nothing can happen until you swing the bat!

what the fuck is a salesforce. we're briefly alive for a few violent decades

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

can we stop promoting the idea that nature has to look beautiful to be good?

what they don’t tell you about your 20s is i want a goddamn cigarette.

my best friend in the world shared a cigarette with me this evening because sometimes the world is simple and good.