"In case y'all aren't familiar..."
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
So young to already be working for a living!
"I Ain't Gonna Worry - Rare 1958 unknow teenage Rockabilly girl"
@jollypascal
I am not getting paid to act like a clown, am I?
"The Trial of Hannah Arendt" | National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/marchapril/feature/the-trial-hannah-arendt
Maybe some men should just stop acting like tools of The Patriarchy now.
"Empathy Makes Women AI-Proof at Work. It's Burning Them Out."
https://www.thepersistent.com/empathy-skill-women-ai-proof-burning-out-careers/
Time to make a protein packed breakfast for myself.
"People wanted an innocent story about a young, self-sufficient couple on a farm for the same reason a wartime audience loved the sweet musical 'Oklahoma!' about a young couple going to a picnic basket party."
Connie Cronley
"Me and 'The Egg and I'"
Tuesday, July 07, 2026
Can you imagine your descendants writing something about you like this?
"We are certain that if Betty were alive today, she would address the plight of the American Indian in a much different manner. We feel that she only meant to turn what was to her a frightening situation into a lighthearted encounter. Remember, she had been brought up to be a lady — one who in those days was completely unprepared to handle the problems she dealt with so blithely in "The Egg."
The egg and i, page 8
"KUOW - Chickens are just the fall guy in this funny blunt tale" by Katie Campbell
Undoubtedly, the works of Betty McDonald are calling me again.
KUOW - "Chickens are just the fall guy in this funny blunt tale"
"I didn't just cringe at the casual racism, though. I also cringed as it became clear that some of her humor was a pretty mask over a truly rotten situation."
~ Katie Campbell
The older I get, the more I realize this.
It's great to rediscover authors like Betty McDonald of Vashon Island who was really talented and funny and a great writer, and also be like, but gee, it's too bad she was so horribly racist against Native Americans!
The power of ice money!
Opinion | "Skin color top of mind for a new generation of CA Latinos"
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/06/immigration-raids-new-generation-latinos/
Anyways I did NOT eat all my beans. I put some of them in the fridge. Too much.
I bet some people in concentration camps wish they had that problem, huh?
This song makes me think of you guys.
Johnny & Jones - 'Westerbork Serenade (1944).wmv'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-uu4IdZY4A&si=R9MO61vzguy5wHVB
Who knows. Maybe we had a past life together or something.
Anthony Acevedo! He was a local boy.
"The Diary of an ‘Undesirable’" - Latino USA
https://www.latinousa.org/2024/09/29/undesirable/
"Anthony Acevedo" | VOCES
https://voces.moody.utexas.edu/collections/stories/anthony-acevedo
"Anthony Acevedo" | Americans and the Holocaust
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/anthony-acevedo
Yes, I do. I read it.
"Anyone remember reading this?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/L8WKfoaVj9
Growing up and liking it!
Also, that passage that Otto Frank apparently added to Anne Frank's Diary about the girls getting pregnant in concentration camps.
Here's my supper.
Cannellini beans with jarred vodka sauce and Parmesan regianno on top. And some Pinot grigio.
And I might work on my neglected Lady Liberty puzzle later.
It's to the left of me. I covered it with a beach towel so the cat won't ruin it.
Ack! Eeek.
"Why, this is probably how the Hitler Youth started."
Chapter 17
Page 907 out of 1029
in the electronic version of
"The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656072-the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street
which I am almost done with.
But we could look at Harriet Tubman instead of Andrew Jackson if we have a $20 in our wallet s.
"Trump administration puts plan for Harriet Tubman $20 bill on ice" | Reuters
He did? Why?
"ICE Officer Kills a Mexican Man in Houston" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/immigration-ice-shooting-houston.html
I wonder if this is like when Renee Good "weaponized her vehicle," supposedly.
I feel like other people have felt this way.
I feel the meanie meanies being mean at me. I feel the meanie meanies being mean at other people. I'm sick of making excuses for all of them. I feel I really cannot do it anymore.
