“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

—Assata Shakur, *Assata: An Autobiography*

There is no universal time.
— Lyra Pramuk

Duke Energy in Cincinnati’s neon/LED sign spelling *CINCINNATI* in trans flag colors in memory and honor of Leelah Alcorn.

Remember Leelah Alcorn. Provoked suicide is murder by proxy.

Whenever we restore our power, we must expand the Supreme Court until it reflects the will of the majority. Until it reflects the humane credo of most experts in science and psychology and that of the United States population.

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. The wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart.”
— James Baldwin, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”

Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. Lobbing cliché insults into a void of public threads is the closest those males will ever come to flirting, let alone foreplay.

When males line up in comment sections below women comedians’ performance vids to say they aren’t funny, do you ever think, Why do physical-contact-deprived slabs of bitterness whose privates are choked with rejected sperm haunt the pages of ladies whose comedy they say they detest?

An illustration depicting the physical manifestation of self loathing as damaged tissue.

Those who are weighted with self-loathing can only be as kind to you as they manage to be to themselves. Whether they sit beside you or move away, it is worth remembering this is the greatest kindness they can offer. To receive that offer is an honor that attests to theirs.

My god they're talking about him like he's...a woman. How dare he have an agenda and stick to it. Why aren't his elbows...soft? (Though at least they can't say he should smile more.)

New York Staters: Just now, I heard the loudest, most ubiquitous-sounding thunder I’ve ever heard in my life. It was coming from every direction. Did you hear it, too?

WQXR is playing a women composers marathon in honor of International Women’s Day right now!

White and orange text on blue backround: "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn HowardZinn.org

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn, @zinndigital.bsky.social

“The cruelty is the point,” but so is creating disillusionment and fear. The question is how to proceed without being severely impaired by fear and disillusionment — and how to maintain that mindset while staying compassionate, informed and ready to fight.

“If I have a boy, I’ll teach him how to love.

“If I have a girl, I’ll tell her the world is hers.”

— Monologue by the survivor of a Montreal technical school shooting, as represented in the film “Polytechnique”

Lucky you! (And you put in the work and regular feedings, of course.)

Yeah, they’re perceptive when it comes to potential enemies and possibly people who annoy them.

And also because of the crows’ autonomy and choices in the matter. They’re wild creatures, after all.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with training crows to respond to someone, but I understand why that might bother you, if you’re looking at your exchange with crows as an immediate relationship and part of a possible long-term friendship. I think that way when I feed crows, too.

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration that comes from the teaching of biography and history.” — Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month (which Carter G. Woodson established as Black History Week before Congress extended it)! It’s time to honor, discover and celebrate!

#depression #fatalism #morbidity #ptsd #originalmusic #resignation #imaginando #vs2 #throwback #gothmodulation #selfdoubt

I think it’s time to meet the other skulls.

He hasn’t got an original thought in his head, does he? “Optimus robots.”

Why are you reporting that Trump doesn’t care about the song, instead of reporting how much the rest of the American people — meaning everyone else on the continent — do care?

Crows are as smart as eight-year-old children. Maybe you should eat your own kids instead, assholes.

Nekima Levy Armstrong was just arrested by the DoJ after protesting a Minnesota church in which the pastor is a member of ICE. Here is what Armstrong said about the possibility of her arrest the day before it happened.

“I've seen regions of space that have fallen into lawlessness. The weak are objects. The rapists are kings. The poor? The poor are slaves. Life is nothing but emptiness, pain."
— from Foundation, S2E7: “In Salvor Hardin We Trust,” by Eric Carrasco and David Kob, who could have been writing abt us

Here’s an original piano piece that imitates the dead leaf butterfly and its frenetic exit strategy.

A rather large buff-tailed bumblebee is standing on its lower legs and failing to get comfortable.

The man upstairs is hoeing his floor with a baritone vacuum cleaner that sounds like a soirée of giant bumblebees failing to get comfortable.

He used to be my favorite right-wing neo-noir writer, and in books like White Jazz, he has amazing stylistic range and a really astute ear for voices. But I’ve found him a tad repetitious over the past decade.

Why do so many murderers find their routine once they’ve been rejected? That isn’t rejection’s lesson. It’s empathetic persistence and kind self-criticism, not revenge.