"ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine"
Democracy Now
"Maine ICE shooting live updates: Man killed by officers in Biddeford"
"ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine"
Democracy Now
"Maine ICE shooting live updates: Man killed by officers in Biddeford"
I love how the cat is SO good at relaxing and how she's SO happy being in her living space and she SO doesn't care about mortgages at all.
So many. You can't even count how many. You don't want to. Don't even start counting. Strap those knee pads on, right now.
"At least I didn't overreact"
gauriibhatiaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daoe1oIprbE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"At least I didn't overreact"
gauriibhatiaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daoe1oIprbE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Where the Girls Were, a review by Shelley – The Book Review Crew"
https://thebookreviewcrew.com/where-the-girls-were-a-review-by-shelley/
"A personal note: I had my oldest son three months shy of my eighteenth birthday. I raised him mostly on my own, with a lot of support from my parents and brother (who was an amazing father figure). My son is 42 this year, happily married, owns his own home, and is the vice president for the company he works for. I couldn’t be prouder of the man he has become, and he is the greatest thing I have ever done. Not bad for a kid born to an unwed teenage mother."
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"Of Note: Cats in Clara's Correspondence"
https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2024/10/of-note-cats-in-claras-correspondence/?loclr=thrloc
"Observing the more intimate aspects of a historical figure's life..."
It's all about Pa!
"Little House on the Prairie" | Official Trailer | Netflix
Enigma - "Sadeness - Part i (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw&si=QU9oCHfR2n0PpZ6-
Ace of Base - "Happy Nation (Official Music Video)"
Every single day, there's another fresh article about it popping up.
Men clobber you in the face, and women say, I don't like your tone, and I'm ending this conversation. And then they still attend their Patriarchal Cult of Whatever Won't Work in Their Best Interest meetings on a regular basis.
"My friend's got a mortgage and I don't. She's clearly better than me in a lot of ways, including inheriting some money that helped a lot with the down payment."
How are the Favorite Sons doing? Maybe some Genetically Superior Moms will be attending a Sensual Dance class and crawl around on their knee pads and listen to some Cater to the Male Gays Music for them? This is just a joke, but it also really happens. Both things can be true simultaneously!
"At least I didn't overreact"
gauriibhatiaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daoe1oIprbE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I don't want to succeed and be a stupid, shallow, successful person. I just want to cry. Auuuuuugh, stupid people!
F*** you and f*** your stupid mortgage. You stupid, shallow, xxxxxxxxistic, selfish, mediocre, sexist a******!!!!
Ace of Base - "Happy Nation (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HWjCStB6k4o&si=RBfCB-eY5TpSUCJS
I liked that other song with the Latin in it too that used to come on a lot.
Enigma - "Sadeness - Part i (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw&si=QU9oCHfR2n0PpZ6-
That one makes me think of sitting on my father's couch in Monterey, California. Monterey was fun. It had a great library. I loved my library books. Even though I also read books about the Holocaust and they traumatized me. Monterey had beaches. And a Hello Kitty store? Although maybe that was actually in San Jose. It was close to Big Sur. It had rolling hills and Cannery Row and John Steinbeck. The apartment had a swimming pool. TCBY was a big deal. I might have read the book Melusine by Lynne Reid Banks in Monterey. But that was not from a library. I think somebody loaned it to me.
We stayed in Monterey for an extended period when my mother took a lot of business trips. My parents were educated and they didn't seem to feel too poor to raise children. And I know that a lot of ways, I felt very safe.
Or so they want you to believe, because it's actually way more complicated than that; it really is!!!
1983 DOCUMENTARY: The Pimp’s World
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"1983 DOCUMENTARY: The Pimp’s World"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JXRcMhU0bI0&si=X1utF0PqYumO_Nf9
Like what The Patriarchy wants, seemingly!
"Teen Girl Bedroom Life Through Time"
vgraphs
I read the synopsis of Inland Empire and I know that there's a lot about prostitution in it. So I'm watching a little bit of the prostitution documentaries now, as a warm up. I already learned that Harold, the pimp, collects new girls by bailing them out of jail. The girls who already work for Harold recruit other girls from inside the jails.
