"Noun. Middle English (northern dialect), small stream, rill, from Old English sīc"
"Syke Definition & Meaning" - Merriam-Webster
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Psych, as they used to say.
Next time on "Comical, apolitical OLD Rich Dude snorts cocaine mixed with fentanyl and hilarity ensues..."
Huh. It's something new to consider.
Just now, I randomly wondered if an annoying dude actually has damaged dopamine receptors.
Just reading, then resting.
"Mysterious blob creatures return to Southern California coast"
"Sammy Hagar Reflects on Red Rocker Roots, Fontana"
https://variety.com/2024/music/focus/sammy-hagar-red-rocker-fontana-1235983217/
Things in common.
Read
By Dan Kois
after
"The Democrats Are Wasting the Campus Protests"
By Alexander Sammon
Last hurrah...
Nice photo!
"A permanent ceasefire in Gaza can spark a peaceful revolution"
https://thehill.com/opinion/4633974-a-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-can-spark-a-peaceful-revolution/
Such creepy old colonizer behavior patterns kinds of vibes.
When people make themselves go along with the "I need to shut out others and cozy up to a guy who acts like Christopher Columbus in order to be validated by some very unhealthy rich people who say they are the best ones who can help someone like me survive in this industry" nonsense.
When your body knows a pattern is not good for her, believe.
It's bizarre, how much some people will practice toxic positivity and excuse cruelty just to feel "in control," or more able fit in with others, and pretend things are "fine" when clearly they're not.
The cruelty is so unnecessary.
It feels like their value systems got mangled by their needs to survive their circumstances.
Who cares about human rights?
Sociopathically unwell rich people of many backgrounds who found ways to talk themselves into benefiting from going along with systemic patterns dictated by Patriarchal White Supremacy are not great at that.
Time of day, quality of light?
I keep trying to get the look of being carefree in the reflection of the window. I'm just lying on my stomach in bed with my lower legs up and toes pointed outwards and my heels tapping together like, I don't know, dolphin fins flapping & that sort of thing.
But every time I try to take a shot, the reflection just ends up looking like a creepy ghost in the shrubbery.
And yet the fortunate people must go on living.
Life provided a peculiar set of experiences and now it has dunked me into small town living.
People are worrisome.
"How can anyone be OK with our tax dollars funding this, I keep asking myself? How can anyone be OK with the fact that innocent children are suffering unimaginable horrors and Americans are helping to pay for it? How can anyone be OK with the fact that Gaza has basically been rendered uninhabitable? How can any journalist be OK with the fact that nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza?
The answer to those questions is and always has been: Palestinians simply don’t count. They certainly didn’t seem to count to the attendees of the glitzy White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday. The annual event has long been criticized for making the press look too chummy with the politicians they are supposed to be holding to account and Saturday’s event certainly seemed to reinforce that idea. In the middle of what many people argue is a US-funded genocide in Gaza – one in which Joe Biden has repeatedly expressed zero empathy for Palestinians – comedian Colin Jost stood up and told the room what a decent guy the president is.
'[My grandfather] voted for you,' Jost told Biden. 'And the reason that he voted for you is because you’re a decent man. My grandpa voted for decency, and decency is why we’re all here tonight. Decency is how we’re able to be here tonight. Decency is how we’re able to make jokes about each other, and one of us doesn’t go to prison after – we go to the Newsmax after-party.'
A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in Gaza. By the time that Jost had finished his speech, finished waxing lyrical about decency, there were a couple more dead kids killed by Biden administration bombs. By the time they’d finished their little after-party, another dozen kids would be dead. This, people like Jost want us to think, is what decency looks like. And he’s not the only one: American elites are obsessed with toxic notions of decency and civility. All of which tends to be code for: keep quiet and accept the status quo. We must reject this idea. There is nothing more indecent than staying silent in the face of injustice."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves
That's another piece of history that didn't get covered in school.
"Look up 'mountain meadows massacre'"
~ Alyssa Grenfell
https://youtube.com/shorts/G5D7IJkh0DY?si=MIZST5S1lnf38d5B
"Mountain Meadows Massacre" - Wikipedia
Patriarchal Cults have some common attributes.
"It’s all about those fat stacks of cash 💰"
~ Alyssa Grenfell
But why?
"AMERICANS WHO GET their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits."
~ Ryan Grim
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/
Maybe later.
"It was hard to think about the finale of 'Curb,' or rewatch the 'Palestinian Chicken' episode, amid the cruelty and carnage of the past six months. The comedy of manners plays with the mores of civilization; it can lose its charm when civilization succumbs to barbarity. In life, as in comedy, timing is essential.
In the closing minutes of the finale, Jerry comes to visit Larry in his cell and tells him that he is free. One of the jurors (a Joe Pesci imitator) evidently broke the rules of sequestration. A mistrial has been declared. 'You don’t want to end up like this,' Jerry tells Larry as he leads him out of the cell. 'Nobody wants to see it. Trust me.' And so Larry and his friends board a flight from Atlanta to L.A.—first class, of course, bitching and arguing all the way home."
~ David Remnick
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/curb-your-enthusiasm-finale-review
Unfortunately...
"Yale Police disrupt Yale Gospel Choir rehearsal"
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/29/yale-police-disrupt-yale-gospel-choir-rehearsal/
Rules.
"The Palestine Rules dictate you do the following: ignore every international agency if that agency says anything remotely critical about Israel. Certainly don’t listen to international aid agencies like Oxfam when they argue that the government of Israel is 'deliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip.' Nope, the fact that babies in Gaza are dying of malnutrition is all their fault. The fact that children in Gaza are starving at the fastest rate the world has ever known is nothing to do with Israel, it’s the fault of those pesky Palestinians.
The fact that there are an unprecedented number of child amputees in Gaza is the Palestinians’ fault. Let’s be very clear here: if every single Palestinian had fled the land they were born in back in 1948, when Israel was founded, if they’d just completely renounced their Palestinian identity, none of the horrors currently unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank would be happening. Can’t argue with that logic, can you?"
~ Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves
Did you know.
"I was supposed to write this column a couple of days ago but every time I sat down at my desk and tried to write about the horrors in Gaza, I felt physically sick and had to stop."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves
Reading about yesterday with a headache.
"After protests smoldered at UCLA and USC over the weekend, campus demonstrations grew in scope around Southern California on Monday.
Student encampments were established Monday at Eagle Rock’s Occidental College, as well as UC Irvine and UC Riverside, and a protest took place at Cal Poly Pomona."
~ Clara Harter
"UCLA faculty walk out as pro-Palestine demonstrations counterprotests grow across SoCal campuses"
What, when did this happen?