I'm sure it would be hard to tour an ICE facility and see how people are being treated.
Maybe they could watch Heathers, Zone of Interest, and the PBS documentary about Hannah Arendt.
I guess I have felt that way for a while.
Also, I feel like it's probably better to work with daughters than with certain dads who are constantly getting sucked into repeating their old patriarchal ways. Their daughters are usually better with cats.
Oops, the cat brought her energy into the room and now everything's shifting to cat content!
😸🕸️⚖️
"I think it worked!"
louiethelilacragdoll
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1V2LFR0V5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I've never watched a kitten before"
caucasianjames
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ-iTfLKsVJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Progressive men have had my alarm bells ringing"
nikitadumptruck
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagEkTUN8Jv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
After several song experiences, I have decided 🐴.
I think a song like "A Horse With No Name" by America would most inspire me to learn how to play a string instrument.
La la la la la la la la la la la la... 🎶
America - "A Horse With No Name (Lyric Video) (Official Video)"
Anyways, Billy Joel was just breaking my heart in Walmart...
Where I found an Equate water flosser for twenty bucks. I have a feeling that my tooth might need an expensive repair that others don't want to perform because it's not going to be nice, and it's going to be expensive, and none of the insurance will cover it. But I'm not sure if being in denial about it is really going to be very helpful.
However, if I'm wrong and if this gets fixed because I'm able to clean it really well and eat garlic and things like that, then maybe that will teach me something about my body's capacity for self-healing. The problem is that it's got foreign objects in it now.
Grrrr. It's like a metaphor for what's going on. It's like a bunch of people are acting like they're in denial and hoping that things will just kind of magically fix themselves but I don't know. Maybe they will???Maybe if I do meditation and flower essences and eat garlic and just a bunch of other stuff...maybe???
I did get some great service today! They raised the bar. 😊🧁💜
So, I do think it's kind of fun to take photos of fancy food.
Ha-ha! Now please make it funny.
"How to let down the daughters and granddaughters as an underperforming dad who's just great at being averagely uncaring about what happens with their human rights, just like the Patriarchy wanted them to be."
This has humorous potential.
"Can you believe how repressed the spouses of the people in that industry were. Especially about their own f****** human rights. So naturally, they couldn't advocate for anyone who was less fortunate, because they couldn't even advocate for themselves."
Can I make a film on this topic?
The old guy dads are still terrible at talking about feminism, and now they're my age!
Don't say I didn't warn you.
If some of the stuff that people are doing today ends up looking extremely creepy and off-putting tomorrow.
I feel like a misanthrope sometimes.
Anyways, as someone who discovered how hot and sexy the smell of White Supremacy can be just by traveling to a South American country back when I was in a single digit size female body...
You know what some people sometimes remind me of
They remind me of how my stepfather liked to buy me cute clothes / dresses when I was a teenager and we'd go to brunch at the Officers Club and he'd say things like, "I noticed the old men looking at you, and if they do more than look, then I'm going to do something about it." And, " You're very pretty and you have nice legs, but you have to learn that you can't rely on looks to keep people around," or something like that.
I wonder if any colleges will offer a major in southern cult-mentality studies.
And how that culty way of thinking affected our society under the governance of Donald Trump.
The cults were everywhere...
Fayetteville, North Carolina!
"Diamond and Silk" - Wikipedia
You're disrespecting the people who feed you and clothe you.
And immigrants feed you and clothe you, not your favorite cult leader white guy, or other type of cult leaders who are not always white guys, but are still working within the old White Supremacist Patriarchal Principles.
Of course I should go take a walk now, for my mental health's sake.
It's like he's our Entertainment Industry President. He's just showing off what happens when a lot of the Cult of Patriarchy stuff that people in the entertainment industry have been perpetuating for years gets out of hand. It really hurts and oppresses people, for real. The sexism is real. The racism is real. The discrimination is real. The oppression is real. How alarming it is. Really? Really.
