Gender-affirming care is older than antibiotics

(A wheel with four quadrants. The top left quadrant is red, and is marked "ANGER, Betrayal by Legit authority" In this quadrant are the words: Rage Vengeful Resentful Contempt/Disgust Disillusioned/cynical Mistrustful Disappointed Helpless Disbelief. The top right quadrant is blue and labeled "GUILT/SHAME, personal transgression" and includes the words Specific guilt Regret Remorse / Humiliated Self-contempt Self-loathing Self-disgust Shame. The bottom left quadrant is green and labelled "DISGUST Witnessing excessive violence, death, immoral acts" and includes the words, Outrage Indignation Rage non-Specific-guilt Sorrow/sadness Abhorrent Nauseated/Sickened Revolted/Repugnant Appalled/Disgusted Helpless/Overwhelmed HorrifiedHorrified. The bottom right quadrant is yellow, is labelled, "DISORIENTED, Unavoidable irresolvable moral conflict" and includes the words, Helpless/Powerless Confused/Uncertain Perplexed Futility Non-specific guilt/Failure Disillusioned/Cynical Apathetic Surreal/Meaningless/Absurd Hopeless/Despair Global resentment/Bitter Tragic remorse Lost Empty.)

The essay includes this excellent diagram

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

this is one of my favorite food/ag/history books of all time! i’m particularly obsessed with the cover design on mine:

To agree with and amplify what Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is saying here, this documentary was released in 2022. Like everything Ken Burns and his team does—it’s well worth your time. www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-...

sorry not sorry but ring cameras/similar have always been the most suburban-ass true crime brainwormed thing, they were always gonna be tools of the state

i fucking hate these cult of paranoia dipshit objects

Their violence proves how weak their control over us is.

You *must* advocate for prison abolition and an end to the carceral state. It's the cornerstone of everything else you care about. So long as the state has the power to strip you of your rights by simply declaring you a felon none of us are safe.

Regular reminder that anyone making confident predictions about anything is a fool. No one knows what's going to happen. Lean into uncertainty and get comfortable with it.

see also, killing in the name of

i had a very bad experience with a cop when i was a child, so i learned way before a lot of white people what they’re really about, but i thought every adult alive just lived thru 2020? & learned something?

seeing people say that the police will protect you from ice legitimately makes me feel insane— do we live in different universes? am i seeing posts from the multiverse?

the misogyny! the homophobia! the white supremacy! it’s like getting battered from all sides.

For years, many of us have tried to get people to care about criminalization with only limited success. We made the point that criminalization is fascism's fuel. And I really really hope that more people now understand this.

baofang?

i just got a no-rinse detergent for my silks & wool that works well. and its unscented! the brand is soak.

Epidemic abuse:

"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"

"White nationalists pervade law enforcement

10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")

"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"

"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year

"50% of municipal budgets

Photo of Yayoi Kusama sitting, with red bob hairstyle, and wearing a yellow and black garment with curved lines and dots which matches the background design

'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned'
-Yayoi Kusama

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. …

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow…”

Timeless advice from Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883:

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

blurry phone photograph from Vampire’s Kiss of nicholas cage in an absurd 1980’s ill-fitting suit, with a blonde combover, and plastic vampire fangs looking pathetic and desperate in a phone booth

watched Vampire’s Kiss (1988) today and boy oh boy did the main character give Trump vibes. holy shit.

There are no easy answers during this time. Sometimes we need to sit and be present with our sadness and our disappointment. Sometimes we need to channel that energy in to organizing and helping people near us however we can. And sometimes we just need to cry and scream.

it is the position of this administration that donald trump gets to avoid justice because he lives in a palace in Washington

gonna make a movie about herman melville's tragic gay love for nathaniel hawthorne and call it humpback mountain

i’m ready

the case for living Sometimes a breeze blows on a sunny day. A pollen-covered bee crawls gracelessly across a poppy, loading up on food to share with all her sisters in the hive. The first tomato of the year is ripe, ready for salt and slices of fresh bread. The juice drips, tart and sweet, down to your wrist before you have the chance to lick it clean. You laugh, undignified and far too loud as you remember what your best friend said when you were young. She's long since passed, of course, but every burst of laughter brings her back. It's not enough, and yet it's all we have, each too-small seed of joy unearthed from soil watered more often by our tears than rain and melting, soft and fragile, in our hands. In lack of hope or some great blessed plan, we hold and kiss and keep them while we can.

In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it

but you’re already terrifyingly beautiful!

I’m about 35 pages into How to Keep House While Drowning; and I think this may be the first cleaning/organizing book that is actually helpful to me. If you’re neurodivergent and struggle with this stuff, you may want to look it up.

are there any horror games you’d recommend to a big horror fan who is a rookie gamer?

day 10: i’m so tired of being sick i could cry myself go sleep again