Oh Lord, I got to text some people and tell them that we went to a "Public Ivy" now. I mean, at a more reasonable hour
"THE PUBLIC IVIES
These 10 state universities, spread across the U.S., attract high-achievers and turn out hard-working, highly-regarded employees."
What fun! Need to get sleepy.
I looked up math formula stuff.
Women's health and modern medical practices!
It comes out to more than $1750 to pay for the appointments and tests to find out you haven't got something serious like cancer, even with insurance, and to get a medication that causes cramps but will eventually stop your excessive bleeding.
To pay out of pocket for an alternative treatment regimen that actually helped you stop bleeding in a way that made you feel better, and including black currant oil and iron supplements and other things, it cost around 20 percent of that amount.
(Not including any future follow up appointments).
Monday, April 29, 2024
Who said life was fair.
Am I going to have to help myself, and be even more humble, and maybe more musical, even though I KNOW WHAT I KNOW and I don't know WHAT I DO NOT KNOW, now, TOO?
So intelligent.
"Arvo Pärt: My Heart's in the Highlands"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ&si=BgS0afzHe6SgXNV5
🌍❄️🌎🏔️🌏
"Poem Of The Week: 'My Heart's In The Highlands' By Robert Burns"
https://www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-of-the-Week-My-Hearts-in-the-Highlands-by-Robert-Burns
Bless.
"Getting warmer this week"- BBC Weather
https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/68920769
Also, "Rain at times," and "Bank holiday weekend?"It's another country. Who cares? It's about the same over here in the United States of America.
Emotional processing could change the course of history.
Maybe you should do more giggling at life's absurdity while crying and less of whatever else you're f****** doing.
Eat your breakfasts, growing children.
Get dressed, go to school, do your report on that short story by Camus, be grateful you're a lot better off than others, and remember that we're gonna vote for the good guy!
"The Guest" - Albert Camus
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/12/the-guest/642533/
Didn't they have loving mothers and fathers?
"War on Gaza: Israeli drones lure Palestinians with with crying children recordings then shoot them
Locals report Israeli quadcopters drawing people out of their houses by playing sounds of women and children in distress"
Is that right?
"What do they say? ‘What are they going to do, vote for the guy that banned Arabs?’ And the answer is yes,' Amer Zahr, a Palestinian American comedian and Dearborn local, told me at one of the city’s many Yemeni cafés one afternoon. We had both arrived exactly 20 minutes late, matching each other’s tardiness, and he spent the early part of the meeting jokingly insulting the cuisine in Egypt, where my parents are from. Then he got down to it.
He noted with obvious disdain how Biden clumsily waved off dwindling support among Arab Americans, suggesting they will eventually be forced to rally behind him or otherwise risk helping Trump. 'The former president wants to put a ban on Arabs coming into the country,' Biden had said. 'We’ll make sure—we understand who cares about the Arab population.'”
'Imagine thinking it’s a good argument to say to a community that has lost 30,000 people, ‘Watch out for the guy that’s going to ban you.’ You’re really asking me whether I’m going to take a ban or a genocide? I’ll take a ban,' Zahr told me. (The Biden campaign didn’t reply to a request for comment.)"
~ Aymann Ismail
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/donald-trump-joe-biden-2024-election-michigan-muslims.html
Tesla was bad, and now he's dead. Blame Tesla.
"Nikola Tesla the Eugenicist: Eliminating Undesirables by 2100"
Lack of vision can be deadly. That's how it looks...
Patriarchal people still want others to reward the privileged ones for repeating old patterns of selfishness even when those ways are so poisonously bad for them.
Poisonous for even the most privileged American parents and children.
Patriarchal Culture wants you to think that propping up those values is what is good for you and your children.
Then, you feel compelled to act as if you are more valuable than other kinds of people in the most off-putting, offensive ways.
Like, do you really think that being more heterosexual, or from the most acceptable cultural background, or having more money, or being more able to get pregnant is what makes you superior as a human being?
Why act like that?
What kinds of gross, crass, Tesla-esque eugenics types of behaviors got programmed into people, and what kinds of rewards do people still get to make them continue those unwell behavior patterns?
Praise for Problematic, Privileged Patriarchal People?
What valuable life lessons they have delivered.
They really did get certain behaviors and values deeply ingrained into their psyches as innocent young children.
How coldly and stubbornly self-centered and indifferent towards others they were trained to act and behave it still seems, sometimes!
Genocide is Bad.
"The Storm Brewing in Michigan
Are Arabs in the state really prepared to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump? In a word: yes."
BY AYMANN ISMAIL
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/donald-trump-joe-biden-2024-election-michigan-muslims.html
What a depraved use of money and technology!
"War on Gaza: Israeli drones lure Palestinians with with crying children recordings then shoot them
Locals report Israeli quadcopters drawing people out of their houses by playing sounds of women and children in distress"
They inherited disrespectful ways that are not the best for them, either.
Maybe it's better to see the people who are being needlessly patriarchal like forest creatures who are drinking out of a poisoned stream.
They know not what they are doing to themselves, too, by adopting those behaviors.
God knows a higher power knows...
I feel like this Patriarchal Culture that is still on Earth is oftentimes so painful. But, I still can love the music!
For the next wake-up...
"Wild Violet Tincture, Perfectionism, and Spring's Arrival"
~ Quiet in the Land
I actually feel like flowers make me feel better.
As in, looking at all the varieties people have been able to see on their walks and make note of.
People have strange ways of communicating their standards and sadly...
I wasn't entirely prepared for the presumptuousness of some people. They seem to need to exclude so many other kinds of people in order to feel valued or validated by the prism through which they prefer to see things.
Also, my mother had a number of friends who didn't have children, and we hung out with them.
There are so many kinds of violets on iNaturalist.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Aw, learning things!
"Milk toast is an easily digestible food and is exactly what it sounds like—toast soaked in milk. It is typically given to those who are ill or who have a 'nervous stomach.' H.T. Webster clearly modeled this character’s name after the dish."
Dizziness considering.
Maybe I should become more of a kinda milquetoasty, easy-to-talk to person, like maybe it's possible to be milquetoast in a good way, like, whoever knew milquetoastiness could be so healthy, like, that's peace, man.
"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens..."
This may have been my "favorite thing" to read today...
"Henry Cervantes, farmworker turned WWII pilot"
I will need to address grief issues.
I got physically dizzy and felt unwell in a store and didn't want to buy food anymore. I want to cry, but I am just lying down with no tears and maybe trying some healing modalities later. When it feels like they'll work. Who doesn't want to cry sometimes? It's a life on a planet of sadness and unnecessary war. I feel very tired, but it's in a griefy way. I am slightly amused by making grief into an adjective by adding a y.
