bird's the word

The genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel and the USA is on-going, while the rest of the world just looks on. Please donate if you can to one of these local mutual aid groups.

[electroswing fading in as 7 people surround me in a parking lot]

"my shortcomings are actually proof of my moral righteousness" is a fundamental tenet of slave moralism. If you resent the person who has more sex than you, you can convince yourself that sexual desire is a personal failing. but this doesn't rid *you* of the sin, either; the jealousy that your resentment was borne from originates from that very same sexual desire. Ergo, your pretensions to morality are not only inherently self-serving, they are also only so because they are built on a lie you tell yourself about what you are.

nietzsche is really funny because whenever he talks about women the resentful slave moralist festering inside him rears its ugly head. his misogyny plainly manifests in all the ways that women are everything he is not but wishes he could be. he thinks the "female sex" is loved unconditionally, and he feels this is undeservedly so, for he sees them as trivializing and simple. this is a clear pathology, not of his desire for femininity, but of his perpetual frustrations to be found deserving of love, and this in spite of his own depth and complexities, which were a projection of what he himself desired in others. he was probably gay but i doubt he realized that.

forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

text-based lifeform

Rejection sensitivity dysphoria is the weirdest ADHD symptom ever. Like hello yes my weird brain chemistry manifests as Whiny Crybaby Disorder