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for the smallest and youngest

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So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

melatonin gummies but

well. knock yourself out

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

- noodles

- cake

- stir-fry rice

- me

things that calories are not inside of:

- anger

- that feeling when you forgot something

AUTISM RESPONSE: Rubber ducks and other rubber bath toys can accumulate mold on the inside because of small holes underneath where moisture becomes trapped. The mold often goes unnoticed because it's not visible from the outside.

PENDING RESPONSE: That particular brand is currently being sued for sanitation issues in its factory the next town over

to put my orange juice on

the conveyer belt.

So it doesn’t register that high stress leads to weird behavior, because it’s not highlighted as weird, it’s highlighted as “the truth” in the most bullshit manipulative way I’ve ever seen.

And this type of narrative is very, very useful for Calvinist branches of Christianity, Puritanism, evangelism, baptism, etc. because they believe in predestination, (whether they know that or not) and therefore have metrics of “this person does X and is a Good Person, that person does Y, and are a Bad Person, and these things are fundamentally unchangable because that is Gods Will” which means that even if you were acting “good”, if you ever so much as do one thing “bad”, it’s an indication that you were lying about being good the whole time, because that’s what Bad People do, and since you did a Bad Thing (or even had a Bad Thought) it’s proof you are Bad, because God would not have made you to act that way if you were not.

Predestination is a weird, paradoxical concept that simultaneously posits that humans do and do not have free will, as you can probably tell. But that is why that “the worst of you is always the real you” narrative is SO prevalent in the US especially.

And I know this because while the concept does appear in other countries and cultures, it’s more of a “huh, guess you never know a guy” and less of a pearl clutching hysterical reaction of “oh no! They were bad people all along! Everyone lynch them!” You see in the US.

And it has consequences, the least of which is the inability to understand that stress does weird things to people and that they are genuinely not themselves when under the influence of stress, alcohol, drugs, or mental health disasters.

It’s not as bad as it used to be in regard to the latter, but for some reason we don’t tend to think of stress as causing those disasters in the first place.

I want that specifically so people can make it a meme to post pictures of themselves showing me stuff. Like memes off their phone.

Or maybe things that they are proud of but don't have anyone else to show them to. Like your school graduation papers, this cool knitting project you finally finished, your baby who's never going to see their grandparents.

And I also want a clause that they will absolutely fucking never put those anti-homeless things of any kind on my damn bench. So if there's ever someone who's got nobody else to keep them company, they can at least spend the night with me.