Sometimes, dissatisfaction is good.
"Weekly Briefing: ‘Thank God for the students'"
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/weekly-briefing-thank-god-for-the-students/
Way better than "toxic positivity" in exchange for a paycheck.
Just imagine a world where more people were honest.
"Sanders says there’s not ‘any doubt’ Netanyahu is perpetrating ‘ethnic cleansing’"
I have not seen this show. Sounds messy, eh?
"Why row over Baby Reindeer sleuths will change real life drama"
Why can't your immature, overgrown brothers evolve more quickly?
Someday you may wonder on a deeper level why patriarchal culture feels more disgusting to some people than it feels to others.
"He'd make a great penguin though"
https://www.instagram.com/streamonmax/reel/C6RjVpcrawQ/
Maybe if Conan hangs out more with his slightly more mature friend Stephen Colbert (who doesn't, I think, spy on people when he feels neglected) it would make a difference?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Stephen Colbert doesn't do that.
However, I'm sure he's made plenty of excuses for other people's antics, though.
I don't think the fortunate ones in Patriarchal Society would like it if poor farmworkers acted like that with "one of their women folk." Such as their daughters, for example.
It's a very systemically biased and classist and racist and sexist type of comedy, and not really all that funny actually, when you see it from a certain angle.
But while my sensibilities and my body can't just go along with their immature coping mechanisms, and while I still feel that this guy should get more emotionally mature, he and many other people clearly feel differently.
And maybe that's why he's better at partying with Netanyahu than with little Palestinian children in Refugee camps.
Grow up.
Don't be two steps away from being an uncaring tiktok Soldier.
Grow up.
I think some of these Entertainment guys are still being too much like frat boys who get the sorority girls to make excuses for them in exchange for materialistic benefits.
Does Conan want to be like the vigilant older sister who has to deal with panic attacks and watch over the little ones and stuff like that in his next life?
Maybe some of his old friends who passed away and are in different lives are already doing that, now?
Actually, "Journey of Souls" is within reach, on my bedroom bookshelf.
They're coming back.
"Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives"
I wonder if she is still in the same life? Her account doesn't exist any longer.
"My IVF pregnancy came during the war" – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/gaza-diary-my-ivf-pregnancy-came-during-the-war/
A month later! Also, I need to see this again.
"Personal choice vs. politics in Waitress" – GirlsOnTops
https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/personal-choice-vs-politics-in-waitress
Posted on a recent birthday in this lifetime...
"America's journey in Real Women Have Curves"
~ Girls on Tops
https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/america-ferrera-real-women-have-curves
It's got eggs.
"1950s Parking In Cars With Boys Wasn't Popular"
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
100 years of an Earth life.
An obituary with a somewhat unique ending?
"Henry Cervantes, farmworker turned WWII pilot"
"Cervantes is survived by his sister, Jennie Gonzalez, several nieces and nephews, and his longtime partner and friend of more than 60 years, Nancy Kahn. The couple first dated in 1964 when they met in the Air Force, staying together for 10 years before they broke up. Cervantes remained single his whole life.
'He used to say he was married to the military,' Kahn said. When the two reconnected after the death of Kahn’s husband in 2014, she was 75 and he was 90.
'We did everything together,' said Kahn of the last decade of their rekindled friendship. They took care of each other and enjoyed the mundane things after a long and exciting life. Hank, as Kahn calls him, was spry and agile even in his last decade.
But his health started to decline after he developed vascular dementia from a stroke five years ago. He was hospitalized after a second stroke in early March of this year and sent home on hospice care after he lost the ability to swallow.
Kahn said Cervantes died on the same date, April 7, as he’d escaped death 79 years previously when German pilots tried to ram his B-17 bomber out of the sky."
~ Jireh Deng
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Also appreciate the mountains and a plant-based dinner.
Peacefulness can be here.
Seeing a nice person help people remotely (a new, older person who needs extra assistance) is inspiring, and it also reminds me there are times when humans can be so good at helping one another.
Go to a park, browse TEMU, what else to do?
Background sounds:
Fleet Foxes - "The Shrine / An Argument [OFFICIAL VIDEO]"
Deflect, deflect, deflect.
"Bernie Sanders says Netanyahu is attacking campus to deflect war criticism"
Seems to be a really weird & repetitive phenomenon, based on my empirical experiences.
How does "I love x" morph into "I have to discriminate against others to ensure x's success" ?
I think it's an Unwell Patriarchal Culture thing.
I guess that could happen?
My mid-day nap dream was about hanging out with a blond woman and walking on some hills and talking with her a little bit, and then later, talking for a little bit to one of those guys who felt compelled to follow me.
A show got this in my head 🎶
Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues Music Video"
510K views · 13 years ago...
https://youtu.be/KyP0DACgdgc?feature=shared
It was "Resident Alien." Episode 8, I believe.
"That was just their way of getting by."
"Sure, they might look overly accommodating when it came to going along with genocidal colonizer culture, but you must remember how often the grandparents on that side of the family were surrounded by unwell patriarchal people whose choices & behavior patterns took such a toll on their psyches."
Hahahaha...oh, well
There truly is no pleasing some people when you're not as interested in pleasing some people as they think you should be.
They chose their bosses and spouses and support systems for reasons
"Mormon face is a real thing 👱🏻👱🏻♀️ #lds #mormon"
~ Alyssa Grenfell
What fun! And very funny, too.
Ah, finished "Resident Alien" S1 E10. 👍🏼
Actually I laughed so hard I cried, and my stomach muscles felt like I did a bunch of crunches.
Friday, April 26, 2024
The more highly paid occupant of the rental casa is getting off work soon.
"Resident Alien Episode 8 recap: Everyone suffers an identity crisis."
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-aliens-episode-8-recap-identity
I love escapism, and I can't wait to finish watching this! Resi is getting highlighted for some reason. Hmmm.
This one kind of made me never want to work for a man...
Who knows why, honesty.
"Kim Kardashian joins Kamala Harris at White House to talk criminal justice reform."
This is a great piece. Future generations will read it to dissect our cultural values.
"An Israeli bomb destroyed 4,000 embryos at a Gaza IVF centre. Where is the outrage?"
Chill, chill.... things will be better tomorrow.
Neil Diamond - 'Forever In Blue Jeans"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FKiemHPECZI&si=imNt4YRsAuAZKpx_
Don't worry, the universe also wanted Elon Musk to sit next to me on two airplanes and have me talk to him about Grimes and then have Grimes be all...anyway, whatever.
