so it goes

Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency

really i think the most insidious part of white supremacy is the way it will convince white people everything is actually About Them. being called out isn’t about you. poc expressing frustration at your behaviour isn’t about you. it’s about how you are affecting others. step one is literally just de-centre yourself from the conversation. anyone who’s not white has already had to learn this lesson the hard way and it gets tiring waiting for the rest of you to catch up

There is no Love on that island

Anaïs Nin's library.

that Vonnegut quote about his uncle who would say, uncringing, on a picnic or some other moment something like "isn't this nice" and oh fuck. Isn't this nice 🫂

It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?