And that's a sad thing to be grateful for, but there it is.
I'm still so much better off than somebody who would have had all these same problems, and on top of it, gotten locked away in a detention center by some corrupt, selfish, money-obsessed ICE agents.
Focus!
Number one: I literally would have been treated so much better if I had been born into a boy's body.
Number two: I literally would have been treated so much better if I had been born into a girl's body that just had a different type of genetics.
Number three...
Actually, looking at permaculture principles is probably a great place to start.
"Permaculture Ethics - Earth Care • People Care • Fair Share"
People should try harder to be more ethical and friendship-based and balanced, instead of going along with the old ways of following the Patriarchal patterns when they're doing things.
I feel hurt by coldness and Cult Dynamics and Patriarchal Culture and Sexism.
In addition to feeling hurt, I literally have more physical symptoms now that are unpleasant and apparently difficult to fix. Patriarchal cults are not good for us. But they are particularly worse for someone like me than they are for certain other kinds of people. And to me, it feels like that has been made very, very, very clear.
What a time to be a sentient human!
I suppose people adopt different survival strategies according to their circumstances.
"They told you it's 'public safety'"
propertylifestyleco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaGYNJ_krmt/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"As the parentified eldest daughter"
aymiealexandra
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZN6IPyy-Ag/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Who besides a cult leader does that?
Getting disadvantaged people to follow you around and get high off of your aura. It's like something Trump would do. So where did you learn to do that?
So, it feels like the era of selfishness is coming to an end.
"I’ll probably lose followers for this, but..."
Parkrose Permaculture
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wIGTFOdL6_A&si=8sK2yIBxmzwlPK_C
The things that are coming now.
Something about the nerves and muscles of the lower back area, and how it's important to pay attention to them.
The consciousness of a 15-year-old girl is significant.
Square shapes made with primary colors, like tools that are either made for children, or for adults who are healing their inner children. Adults are talking about them.
By the way, it's a world filled with adults who need to heal their inner children, I think.
I think this is sometimes a good Jewel for me for some reason. 💎
"Siren (Live In Detroit 10/27/07)"
Tori Amos
So you see, that's why. 🌱
It's because I'm doing the Shadow work. But I'm going to shed light on dark places so new things can flourish. Like beautiful gardens. I love them!
Ugh. They should never be in charge of things.
The men who are servile to The Patriarchy are so underwhelming. I'm doing more work than them right now. And I am not being paid for it. The system is so, so, so corrupt. Well, I guess it's all coming out now.
I just have to figure out how to put the health of my body first.
The system does not want me to put the health of my body first. It's so hard. I always get sabotaged. It's not fair. Was such a pampered man in past lives, I can tell. Is not that way this time around!
I have to do Shadow work because I want to heal.
I want to heal but I have to do Shadow work.
Probably the first way of saying it is better.
Compared to Lilian Dunkle.
More privileged and more...something else...
"The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656072-the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street
I believe all of this, but what about black cohosh?
"Sisters please tell me, did I do better?"
glossandgloves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaLX7PVTrj1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Loss of estrogen..."
askdrnoor
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaeJ_JEK_W-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#matriarchy"
raginggracefully
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaePNIFJD2r/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
They were just dealing with the circumstances they inherited... 👑👀🧿
"Heathers"| Clip | Young Love | 4K
I'll talk about it when I'm older. Something to look forward to!
There was this one day, when I had this really nice time...
God, human beings in a Patriarchal White Supremacist Society can be so terrible to other human beings.
"Here’s how much ICE detainees pay for 5 everyday items" - The Washington Post
Suppressing the musical ones, too???
"Family, lawmakers call for mariachi detained by ICE to be released"
It's so much work to have an enjoyable life or even just a tolerable one in this unwell White Supremacist Patriarchal Society.
It really is a lot of work, especially when you get the kind of genetics that make it a lot of work.
Anyways, it's kind of like those girls on the street were saying the other night.