Stevie Nicks - "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw&si=nbZsP2-8HmvmvxvN
Hey. They do this? They don't know who the out of wedlock great great Grandpa was!
"It’s all fun and games till you find out why they’re doing this"
What if unknown great great Grandpa was a sociopathic stalker, but he had a good side, too?A female president could join a walking group. Why can't a male president do that.
"Haven’t all wars been started by men?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAwYlrSrerw&si=UtFHfa1XR3XY9wOW
"After 50 You Just Stop Caring. Karen Morgan"
Maybe I should watch "World on Fire"
Because I started watching the first season of it during the pandemic and I heard there's another season and you know it's about like war and heroes and
"Season 2, World on Fire" | Ahad Raza Mir
Why can't you say no to a deeply unwell Patriarchy?
"Baby girl born in Gaza after her mother was killed"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247453317/gaza-baby-girl-mother-killed-israel-airstrike
"Morgue records and survivors say most of those killed in this past weekend's airstrikes on Rafah were children, including 16 from one family.
Over the past five weeks, more than 230 people have been killed in airstrikes in Rafah, with three-quarters of the victims women and children, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
The U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, says more than 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded. U.N. Women says, on average, two mothers have been killed per hour in Gaza since the start of the war."
~ Aya Batrawy, Anas Baba
Aliens! What do you know about them?
"'Zach Braff Reacts to Critics Turning Against ‘Garden State,’ Plus Manic Pixie Dream Girl Backlash: ‘I Can’t Really Dwell on It’"
"Morgan Freeman accused of sexual harassment by eight women"
I will finish reading this tonight!
"Resident Alien Episode 8 recap: Everyone suffers an identity crisis."
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-aliens-episode-8-recap-identity
Little C's have messages for Big Important Ones
"See messages children in Gaza have for American college students"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/world/video/gaza-children-messages-protesters-college-campus-digvid
The universe of interactive things.
"Interactive: The Unequal States of America | Economy"
https://www.epi.org/multimedia/unequal-states-of-america/
Okay universe, that's enough for now.
"And I just want you to know that they're not doing you any favors and you're going to end up reincarnating as one of those little slobs that they clearly don't care about and and and and and and oh forget it."
Class! That's what the universe wants me to look at next?
Ladies of Privilege and Leisure reared in a Very Patriarchal Society explain why no one, and I mean no one, was better at bringing out their protective maternal instincts than really, really, REEEALLY RICH DUDES! In the 2020$.
Should I?
"See messages children in Gaza have for American college students"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/world/video/gaza-children-messages-protesters-college-campus-digvid
Even if some of the Patriarchal people still seem to wish I would pay much more attention to them?
"Conan O'Brien-fever, Day 4: Meets Netanyahu, Feeds His Dog and Does Jerusalem, West Bank"
Not everyone on this planet has had the privilege of choosing their torture and getting rewarded for it, I have been noticing.
"Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons"
I do wonder when some of the most privileged ones will start processing their unresolved childhood issues.I came up with a joke!
"The Wishy-Washy Grandparent maketh life more difficult for the grandchild or for herself in the next life. Ha ha!"
What brings so-and-so to such a place?
“'Seeing the brutal horrors of the apartheid system firsthand absolutely destroyed me, and destroyed my worldview,' Eddy said.
'Walking through Bethlehem, for instance, there being separate walkways and caged channels for Arab people or people with darker color, and having felt the bullet holes in the walls with these children showing me where their families were killed, like: I don’t get to see that and remain silent.'
Eddy, 24, spent eight days on hunger strike as students at Yale appealed for the university to divest from military manufacturers. They suffered dizziness, mood swings and lost 16lb: 'But still none of this compares to the half-million people who are experiencing starvation in Gaza. I had a roof over my head, I had access to clean water, and I didn’t have to fear about being bombed, or shot, or forcibly removed from my home.'
At least 47 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Yale’s campus, in Connecticut, on Monday, with the university claiming that hundreds of people had violated 'policies and instructions regarding occupying outdoor spaces.'"
~ Adam Gabbat
"Four students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/college-protests-israel-gaza
Too bad he didn't learn better ways from a better dad.
"Netanyahu's father, Benzion, was a professor of Jewish history at Cornell University,[445] editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, and a senior aide to Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who remained active in research and writing into his nineties. Regarding the Palestinian people, he stated: 'That they won't be able to face [anymore] the war with us, which will include withholding food from Arab cities, preventing education, terminating electrical power and more. They won't be able to exist, and they will run away from here. But it all depends on the war, and whether we will win the battles with them.'[446]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
"In Gaza, people boil weeds and eat animal feed to stave off hunger"
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/29/1241148952/gaza-hunger-famine-aid-israel-hamas-war
"As Netanyahu compares U.S. university protests to Nazi Germany, young Palestinians welcome the support"
Oh, I guess it makes sense, kind of.
"Nope, still too unwell & sociopathic for you," the universe said, again and again.
They might be more fortunate.
Throughout history, some people who were raised by unwell, sociopathic, uncaring people actually found other kinds of much healthier people to hang out with, in spite of all the unwell behaviors that were performed for them & possibly even normalized by the sociopathically uncaring people.
Next time...
The very stubborn and unwell people with lots of money who are still giving the other stubborn unwell people lots of money in spite of all the senseless violence will be on the other side of the fence, because to be so stubborn is to be sucked into repeating unlearned lessons.
This is not good way to deal with problems.
"12-year-old in Gaza shot by Israeli forces while getting food"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246593844/israel-gaza-palestinian-boy-shot-food-aid
Prejudice. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
"USC vetoed a Muslim student’s graduation speech for her pro-Palestinian views. Why?"
The Patriarchal Culture didn't train the liberal and conservative parents to pay attention to this sort of thing.
"An Israeli bomb destroyed 4,000 embryos at a Gaza IVF centre. Where is the outrage?"
"The birthing death is inevitable."
"Resident Alien Episode 8 recap: Everyone suffers an identity crisis"
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-aliens-episode-8-recap-identity
"Helplessness Blues" ~ Fleet Foxes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HHgedNNQco&si=nMCJYLtGSnthVv8Q
Don't have time to explain tonight.
Stevie Nicks - "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw&si=NA3OHY7A9z-knyI8
Finally finishing this reminded me of how much both liberal and conservative women of the 2020s are still dragging the old ball and chain of Patriarchal Programming around...
"The Great Books -- Episode 252: 'The Book of the City of Ladies"
Thursday, April 25, 2024
It might be interesting to see this exhibit someday.