"1983 DOCUMENTARY: The Pimp’s World"
INLAND EMPIRE on Pluto TV. Now, I know that perhaps one could argue that David Lynch was also a favored son. However, I do feel that he seems very interested how women are treated by society, and I think that's a huge point in his favor!
And he decides not to care if you're having a miscarriage or an abortion. That's a really, really disgusting and terrible experience.
Dying in childbirth would be worse though.
Like, how do you choose? This is not the Salem Rich trials. A bunch of Christian people who were being led by the devil to kill girls and women, because those were the types of people who were just that threatening to their flimsy patriarchal status, apparently.
Maybe she's a mother, but maybe she's not! Or maybe she's not the kind of mother that the other mothers would prefer to be around.
On the other hand, we do know what a favored son is. A favorite son is who everyone else is supposed to be thinking about, and a patriarchal society does a great job of reminding us that this is the whole point of the patriarchal society. When a favorite son becomes a father, that is a great day in the favored son's life. It's kind of weird that a lot of fathers end up running away from their responsibilities in spite of all that.
What is a motherless child? A child who has lost a mother at a young age. Not a monster for the monstrous, immature fathers and mothers (who were molded by the patriarchy to be very misinformed and shallow in their actions, and sometimes in their words) to dehumanize.
To consider that not everyone has had access to the same quality of health or been treated adequately by The Patriarchal Health Care System.
And quite a few other moms were raised to act that way as well...
Doesn't mean the younger generation has to follow their examples, does it.
Wouldn't it be nicer if more people could learn to have compassion for others by empathizing with people who have had different life experiences, perhaps by listening to their stories, or reading about them, or seeing it in a movie...
Or maybe even through music!
Wouldn't it be nicer if a larger portion of the population were considered real human beings and treated as such?
Actions speak quite loudly.
Behavior patterns that get repeated over and over again also speak loudly.
What are they communicating about the belief systems that some people are still following?
On the other hand, it's hopeful to contemplate the thought that people in the upcoming generations will not be repeating those same kinds of prejudices, either in words, or in deeds and behaviors.
"Actions speak louder than words," as they say.
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"This is NOT going to stop"
embodimentwithemily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawBoUrB4gn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I have sepsis again"
Nova Black
http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx4bkBQq8omvA2v92PnhxDngwv4gN7iaTG?si=kdLb847QhB0l2t1s
"Inland Empire (2006) - Who Are Those People?"
Just getting ready to enjoy the day when it feels normal to you to stop hating women and girls and poor people and immigrants so much. Maybe take a break from the Churches of Men and Mortgages.
Some stuff???
"But thank God we know..."
mind_the_kate
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVgsl9IXwR/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I have a twinge on the lower right side off and on like, maybe it's the ovary, and then also the scabs on my knee on that side of the body aren't quite healed up yet. And I'm hoping to get a very unfortunate tooth issue taken care of this week. Also on that side of the body I have off and on arthritis in the big toe. So that can affect things.
This reminds me of a cat we rescued when it was a very snowy time up north, and we saved the cat's life. And the spirit of the cat came through, and wants to help us now.
"Cat 'thinks' when you talk to him"
@GeoBeatsAnimals
"Male anatomy that surprises"
doctorfayez
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYFx71dj5i7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A day in the life of a lady who menstruates and was made pregnant by a man and did not have a miscarriage."
"that one must have gotten lost on the way..."
tealadykatie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dac0Hc0hZjE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"She sat down for the interview with The New York Times Magazine after being chosen as one of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters.
“I’m a massive sombr fan, of his songwriting. And his lyrics are so intensely confessional. ‘I don’t want another man’s child to have the eyes of the girl I can’t forget.’ Are you kidding me?” Taylor said.
She continued, 'Having a male artist say stuff like that is really good for the cause of women to be able to say stuff. If there’s any way we can make confessional songwriting a little bit more of something that isn’t, like, people take that as like you were being messy. You have to be fair to everyone then.'
It sounds like Taylor is saying that when male artists are open and personal in their music, it helps normalize confessional songwriting and highlights the need for women to be judged by the same standards rather than criticized as 'messy.'”
~ Kim Brown
"Taylor Swift Praises Sombr & His 'Confessional' Lyrics, Says They Help Break Double Standard for Female Songwriters - Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip" | Entertainment
Doesn't necessarily mean that's always going to be the way it is when the grandchildren are older.
