adam and i are watching a battlebots and this stupid bot has no powers. its just a cardboard box decorated to look like a building with the sign “CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL” and when it was torn open a bunch of little dolls came flying out
If I had the death note I wouldn’t even care about killing people the real kicker is that you can bend their will before they die. Like who cares if I could give joe biden a heart attack BUT i could make him go up the the podium and say something like “I need a thick girl and a blunt right now or I’ll die” and then he explodes. That’s where the money is
twitter limiting the amount of tweets you get to read per day is ridiculous but if tiktok limited the amount of videos people got to see per day it would be the biggest win for mental health since ssris
gotta be real serious here, promoting media literacy is kind of The Goal as far as trying to get people to stop needlessly absorbing shitty ideas from media. purity culture stuff like judging and shaming them isn’t just unhelpful in that it tends to shut people off from becoming more progressive, it’s actively harmful because it promotes a LACK of media literacy. the goal shifts from trying to interface with the media and interpret what it’s saying and means to just trying to consume the “good” media and only absorb “good” ideas.
id much rather have a friend who’s really into cop shows but understands the harm they do than someone who only reads anti-racist literature but absorbs none of it
holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror
if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big
There’s a sentiment I’m noticing in the tags that I’d like to address. I don’t think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It’s about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It’s about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It’s especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how ‘convenient’ they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonious with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.
I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that don’t owe you an apology for their existence and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.