I don't feel as much need to as when I was younger because I've been able to learn so much more from using the tool of the internet since then.
"Remembering the Lives of the Four Slain Students"
https://www.kent.edu/magazine/4slain
And yet, it might be interesting to see this exhibit someday.
Good Grief.
"As of early April, at least 224 humanitarian workers had been killed in the Israel-Hamas war that began last October. According to the U.N. Security Council, the figure is 'more than three times as many humanitarian aid workers killed in any single conflict recorded in a single year.'"
~ Bill Chappell
"World Central Kitchen celebrates lives of 7 workers"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1247095510/world-central-kitchen-workers-memorial-israel-gaza-hamas
Well, I guess the system is like those coffee shop guys who think Weinstein was badly treated.
"Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned"
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3
Honestly, if we get a horrible sexist misogynistic uncaring man as the next president, a lot of people in Certain Patriarchal Industries can say, ah! So familiar! Like one of our own!
What if it's genetic?
I feel that acting like a rich, sociopathic person who lives to please some very inconsiderate, cruel people who act like they absolutely do not care about anyone else just so long as their own egos get an immediate (albeit temporary) gratification boost is literally not even good for my body!
I still feel like some people were acting differently (better) when they were younger than they're acting now (ugh).
I wonder if certain people in the entertainment industry have a tendency to develop more sociopathic traits than the average person, partially as a way to survive their industry.
Just be glad that they haven't been drafted into an army where they'd be killing and dehumanizing people and making jokes about it in nauseating tik toks, I guess?
So much information to wade through...
Lots of ads crowding the space before the end of this article.
"Fifteen-year-old Sam was almost illiterate when he arrived at Bunce Court. He was also broken in spirit, witness to repeated acts of such horror that all his faith in human behaviour had gone.
While his entire family had been rounded up to be executed or transported six years previously, Polish Sam managed to escape the ghetto and go on the run.
Alone and terrified, he lost all bearings of what it meant to be human.
After liberation, unable to find any family alive, he made it to a displaced persons camp. He described himself as 'savage.'
But he took up the offer of going to school in England. 'It took a great deal of love and determination to help us,' he said of the child survivors at Bunce.
He could remember his mum’s love. As Sam got to know Tante Anna, he felt it again.
He went on to be a professor at Humboldt State University in California, where he founded the Altruistic Behaviour Institute."
~ Emily Retter
"Headmistress smuggled her pupils from Nazi Germany school to new start in Kent"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/headmistress-smuggled-pupils-nazi-germany-27494240
Wounded Egotistical Control Issues presenting themselves again?
You might have noticed how much some people can have in common with even more extreme personalities, such as Phyllis Schlafly or Trump or Netanyahu.
But maybe it's good to notice these things.
Is being "nice" always the best for one's health?
Sometimes when people want you to be nicer, they're also trying to shut you down and control the narrative.
Sometimes those people have more privileges when they go along with the oppressive systems, and they just don't want to see what it's like for others.
By seeing their addictions to pretending their way is the best way, you know that what's best for them is actually pretty much the opposite of what's best for a whole lot of other people.
There's a recording somewhere in which Sam O. said he had problems with anger and violence when he was younger, especially when he was in the army...it's on the internet.
Perhaps the universe wants me to wonder.
"Dr. Samuel P. Oliner (1930-2021) | The Altruistic Behavior Institute"
Recently wondered if Sam O. is looking down on Humboldt...
"Cal Poly Humboldt campus to stay closed through the weekend after pro-Palestinian protesters take over building"
"POLL! So How Are We Feeling About the Cal Poly Humboldt Protests?"
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/polls/2024/apr/24/poll-so-how-are-we-feeling-about-cal-poly-humboldt/
"Former Humboldt County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Sentenced in Domestic Violence Case"
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
I was reminded of her again.
Does the universe want humans to become better?
"Like Anne, Barbro was a child prodigy writer. in adulthood, to overcome her phobia of uniforms and to work with horses, Barbro served as a mounted police woman for the Swedish national police force. Anne Frank was persecuted as a Jew, whereas Barbro was born into a Christian family showing that religion can change from lifetime to lifetime. If the Nazis knew one could be born Jewish in one lifetime and Christian in another, the Holocaust could not have happended. Similarly, evidence of reincarnation can help quell violence we now witness in the Middle East.”
https://pointintimetherapy.com/the-reincarnation-case-of-anne-frank-barbre-karlen/
"The story of Barbro Karlén..."
https://vritant.substack.com/p/the-story-of-barbro-karlen-the-writer
She also was mentioned in Cal State SB's Coyote Chronicle in 2013.
This EARTH life sometimes.
"Oh Comely" ~ NMH 🎶🎶🎶🎶
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DXSY0aspgKo&si=J7wOSl9-I-lIoE0C
No one can be on funny mode all the time.
Oh, this other cat factoid I learned today...
"William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (1561) – a satirical book considered by some to be the first ever novel, which centres around a man who learns to understand the language of a group of terrifying supernatural cats, one of whom, Mouse-slayer, is on trial for promiscuity."
~ Zaria Gorvett
"The Forgotten Medieval Habit of Two Sleeps"
Wow, the first English novel was about a cat? How did I not know this before today, as an English major.
Someday I will go back to that other land...
In the meantime, I think his friends should pray for his soul. Maybe Jordan would do it?
"Nothing sexier than watching Conan O’Brien."
I think of "Ack, Bill the Cat."And I guess I noticed this third...
"Before being elected mayor of Dearborn at the age of 31, Hammoud served in Michigan’s house of representatives as a Democrat until 2021. The son of a small business-owner mother and a truck-driver father, both from southern Lebanon, he too has felt the effects of the deepening conflict in the Middle East.
'Both my father’s and mother’s villages have been bombed by Israeli airstrikes. They have all moved towards Beirut now,' he says. 'That’s the reality for many of us who are Lebanese.'”
~ Stephen Starr
"'It’s very personal’: could Abdullah Hammoud, a Michigan mayor, hold the key to the 2024 elections?
The mayor of Dearborn leads a community that registered unprecedented numbers of ‘uncommitted’ votes in the primary"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/abdullah-hammoud-dearborn-mayor-elections
What and How? Noticed this part second.
“What people are trying to grapple with is: ‘How is it that my family was obliterated in Gaza with American-manufactured weapons? How does that happen?’”
~ Stephen Starr in Dearborn, Michigan
"'It’s very personal’: could Abdullah Hammoud, a Michigan mayor, hold the key to the 2024 elections?"
When I read the story, noticed this part first.
"Hammoud says that while Trump back in the White House is 'the last thing people want to see,' many Dearborn residents have more pressing things to think about.
