Metaphysical Boundaries

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Neither Trump nor RFK Jr has any kind of medical degree or any background or education in healthcare, yet they are making unilateral health decisions for 340 million Americans. Americans are going to d!e because of their decimation of cancer research, preventable disease vaccinations, and the medical institutions and guidelines in our country!

RFK Jr is not a doctor. He is not a scientist. He has zero scientific literacy. He is not qualified to make any assertions about vaccines, disease, pediatrics, hospital parking... NOTHING.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

The Garden in August - Sophie Charalambous , 2025.

British-Cypriot , b. 1973 -

I’m assuming he moved up his timeline a bit to create a distraction from his war in Iran spiraling into an even bigger disaster, as well as all his other mounting failures.

But let’s take a brief moment to realize what this president is going to do if the rumors are true and he’s going to claim there was “foreign interference” in Georgia’s election results.

If he wants to claim that Georgia’s elections were impacted by “foreign interference” in 2020, then that means that massive national security failure happened on his watch, since he was president, with his handpicked attorney general and handpicked FBI director, and with an entire administration filled with people he personally chose and endorsed for those roles — in a state that was completely run by Republicans.

And I point that out to highlight just how stupid it would be for him to make the claim he’s apparently set to make in his latest desperate attempt to rig the upcoming midterms and cast doubt on their legitimacy if they don’t go his way.

This is why I constantly say that no one treats Trump supporters dumber (with a “B”) than Donald Trump.

The same guy who claimed “voter fraud” in 2016 — in an election he won — because he couldn’t admit that he lost the popular vote, who’s now going to likely claim a massive national security failure happened while he was president, with an administration run entirely by people he chose to work in those roles, to push more lies and conspiracies about the 2020 election.

I know I’ve said it a lot, but you really can’t make this stuff up.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.