mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

dissociating into passive compliance upon becoming angry =\= “never” becoming angry

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

It is take it too far tuesday

the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held

honestly i get why elizabeth holmes is convinced she got martyred because you have to think about it from her perspective, literally the entire valley runs on guys just running their mouths until another guy buys them out and turns their scamup into a data services provider and then eventually that guy sells it to jeff bezos, why couldn't it happen for her too? oh suddenly the medical establishment is too good for a para industry of scam bespoke home lab testing that tells you nothing validated? suddenly everyone has not been caping for the mormon dna race science or the gut microbiome fascists or the psychiatry fandom spit testing? it's so much worse to give your blood to a blonde woman recreationally? vengeance for her & anna delvey.