'I think that you cannot make the argument to them that somehow under Trump things would be worse. What is worse than losing 80 family members? I think that’s extremely disrespectful.”
~ Stephen Starr in Dearborn, Michigan
They're obviously getting something out of this, hmmm?
"The Truth About the Past That 'Tradwives' Want to Revive"
Plus, sometimes it takes a while to get the kind of help that you need.
Sometimes it seems as though there's some brothers who maybe "get it" a little more quickly than others. They can be helpful by role modeling "getting it" for their other brothers, who don't seem to want to listen to certain kinds of *women,* (and maybe that's why they don't "get it" quite as quickly?)
Because everyone's had different kinds of childhoods, and different types of emotional wounds from those childhoods, and different ways of dealing with their traumatic experiences, and those are things which probably should have been addressed sooner rather than later.
But many were suppressed by the patriarchal society, which has led some people to feel like they need to channel their angry or sad feelings in destructive ways rather seek other, healthier options such as therapy, (which also is not a "quick fix" by the way, is it?)
Sure, I will click on this, too!
"Let’s think critically about why old men in power want all women to speak like little girls"
~ Alyssa Grenfell
Why not travel to exotic locales in your very own country, next?
This was either when he was feeling like Nixon, or when he was feeling like the one who peers into people's windows.
"(Conan's Version) #TTPD"| Instagram
And then the cultural rebellion happened, but what did Grandma have to wear!
"1957 'Bad Taste' Clothes Got You Kicked Out Of School"
Last Century 🎼 This Century
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" / 🌌 / "Chicago"
And again...later...
🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
~ Neutral Milk Hotel
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/36467/
"Chicago"
~ Sufjan Stevens
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858519019/
🎶🌌🎶
Sometimes, just reading one article makes me feel like a little kid who's about to go off a high, high, high diving board.
"The Food Diary Of Anne Frank: Two Years Of Meals In The Secret Annex
Maybe reading one article is enough.
"Anne Frank and her dentist Dr. Pfeffer"
https://www.drschonberg.com/MyBlog/?p=271
Why isn't one enough?
"My Mother, Who Hid Anne Frank..."
https://www.vogue.com/article/the-last-secret-of-the-secret-annex-essay
X's care! When...
Oh how could she.
"Phyllis Schlafly only cares about women when they are her" (9:18).
~ Hysteria podcast
"Phyllis Schlafly..."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VRbTCu_XAOw&si=kmt9Lv6YoPh7Eemg
There's a far more sympathetic portrayal of Phyllis by Care Blanchett in "Mrs. America!"
"Mrs. America Episode 7 Trailer | 'Bella'"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0MmcIqKfiA4&si=tMT_UitOPtaZZV0i
Patriarchal People are complex.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
You would have made a great dad! The universe hinted, via The Onion.
"Dad Blows Through 10 Of Child’s Snack Packs In One Sitting"
https://www.theonion.com/dad-blows-through-10-of-child-s-snack-packs-in-one-sitt-1851392079
Maybe when people learn how to deal with loss better, less of it will happen.
"The pain of loss has not stopped."
~ Saleh Salem, Imad Creidi and Andrew Mills
'Gaza's IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike"
I have read a few books, in school. Or outside of school, on my own time.
About how people get convinced to go along with some very unhealthy patterns.
Is it due to the arrangement of certain circumstances within this lifetime?
Or possibly, other lifetimes?
Which makes it harder to just look away?
I spent a tiny amount of time in Dearborn, Michigan. Sure.
And it is continuously being shown to me that many of us are much more fortunate at this time than starving or orphaned people, or people who have had to endure horrendous medical treatment, because somebody decided American tax dollars should fund genocide, and I still wonder, how has this has happened?
Wow, everything.
"Rep. Joaquin Castro: 'All of us have seen the tragedy of Gaza. We have seen how Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government has used American weapons to kill indiscriminately, to force famine, over 25,000 women and children dead, tens of thousands of missiles and bombs levied on innocent civilians. We cannot escape what we see before us every day. … Are we going to participate in that carnage or not? I choose not to.'”
"House Approves $95B in Foreign Military Funding, Incl. Another $26B for Israel"
which is under
"Gaza: Over 200 Bodies, Including Children, Found in Mass Grave"
"What we can learn from Congressman Joaquin Castro's cancer treatment"
"Castro warns of GOP’s adversarial rhetoric around Latino immigrants"
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/10/joaquin-castro-latinos-republicans/
"Joaquin Castro Slams Warner Bros. for Shelving 'Coyote vs Acme'"
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/joaquin-castro-warner-bros-discovery-coyote-vs-acme-1235790855/
Apparently, both prejudices and pesticides can be very bad for human beings
“'There's something deeply unjust and sick about our society,' says 47-year-old Sabat el-Sa, a mother of twins born through the IVF procedure after 30 years of marriage. 'When the couples can't have children, it is always the woman to be blamed. Usually, men don't even do medical checks, while the whole family supports them and even insists they would get a second or third wife. In my case, my husband remarried to then find out that it was him, who couldn't have kids!'
In contrast to female infertility, male infertility is a taboo, especially in patriarchal societies like Gaza.
While it's true that the birth rate is still high, in the Strip there's been a significant increase in the number of infertility cases amongst men.
'In 90 percent of cases men suffer from either few or slow spermatozoa,' states Doctor Tharwat al Helou, for who a famous Gaza City clinic was named. 'Moreover, today most of the patients live in border areas, which are exposed to the military attacks, thus I believe there is a link between infertility and the advent of the three wars. Surely, to the traumas caused by the bombings, we must add the exposition to chemical agents, pesticides, and white phosphorus...'”
~ Eleonora Vio
"IVF births boom in the Gaza Strip of Palestine"
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/ivf-births-boom-in-the-gaza-strip-of-palestine-12730203
Four years ago, this was. How many of the kids are healthy and alive now?
"IVF births boom in the Gaza Strip of Palestine"
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/ivf-births-boom-in-the-gaza-strip-of-palestine-12730203
IVF may be overrated, but this is extreme.
Extremely genocidal! Get it?
"Gaza's IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike"
Hey! "Why don't you liberal rich students get your parents to adopt some orphans," huh?
No, voice, no! Too soon, too soon...
"Mass arrests made as US campus protests over Gaza"
Parents be crazy sometimes, too.
"And I, for one, simply refuse to believe that a liberal parent of a child whose worldview has been saturated with Patriarchal Values would care even less about your human rights than a conservative parent of a child whose worldview has been saturated with Patriarchal Values!"