"Bias in student opinion of teaching surveys"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/s/lbDb1Skbeg
"At least I didn't overreact"
gauriibhatiaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daoe1oIprbE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
When I watched the content creator rant about taking the knee pads off, I remembered taking a sensual dance workshop. I thought it was going to help you feel like you could get more in touch with your body, maybe kind of like a belly dance class, but that was not what it was like.
For a lot of it, we were crawling on our knees, and we also had knee pads on, which was good because one of my knees was not super happy about contact with hard floors. I felt ridiculous during quite a bit of it, and not sensual at all but it also was an interesting experience. It was kind of fun in a way, like you could imagine yourself as a more low-bellied creature crawling on the Earth.
Also, the music didn't really make me feel terribly sensual. It just made me feel kind of ridiculous, and a lot of it was from a male point of view, but different people have different musical tastes.
And then I looked up and I saw how something about the way the fans affected the vents made it look like there were swastikas on the ceiling! And once I saw it, I couldn't stop noticing it for all the rest of the workshop!
But then again the original swastikas used to have a different meaning before the Nazis used them, right? This is such a weird time!
At the end of the class, the instructor seemed a little bit embarrassed. Because she wasn't sure how it would go because it was her first time teaching in a group class setting.
All of the moms, or should I say, people who got made pregnant by men at some point and did not have a miscarriage, and perhaps some of the other kinds of people in female bodies, were telling her how she did a great job and it was wonderful experience. And I thought, I think it was interesting and I feel stressed out, but I would like to take a belly dance class again in the future, though.
What can be done? You want to support the instructor because she's trying a new thing. What if the instructor gave out surveys afterwards? That might elicit some useful information. However, there can also be problems with biases, which is what happens sometimes when people give out those surveys...
Tori Amos - "Precious Things" - PBS Soundstage
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"At least I didn't overreact"
gauriibhatiaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daoe1oIprbE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Better put my book down"
tealhousefarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT-f-izglPr/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"They're not for the weak ok"
sophie.koreto
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaikD0-Mw1v/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#viralvideos #mitchbrothers"
mitchbrothers_
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DavbVHLgNsF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Study: Overlooked sexual segregation of habitats..."
howies_everythingclub
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DakkLopx0HS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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"Introducing the saddest beverage ever"
pdylanhollis and the_plant_slant
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR2rU-2kZdc/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And sharing, too!
"Artsy"
scarletdelemeny
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXr15o4EuzE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)"
veenajetti
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXuQ3WHibc2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"An hour after I recorded this"
prentishemphill
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXb7-t8E_8U/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Kind of feels like "It's too bad more guys can't be like Lloyd" is a little bit tinged with sarcasm now.
"Joe Lies" from Say Anything
amanfubrusko
Behold the bravery: a trip to the desert in August!
"i love me some desert"
bdylanhollis
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNOej2NO-Q5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You won't believe what they do to women under anesthesia in US hospitals"
Parkrose Permaculture
When we were little kids my sister and I found a cat in the snow up in that Northern Place and my uncle ended up taking care of it for the rest of its life and it lived well and had a snazzy name. And the cat was happy and said we did a good thing and saved its life. So apparently this spiritual cat has high hopes for us.
It's good that people can have opportunities to feel better and stretch their bodies and stuff. Cough. Hydrate. All kinds of things. So pretty. So many pretty poems and songs to enjoy!
"1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
—1 Corinthians 13
"Why Is Love Called the Greatest of These? (1 Corinthians 13)" | Crossway
https://www.crossway.org/articles/why-is-love-called-the-greatest-of-these-1-corinthians-13/?
So, I have a spiritual mom friend who is interested in what's going on with me, and she gives me books and jewelry and gemstones just spontaneously, because she just feels like it.
It's the Patriarchy who taught you how to abandon people who are different from you, so maybe you should start considering some better alternatives.
My spiritual friend who is a mom who has one grown son and who lost her daughter as a baby (so sad) is really nice to me, and she never makes me feel bad about the issues I have had. She's just not wired that way. She doesn't seem to want to make herself feel better by putting down or discounting somebody who has had an experience that's different from hers. It's amazing how many people are wired to do that, though. I just don't understand why, sometimes. It seems like it's something they must have learned from a very unspiritual society, that it's a quick way to make themselves feel more special, or something like that. I don't know. It has shocked me on many occasions as I've gotten older, though.
