Le plant child

please do not forget how politically convenient it is for you to earnestly believe sexuality and desire is an inherently dangerous thing that can only be gentled or tamed and can never be a healing or positive thing in of itself

Tfw someone thinks "all art is political" means "all art is overtly and intentionally out to make a political statement" when it actually means "all art is inevitably influenced by the politics of both the artist personally and the society they live in"

both are valid approaches to the same problem

i don’t think these are even different approaches

when i was little and i went to church people would talk about “fearing god.” they would use ‘’fear’ to describe like a way of respecting him while understanding his power and i never knew what that  meant until i met a fucking horse 

This… went in a completely different direction than I thought.

Horses will do that too - go in a completely different direction than what you thought. It’s one of the reasons they’re feared.

Opt-out "features" keep coming out on everything. I have to comb through settings on every new app/device to reclaim as much privacy and control as they will allow me to. Everything keeps becoming more "user friendly" at the expense of user control. Its becoming near impossible to buy basic electronics that don't come with a useless computer attached that will inevitability fail and brick your appliance.

It's also spreading places it shouldn't be. new Cars that have subscription services for basic use. Kitchen appliances that need to be hooked up via Bluetooth to work... And NONE of it can be repaired. Nobody is allowed to fix their own electronics. You have to send it back to the manufacturer, just so you can get a "refurbished" device. We are living in a time of Planned Obsolescence and we are really fucking tired of it.

they have many current events to discuss

They are ready to sink their teeth into global relations

diplomatic talks are going smoothly

Oh that was good

Rat detected. Make him jiggle.

Holy shit I assume everyone is doing an up and down jiggle and maybe a side to side jiggle but if you jiggle your phone forward and backwards he jiggles in and out, too

hey so if you have secret prejudiced thoughts about an oppressed group. and you feel guilty about those thoughts. to be honest it isn’t very swagilicious when you go out of your way to turn a member of that oppressed group into your own personal confessional booth. I don’t need to know that you were secretly ableist about your wheelchair using coworker, actually. I don’t need to know that you used to hate trans people. you don’t need to make that my problem please

people in the notes keep saying “don’t do this to an internet stranger” and that’s true. but I need to be clear that I wrote this post after a close(ish) friend confessed her secret ableisms to my face. so also don’t go out into the offline world and do this either

also STOP using the notes to tell people that therapy is the solution to unlearning bigotry. my disabled ass has heard more ableism from therapists than you would believe. fun fact: therapists also live in society and are also chugging along internalising bigoted bullshit like everyone else. unlike many others, they also have the power to preach that bullshit like it’s gospel to vulnerable people who really don’t need to hear it. therapy is not the answer. lol.