we stay silly

I know a lot of good music and I am always discovering more good music. This is something I am egotistical about. I am always cultivating and upgrading my ability to appreciate all the beauty of the world. I am so happy to be living in a time when music can be recorded digitally.

Anyways these are the songs I liked the most recently.

Paris Texas - Everybody's Safe Until - It is a despair bop about suicidal, violent, and destructive urges, mixed with isolation and paranoia, that is so catchy! I love how there are multiple stanzas that sound so different, but they are layered over each other, and each one makes you want to dance! It expresses the feeling of not caring about anything, acting carefree as horrible thoughts scroll endlessly through your head.

Shockwire - I Drive The Speed Limit Cause There's Drugs In The Car - A nutritionally complete and mathematically perfect song, fulfilling all your needs for good music.

Telephunken - West Coast, East Coast - It is full of the feeling of going really fast and feeling badass. Easily one of the most addicting songs I've ever heard. I know it's about an expensive car, but it makes me want to rollerblade at a rave or something.

Flobots - Fight with Tools - someone on Tumblr recommended a song by this band to me, and I started listening to more of their music. The powerful, driving chorus to this song is so moving and inspiring with a beautiful message. I love the instrumental bridge that sustains these high emotions and the outro that feels in my mind that it echoes the Beatitudes from the Bible and socialist/labor rights slogans at the same time

Delilah Bon- I Wish A Bitch Would - anthem about murdering rapists, the vocalist pulls the screams out of the depths of her stomach seeming to empty out her lungs, with crunchy and textured instrumentals reminiscent of corrugated metal. Even if you are completely pacifistic, these powerful emotions are so yummy to evoke; yes, violence WOULD feel good, wouldn't it?

Norman Sann - Who Lied - The rhymes sway and slither with the instrumentation, giving a feeling of stalling and backtracking being lost in one's thoughts of despair and questioning then powerfully accosted with the necessity of realizing the truth. It delivers the message in an impressive way. But on top of the delivery, some of the phrasings and poetic techniques are more delightful to me than they should be (the 'CBD oil and lotion' stanza always makes me smile)

Kneecap - Liars Tale - blistering insults toward politicians and fierce anger but so catchy you have no choice but to nod your head. They rap in irish gaelic which is really cool. and now that I'm looking at the music video it has zombie margaret thatcher (???) cool

Xican- Flor Antigua - the slow, strutting beat of the drums is so intoxicating and flows with the rapping so beautifully and the female vocalist has a rich and lovely voice. I didn't understand the lyrics very much but when seeing the translation they are also really cool and poetic

Yall better love me for this one bc im usually lazy and edit in CapCut but I downloaded iMovie for this which is only slight LESS lazy bc I wanted to do specific pan and zooms. Mega super rough animatic I know, but I don’t commit and get the thing done in under two days it simply doesn’t happen. I ain’t an animator. 💀

Cannot express enough that this song literally dropped YESTERDAY and the hyperfix hit that hard and heavy. 😭 Have funnnnn

it is absolutely insane the extent to which school students aren't allowed to take care of their basic bodily needs such as:

controlling their water/food intake (the fact kids have to ask permission to drink water is INSANE)

hearing protection for kids with noise sensitivity

light protection for kids with light sensitivity

(seriously what the FUCK is up with controlling kids wearing hoods/hats/sunglasses during class)

removing themselves from a hostile environment (having to ask permission even on the verge of meltdown to step out of a room/situation that is actively causing them pain)

not having every minute of their day scheduled and supervised on a level akin to literal prisoners (hint: we shouldn't be doing this to people in prison either!)

having a basic level of goddamn privacy

going to the fucking bathroom!!!

it is VILE how often school systems reject the basic human agency of their students. it causes devastating harm, and disproportionately impacts vulnerable students.

good day:

make coffee

regular day:

put water in coffee maker

put coffee in coffee maker

turn on coffee maker

bad day:

take pot from coffee maker

turn on sink

fill up coffee pot

turn off sink

pour water into coffee maker

put coffee pot in coffee maker

open cupboard

get coffee filter from cupboard

get coffee beans from cupboard

put filter in coffee pot

measure coffee

pour coffee into filter

close coffee maker

turn coffee maker on

Today, many scientists acknowledge the troubling attitudes that have long plagued research projects in Indigenous communities [...] But some Indigenous groups feel that despite such well-intentioned initiatives, their inclusion in research is only a token gesture to satisfy a funding agency.

Has everyone just believed this whole time that I bring it up for optics?

Everyone nods, "of course he mentions Indigenous people," because they believe it would simply look bad for me if I didn't.

In fact Indigenous knowledge is a constant topic of conversation and point of reference when I discuss my work as a scientist who uses Western science because my work is useless without it.

I work with endangered species which are endangered solely due to continual colonial violence against people and the land. I can follow the Western scientific method all I want and publish 100 papers on how to fix salmon populations—and get nowhere without Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty.

Indigenous knowledge is not an afterthought to reference as back up to Western science. Believe it or not, we can and should lead any number of scientific projects with Indigenous knowledge.

one of my favorite books to recommend people "plants have so much to give us all we have to do is ask" by mary sisiip geniusz talked about this, how her job as a knowledge holder was not just to transmit the knowledge her mentor taught her, she was also expected to test and verify the knowledge for herself and continue to build upon it

1. Living Stones

these plants imitate rocks. who does that?

imagine deciding to straight up evolve into rocks as a defense mechanism. i had a whole rant planned but now i’m remembering that i have, in the past, on multiple occasions, daydreamed about being a rock. like that has been a recurring theme in my rich inner fantasy life. i would not forsake the opportunity to evolve into a stone.

2. Hooker’s Lips

ostentatious. flamboyant. vulgar. garish. randy. dare i say whorish? yes. this plant is whorish.

pucker up you hussy

3. Hoya Hearts

overused trope. lacks subtlety and creativity. truly, they just went with the first thought to pop in their head, no brainstorming involved. “ho ho ho i’m just gonna grow into a fucking HEART, that’ll show em!” Needy & basic bitch. looks cute on a desk

4. Lifesaver Plants

manages to be both psychedelic and disapproving. reminiscent of a prudish great aunt–but like, one who did a lot of LSD in the 70s. evidence of an alien lifeform who crash landed and then decided, fuck it, i’m gonna rent a one-story in the midwest and decorate it with vintage wood paneling & floral upholstery. probably smells like stale weed and glass ashtrays

5. Happy Alien Flowers

yes that is their NAME. sort of anticlimactic, but take a gander:

they are absolute sluts for drama, as demonstrated by the little hussies pictured above are YELLING AT ME. they bring to mind seagulls engaged in a Shakespearean blood feud. this flowers have committed aggravated manslaughter and probably got away with it too.

6. Bat Plant 

aka Cat’s Whiskers aka Devil Flower. how fucking emo is that??? this plant listens to mcr and is probably the gay cousin. they never got the hang of eyeliner but that doesn’t stop them from trying, bless em. their impetuous devil-may-care persona is hindered by their crippling social anxiety. i’m immensely fond of this plant. they’ll come into their own once they graduate and move away from college, but in the mean time they sit with the tech crew at lunch. you go little Bat Plant! 

 7. Dancing Plants

total band kids. also called Semaphore Plants, bc they look like they’re trying to flag down a plane. nifty fuckers 

1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet

2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday

3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my boss’s drawer

4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put it on his desk

5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form

6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work

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