Chalk Revelations

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

Being an American is fun because you’ll say something like “I think children should be educated and fed” and some Christian will pop out of nowhere to call me a filthy Communist and ask me why I hate white people, men, and god

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

thinking about shane hollander and how his own internalized homophobia is tied up with being mixed race, how he's already under all this pressure to be the perfect wasian son, how being one of the only asian players in the league is something he's never allowed to forget (from the first moment we hear the announcers talking about him it's well-meaning microaggressions about his intelligence and his "hockey IQ" even while he's excelling at this hyper-masculine contact sport, god the writing on this show is so tight). he's painfully aware that being openly gay in the sports culture that is his entire life would eclipse everything else about his reputation, that all the work he's put into being this perfect role model could be erased by that one thing. he's trying so hard all the time not to disappoint anyone, to be what everyone else wants him to be, and when he finally allows himself to admit that he's gay it's the first step towards actually living his life for himself. and he just immediately starts going after what he wants (ilya) with all the focus and determination he's previously applied only to hockey and displays heretofore unseen levels of emotional bravery and vulnerability. what a guy.

Dennis drinking an energy drink at the tail end of his fifteen hour shift because he knew he'd be driving Amy home and most likely helping out with the baby too. That boy is so willing to run himself ragged and that burn out will creep up on him before he realizes it.

Why are they letting it look at a menu?

it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps

saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”

it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try