The same KLA who's been here for years

Oh yes, that's why I am constantly warning people to not mistake privileges and disadvantages of identity with actual lived experience.

I have ADHD. I am also blessed and extremely privileged within the sphere of people with ADHD to have two parents who are familiar with the needs of neurodiverse kids AND the education system, who made enough money to provide not only a safe home but also have the connections to provide the additional tutoring and therapy a kid like me needed, who were willing to go to bat for me if I reported unfair treatment at school, and while I may have my own complaints about the way I was raised I can see very clearly that I had it a lot better than most of my other peers with ADHD. Especially those of color, who often did not have the stability in the home, who were often subjected to levels of poverty I only experienced as an adult or worse, whose parents even if supportive were in way over their head and did not know how to provide help.

I did not earn any of this. My story is one of privilege due to circumstances at birth, not hard work. Most kids with ADHD are just as smart if not smarter than I was- they just don't have the support system, and even kids who do have the support system tend to crash and burn once that safety net disappears- much like I did after getting hit by a car on my bike in college and obliterating my chances of graduation and a cushy job.

Growing up so close to a special ed classroom re: my mother's specialty and education within the justice system re: my father, as well as disability advocacy and political theory regarding class warfare and race, it's easy for me to see how if many of these "problem students" with ADHD just had a few of the things I had they could be in a much different place... or if I had less than what I had and how that would have changed my life. This type of first hand experience shaped my own understanding of privilege and oppression- how I keep saying it's all one big web and tugging on a single string does nothing except make the structure shiver.

In high school, I was often accused by other kids with ADHD to be faking, because I had gone off my meds and was still mostly functional in class. What they didn't see was all that structure and foundation laid by my privileged experience, so when I removed a support beam it only sagged a little. It doesn't matter that said support beam was rotting from the inside (due to other medical conditions I was not having a good time with my meds)- it mattered to them that I was stating I had ADHD but not visibly struggling with the rest of them. The sad thing is that none of them had to struggle at all. If they had been giving the opportunities that I had, they also may have never become "problem students" in the first place. If they had been given what I had, most of them would have graduated high school with decent grades and stayed out of trouble and been able to get decent jobs. Instead, most of them have never graduated, been arrested or even gone to prison, became addicts, some even killed or committed suicide, and almost none of them went to college or secured a better job than bagging groceries.

In 2000, they released a self-titled concept album set in the year 3030, about a former mech soldier and hacking master named Deltron Zero, who plans to use his skills to create a virus to shut down the corporate overlords suppressing hip-hop culture and human rights, all while he takes part in rap battles to become Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Whole album is dope, and it's down below. A masterpiece in the scene of underground hip-hop.

This gonna be a fire cover art for my J/7 zine

....which I forgot about completely before blithely going out in it yesterday to walk to a doctor's appointment and then had to like, sit down with my head between my knees when I got there. I was fully hydrated, had a water bottle with me, wore a hat, walked in the shade, and still by four blocks I was feeling Unwell. It's been ungodly hot out, admittedly, but I have felt more sensitive to it this summer than previous summers and now PERHAPS I KNOW WHY. (My dose was raised over the winter.)

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

there's also the more parabolic traditional Amasunzu hairstyles of the Tutsi, worn up until the 1900's

but, when you get down to it, anything with braids is a remarkable celebration of math (and controlled entropy)

It looks like just pinpricks of lights flicking off and on. It's some of the hundreds to thousands of fireflies in my yard, after years of fostering their environment.

It's come a long way since I moved in. It used to be that I could stand in the yard during firefly season and count 30+ seconds before seeing a flash. It's still not at the level I remember seeing in local areas a couple decades ago, when fields would practically glow with how many fireflies lit the air above them. But it's not nothing. And maybe my yard doesn't make a huge difference on its own, but when you multiply it by hundreds, by thousands, by millions... it adds up.

In 1973, NASA used the song to wake up members of its space crew. The crew was allegedly so distracted from the shock over the course of the day that NASA forbade the use of the song for that purpose ever again, effectively banning the song from space.

Video shows a still image of a man wearing a ten gallon hat, kerchief, and buckskin jacket, along with his name: "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy". He's in front of a white background filled with stars.

His most famous song, "Paralysed", plays. His lyrics are frenetic, and so slurred that most can't be deciphered. Drums and acoustic guitar play in the background, along with a short bugle solo 2/3rds of the way through. It all feels pressurized and out of control - The Ledge was a pioneer of Psychobilly, which combined rockabilly with punk, sped it up, and added horror and scifi visuals.