Fahrenheit 404

Amateur violinist. Canadian-ish. EM resident.

[cheruib]

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

[1dietcokeinacan]

[afewnovelideas]

I need this reminder today.

[missnicefairy]

life when i find a new song to play on repeat over and over

[petaltexturedskies]

I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.

[spiralstaircased]

Me when I'm old as fuck and my grandkids talk to me: this reminds me of a post. I gotta go find the post

Grandkids: grandpa sit down you don't need to show us a post

Me: (not listening) Now where was that post....

[alienaficionados]

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

[shamebats]

In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence! After that, she teamed up with scientists, journalists and politicians to promote non-violent upbringing. In 1979, a law was introduced in Sweden prohibiting violence against children in response to her demands. Until then there was no such law anywhere in the world.

What a legacy. We’re so lucky to have had her.

[lesblizzard-ultradyke]

daily affirmations: stupider people manage to live, small task is not that hard to do, there are far worse people in the world and there is always viddya game waiting for u at home

[toboldlynerd]

[homunculus-argument]

The inconvenient thing about life is that half of it is all about listening to your body and letting yourself rest, and the other half is accepting that life will be uncomfortable and inconvenient sometimes and you've just go to make yourself push through your brain going Do Not Want and get the discomfort out of the way, and you never know which one it is.

[hoot-alex]

[hydrospaceroyalty]

I like the idea that humanities majors should take stem classes they way that stem majors should take humanity classes. I saw a worrying amount of people who think that a 21 year old on tiktok "discovered" how to turn plastic into fuel.

[barbarian15]

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

[7777777awawawa7777777]

so many of the best foods in the world are created by leaving some shit in a jar and letting mysterious and terrible things happen to it

[depsidase]

[7loveneverfails]

I will never not be amazed by people saying that teaching abstinence does nothing to reduce unwanted pregnancy and abortion.

It absolutely does. It is intrinsically linked to the logic that you should not sleep with anyone you would be horrified to have a child with. All women should understand that she can get pregnant even when on birth control.

Not teaching abstinence is a big part of why people think there is such thing as safe sex. (Spoiler warning: that isn't a real thing.) And the idea of safe sex is why women engage in risky and reckless sexual behavior.

Also, you literally cannot get pregnant if you are not having sex. It has a 100% success rate.

[marinemas]

The issue is that it doesn’t work

Like sure, it’s 100% effective, with the caveat that when it’s not, it’s 0% effective (as compared to no education at all)

It’s also used as a cover to not teach more intricate details about human reproductive systems since “the kids won’t need to know that if they don’t have sex”

The theory behind “safe sex” ed is that the kids who would follow abstinence, are already the people who aren’t going to be an issue (as in, teen pregnancies and stds)

So sex ed becomes catered towards the fraction of kids who present more of an issue and who won’t listen to some stuffy adult telling them that “abstinence is the best” when they are at a party at 1 am

[lovelyardie]

The problem is, you can’t teach abstinence in lieu of comprehensive sex education. Say that a person abstains from sex until they are happily married- then guess what? They still need to know sex education. A woman needs to know the signs and symptoms of a UTI, early pregnancy (a lot more things happen besides a missed period), and what constitutes an irregular period/ when to seek help. A man needs to know what to do if he finds a lump in his testicles. Reproductive health is way more than just teaching kids how to fuck- it is teaching them very important things that are otherwise taboo to talk about. Do you know how many grown women don’t know that they are fertile for only 5 days per cycle? Or *how* conception works? Or that you pee and have a baby out of separate holes?

We can teach kids (aka high schoolers) about the realities of sex without promoting a promiscuous lifestyle. They need to know about STDs, pregnancy, and reproductive health in general. Saying “oh well, you shouldn’t have sex so you don’t need to know” is incredibly harmful and short sighted.

[penandinkprincess]

the real challenge of adulthood that no one tells you about in advance is how many goddamn pieces of paper you have to keep up with that are never important until they are suddenly VERY important

[maureen2musings]

The train from Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald

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[earthstory]

helm.y The famous village of Lauterbrunnen surrounded by the Swiss Alps