hello old friend

reviving the ol’ blog & letting this hellsite swallow me up once more.

[madeleineengland]

They are even better 🌒

[yaoinurse]

[mens-rights-activia]

[three-crows-in-a-suit-of-armor]

tfw you have to read the entirety of The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green for AP Literature & Composition and school starts the day after tomorrow

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

don't worry i can summarize it for you: Humans are worth the trouble.

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[barikonen]

when ozymandias king of kings tells u to look upon his works and despair but, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[bogkeep]

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile

[depsidase]

[shabbytigers]

How to like everything more

on the skill of enjoyment

ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

[moderndryad3]

Ok I found this genuinely helpful today, having recently been dealing with long-term stress and a creeping amount of anhedonia. There are several brilliant ideas in here, I highly recommend giving it a read.

[blankinyourhead]

Jingyi Li - Lean on me

[what-even-is-thiss]

The upside to the adhd forgetting that you made yourself a drink thing is thinking to yourself “man I could go for a drink right now” and looking to your right and seeing a drink has appeared there. Thank you, past me. I lost you somewhere but you have still provided.

[datasoong47]

[thelawfulchaotic]

My mom is in her 70s and last Christmas, because she expressed the idle wish that she was able to watercolor birds, I got her a (small) nice set of watercolors and a (small) set of brushes and a book called Watercolor With Me in the Forest, which is the closest I've gotten to, like, taking "lessons" on "painting."

The book itself is super simple and very cute; it's nice little watercolors with like 2-4 colors each, a sample picture and swatches for the colors and step-by-step procedure on one page and a lightly drawn outline on the opposite page for you to follow when doing your own. About the lowest-pressure you could possibly get.

She spent several months not using this set at all, saying things like "oh I should take a class first" and "well I won't be very good" and I spent several months keeping up a relentless campaign of "it's ok if you never use it :) I was just trying to figure out a new potential fun activity, some ideas stick and some don't :)"

ANYWAY, take a look at my mom’s watercolors:

How To Win: 1) Implacable lack of emotional pressure 2) Ruthlessly never bringing it up even once 3) Unconditional love and support

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

[yesterdaysprint]

The San Francisco Examiner, California, February 25, 1935

[leedlebeetles]

Lily of the valley

[space-feminist]

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

[gatherround]

how i hope this conversation goes from there is like:

"actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010 and the original song was written in 2006"

"so she knew about the wall 10 years before Trump proposed it be built?"

"well, let's talk about that...

...but that wasn't when the wall was first built...

...this shift in the '90s marked the start of an enforcement philosophy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which basically says that if crossing is made more deadly, fewer people will cross (fact check: it just means that more people die on the journey). From the start, the purpose of the wall was not to physically to stop people from crossing -- it was to make it more deadly to do so.

...and we can also look at the song metaphorically and expansively, as a reference to the policing of migration, to company towns, to gated communities, and the physical and metaphorical walls that throughout history have kept people in and out and defined who does and don't belong.

Sources: 1 & 2 / 3 / 4"

"...how did you just say a hyperlink?"

"why worry about that when you can use this show as an entry-point into a deeper understanding of capitalism's investment in coercive control over human migration, and its long history in the United States?"

"so the song only seems prophetic because the long history of policing and militarizing the border has been ignored, and treated as an outsider position by Trump rather than the continuation of bi-partisan policy dating back decades? and it can be seen to reflect larger patterns of capital controlling people's movement in order to extract land, labor, wealth, and ultimately life from them?"

"and the song slaps"

"....and the song slaps"

[the-seelie-court-official]

thank you so much for this well-researched response tho because, as a texan, the very concept that trump invented the idea of the border wall made me kinda. reboot. not mad at op! just surprised at the difference in our life experiences