Something unfortunate about being alive at this time is that you can be the type of person who sees a cat get scared in the backyard when a plane flies too low, and then you think about how scared all the pets and children and people are when...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Wouldn't it be nice to remember the good things more often🌻.
Dear God, please help me to better remember how we are here to get better. 💗
Life in a human body on this planet can be very humbling.🤧
Help us heal ourselves and our nervous systems and heal from everything that's in the past and have a beautiful healing journey.🌎
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
God bless America
"Men do not cry ✋🏻"
@ DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/nU1MFbQ7Kq4?si=Rv7bRNxBp0mVRGn_
"telling my boyfriend i have no money"
@ DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/F-YINcbQTxk?si=cdlSYnLXEfVn7zqP
"Husband never helps with the kids 😔"
@ DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/d-SDJPQ9P6E?si=qHeVXMXZAp2yKcif
"cute finance bro doesn’t want you"
@ DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/Is05Y4sb8FQ?si=M1AlZOB0PHzf7e3C
"straining out orange juice pulp for his wife 🥹"
@ DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/zBmiiuihYYk?si=FpMkrr9e0cXUUySz
Sometimes parents act like insensitive jerks, proves JD Vance.
"It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids"
This looks like a parade.
"Workers hold up a woodpecker or 'pájaro carpintero,' the North Bay Jobs with Justice logo, in Healdsburg Plaza on July 28, 2024. (Gina Castro/KQED)"
"Farmworkers Remain in the Fields During Wildfires."
"What if things are so different in the next lifetime?"
"Gee, maybe I should be nicer to X types of people than the unwell patriarchal people wanted me to be."
That could be.
"We think she just overworked herself"
~ ballerinafarm and hogfathering
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7ny08wObwM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
He seems to be very capable in the kitchen.
I look forward to his book... I mean, undoubtedly there will be one, eventually.
"Henry made us rhubarb spoon cake"
~ ballerinafarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9c2SgDPLnA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Well, now I want to try these.
Good thing she has her own built-in babysitters to help watch the other children while she's making all that yummy food.
"Turkish Eggs"
~ ballerinafarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8oHTo9OWY3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
They are cute! 🫛
"Woody Rehanek and grandson Baz. Credit: Via Woody Rehanek"
"Woody Rehanek was a farmworker in Washington state for 18 years and a special education teacher in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District for 18 years. He is a member of Safe Ag Safe Schools and a founding member of the Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture. He lives in Watsonville."
"It’s time for Driscoll’s to take responsibility for farmworker health and well-being in Watsonville and Pajaro"
"Watsonville resident and former farmworker Woody Rehanek is tired of berry giant Driscoll’s lack of accountability. He says the $3 billion company operates like oil and mining companies of the past – mistreating its workers, endangering their health and only making piddling community donations. He calls on the company to go organic near schools and to financially bolster Assembly Bill 3035, which seeks to build more affordable housing for farmworkers."
Berries are good for many kinds of bodies.🍓
"Why doesn’t berry picking pay a living wage so that farmworkers do not have to triple and quadruple-up on housing to be able to live and work here?"
~ Woody Rehanek
"It’s time for Driscoll’s to take responsibility..."
Ridiculous.
Man, you just can't wait for the greater grandchildren to get better at fixing all the inhumane habits and social justice kinds of things.
This is very sad. It sounds a lot like certain horrible kinds of camps that have been on Earth before.
"Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza’s tent camps"
Who pays for this stuff.
"As Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon noted on the Senate floor, the process for clearing aid with the Israeli authorities is opaque and inconsistent. 'Items that are allowed in one day can be rejected the next….' For this reason, everyone simply brought whatever they could as personal luggage — even surgical equipment — paying exorbitant airline baggage fees instead of bulk shipping rates. Now that Rafah is closed, even this route for resupplying Gaza’s hospitals has been cut off."
~ Perlmutter and Sidhwa
"Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic and hand surgeon who practices in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma and critical care surgeon who practices in Northern California.""We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
Also interesting to read about.
"We were the only two surgeons in the group with experience in disaster zones. We were also the only two on the trip who didn’t speak Arabic, were not of Arab origin and were not Muslim. Mark is an orthopedic surgeon who grew up in a Jewish family in Penns Grove, New Jersey. Feroze is a trauma surgeon who grew up in a Parsi household in Flint, Michigan and worked with a Palestinian-Jewish cooperative in Haifa after graduation from college. Neither one of us is religious. Neither one of us has any political interest in the outcome of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — other than wanting it to end."
~ Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa
"We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
So grateful.
"Right: Dr. Mark Pearlmutter playing with some of the girls in the displaced persons camp around Gaza European Hospital. Left: Feroze Sidhwa, left, operates on a man who was shot. | Feroze Sidhwa, left; Mark Pearlmutter, right"
"We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
This is also a mean way to misuse rich people's money, isn't it? Unless they're not paying for it as much as others are.
