quoth the raven, "fuck."

They watch movies and read history books all their lives where the climax involves angry rioting civilians as villains and mobs marching to murder a person or group they find suspicious but who is not guilty of causing an upsetting situation/bad economic conditions and say to themselves "that could never be me i would never believe lies and propaganda i would never go after innocent people just to feel like i'm doing something productive with my anger over a situation i have no control over and resort to violence just to have someone to blame so i don't need to think too hard about my biases because I'm a Good Person™️" and then they, in their hubris, promptly join the mob

Bad poetry is a lot like bad acting, actually, in that a lot of people get it into their heads that the aim is to get visibly emotional, where the actual aim is to have some kind of tactically calibrated effect on the audience

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones

make sure you're allowing black folk the chance to be weird. you already give us shit for the way we act when trying to be on your good side. you have to like the annoying black people too, you still have to care about the weird ones

ID from alt: Sketch of a sinosauropteryx fossil against green and yellow misty watercolor blooms. the fossil rests suspended between text that reads "that you existed at all is a monument itself." End ID

I wish insomnia at least gave you more usable hours in the day instead of just more hours where you are stupid

We need to isolate and start selectively breeding the plastic eating bacteria so we can optimise their efficiency, and then somehow splice their DNA into the gut bacteria of an obligate carnivore, so we can put it in our cats gut biomes so they'll finally be free of having to choose between whether they want to eat plastic or whether they want to live.