I ate too much peanut butter on toast! Oh well, good thing I don't have a deadly allergy to peanuts.
Neil Diamond - "Forever In Blue Jeans (Audio)"
One month ago, whose tax dollars???
"The Science Is Clear. Over 30,000 People Have Died in Gaza"
BY LES ROBERTS
MARCH 15, 2024 1:36 PM EDT
"Les Roberts is an Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including: Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Repoublic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Repbulic 2009, 2018, and 2022, and Sierra Leone 2000 and 2014."
Life is hard for the well-off, too.
Well-off people's incessant need to display how much they have in common with the "Ack! How can they possibly go along with that when he is so awful and they have daughters?" Trump voters.
Think about it.
God might actually be much less biased towards or against certain kinds of people than some of your parents are.
War, what is it good for in the 2020$.
Showing off how, in the 2020$, narcissistic, needy people of all backgrounds did not have to be from any one culture or race to still be pushing that Old Patriarchal White Supremacy Violent Colonizer Agenda? Someone's money has had to pay for all that destruction.
Lately I have had my doubts that more money always makes people more healthy.
"The income a family of 4 needs to live comfortably"
He'll have to make new friends.
What's a needy man going to do when he gets reincarnated into the body of an orphan that none of his acolytes care about? How will he get enough to eat?
The Patriarchal Patterns Are So Disturbing.
Although certain very rich people still love to perform their strange entitlement rituals of showing how much they want to cater to certain unwell rich man babies more than any other kind of person on the planet, you don't have to go along with their bigotry.
Just because they're completely addicted to uncaring, narcissistic, sociopathic, selfishness, which is so unwell that it can actually become genocidal, does going along with that stuff seem healthy to you?
Yikes. No.
Will the baby grow up? Interesting way to show how much society loves babies. What if the baby lived here (America) in a previous life?
"Baby saved from dying mother's womb after Israeli airstrike on Gaza city of Rafah named in her honor"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-rafah-baby-mother-killed-idf-airstrike/
Monday, April 22, 2024
I can get an open faced peanut butter sandwich with cinnamon.
Watch that "Resident Alien" show again.
Sometimes I think I would rather hang out with moms and kids than with controlling dudes in any industry.
"Top US national parks to visit with kids and families"
https://thepointsguy.com/guide/family-friendly-national-parks/
It's also just a strange way to deal with the hand that their lives dealt them...
There are some very controlling, abusive people in entertainment world who really go out of their way to be dehumanizing.
Apparently, people who get paid to normalize biased, shallow worldviews based on lifestyles of cruelty and bigotry actually aren't the most trustworthy people.
Too many would've been the genocidal soldiers making TikToks or the Nazis if they had been born to other circumstances, and that's pretty sad.
Hey, quit knocking stuff over!
My cat has the best high meow and the nicest fur and not the greatest manners, though. But she is entertaining! Genuinely playful.
"Look for the helpers," said that guy who had a famous show for kids.
Maybe all the parents who actually don't want their descendants to turn themselves into uncaring narcissistic assholes just to get through life will be able help the needlessly starving ones?
Why not not starve children?
"Trapped and Starving, 2 Families in Gaza Try to Keep Their Children Alive"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-starvation-children.html
You ever wonder how our society could be much nicer to children?
Proverbs - "Once bitten, twice shy" Vs "A burnt child dreads fire"
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/206038/once-bitten-twice-shy-vs-a-burnt-child-dreads-fire
Seriously! Part 3
I think some of you should start having much higher standards and expectations for respecting other human beings than what got role-modeled for you.
Seriously! Part 2.
Do you think she should feel better if, even though some not famous author or some other not famous types of rich entertaining people were the ones following her, they can still say: "Hey we heard famous authors get away with stuff like this. We heard entertaining famous rich guys did stuff like this lots of times. We don't see why we can't do it too. We're just trying to have fun and entertain ourselves, too, and that's just another day in the good life for us!"
Gabrielle Moses - "ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings"
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLabL8Py/
Gabrielle Moses - "Why didn't you call the police when you were in Costco"
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLabHs2Q/
Seriously! Do you think she would feel better if they were famous authors or entertaining rich guys?
Gabrielle Moses - "ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings"
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLabL8Py/
Gabrielle Moses -"Why didn't you call the police when you were in Costco"
This is probably not entirely true but...hmmm.
"The income a family of 4 needs to live comfortably in every state"
Which type of body is best equipped for this kind of stuff under the watchful guidelines of Your Patriarchal Mindset?
"The need was urgent, Gupta recalled. She particularly remembered one patient who had driven hours by herself from Arizona for an abortion. After the procedure, 'she literally jumped off the table, started to get dressed and asked: ‘Can I go home now?’ Because she had arranged childcare for a certain amount of time.' Gupta and her colleagues begged her to stay just 10 minutes so they could observe her before she drove the four hours home.
'That is the level of motivation that we are seeing,' she said."
~ Cecilia Nowell
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/california-abortion-sanctuary-arizona-ban
Seems unwise & unhealthy to do that, too.
Why should you discriminate against your own descendants, who will be different from you, even if you are their biological parents or grandparents?
Ever weirdly get a song in your head?
Some people seem to have been taught "I can't smile without discriminating against you," instead.
"Barry Manilow – 'Can't Smile Without You' Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Barry-manilow-cant-smile-without-you-lyrics
You keep on keeping on doing it. Why do you feel comfortable doing that??
So the patriarchy wants you discriminate against cancer survivors and me, too.
Even though I am not lucky enough to be "as genetically privileged as some," at this moment in my life, I do seem to be fortunate enough to not be suffering from cancer.
Do cancer survivors deserve to be discriminated against? Why should you discriminate against them?
Why should you discriminate against anybody?
Why does the prayer key want you to discriminate so much against so many different kinds of people?
Oops, not prayer key. I mean, the patriarchy.
Which apparently has gotten embedded into some people's prayer activities as well.
Controlling the narrative according to what suits your ego and your situation can be a fleeting experience.
"The stories women shared were 'devastating,' Schlanger said, ranging from people with multiple miscarriages, cancer survivors and some who had sold all their belongings to afford the medical procedure."
~ Jess Ruderman
"How Fenton and Resolve controlled the narrative..."
Who honestly needs to be rewarded for being "genetically privileged" the most?
The "genetically privileged" people (according to stringent Patriarchal Norms) who choose to be shallow and discriminatory towards others as a coping mechanism, just to gain some social acceptance or financial stability, really and truly are like a bottomless pit of emotional needs which never can satisfied.
There's also a great hollow fakeness about them when they act like they are satisfied with being that way.
I don't trust them.