"In the operating room, we examined Juri from head to toe. This beautiful, meek little girl was missing two inches of her left femur along with most of the muscle and skin on the back of her thigh. Both of her buttocks were flayed open, cutting so deeply through flesh that the lowest bones in her pelvis were exposed. As we swept our hands through this topography of cruelty, maggots fell in clumps onto the operating room table.
'Jesus Christ,' Feroze muttered as we washed the larvae into a bucket, 'she’s just a fucking kid.'”
~ M. Perlmutter and F. Sidhwa
"Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic and hand surgeon who practices in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma and critical care surgeon who practices in Northern California."
"We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
People who act like they really need to invalidate your experiences in order to make themselves feel better about their own lifestyles/choices are not helpful, and they are not your friends.
How can everything remain the same forever??
The ancestor on that side of the family just wanted you to be as racist and sexist and uncaring about X types of people as they were raising their own children to be, but some of their children didn't go along with their programming, did they???
Him and others...Him and others.
"Elon Musk's transgender daughter disowns him, says he is 'desperate for attention, validation'"
The answer is, it's probably not happening.
How are you ever going to be as much of an abusive attention-seeking rich guy as that guy's family and friends and associates would need you to be, in order for them to act as though they have even a baseline amount of respect for your actual existence?
Monday, July 29, 2024
Wow, farmworkers' kids really need better living conditions.
"Mormon Trad-Wife Star Sparks Widespread Concern..."
https://www.boredpanda.com/ballerina-farm-egg-apron-video-resurfaces/
Now I feel like baking!
Cupcakes, perhaps.
"We NEED To Talk About The Tragic Case Of Ballerina Farm"
~ Tyler Bender
The children are the nannies.
Maybe that is kinda traditional.
"We NEED To Talk About The Tragic Case Of Ballerina Farm"
~ Tyler Bender
Catching up on the talk shows...
In the '20s.
"We NEED To Talk About The Tragic Case Of Ballerina Farm"
~ Tyler Bender
Wow, IVF is 1/3 the price in Italy as it is in the US
"We were featured on the Today show"
@ThePasinis
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Sure, and why not.
X will stop acting like the mean people are more important to cater to than anyone else when X gets the confidence to make that kind of major lifestyle shift. X could even still do that in this lifetime.
She'll be off to college any day now.
"A young girl carries a 'We Feed You' banner as she shows support for farmworkers marching against anti-immigrant policies in the Central Valley agriculture town of Delano, California, on April 2, 2017. photo by Mark Ralston, AFP via Getty Images via Grist"
"The people who feed America are going hungry" - Investigate Midwest
https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/07/22/the-people-who-feed-america-are-going-hungry/
Saturday, July 27, 2024
I feel I have accumulated some learning in this life.
As of this evening, I just feel like if I were born to wealth or accumulated it through my talents, it would not be in my best interest to degrade and traumatize others out of some kind of addiction to self absorption and ignorance and needing to go along with certain programs that are clearly not what's in the best interests of certain other kinds of people...and that's how it feels, recently. Could there be a new lesson to consider about life tomorrow? Sure. That might be possible. That will probably happen. It could certainly be very interesting to see what other kinds of knowledge will become more accessible.
Actually, it occurs to me sometimes that good healing is always still possible.
Because somewhere in the world, there are some kinds of good healing energy that can help us. And how can we get access to it when we're in different circumstances? That's what is the really interesting question.
Actually, when I'm more tapped into those feelings of optimism, I'm kind of excited about the possibilities of humans getting to learn more about being more sensitive and more caring and more healthy. And they could even have more fun, too.
To take better care of one's life is the journey.
It's really time to learn how to take much better care of one's health again.
Feelings! What's to be done.
Have you ever been made to feel like some people in certain industries just wish you would be a more simple person. Like, a person who has thoughts and feelings that don't matter in their world. Any too feminist thoughts or feelings just "shouldn't matter" in their realms. Like, what's more comfortable to them is that you're, I don't know, "just jealous" of people who succeeded in patriarchal environments, and that comforting feeling, that you're "just jealous" gives them the best reasons to dismiss you and any discomfiting feminist thoughts or feelings that might have come up within you, as a result of your differences in life experiences?
This is interesting article that popped up tonight after I came in contact with...Let's say, certain cultural influences.
"Tami Stronach explains why it was a 'no-brainer' to walk away from Hollywood after making film debut in 'The Neverending Story'"
I decided to look at what I read earlier again.
"Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved Vietnamese teacher, said, 'Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.' It is not that the compassionate heart will never feel anger. Faced with the terrible injustice, oppression, and violence in our world, our hearts tremble not only with compassion but also with anger. A person without anger may be a person who has not been deeply touched by harmful acts that scar the lives of too many people. Anger can be the beginning of abandonment or the beginning of commitment to helping others."
~ Christina Feldman
https://www.lionsroar.com/she-who-hears-the-cries-of-the-world/
That's an interesting question.
I was around a bunch of positivity and I was having a nice time and then I came home and I was thinking about the stuff that makes me mad again, and I was like, well. I was just able to be positive for a little while. Am I now more of a positive person about the stuff that makes me mad???
It's kind of a weird form of trauma?