F*** England, f*** Queen Elizabeth, f*** Oasis, f*** The Beatles, and Viva Mexico, cabrones.
Craziness...Absolutely bonkers.
Still being fed and clothed by The Patriarchy's persecuted people today! And yourself? Oh well, this is quite obvious!
Anyways, it's cool that you're a good jewelry maker.
You just shouldn't let it stand in the way of developing and growing into your full potential as a human being. And even though the Patriarchal White Supremacy wants you to forget about the ones who put you where you are, that attitude is simply not sustainable.
It's so disappointing because I like mashed potatoes, too.
You should figure out how to make the kind of mashed potatoes that don't suffocate the life out of others. And while you're at it, why not think of and thank the people who provided you with those potatoes.
Why do you and them need to hold onto those old misogynistic mindsets just to survive in the system?
"Privileged guys who got trained to act like your kind is worthless are the very ones who help keep me up here in the manner to which I have become accustomed. Now I must pander to the masses of the most easily manipulated in order to survive the system and not see you."
Just so a few can be placed on pedestals? Really?
And all of the women and girls being mistreated and abandoned by this awful patriarchal society deserve so much better!
I guess it's better to know, but it hurts.
I really thought some people would have been better at acting like they know that other human beings count as real people on this planet, too.
What era is this.
Since you're being so indifferent and acting exactly like the Cult trained you to act, I don't need to be one who can afford to be in a big crowd of prejudiced people putting you on a pedestal at the expense of the humanity of others. It's very hurtful!
Naturally the Cult hates thinking about things like that. Or talking about or acknowledging them or acting like they are real human beings..
Immigrants are still feeding and clothing you anyways!
I know it's hard to do. I can tell...
The callous Patriarchal cult of White Supremacy really does not want you to change or start acknowledging the existences of a much wider range of human beings. Trump and others have shown me how much the Patriarchal cult of White Supremacy wants people to act like myopic, selfish indifferent assholes. Big money, big crowd adulation, big wounded egos, big trauma, and the outcome of big abandonment of the ones who fit in least well with the cult of Patriarchical White Supremacy. Oh, it is almost too much to deal with!
Bless the persecuted people. And act like they are actual real human beings for a change. Have a heart!
After all, the immigrants are still feeding and clothing you and your very special set genetics if you're not starving or naked.
How can they be so cruel and indifferent?
Donald Trump and other performers who need the adulation of crowds to make them feel better about themselves and their life choices. It's like they were all raised in a callous Patriarchal cult of White Supremacy who trained them to be like that, or something.
Oh must it really be this way?
"In addition to feeling impressed by you creating some of the most astounding art I've ever had the privilege to enjoy, I'm even more floored by your dedication to plumbing your own depths to reach the grand culmination: all of the highest peaks of your human potential!"
As I worry about my own health issues, and being distracted by my thoughts about artists.
Successful artists who have made great work That's reached a wider audience sometimes get seduced into complacency when it comes to their own personal development. Because the stuff they've put out is so good and they will always have fans, people who love them for their art, they might become overly reliant on basking in that flattering feedback. Instead of developing themselves further as human beings, they can go back to their fans who love them for the art they've already created.
Developing yourself as a human being is not supposed to be something you're ashamed of or an insult to your character. That's what humans come here to do; they come to Earth to develop themselves. And why should making great art now prevent them from making more great art in the future, which will have to be made after they have developed themselves more as human beings? Why are they so seduced by the compliments and the flattery?
What if artists in the future are really different and they also make a huge point of developing themselves as human beings, and not being as seduced by the compliments in the flattery?
Monday, July 06, 2026
I should look up gardening pictures again.
