The Captain Who Panics 🇵🇸 🍉

I always hate thinking about extending the chapter length of No Thing bc first of all it was SUPPOSED to be like. I think 25 chapters long? But also bc I know a lot of people only choose to read WIP fics that have a set chapter count but unfortunately I ramble way too much and I didn't complete this fic before starting to post (which I try to do now for the most part) so It like. Things change! In other news. Scaffolding future chapters. Stay tuned. Hopefully not too much to be added....

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

i just wanted to clarify that this post was referring to studies in childhood ptsd and the AI boom’s relationship to wealth and poverty, but it can go for literally anything, so i IMPLORE YOU ALL to PLEASE get into reading research texts bc it is the only way we’re gonna free ourselves as a community. research helps to drive policy, civic engagement, court decisions, etc. PLEASE do not disregard someone’s study just bc you’ve lost faith in humanity. not all of us live life without hope.

I love that even city council is like "we're not fucking narcs, we have no idea who that guy beating the shit out of him is." Extremely hobbified behavior.

What is retribution?