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If you own a hand mixer of any variety, or a whisk and tremendous forearm strength, you can make your own ice cream of any variety, whenever you want.

2 cups whipping cream (or heavy cream, they’re the same thing) 1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk A splash of vanilla Literally whatever you want to add. Mint, chocolate chips, nutella, strawberries, cocoa powder, I do mean literally anything

Beat the cream until it’s a firm/stiff whipped cream. Fold it into the sweetened condensed milk (chill the condensed milk if you like beforehand, it can make the freezing faster), add the vanilla and mix-ins. Then dump it in a container and freeze until your desired consistency. That’s it.

A nazi can be very Nice and fit in great in these social circles and they will choose a Nice nazi over an angry person pointing it out every single time.

If you wanna avoid some mayor fuck-ups as well as just disappointments, drains and burn outs in your activist community, here’s a life hack:

If something terrible happens out of your reach and you feel the urge to ‘just do something’, put that feeling on hold for a bit and ask yourself seriously ‘what does this achieve?’, ‘is the effort worth the gain?’, ‘will this materially make things better for anyone?’.

The urge to ‘just do something’ is a powerful one and when it is combined with a good plan it can inspire tons of great direct action and mutual aid. But it can also cause people to throw themselves into pointless symbolic acts, badly planned actions, and plans that demand far more energy than your group is able to spend.

And 9 out of 10 times, the people that were actually hit with the terrible thing are already receiving a lot of impulsive offers of help in the first days, and a sharp decline in the amount of help after the first few weeks. If you can be the patient steady support that takes their time but has something substantial to offer 3, 4, 5, 6 weeks down the line, you’ll probably make a much bigger difference than all those brief viral responders.

change the color used to highlight text on your laptop

move the pictures on your wall

stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all

slightly vary your commute, even just by one street

change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed

drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real

shower with the lights off, without music

buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room

start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing

wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.