Stray Amanuensis

dubiously friendly reminder that you need to own a first aid kit. yes even you.

and a fire extinguisher yeah.

Hot tip: these are excellent housewarming gifts. Doubly so if you're invited to the welcome party of a newly opened squat.

but learning can be easier if you take notes

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.

“no job is worth your physical & mental health” i hauve. Bills.

i love when “just quit!” is thrown out as a suggestion. like damn thank you i’ve never thought of that before ever. in my life. There are these things called groceries and doctor visits

Capitalism is a hostage situation, and we are all the hostages.

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

I do think it's kind of funny how john green wrote a book about tuberculosis that brought a lot of renewed attention to the subject and he's since become the darling of the tb world, speaks at tb conferences, my dad and every other tb researcher I know is absolutely smitten with him, and they'll be like "we love this guy! have you heard of him??" and I have to be like well yes, I have. for other reasons

"You mean the guy who got cyberbullied off of tumblr by 14-year-old anarchomarxists but then triumphantly returned as a coffee company?"

No one can agree on what the first novel is because no one wants to give credit to shitty pulp adventure novels from ancient Greece. It *feels* like it should be fully formed capital-L Literature like Genji or Don Quixote but the past doesn't always give us what we want

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

Lockheed Martin was at my college's job fair

i love springsteen songs about being employed. "i get up every morning and go to work each day" no you do not bruce springsteen

aliens are basically the coolest thing that anyone has ever thought of. unfortunately i believe i have read the majority of good books about aliens. i will slumber for 100 years until there are more good books about aliens