For some reason I'm remembering when we visited my mother's older friend who lived by an estuary on the island, because down the road from her, there were some other older people who had the most beautiful home with gardens. Oh my goodness, these gardens, they were like something out of a fairyland. Those people had a real gift for gardening. It was so beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. And they seemed so happy there, too! And then, if my memory serves me correctly, we later heard from my mother's friend that everything had burned down and they did not have insurance. I always wondered what happened to them. It just seemed like their gift for gardening was so immense that they would have to go somewhere else and create more gardens.
Maybe I was supposed to develop a keen appreciation for the ones our society has considered mad women in this life.
The mad women could be the antidote to the Mad Men! Ha. Well, I have discovered that when you seem to be sensitive to all kinds of energies on this planet, and also your brain is wired to give access to certain types of interesting information, functioning as a "normal person" feels more difficult, and processing the emotions that come with certain kinds of experiences requires a skill and patience and dedication to forging your own path, even if it feels like you're receiving me messages that you are not behaving as others would like you to behave.
Everything's a gift!
Well, I've had worse days. I'm getting really weird twitchy feelings in certain facial muscles. Maybe some higher light beings are trying to heal me!
Okay, now there's a possum on the wall and it's staring at the cat.
And the cat is about 6 ft in front of me.
So we've got human - cat - possum.
The possum's gone now.
Never mind the possum came back again.
I suppose it does this a lot.
I think I'll do some work in the kitchen and listen to this.
"Feeling Exhausted? Receive Only What’s Yours | Light Language Transmission"
joannecary
Is that too much to ask?
I just want to be able to have a nice life and enjoy art and music and relax and feel like I can have the proper state of health.
The Patriarchy has to go. It's bad for human health.
Patriarchal attitudes that feel like a warm, comforting bowl of mashed potatoes to some people are like being boiled in oil to other people.
I saw a license plate holder that said "Easily distracted by the moon" with the moon phases on it.
I thought "I feel like the Nine of Swords tarot card is my life right now."
Another reason I'm glad about feminism becoming more prevalent is because it's raising the bar for humanity.
Some people were seemingly just raised to think about whether other people are servicing their needs and not much else. They weren't really raised to be especially curious about people who are different from them. But when more people are curious and show it, it becomes normalized. And now it becomes more normal to think about certain things that used to be so outside of the norm of what the patriarchy wanted you to think about.
I bought a fizzy drink with magnesium in it.
These are luxuries. These are not things I used to think I could afford. I know that there are rich people who don't understand these things. I've seen it and I've felt it.
I also know my illness seems very minor compared to the things other people are going through.
However, it's a quality of life issue. Quality of life is important. Continuously being dragged down over the years because your particular body's state health is unimportant to the system is very difficult.
It's not fixing everything, but more feminism still makes life better for some of us.
When I was in my twenties, feminism was not as popular. Sometimes people would just fixate on things like weight loss and looks so much. I wouldn't go back to my twenties even if I wore a smaller size because there's more feminist content available now. Both men and women are making more feminist content online. More feminism makes life better.
It's fun to talk like this sometimes.
She said ol (for oil.)
Sometimes it's fun to exaggerate the accent a little more.
And sometimes it's fun to be more subtle, like somebody from Winston-Salem or Staunton, Virginia.
I wonder where they're from. I cannot tell. I am not an expert on all things Southern. But I have a little bit of knowledge.
"McDonald’s FRIED Apple Pie at Home"
TayBrice
I wonder which occupations are less likely to be put in a horrible detention center these days.
I saw that Bill Burr's going be performing at a venue out here, and I was like, oh I wonder if that would be fun, and then I was like, but he still reminds me of the time I had the worst massage when a man was walking on my back and it was torture and could not believe I was actually paying someone to do that to me, and then at the end when I found out the masseur's name was Bill, I almost immediately thought of Bill Burr, plus it wasn't the masseur's real name, his real name was something Thai, but Bill was his American name.
Miss $andra's Lesbian Confessions
Dear Energy of a Brother Who Could Convert Conservatives, I do remember when I attended a literary reading that included queer and gay authors and I wrote an article but it did not go to press. Do you wonder why that happened? Because they were unknowns, and they don't sell the same number of tickets that a musical performance does!
