I went to the library to borrow some DVDs we're planning to watch, but when I handed the librarian my card, it took me a solid 15 seconds to register that I handed her my fucking weed card.
Me, fumbling to swap it out: "OH MY GOD, I AM SO SORRY, I was on total autopilot!!"
The librarian: "It's all good, I just assumed it was a flex."
#did the exact opposite of this the other day when I handed the cashier at a book store my library card instead of my credit card#and we both just stared at in confusion for a solid 15 seconds before I went oh fuck I can’t use that here#and she said ‘oh I’m glad that was unintentional bc I thought I was gonna have to explain some hard truths about bookstores to you’ fhshsgag via @formereldestdaughter
we are the same, u and i.
A sea of clouds
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He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle
In Romanian the verb "a toarce" means both "to purr" and "to spin wool".
In Romanian
the verb “a toarce” means both “to
purr” and “to spin wool”.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Shouldn't have put the new year in the middle of winter cause then everyone expects you to get your shit together in january. Of all times
"What's your new years resolution" Survive. Ask me again when I'm not vitamin d deficient
So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.
So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.
This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages
This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe
This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages
This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors
This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords
This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone
This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school
This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad
This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore
This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it
This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing
We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens
This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.
This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.
This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house
This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.
But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.
This was not a time that we came together
This was a time that we survived
Not all of us made it
And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us
To all the people commenting on this post that there were some groups of people who came together to help each other, you are right, but that’s not what I’m talking about in this post.
What I’m talking about is how the US government is going to use coming together over cloth masks as propaganda to hide how they failed their citizens in the worst way possible.
People DID come together and show up for each other but the US and many state governments absolutely did fucking not
Also
and not to derail from the very important point that we CANNOT let the government turn the history of Covid into pro-American-government propaganda, of course
but Also, let’s not forget that there were an awful lot of Americans who did NOT come together to help anyone at all. Let’s not let the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers off the hook. Let’s not let the people who held or willingly attended superspreader events off the hook. Let’s not let landlords who evicted tenants/tried to evict tenants/hassled tenants about rent off the hook. Let’s not let the “It has a 99% survival rate and most of that 1% who dies is old people or people with chronic health conditions” off the hook. And so on and so on, I’m sure others can add more examples if they want.
Let’s not forget the complete and utter failure of basic human compassion and altruism in huge swathes of the population across the country. This isn’t a blue vs. red, urban vs. rural, north vs. south, east vs. west, coast vs. heartland issue. this is a basic failure of American culture across the board. We need to remember that in one of our darkest hours, tons of people looked around themselves and decided that their own convenience and comfort was more important than the health and safety of their neighbors. And we need to learn to do better.
Me being gunned down in a New York speakeasy after Tony Pastroni found out I been sleepin with his girl
*mafia don* ive got this whole freakin' city under my thumb. i can have any two men kissing each other in under 15 minutes
Photos by Anas Al Sharif
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Item: combined harness to attach a monkey to a dog so it looks like a jockey riding a horse (not recommended)
Allure Disney Villains Bridal Collection
If you say “I’m not voting ❤️” your excuse better be not living in America, under 18 or you legally cannot vote for whatever reason. Now is not a time to be apolitical.
NPR just ran a story about how undecided voters are less than 1% of the voting population so the current tactic is to disenfranchise voters into not voting. They're flooding social media with trolls and bots talking about how they're not voting because their preferred candidate didn't win the primaries, about how nothings going to change and there's no point in voting. And the thing is, we know how social media works. People get stuck in these echo chambers and have those ideas reinforced over and over again by hundreds of different (fake) voices. It's not directly voter suppression, but it smells very heavily of it.
So like. Don't fall into their lies. Vote like our lives depend on it, because they do.
I'm not American, but like. This needs a signal boost.
If you don't vote, you are saying you're fine with white supremacy.
If you don't vote, you are saying you are fine with an America of censored internet and increased surveillance.
If you don't vote, you are saying the rich should only get richer while the poor get poorer.
If you don't vote, you are supporting the suppression of POC, LGBT, and disabled or ill people as this administration pushes more and more sickeningly discriminatory policies against those groups.
If you don't vote, you are enabling the rise in violent gun crimes, since this administration only wants more guns in more untrained hands.
If you don't vote, you are saying that corporations are worth more than people.
If you don't vote, you reward a petulant child and his army of sycophants who use YOUR money to line THEIR pockets.
If you don't vote, you are saying that science is not real.
If you don't vote, 200,000 people dead will not be the moral outrage it should be but rather "Remember when the death toll was that low?"
If you don't vote, you are not allowed to be outrages or offended by anything that happens moving forward. Not by the freedoms we lose, the lives we lose, or the harm done to millions of people.
Can we PLEASE Hopepunk this motherfucker of a country and say, “Yes, we have a seriously fucked up past and a terrifyingly fucked up present, but we believe that we CAN and WILL make a better future for everyone who lives here, and we’re going to start building that future RIGHT NOW using any means possible, including the relatively simple act of VOTING, instead of allowing our country to fall fully into an authoritarian dictatorship” ?
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Remember when the media said “greedflation” was a fringe theory?
Now looking back, it’s undeniable.
I think with the reaction to the Ursula K. Quote about women being able to think, not just feel blindly, fits nicely into the anti intellectualism we are seeing and peoples commitment to staying in the kiddie pool. Like at a certain point you can’t vibes your way out of stuff, you gotta pick up books and a news paper and get informed and start exercising your brain.
I tell my students a lot that things like media literacy and critical thinking are skills, not personality traits. No one is inherently good or bad at them; some people just have more practice (and maybe had better teachers and/or learning experiences) than others, but not possessing those skills don’t make you an inherently bad person, any more than not being able to ride a bike makes you a bad person. And, importantly, they can always be learned and improved, even if you feel like it’s “too late” to start.
Entering discussions that assume a certain level of skill among the participants and getting angry that it does not immediately cater to your skill level is a personality trait, though. Not all spaces are or have to be beginner-friendly. If you’re heading into (for example) political or academic conversations and your only source of information is tweets and soundbites, not only are you not going to have a good time, but adjusting the conversation to your level is actively detrimental to the original goals of the conversation.
You’ve got to practice. Put yourself out there. Make mistakes. Don’t get angry at people when they point out your mistakes. That’s how we get better at anything.
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