never chilling

Seen on Twitter

The Sopranos “Walk Like a Man”

“Perhaps the most consistent throughline of the entire series has been the relationship between Tony and Christopher. Really, only the Soprano marriage even comes close to the level of detail and shading that’s devoted to Tony’s connection with his “nephew,” the man who was supposed to succeed him someday but has only managed to piss Tony off and strain the two’s relationship to the point of breaking. What’s doubly sad about this is that a major contributing factor is that every time Chris tries to better himself, or tries to prove his loyalty to Tony, he gets mired more deeply in the situation, unable to escape from the man who increasingly views everybody in his circle as his subject… (Fittingly, in a late-episode moment, Chris sees Tony laughing in slow-motion, wreathed by cigar smoke. He looks like the devil.)”

AV Club on Christopher Moltisanti and Tony Soprano (x)

Succession “This Is Not for Tears”

“I know my father’s a bastard, and I know he’s cruel. But I don’t think I’ve ever quite seen the gorgon head of his evil before, and I think that has a real effect. Despite the glaring evidence of my father being a false god, I have been worshipping at his altar for so long. I’m ready to be his sacrifice. But I think, in that moment, I finally see him for what he is.”

It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.

Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.

while i’m here, and still somehow have followers on this website, i thought it would be useful to repost an activism resource masterpost i saw on twitter a few days ago. it looks like the OP (@thebryreed) set her account to private, but i saved the links and figured they would be useful reading & listening, given everything that’s going on right now.

Malcolm X (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet

Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin (1972)

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography (1987)

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (1979)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003)

The Invention of Women by Oyěwùmí (1997) (this requires institutional access or creativity)

Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech (1973)

Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech (1993)

Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Toni Morrison (2015) No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear 

here’s a thread by user a_busy_woman on twitter

„take a community class on how not to call the cops and how to deescalate [...]“

all the links in the thread

handbook for alternatives to calling the police by the UUA

the abolitionist toolkit by critical resistance

a meta resource put together by Aaron Rose

deescalation webinar on YouTube by Side with Love

a starter guide resource put together by twitter users literElly, sheabutterfemme, and MicahHerskind