Certain kinds of "advantaged" people will explain why they "just have too much good energy" to care about social justice when certain kinds of things happen to certain kinds of people who they are trained to not care about.
I am still just not advanced enough for some today.
I really don't want to act like you because you're really self-absorbed and that was not necessary. Get a spiritual cleanse.
Catty voice cometh through.
Misusing your vast privileges and being mean because you feel insecure is not your highest calling!
Really? Really really really. Really really really really really really really really!
I have a really happy cat.
Actually, this can be really challenging.
"To discover an awakened heart within ourselves, it is crucial not to idealize or romanticize compassion. Our compassion simply grows out of our willingness to meet pain rather than to flee from it."
~ Christina Feldman
"She Who Hears the Cries of the World" | Lion’s Roar
https://www.lionsroar.com/she-who-hears-the-cries-of-the-world/
For the better, preferably.
Has anyone ever gone far away and then come back to where they came from and decided to change their attitude?
So confused...
Mama bears of the next generation explain why the mama bears of the previous generation found it very easy to ignore certain other kinds of mama bears, but now that all the mama bears are being so much more inclusive than the previous mama bears were to the mama bears of the
Sometimes fortunate people do need some comic relief.
"Vanilla Ice has paid the price 🥶🇺🇸 #TheDailyShow"
https://www.tiktok.com/@comedycentraluk/video/7392977022957440289
Well...
"Netanyahu is right: Gaza war is ‘clash between barbarism and civilisation’"
"The spectacle of a fiery Benjamin Netanyahu meeting repeated thunderous applause and standing ovations from his obsequious servants in the US Congress was truly something to behold."
~ Alex Lo
Humans need to get rehabilitated.
I recently saw some people online discrediting a video of an adult who was having a trembling panic attack, and I thought that was very inhumane. But they were making fun of it and calling it acting. I suppose it made them feel better to say those things?
Then I saw a video of a child having that kind of trembling panic attack. Would the same people who made fun of the adult having the panic attack do that to a small child?
I don't know where those videos went.
Here's a different one.
Ahmed Alnaouq on X: "Hello America and Britain, This is done with your weapons, your money. Your politicians facilitated supported and funded this genocide.
I hope you remember this."
Something.
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده on X: "Marah Abu Shaaban, 3 years old, was cold-bloodedly killed by Israel in an airstrike on her home in Gaza City. #GazaGenocide"
Abier on X: "“ it’s not even the lack of sanitation. Sanitation is non- existent in Gaza”
Oxfam: “We have been blocked, consistently, in trying to access food, latrines, wash materials. We put out a report last week that found the Israeli military has destroyed key Oxfam infrastructure that is essential for water and sanitation services in Gaza”
https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1817157779611652346
‘I can’t justify this military operation any more’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/idf-reservists-refuse-to-return-gaza-israel
"Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli attack on shelter kills at least 30"
An observation of the cultural conditioning of the '20s...
Some well-off women are still under an enormous amount of pressure to make excuses for certain well-off men. It's making me think of all the times they must have been told, "So-and-so is just mean to people because he likes them. Aren't you flattered."
That's probably real.
On the topic of whether or not certain well-off individuals who were very impressed by the patriarchal conditioning they received just want more love when they act out...
In color and in black and white
"Tierra Mia Festival celebrates Tulare County farmworkers" - Visalia Times Delta
and
"Why the Census Matters in Poplar" - LA Progressive
https://www.laprogressive.com/immigration-reform/century-picking-grapes
Friday, July 26, 2024
Despite be nice.
"Kamala Harris' Language on Gaza Marks Change in White House"
~ Khaleda Rahman
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-language-gaza-change-white-house-tone-1930632
Thank goodness for some musical relief.
"POV: Berlin with a German 🇩🇪🏙️"
https://youtube.com/shorts/IUfIFz_r9_I?si=gSK7NZt0vFwoHW_Y
"Numb (Official Music Video) [4K UPGRADE]" – Linkin Park
I wonder where they filmed that...About Mister Who...
"Hitler’s Olympics, Part 3: Mustache to Mustache"
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/hitlers-olympics-part-3-mustache-to-mustache
Mmmm...restfulness.
"For Half Moon Bay's Aging Farmworkers, New Affordable Housing Projects Offer Opportunity to 'Rest With Dignity'"
"Newsom orders homeless camps cleared following Supreme Court ruling"
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2024/07/25/california-homeless-population-gavin-newsom-law
Alas, the wounded casualties.
"I’m writing this for everyone who minimizes their pain, who doesn’t think it’s deserving of attention, who says, 'I was spanked and I turned out all right,' 'I came from a good home,' 'I don’t dwell on the past,' or 'I didn’t have it so bad.'”
~ Doug Westborg
"What I Wish I’d Asked Dr. Gabor Maté"
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/wish-asked-dr-gabor-mate/
"Elon Musk's Ex Grimes Voices Support for His Estranged Daughter"
Grimes - "Dream Fortress (Official music video)"
To be in a human body is to experience that need to ask the universe for help.
