I still don't know how to split my energy between here and Twitter ๐ I am very much just talking to myself here (which it's pretty much all I do there, let's be honest) I just dunno... It doesn't feel like a place to actually hang out yet ๐ฎโ๐จ
I assume this is how the original little mermaid felt before dissolving into seafoam ๐ซ
I'd do it all over again ๐ซถ
Hostile reminder that a great deal of the medicine you pay money for was funded by taxpayer dollars and we should all be livid about this
Oh my sweet, nonexistent gods are we actually watching the framework go into place at the base level for a more care-minded and service-driven and compassion-elevating society? Because I'd fuckin love to wake up in 50 years filled with hope for the newest generation and know we did right by them ๐
Until we shift society AWAY from being the breeding grounds of competition and runaway consumption and TOWARD a structure of support as it should always have been, we're going to do a bad job. We're going to let people down. Not only present people, but future people. They deserve better than us.
Just thinking about how early anti-war protest post-9/11 were covered in the press... Look at this headline, lol. Come on. www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/u...
Mantra for the supermarket: This isn't good. This isn't right. This isn't normal.
My kid: Did you know my name was BIBLICAL? Like, it came from the Bible? Did my name come from the BIBLE, Mom? Me: *knowing I named him after a wereleopard stripper in an urban fantasy series I love* sweating.gif ๐ฌ
"What's with the mask??" ๐ Oh, idk, I've been sick my ENTIRE life and people have made it VERY clear over those three decades that they don't actually give a fuck about others but ESPECIALLY not compromised or "weak" others. Or did you just want me to say I'm sick? I'm not. The mask is why. โ๏ธ