the terms of service of every web site prohibit you from saying what would fix everything

As a caretaker/partner to someone with debilitating MCAS/POTS that was severely exasperated by Covid, we desperately need research. The only way we've been able to squeeze even a tiny amount of quality of life out of the last 5+ years has been due to UK research and Reddit.

One of the many problems with the left-right dyad is any common ground is defined as “center,” which is viewed from both vectors as left-right relative that perspective.

Common ground isn’t at the center of a left-right dyad. It’s at the center of what it means to treat each other as human beings.

Mingus Reedus

a reminder

I wrote this note to myself before streaming for the first time, I think everyone needs reminding that you have permission to be happy, confident and weird around friends

I wish Carnivale had a 10 season run. I'm a sucker for good carnival/sideshow/freakshow media.

Pushing Daisies is mine; never has a show balanced death, comedy, and ART so well. It manages to make whimsy feel genuine, and the palpable CHEMISTRY between the leads? 💀💀💀

The privacy person in me resists strongly sharing images of people at the worst moments of their lives, or in their death.
I know some people think it helps to see, but it feels like it’s this last thing taken from someone even when they’ve lost everything. I can’t do it.

Ruckus - (verb) - co-authoring an option editorial article in a school newspaper that is contrary to our foreign policy decisions.

(See also: free speech = shut up)

It is that bad. It's happening. It's here.
Anything you think you'd need to do to prepare yourself to weather a coming storm, people you want to ensure you're living near, safety nets you want in place, decisions about who you are or the life you want you'd need to make, do it NOW.

i am not dopamine scrolling. i am not doom scrolling. i am simply continuing my search for the single sentence that will explain everything. its out there. lets find it

Today's poem by Michael Joseph for his cat Charles.

For the longest time, I kept telling myself "No one cares about your art when there's so much going on in the world."

I realized this morning, nothing's brought me more joy in the face of this shitshow world than the art being made in spite of it all.

Time to break out the gear & supplies!

Castle Freak is a great title because it is a movie about a freak in a castle. You can't even tell nowadays if a movie is about a freak in a castle until you watch it and who has the time for that

I like watching old movies cause people had normal teeth back then. And by old movies I just mean anything filmed before 2014.

yee-haw

The thing about social media is that when you open an app and see good news, you should repost it, stop scrolling, and close your browser. Don't keep putting money in the slot machine once you've won the jackpot.

Take your cute dog photos and go before you get 5 more planes falling out of the sky.

here's your periodic reminder that the discography of silverchair exists