The healing ones must help me with the mysterious lump on the right side at the back of my throat near the back of the tongue.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Tomorrow could be better for health reasons.
On one hand, sometimes it seems as though privilege is wasted on the privileged. Like that saying, "youth is wasted on the young." But on the other hand, maybe they're not as privileged as they think they are. Maybe they even deserved to enjoy more privileges than they got, actually. Maybe instead of privileges, what they got was a bunch of coping mechanisms that aren't really sustainable. Maybe if they got more privileges, they would be more sensitive and compassionate to all kinds of people. And being that way would come to them more naturally? Hmmm. It's a thing to wonder about.
Another thing I didn't know until today...
Gabrielle Giffords on X: "Vice President @KamalaHarris is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren—and so am I. @CaptMarkKelly and I were trying to have a baby through IVF before I was shot and that dream was stolen from us. To suggest we are somehow lesser is disgraceful."
It's interesting, though, that mainstream media's now talking about stuff that I've been thinking about for years...
"Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3pz2pz8no
"Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris against sexist criticisms of her as childless"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/politics/kerstin-emhoff-defends-kamala-harris-sexism/index.html
Monday, July 22, 2024
Is that right?
"You know, the majority of your flawed and blessed ancestors still had way more in common with the farm workers than they had in common with Donald Trump."
Last song on an album, meet the first song on the album.
I think sometimes plants grow better because we
Morcheeba - "Big Calm"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jsWkPsVpe0Y&si=f2CtBE7oVJWKenS_
Morcheeba - "The Sea - Big Calm (1998)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=--wy8QmLlM8&si=ceIPrdoY0zTz1PfM
have the sea providing us with good minerals and nutrients to help enrich the soil.
It's also great to have access to medical care and basic shelter as well as food and good
"It’s just great to be able to give back and really help support the people who helped to support us.”
~ Farmer Joe Bobbin
https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/2024/04/11712892/farmer-wants-a-wife-joe-mother-breast-cancer
Good morning! What's a decent place to live worth in any country of anybody's ancestral origin?
"CA migrant farmworkers want to live in California. There’s just no affordable housing for them"
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article282393553.html#storylink=cpy
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Very interesting.
"Why Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated across the U.S."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/do-you-know-about-our-lady-guadalupe-here-s-why-n828391
"Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Message:
Paradise Can Be Ours"
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/our-lady-of-guadalupes-message-paradise-can-be-ours
"Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy" - Sophia Institute
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/guadalupe-and-the-flower-world-prophecy/
You might read this book someday.
"This Book Club Finally Finished Reading 'Finnegans Wake' After 28 Years"
All About. Remembered fluctuating from sympathy to rage at a grieving woman who acted just as unfriendly at a wake as she had in the previous decades. Dot recalled feeling as tho her patience was being sorely tested. Thought began making a story in her head about why things were that way. Perhaps a grieving unfriendly woman was just intimidated by another family and didn't know how to express her pain about that in any other way. Dot felt like making a joke about how no one really fits in anywhere. Dot certainly knew she barely fit in. It's not anyone's fault that we don't fit in with these ridiculously rigid ideals. When people do feel like they fit in, it's a combination of happy accidents going their way that made it possible for them to train their minds to fit into the molds, reflected...
Emily Dickinson – "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain-280-annotated
Different versions of two different kinds of American songs I heard recently...
Mitski - "Your Best American Girl (Live on KEXP)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGVCkM7sKD8&si=J1e0sUUSCO23n7ya
Sufjan Stevens - "Fourth of July (Carrie & Lowell)"
I just ate half of four deviled eggs for two and a pickle!
"Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris for Democratic nomination after ending re-election bid"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/21/biden-drops-out-presidential-election
Anyway, this kinda reminded me of Facebook
"Trad wife goes on vacation"
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/0IoHGFBdyO
And why we never talked about all the rape that happened during World War II in history class.
More Light!
Albeit that children be condemned of certeyn peeples, the grettres myghte be moore lyght!
Imagine flying across the country to meet people who are also living in your city, just unacknowledged.
"What I’ve learned from having balls." | Emily Quinn
TedX Providence Rhode Island
Someone is going to disappoint them somewhere down the line.
As long as their "My children copy my habits of being greedy and self-absorbed and not caring about other people, and I'm pretty good with that" pattern of artificial happiness continues.
Don't be like the ancestors that didn't care about people like you.
The grandparents on that side of the family just needed men to treat women and girls like you like worthless trash because she was a very insecure person who needed to feel valued by guys like that.
So that's why some moms need some dads to treat certain kinds of women and girls like they are trash?
"Trump's GOP is no country for MAGA women | Salon.com"
I wonder how long it will take to have a throat that feels better.
"what rich kids are not telling you"
~ Albina Aliyeva
I feel hot.
I am going to drink some cool, clean, filtered water.
"what rich kids are not telling you"
~ Albina Aliyeva
I think my throat should heal because it feels not optimal
What would be the next good thing to do?
"what rich kids are not telling you"
~ Albina Aliyeva
I guess I will watch the whole thing.
She acknowledged.