Parents who really aren't so into human rights
and still aren't so nice to many kinds of women may feel the need to highlight the people who have let them feel like they will get more support and rewards from Patriarchal Society for being not so into human rights for a variety of people.
Otherwise, why would they still want to go through life being one of those who normalizes being derogatory to women?
There's got to be all kinds economic payoffs and societal acceptance in it for them, to make them choose to behave that way.
Of course, more than just one person has been taught to enforce the patriarchal pro-natalism.
"Kamala Harris blames Trump for abortion ban in Arizona"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-heads-arizona-after-abortion-ban-2024-04-12/
Whose life is worth something in your culture of patriarchal pro-natalism?!
"Supreme Court to consider clash of Idaho abortion ban with federal law for emergency care"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-idaho-abortion-ban-emtala-federal-law/
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Once bitten...
"You’re witnesses of the crunch"
@CrunchycatLuna
https://youtube.com/shorts/WkU-qyfuC1k?si=84pQmH-VNdr3Z9BX
TWICE CUTE!!
"Miw Uw"
@CrunchycatLuna
https://youtube.com/shorts/zSHRJnlq1NA?si=-RghpYHZ2aEIwKSR
🎼😉🎶🤣💖🫠❤️🔥😶🌫️📻
Great White - "Once Bitten Twice Shy'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bz61YQWZuYU&si=8KOBkwv20MGw96OV
Why they never came to play a local venue...
"The Station nightclub fire"
I am also reading a review or two of a play this morning.
"Like his previous play at Kiln Theatre, ‘Wife’, Adamson plays deftly with gender and expectation. The script wheels around and upends what we think we know about Hattie’s decline into self-destructive alcoholism and James’s success as a composer for an anodyne, oh-so-’90s Richard Curtis-style film about a cutout of a female character whose cancer teaches all the other male characters something."
"The Ballad of Hattie and James, Kiln Theatre review"
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-ballad-of-hattie-and-james-review
BE🎶CAUSE
"What a special night last night, seeing the incredible new play by Samuel Adamson #theballadofhattieandjames at @KilnTheatre
.
It's a truly powerful and moving drama.
Congratulations to everybody involved, not a dry eye in the house. t."
This might be something to check out.
"49:56 – the male model of fertility has dictated the template for women and the need for a new model"
"67: Patriarchy and Pronatalism..."
Wow! This week? What's up with that?
"National Infertility Awareness Week" | American Society for Reproductive Medicine
https://www.asrm.org/advocacy-and-policy/national-infertility-awareness-week/
The lessons do not seem to be lessening...
"'Although this should have been a time of celebration for my family, friends, professors, and classmates, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian voices have subjected me to a campaign of racist hatred because of my uncompromising belief in human rights for all,' Tabassum said in a statement earlier this week."
"USC cancels filmmaker's keynote : NPR"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1246072697/usc-cancels-graduation-keynote-filmmaker
Oh voice...why?
"Happy Mother's Day to everyone who is well- adjusted enough not to make their kid their little emotional support person."
New York, New York...
I feel bad about the back of my neck on the left side, so I might get more arnica today.
"New York Growers Are Fighting Farmworkers’ Right to Organize"
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/new-york-growers-farmworkers-unionize
"Why Is Elon Musk Dragging His 3-Year-Old Around the World"
Reading an article: part 1 & 2
"California homeless man builds house next to freeway"
https://abc7news.com/california-homeless-la-los-angeles-man-builds-house/14689534/
1) Cesar seems to be a man of many talents!
2) This is a joke...
Can he not find himself a sugar mama? Are they in short supply?
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Also pretty interesting story & video.
"Real life 'Young Sheldon' set to graduate from high school even though he already has a bachelor degree"
Different kind of spring break could be interesting?
“'It reminded me of areas of highly disenfranchised people,' says Gabrielle Levy, a first-year animal studies and biology student from Twinsburg, Ohio, who also is a Diversity Leadership Scholar. 'These are people doing the work that nobody else wants to do. And they live in trailers that are falling apart. Up to 20 people live in one trailer, and they rent them out at ridiculous prices. It was crazy to see we still have things like that going on in this country.
'I have food to eat and clean water and clothes I can afford. It was a good experience for me and an opportunity to see that everything isn’t available to everyone.'
Gabrielle’s mother is a school principal, her father a teacher, and many of her family members serve in the military. 'My family has always been the people wanting to step out and help others,' Gabrielle adds. 'We volunteer in soup kitchens and donate toys at Christmastime.
'After what we saw, I think modern-day slavery is still very much a thing. When [migrants] come to this country, they’re not being paid fair wages. That makes it difficult to get an education, and that puts them in a position to repeat the cycle.
'I just appreciate Dr. Porter giving us the opportunity to see outside of ourselves and Eckerd College. To be aware of people, including many people of color, who are struggling to get by.'”
~ Tom Zucco
"Helping to alleviate the plight of Immokalee farmworkers"
https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/immokalee-farmworkers-spring-break-service-trip/
Time to figure out who to pay and how to address which issues
Their yabber about pregnancy is something, but it is not improving women's healthcare.
"#ConanOBrienMustGo is just that funny.
Out now on @streamonmax. Listen to Conan’s Roundtable with his writers to hear more about the making of the show. Link in bio."
Friday, April 19, 2024
Cheers...normalized...SO... MUCH!
"Well, I don’t want men to act like children. So I guess none of us get what we want."
~ Asta
"Resident Alien - S01E04 - Birds of a Feather [Transcript]"
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/tv-series/resident-alien-s01e04-birds-of-a-feather-transcript/
See ya around...
"Cheers Intro"
Drinking Jeffrey Pine Bark before noon again, mom?
NOT JIF PEANUT BUTTER!
"Choosy Moms Choose JIF 1990"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h4M2gHprbMM&si=1ebIrkRIOs4nA_Mt
Choosier parents may have said, 'We're not giving you that stuff just because we got it for free, or for cheap, or because we just picked it up off the ground,' but please don't forget their sociopathic I mean socioeconomic circumstances...🥴😸🌲
But the interesting thing is...
The peppy music is also coming...like wanting to listen to
The Beatles - "I Feel Fine"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU&si=ltMJ9pSyhDs_Q9SO
After a few seconds of
"The Left Hand Path"
Force Form Free | Dead Meadow | Blues Funeral Reco
https://bluesfuneralrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/force-form-free
Just because
Dead Meadow Bassist Steve Kille Has Passed Away
https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/04/19/dead-meadow-bassist-steve-kille-has-passed-away/
a little bit made me remember
"Margaux Fragoso, author"
My eyes could water a lot today.