literally just a fucking mountain goat

Howdy, the name's John. Ultrarunner, grad student, and computational biologist. I spend my free time running, cycling, and playing jazz. I used to romp around in Appalachia, where I studied nutrition, but now I'm out in CO studying physiology and the brain-gut axis. I abstain from the flesh and products of animals.

[thelowbrass]

Where’d u go???

To focus more on the real world for a little bit

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thelowbrass]

Today's excursion: nausea, altitude sickness, trailside naps, 3.5 hours of sufferfest followed by 1 hr of blissful running. Low lows, high highs.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

[justcatposts]

A very rare Andean cat stretching out in front of wildlife cam 

(via)

[thelowbrass]

Little update: I moved to Boulder, started research, started grad school, started teaching nutrition, read a lot, joined a book club, ran up some big molehills, ran on some flat trails too, rode my bike all over town, wiped out while full sending on some trails and roads, turned 21, and ate a lot of hummus.

For the first time in years, I'm able to train without any injuries knocking at the door, so I've been averaging almost 12 hrs running/cycling per week for the past few weeks, and I have my sights set on the 50 mile Zion Traverse in October! There's many stoke.

I still get on here from time to time. Maybe I'll start using it more. Maybe I'll drop (throw) my phone off a cliff.

[quotespile]

“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”

— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

[comradeorangutan]

criminalise golf

[funny-tik-toks]

Thera the deaf ferret gets a surprise!

[mumble--bee]

😲

[kimmycup]

This is what PURE JOY looks like.

[thusspoketrish]

Utter perfection!

[rudescience]

Me: I feel empty.

The Universe: i am mostly emptiness, and in that emptyness is only darkness, growing exponentially. I have little light buddy… But i created you from it.

Me: Fuck… You got me there.

[toshio]

but why do we have to get married and have children

why can’t we just get a group of friends and live happily ever after in an apartment and share the profits

i’d be much happier that way

[eroscestlavie]

this is the most millennial thing ive ever read 

[sprinklesobourbon-deactivated20]

Nothing wrong with this, you can have roof parties and grill food. Better yet just save up together and buy a small house split the bills and mortgage.

[sexpot-titsgerald]

- the nuclear family as an economic unit has really only existed for a few hundred years, across part but not all of the world

- the nuclear family unit is the easiest to exploit under capitalism, because parents have to work externally to provide for their children. They work to pay for child care for their children while they work. They work to earn money to feed their kids and to give them nice things to make up for all the time they spend away, at work.

- a huge amount of labour is necessary every day to keep a family fed, their house clean, etc. some families are wealthy enough to outsource this by hiring staff, most are not.

- capitalism is a pointless middleman in this. we should just live cooperatively.

- share houses and intentional communities are awesome

- people of different life stages function well together because they have complimentary needs and abilities

- kids are less of a stress and burden in a home with lots of different adults to provide support and love, as well as sharing household tasks.

- destroy capitalism through cooperativism.

[honey-andrevolution]

^^^

[breelandwalker]

And think how GREAT this would be for folks who want non-blood family, or polyamorous relationships, or like kids but don’t want to have their own, or like having housemates but don’t want to get married.

I’m telling you, as long as I could have a space that was mine (small group of houses or one very large house), I would be so happy with this setup.

[universalequalityisinevitable]

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[ebonykalokoh]

Brilliant

[unapologeticexistence]

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

[thelowbrass]

“For years I thought my sister was right: it was my fault. I had planted them too far down in the earth. It never occurred to either of us that the earth itself might have been unyielding. … I talk about how I did not plant the seeds too deeply, how it was the fault of the earth, the land, of our town. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. The soil is bad for certain types of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it’s much, much, much too late.”

— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (first and last pages)

[edwad]

the discursive intersectional biopower of the ideological state apparatus realizing and reproducing the abolition of praxis and modes of ontological phenomenology

[socialist-anxiety]

i disagree

[edwad]

the essentialist appearance of the dialectical historicism purveyed in bourgeois epochs by spinoza’s foucaludian interests of the Other degenerates the repression of its negation (the alienated Absolute) into a nihilistic dogma

[socialist-anxiety]

oh okay nevermind

[fieldworkco]

[godoftheinternet]

woodsy & rustic

[ladamania]

Visit Original Link

[ruinedchildhood]

zombiesusingtheinternets:

damnthatswhatshesaid:

Significant piece of childhood, get your ASS on my blog

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the line between doing some things as self care vs doing them as depressive apathy is soooo fine, like oh do i wanna sleep all day because i’m tired and i need it or because i’m depressed and trying to escape? same with not going out, canceling plans, isolating yourself, like, ANYTHING comfortable in even a little excess is liable to be one or the other… the line is thin and im a tightrope walker who just joined the circus to get away from the family farm and ive never walked a tightrope before and i am lying in the hay on the ground.