"what rich kids are not telling you"
~ Albina Aliyeva
That their life is like but maybe also is not like a Trump voter's life?
"what rich kids are not telling you"
~ Albina Aliyeva
Apparently not. The body keeps the score.
Are you sure you don't want to act like them in exchange for more money or even a nice tiny home on a piece of land that only cost a half a million dollars in California?
This sounds like show business.
Rife with human fragility.
"Trump's GOP is no country for MAGA women | Salon.com"
The shallow parents are not an excuse.
Your children should learn how to stop dehumanizing others, even though you constantly role model those characteristics for them, and they are copying those ways of treating others off you, so you will accept them.
Nepo Babies are bad for your health.
The narcissist is acting out what some show business people raised their kids to be like. Nepo Baby Trump, the old guy who pretends to care more about working class people than they do. As long as he's the one getting adulation and attention, that's what matters to him.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels undereducated about such things.
Sometimes I wonder things like, how should I know if I prefer the laws or customs that come to US from THAT country, versus the laws or customs that come to US from THAT OTHER country, and WHY?
My felaw aliens...
Chose ye Frendsh or Engliss?
"English vs French BEACH PARENTING"
@TattyMacleodcomedy
Step step step
I spy a cloudless evening sky.
I feel very present. Walking outside with a body that's doing better than it was 12 hours ago. The heat, the light, the breeze.
But how else are the daughters supposed to inherit?
"Trump's GOP is no country for MAGA women"
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/20/the-clearest-message-of-the-convention-is-no-country-for-maga-women/
Too!
Racist, sexist, selfish land owners needed food to eat. They always did. And they will continue to need someone's children to grow, harvest, and pick their food in the future!
It's so interesting how certain grandmas thought decorating their homes was more important than your human rights!
That's just because they couldn't control who everyone dated and therefore which progeny they were blessed with...
This Halloween, you can dress up like the Patriarchal Feminism of the 2020s
Acting like big buildings are more important than anyone having healthy body again? That's just part of a long pattern fueled by the ancestors' missing a gypsy's paycheck AGAIN during WWII and other armed conflicts which were based on some laws imported from OTHER cultures...
They didn't always have access to so much...
"Nicola Coughlan liked this video on TikTok, so it’s okay!"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/6gGYnR1i0Qo?si=x_65jzzfw3x0eY_f
"How Not to Tick Off your Adult Children 101"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/fdRU_pXwhxA?si=1Z9TMGP0Jqnxm3zc
"Don’t should yourself!"
@carolineeasom
Macho! Polo...
"'Everywhere one looked at the convention, Republicans were exalting maleness with an ardor that reads as 'defensive' to outsiders but appears to be a convincing display to those inside the MAGA cult. The overcompensation led to a grand finale featuring both pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White, rather than the traditional activists and politicians one hears at a convention. Hogan declared Trump a 'gladiator,' which should be funny applied to a doughy senior citizen caked in make-up, but appears to have been taken at face value by the RNC crowd. Along with the James Brown song, Trump used 'Macho Man' by the Village People as intro music, still indifferent to the irony of the song."
~ Amanda Marcotte
Feeling blessed by the Lord above as well as the Earthly Ancestors
"Fit Hot Guys Have Problems Too - 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dep0Fq6XnWQ&si=1z8z-DLQBKMThr6b
"'French VS English Men | Tatty Macleod"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YkH_6PVXl6g&si=GMDlKkmzhez2istb
"Let's Generalize About Men - 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'"
Praying because the Mama Bears deserve better, too...
"Trump's GOP is no country for MAGA women"
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/20/the-clearest-message-of-the-convention-is-no-country-for-maga-women/
"The ironic result is that the avowedly anti-feminist would-be female leaders of the GOP now go ignored. Concerned Women for America has long been a Republican powerhouse, central to organizing the Christian right. But no matter how loud their microphones were, they couldn't attract attendees for public prayer sessions. The only people watching as the 'concerned women' prayed were journalists."
~ Amanda Marcotte
And now you know the world needs more healing.
I am sick. Please heal me. My body needs healing. Please God, help with this healing.
In Jesus name, Amen.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Their wives couldn't even get credit cards yet...
It makes one wonder, how did all the folks of fine ancestry who migrated out here for the orange groves and children farms ever manage...chicken farms! Sorry...
"How Shirley Jackson exposed the horror of home life"
~ Books 'n' Cats
Perhaps the grandchildren will be able to bathe themselves in the tears of the most fortunate of the ancestors?
"First time showering in Germany 🇩🇪🚿"
@liamcarps
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZMGYy30pgY0?si=pHeIAKHSiuYyRnsh
"California to impose first-ever permanent water restrictions"
"When you forget to Stoßlüft"
@liamcarps
https://youtube.com/shorts/atICmWqlbOc?si=89IacAFA2eYe9SVr
Oh, don't be silly!
Sometimes, I feel like less reliance on toxic positivity masquerading as domestic harmony would be so much more refreshing.
How to express that?
"How Shirley Jackson exposed the horror of home life"
~ Books 'n' Cats
Imagine that nice clean feeling you get after a bath or a shower...
