#psir

the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.

it is very instructive to play both silent hill and resident evil videogames because they are very similar except for how silent hill is good and resident evil is stupid. it helps you figure out what is stupid in a video game and what is good

one thing I really like about my relationship with my boyfriend is that we can express negative feelings about each other's actions without assigning blame or requiring apology. I mean like for morally neutral things like "it drives me crazy when you leave a wet towel on the floor instead of hanging it up"

nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

reading the collected letters of shirley jackson and this is from a letter to her agent while she was working on the haunting of hill house

isn't school such an interesting concept. not just communal childcare, obviously lots of animals do that for efficiency, but the idea that we as humans, who already I think have the longest childhood of any mammal, need to dedicate the bulk of a child's waking hours for at least twelve years just to catching them up on what information we have gathered so far about this whole life on planet earth deal.