Of course this won't really fix any of your problems, but...
You should just make men mad by telling them how messed up by the Patriarchy they are. It's very sisterly. And then they won't be as lonely anymore! They will be filled the joy of discovering they have so much stuff to learn about and work on. Projects!
They are all funny in different ways.
😅😹😂
"HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!"
thengxb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaXvx5vRq7A/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Just imagine..."
missbrendathehottest
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaXm5pbAWSf/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"And yes, I will be talking"
5hahem
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DadhZU_OCQy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What did he say? He said that Tony is in her SECOND YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL!
And then, like a charming fairy tale told by the neighbor hippie parents...
"'Tonight, half hour ago, she started screaming. It was terrible. Whitman and I ran in and found her thrashing about in the bed. There were two bites, on her neck. Oozing blood. The window was wide open. The wind was just terrible. And the room... well, it just spelled bad, man. Like a...a crypt.'
'What the hell are you saying? You think she was bitten by a vampire?'
'I know it. I just know it. It had to be a vampire.'
She was correct about the window being open and there was indeed a fetid aroma in the room and there certainly was blood on the pillow and Tony sure as hell had marks on her throat and, yes, her eyes were still glazed.
I didn't object when Sage and Whitman scurried about laying heads of garlic on window sills and under Tony's pillows and even stringing a head (Red Tempest from Formosa) around her throat.
'It might have been a raccoon,' I said. 'Or a feral cat. You better take her to the doctor tomorrow. You know, raccoons and cats can carry rabies.'
'Are you kidding? With our two dogs out there? There haven't been cats or raccoons around this place since we moved in.'
~~~
Well, the garlic worked. Tony recovered from the vampire bites.
But the garlic did not succeed as well as a contraceptive would have. Tony gave birth to a beautiful son with dark hair and light-blue eyes.
Sage and Whitman still hang garlic all over the house. Even under Tony's pillow."
Page 172
"Garlic Is Life by Chester Aaron" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/102788.Garlic_Is_Life
Well the book opened right to the passage I was thinking of!
"I have a neighbor here in Occidental named Sage. She has a very impressionable daughter named Antonia. Tony. Tony is in her second year in high school."
Page 171
'Garlic Is Life by Chester Aaron" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/102788.Garlic_Is_Life
I love garlic!
I feel so garlicky! And this is such a good book. I found it at an Airbnb and then I ordered it for myself later on because I liked it so much!
Sadly, it is not unsullied by a sexist point of view, such as when his friend's daughter got weirdly attacked and then made pregnant and he made a big joke about it, but I do appreciate his passion.
Delicious heaping mounds of mashed potatoes. Yum!
That must be what consuming Patriarchal White Supremacy feels like to some people, eh?
Ugh, the putting down of women that feels so normal and funny to the Patriarchy!
But how generous and thoughtful of him to share this information with us:
"We interrupt this broadcast to send a short message to your mother.
Yes, it's possible that I should have paid more attention to the fact that we've started giving the baby real food now. And yes, I can agree that maybe I didn't listen as closely as I should have when you explained the exact circumstances around that.
But I don't care what you say. Because if I see ten small plastic Tupperware containers of homemade mashed potatoes in the fridge, I'm going to eat those mashed potatoes. Because it's my duty. Because evolution demands it. And most of all, because I love mashed potatoes.
How was I meant to know they were for the BABY? A few months ago, we counted takeaway pizza as 'basically homemade supper,' and now you're standing here, making your own baby food? Who are you? Mary Poppins?
Stop giving me the silent treatment and open the door! It's really cold out here!"
Page 82
"Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman" | Goodreads
Some of them even had real babies that they created in their wombs and everything!
Moms misdiagnosed by medical misogyny and then abandoned by their own families!
Aren't we happy for them?
Matriarch Taylor and Matriarch Tori's Superior White Men Posse. I'm sure they'll be helping the rest of us break out of our prisons any day now.