Isn't it wonderful?
And since humans can't just lick ourselves clean, access to clean running water is really something for us to celebrate!
"WHY.... MATTER"
"Our project uncovered that the working conditions for farmworkers are not just precarious but often exploitative.
As public health researchers, we define exploitative labor practices as those that take harmful advantage of a worker’s vulnerabilities—whether psychological, physical, sexual, social, economic or legal—to achieve financial gain. Workers often endure labor exploitation because of their economic needs and exclusion from policies that would ensure protection and safety as it is conferred to other occupations.
We find that labor exploitation of Michigan farmworkers includes excessive and unpredictable work schedules, penalties and wage theft. Wage theft can take the form of denial of payments through the piece-rate system, physical and psychological abuse, coercion and threats.
The fundamental dehumanization of workers and dangerous violations to basic human rights like access to drinking water and safe working conditions were noted by workers in the first study of the Michigan Farmworker Project, conducted from 2019 to 2021."
~ Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, Alexis J. Handal
Dear various human babies grown up.
I guess I have a lullaby in my ear...
I seem to understand a little better that the humbleness of some, and neediness in others, and the naivete of certain people has shown me a lot about human vulnerability.
Even some of the silly, ridiculous posturing that one could find insulting or offensive or toxic or unwell has done a lot to communicate how vulnerable humans are and how much they want and need things.
A bunch of big babies! Oh my goodness. They were our little ones, once upon a time, weren't they?
I know the sleepiness will come.
Can't easily sleep, but cat is so cute, and makes life better. I will sleep soon.
Why couldn't you just make your feminism more acquisitionable to the well-off?
Oh well. Perhaps another time. Also, it's because I had health issues. Yeah. Really complicated health issues, man.
Learned patterns of behavior can be tragic.
"Munro’s unwavering support of her husband at the expense of her daughter has sent a deathly chill down the spines of many who have read and loved her work, or simply cherished her iconic status."
~ Rebecca Sullivan
That's another rich guy podcast.
"Rich women I know who truly wouldn't care about me if I was in a different body more like the vast majority of girls and women in this nation and I share some laughs and talk about that!"
Man, what if x can't access basic medical care next time around.
"In states with strict abortion policies, simply seeing an OB/GYN for regular care can be difficult"
Is x going to be mad? Distressed? Bleeding to death? Or put out / inconvenienced in any way?
Yes, the filtering technique; it works?
You should just look at some people when they're having those rare moments where they're forgetting to be so sexist against others, and then you will have a much better impression of them.
Yeah, that's gonna help sexist women and men get motivated to get better!
"Maternal Deaths Were Highest in States That Restrict Abortion"
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Good luck, fight fascism, don't be like the ones who went along with the Nazis, etc.
"Why we chose to homeschool our kids..."
~ Really Very Crunchy
Anyhow, good luck with resolving those trauma issues of yours, too.
Duran Duran - "Come Undone (Official Music Video)"
Anyways, good luck with that new way of life you're gonna start living now.
"Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy pt.II)" - Official Video
~ Kiki Rockwell
Well, I'm sure all the rich people will get more interested in the health and well-being of girls and women eventually. Meanwhile...
Lil Nas X - "Old Town Road (Official Video) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus"
They even feel bad for younger people who aren't getting pensions now, too.
The conservatives who liked Ronald Reagan are not the ones who get interviewed and made fun of on television at the ridiculous Trump Conventions. They're probably at home cutting the lawn and working on their cars and rubbing down their horses and stuff. And giving money to charitable causes.
Bleach!
I think Trump is more of a narcissistic show business person than he is a Trump voter. I feel like the Trump voters are all just being deceived and they have less in common with Trump than the show business people do. The not famous Trump voters just think he's a necessary means to an end to start restoring "niceness." They don't expect to ever actually have to hang out with him, either.
Some men really do rely on women with a strong sense of internalized misogyny to prop up their egos, and I don't know why but it's that way.
Why is his life like that. "These women who choose to act like I'm the greatest would absolutely treat me like a piece of dog s*** if I was in a certain kind of woman's body."
And that's when God sends the sweet conservatives who feel like being good to people along your path
Oh my God, it's SO crazy how some rich people in Hollywood who think they're liberal actually have way more in common with Donald Trump than some of the people who are actually planning on voting for Donald Trump have in common with him, isn't it?
Well, it's time to get better.
Well, it's time to find the healing that might be available to this body, at this time, in the Year of Our Lord, A.D.
Cousin Ed seems outraged.
"This was all paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. It added to our national debt, so our children and grandchildren will be paying for the devices that kill Palestinian children today."
~ Ed Flaherty
Holy Mary, Mother of God and Jesus
"Biden’s claim he’s done ‘more for Palestinian community than anybody’ prompts backlash"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/biden-israel-gaza-palestine
I feel the funds are not helping humanity.
"'Cruel’ and ‘heartbreaking’: Internet decries death of Palestinian with Down syndrome mauled by IDF dog. Mohammad Bhar petted the dog and said 'enough my dear' as the animal continued to attack him, according to his mother."