Do you think some people are afraid of becoming more sensitive to what others are experiencing?
I guess you just have to decide to believe what you want to believe; that's your choice.
Message from my friend who was a mom who died of cancer: She said that I was kind to her in her life and that I helped her a lot and she wanted to help me, and then I shouldn't feel bad that I didn't call her in the last years of her life. She said I didn't need to be there and she didn't want me to see her that way. That I should remember her when she was better, and I said yes, it's true. The last time I saw her it really upbeat and we were really nice to each other. The universe has a sensitive side.
Potholes that make you fall down in a strange parking lot at night, fearing your twisted ankle won't let you get up, and the world will show you that it's not filled with good people. Potholes that later get filled in so well, you would almost think to yourself that maybe the pothole never was actually there to begin with, but for the scabs on the scraped knees that stuck around for days and days afterwards...
"The art world has a rule..."
shotsfiredphotostyling
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DatqLNDgc0l/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"We raise our daughters..."
realloveready
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXXDC-glQCk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Dysfunctional systems..."
jeremy.r.ostler
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DadKpENOanH/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I will work on the neglected puzzle instead. I saw something online and it was very fawning and then I lost it but anyways...I might not be taking the same drugs other people are taking.
I think it's worthwhile to consider that people who have had different life experiences can learn a lot from each other. Like, I almost I can't believe people who go on stages and communicate with big audiences all the time really do that. But sometimes I can feel something in my body that almost knows what that feels like. However, I haven't done anything like that in this life, or hardly ever. I think it would be interesting if some could get more articulate about what they learned from those experiences. And is there anything in particular you do before you perform or do you just change from day to day? Do you go to a place and kind of download a vibe and then you change what you do based on the vibe and have an experience that is very "live in the moment?"
I feel like I was supposed to learn about balancing discovery with listening more to myself and setting boundaries. I can learn how to bring something new into the world, but also, how to shed light on places that have been neglected. So that certain types of abuses that have happened can no longer continue. Some have encountered very dark and abusive situations, simply because people were convinced that being ignorant of what's going on with other human beings is a normal way to survive a certain kind of society. Maybe some people sought solace in conformity because they didn't know had to otherwise handle what happened to them.
The snake at the winery.
A guy and a girl were behind a tree near me and she got scared by a gopher snake. He told her it was harmless. She said I'm not about it. He said do you want me to take away from you and she said I don't know. Be careful. She didn't know if she thought he should touch the snake. Then he went and he picked up the snake and put it elsewhere. It was very long and dangling dramatically from his hand. I kind of smirked to myself and thought now he can be the hero. He's probably feeling pretty happy right now that he gets to pick up that snake and carry it away.
She said be careful. Don't let it bite. I snapped a picture and then another woman came over and asked if he was my husband and I said no and she said he picked up a snake didn't he? I said yes but I don't know him. And then the girl said well I guess he's my hero. And then some other people started coming up too and said hey. Did you pick up that snake? What kind of a snake was it???
"Last Reel. I've been blown away..."
anoushkalucasmusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXw4VLDtVr3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Emotionally immature parents have real "F*** boy who was trained to f*** over girls and women for the pleasure of the pretty terrible and terrifyingly unwell patriarchy" energy.
Just deleted 50 plus photos from an acupressure points fertility or infertility or whatever book that I took out from a library in 2019. I own that book now anyways.
LOL!
Sometimes I feel like emotionally immature Facebook parents have real f*** boy energy.
π€£π€£π€£ My cat just jumped up on the bed and started purring. πΉπΉπΉ
"a reminder..."
rebeccastewart.co
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ57sxktWTx/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Last Reel."
anoushkalucasmusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXw4VLDtVr3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"ur boots are so cute"
aaronheyaaron
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DalW19cBdh_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"π©Kind of pretty"
themomentswestand
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaGjXFyBaRl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I can't even joke about..."
devandaily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daf_9UZPaXi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"unmatched peace"
madeleinelho
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daqi9pZSM9E/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Grow Up"
eric_bill_is_present
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYPUWu3ukcZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==