, and yeah some things you just need to suck up and take care of (Doctors make me so GD nervous) But I'm good.

The World is Good.

People are good.

I feel good.

There are good and bad things about everyone. Some people just don't mesh with each other, I know that, I've had to deal with it a lot because of just how different I am from my siblings.

I know I have low empathy, and I'm easily irritable. But I have a lot of compassion and hate seeing people sad.

I choose to be good, to try and not take any sour mood out on people when they make a mistake unrelated to my mood.

I am good because I choose to be. Because after so long of the hell that is/was covid, and the true nightmare of an experience that is Not getting seen as Autistic/ADHD when in the American Public School System, I can finally be myself.

I can smile with my crooked teeth, complain about the texture of Paper, wear my hair long and in a ponytail, and when I want to go outside for a moment to breathe? I can. I don't need to ask permission, I just can step outside the building for a minute.

I'm excited for the future. Scared, yes, but excited.

Sorry for the rambling, but y'know.

Life :)