Geisterbriefe 👻
Bäää.
"How to Pronounce the 'ä' sound (Phonetics)"
~ Julien Miquel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XNa3nbiSDI&si=K28GW2KA4MP3_VG0
But, sheeple...
"Bedwetting and nightmares: Israel-Hamas war's mental health toll, especially on children"
Rassismus ist scheiße.
Zwei Ehefrauen!
Höhö.
"In a lighter missive to a boyhood friend in 1952 — a few years before Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 — he quipped: 'I am doing fairly well, in that I am the triumphant survivor of the Nazi period, and of two wives.'"
~ Kara Goldfarb
https://allthatsinteresting.com/elsa-einstein
😱😱😱😱😱😱
“'By the time you’re 30, she’ll already be an old hag,' Einstein’s mother wrote — because Marić was nearly four years older than him. The Einsteins did not want a Serbian intellectual with a limp joining their family."
~ Genevieve Carlton
There's quite a long queue for this book at the library.
"Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed"
And here we are today. Yessireezeeroo!
"Tom Lehrer Tuesday. MLF Lullaby #vintage"
~ Honest 2 Betsy
https://youtube.com/shorts/yvMOFQqnDzg?si=bgxb6TtzDdFBz8Ix
"You asked for it. Strruwwelpeter #germanstories"
@honest2betsy
https://youtube.com/shorts/zvATxi39ZrQ?si=NGHhcKt_sk5vA8cH
"Betsy’s Book Club: Max and Moritz, part 1"
@honest2betsy
https://youtube.com/shorts/d6DA_FfmNeg?si=Nkq2jkOcDHgXT4F2
"The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright. Betsy’s Book Club"
~ Honest 2 Betsy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yli7gCXQacY&si=_KaQbCIzFN7HyA8V
"Ten little hyphens | Library of Congress"
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015645802/
"Shadows of War | German | Immigration and Relocation"
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/german/shadows-of-war/
Tom Lehrer - "The MLF Lullaby - with intro"Mmmm, bread.🍞 🥪🌭🍔🥙🍅🍊Schmeckt gut.
And amongst the first in California to cultivate the oranges! Super. Vunderbar.
"Filling the Nation's Breadbasket| German | Immigration"
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/german/filling-the-nations-breadbasket/
Onkel Albert!
Ich bin mir sicher, dass du im nächsten Leben viel netter zu deiner Frau sein wirst, ja
"German | Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History"Oh boy, now I'm going to run it backwards through the translator and see how it sounds!
Faygo Pop comes in a Club Soda flavor in some regions.
"Germans First Time In An American Supermarket!😂🇩"
@ZacXCVIII
Now I must make grief⚕️
"In Germany we don’t say 🇩🇪🏰"
@liamcarps⚕️
https://youtube.com/shorts/4m6tW-AZC6U?si=iJzoL672aYNemCH3
TO GRIEVE.
"I hate when my future self visits me #funny"
@Shiadanni⚕️
Could even a picky cat like such Nope Zero cousins?
"POV: Watch us healthily communicate..."
~ NevaehMarie
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNaRUn3c/
"Today on #Literally our good friend
@AndyRichter
sits down with
@RobLowe
to discuss their favorite radio DJ clichés, why they both love working on television game shows, "The Andy Richter Call-In Show” on
@SiriusXM
, and more! Listen: https://listen.teamcoco.com/tt-Nepo0"
Fear is a very natural human response.
“'He has a battle rifle': Police feared Uvalde gunman's AR-15"
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/20/uvalde-shooting-police-ar-15/
In some ways, it seems like it's so much more dangerous to be alive here than it was in the past, for various reasons?
Who is to blame?
"Former classmate of Trump rally gunman says he was ‘bullied almost every day’"
https://youtu.be/NVMtQ4piGR8?si=lHODksi0aCUJKygX
"Vance: Trump running mate vows to fight for 'forgotten America.'"
How much it will help remains to be seen.
"Judge rules Uvalde school district, sheriff’s office to release records..."
This is also another great opportunity to become experts on Complex PTSD
"Bedwetting and nightmares: Israel-Hamas war's mental health toll, especially on children"
"Wouldn't you like to relax at the villa..."
I'd love to...oh no! Panic attacks! Nausea! Menstrual cramps! Such a strange set of genetics we're having to cope with in this life! Maybe another time?
I wonder if leaving a book behind for the next generation to read made a difference?
"When the film-maker Daniela Völker met Hans Jürgen Höss, the 90-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, she had understood that he did not recall witnessing any of the horrors, despite spending almost four years of his early childhood living in the villa adjacent to the camp.
'At first, he really didn’t. I had a German cameraman who said I was wasting my time and money and to leave.' But undeterred, Völker hung around for a few days and on the last day of filming gave Hans Jürgen his father’s confessional autobiography, which he had never read. 'I’d selected parts for him to read. And you could see the change in his face as he started reading.'"
~ Anne Joseph
It's almost as if it helped illustrate how some people's innate capacity to rely on self-absorption as a survival mechanism was what made some of them more capable dehumanizing others while still enjoying a superior quality of life (for a temporary amount of time.)
God bless their grandchildren!
"Don't worry, as you expand your awareness, you're less likely to be so mortifyingly dehumanizing towards the others who are so much like me."
Greed is not healthy; in fact, it can be genocide.
Also, it feels like the richer people's tax dollars have funded more suffering and agony, so what if that's why some of them are more invested in being so uncaring?
Let's hope the next generations are less addicted to "dishonest harmony" and more actually peace-loving
It's so sad that patriarchal white supremacy has created so many narcissistic people who literally seem addicted to acting like it is "just so normal" to simply not care about the children whose limbs are being amputated because of racism and the misuse of their tax dollars.
Sure would be nice if the racism and self-absorption stopped soon.
"Bedwetting and nightmares: Israel-Hamas war's mental health toll, especially on children"
Actually, I do believe.
It really is natural for humans to grow and to have curiosity, and to evolve and change. That's true whether you think you're liberal or conservative.
What will your expression of yourself at this time in history make apparent?
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
That would be a level up in the hydraulic culture we're living in.
"Maybe have your dad teach you how to compliment his hard work without putting down other women"
~ Nevaeh Marie
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTN5GA3Uj/
Oh haha, I did mean to say patriarchal culture, of course, but living in a hydraulic culture is also kind of interesting, isn't it.
And what if it's possible that they might actually like it.
What if it's possible for some people to become more involved in their own personal growth and much nicer?
Maybe this is why history class happened.
"Multiple soldiers testified that the permissive shooting policy has enabled Israeli units to kill Palestinian civilians even when they are identified as such beforehand. D., a reservist, said that his brigade was stationed next to two so-called 'humanitarian' travel corridors, one for aid organizations and one for civilians fleeing from the north to the south of the Strip. Within his brigade’s area of operation, they instituted a 'red line, green line' policy, delineating zones where it was forbidden for civilians to enter.
According to D., aid organizations were permitted to travel into these zones with prior coordination (our interview was conducted before a series of Israeli precision strikes killed seven World Central Kitchen employees), but for Palestinians it was different. 'Anyone who crossed into the green area would become a potential target,' D. said, claiming that these areas were signposted to civilians. 'If they cross the red line, you report it on the radio and you don’t need to wait for permission, you can shoot.'
Yet D. said that civilians often came into areas where aid convoys passed through in order to look for scraps that might fall from the trucks; nonetheless, the policy was to shoot anyone who tried to enter. 'The civilians are clearly refugees, they are desperate, they have nothing,' he said. Yet in the early months of the war, 'every day there were two or three incidents with innocent people or [people] who were suspected of being sent by Hamas as spotters,' whom soldiers in his battalion shot.
The soldiers testified that throughout Gaza, corpses of Palestinians in civilian clothes remained scattered along roads and open ground. “The whole area was full of bodies,” said S., a reservist. 'There are also dogs, cows, and horses that survived the bombings and have nowhere to go. We can’t feed them, and we don’t want them to get too close either. So, you occasionally see dogs walking around with rotting body parts. There is a horrific smell of death.'"
~ Oren Ziv
"'I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission."
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-gaza-firing-regulations/
Actually, this made me think of Otto Frank.
"For me and my family, as residents of Jaffa — the only Palestinian community amid some 4 million Jews in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area — we cannot help but wonder: what will they do to us? Maybe they’ll put us in a ghetto like they did after 1948? Maybe armed Jewish groups will organize to harm us like they did during the Unity Intifada of May 2021 — and as they do in the West Bank every day?
Just three years after May 2021 and its aftermath, when Palestinians in Jaffa and other so-called 'mixed cities' witnessed state violence synchronize with Zionist mob violence, we are reminded how hollow our citizenship is — particularly in times of crisis.
Our ongoing dilemma
My daughter loves watching videos on YouTube, but as responsible parents, we limit her screen time to 15 minutes a day. Occasionally, as I sit and watch with her, terrifying advertisements pop up: state propaganda promoting the war, or songs calling for more Palestinian blood. Thankfully, she doesn’t understand Hebrew and can’t grasp how dangerous our situation is."
~ Abed Abou Shhadeh
Actually, addiction is one of the most painful illnesses for humans to deal with on this planet.
People who are in the throes of their addictions will change someday, but not until they really want to, and some of them will die first. Especially, that might happen if they got rewarded by an imbalanced culture for a long time for indulging in certain kinds of addictions. I do think that being overly controlling is a real addiction for some people. They probably should have rehab clinics for that kind of addiction, too.
She must have been a very nice person.
The nanny.
That woman from the islands.
"Boomer upset when his words are used against him"
u/AutomaticDriver5882
Dishonest Harmony? Hmmm.
"MLK’s Epistle to the White Church Still Preaches
On the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Christians are reminded of how much further we must go."
~ MICHELLE FERRIGNO WARREN
Any generation could get upset about that, honestly.
"Boomer upset when his words are used against him"
u/AutomaticDriver5882