I think they're on the same side. Maybe they should make their own flag.
Misogynistic gay heterosexual and bisexual people.
I am putting big chunks of garlic into Greek lemon chicken soup.
Just in case I have something undiagnosed and maybe garlic can help clear it up if I eat a lot of garlic and maybe garlic will ward off the vampires too.
He was trying to be funny...
The hugely successful author of A Man Called Ove Heard wrote a book called Things My Son Needs to Know About the World.
I opened the book and I found a place where he made a joke at the expense of the baby's mother, and it seems like he was trying to be funny, and he's actually just being a huge jerk.
I would like to be lucky instead, but I don't know if I am right now.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to push harder and get other opinions about my tooth issue. I'm afraid it's actually worse than diagnosed and that I did not get the right diagnosis today.
Is it like the 2020s version of the 1950s? 💯
A community that has to act like what a man says and does and thinks and feels and creates is the best and most important.
What's not to like?
"follow for more ❤️"
theroshah
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaZr_6xtFVI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng=
"Internalized misogyny"
wanwanluve
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaWFCpTMFJy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I believe can tell when some people are still being sexist.
Because when I say something, they react in a certain way, but when a large and important man says it, oh you can feel the energy shift then!
Maybe I got lucky this time.
I don't think I am out of the woods yet. I had an image of people cleaning out the fridge and throwing old food away this morning. The tooth I babied and tried not to chew on or touch since last Thursday might not be as imperiled after all. It doesn't seem to wiggle that much anymore. It's been x-rayed and tapped on; I have been told to be very scrupulous with my oral hygiene. The septic tank at this place is also being worked on, as another surprise. Hmmm.
Yes, I will watch this again. It is good!
Watch "The Girl Who Has Never Laughed (with Aisling Bea, Tom Allen, and Charlotte Richie)"
turtlecanyoncomedy
Pray. Pray for goodness to enter your existence.
Our loving feminine goddess energy who surpasses all the women and other human beings who had to put men on pedestals and act like girls and daughters and even mothers were dirt under their servile to the patriarchy feets. Hallowed be thy lovingness.
Self-regulation is the spice of life.
Kind of blame myself for neglecting going to yoga but now it's time to move onwards.
Focus on God's grace and mercy for you.
Do not focus on so-and-so's sexist friends. They will divest themselves from the cult of the Patriarchal Supremacy when they feel their calling to do so.
Cushion my living experience a little more.
May God have mercy on me and my painful experiences in my injured body today.
Two step forwards...
Wow, what if I were a rich white guy who had been shaped by the values of a society built on patriarchal white supremacy and people were constantly compelled to favor me above others and to act like insensitive jerks towards the less fortunate just to survive living in my orbit?
Sunday, July 05, 2026
It's good to gradually change.
Today when I was in a dark corner of a cafe, I began to feel like some shifts were occurring. It felt like I had been carrying around baggage that I want to let go of, a lot of bad feelings. I felt I could let go of of some of that.
"It was HEAVY to carry that stuff around," I imagined another, a friend, saying to me. I was feeling like I could be more in alignment with some other people sometimes in the not too distant future.
I had a childhood memory of jumping in the water and getting it up my nose, perhaps for the first time. It hurt. There were also boys there, playing in the water, but they didn't get water up their nose. Or after all, maybe they did, too?
Young parents in the '80s were people in their twenties not always knowing what they were doing with their children but they were trying and doing their best.
I think I'll work on finishing several books and watch this later.
The 1955 "East of Eden" film. Perhaps it's because there's a new one coming out. Also because I spent time in that part of California off and on when I was growing up. Also, I started looking at that book on the phone, too. I have several books to finish.
Trust the (healthy, creative) process!
🕸️🪅🌀
"What it costs"
TikTok Meemaw
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSmYuMq3/
"hot take"
louisha | master of none
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSmYNqs5/
"Happy Fourth of July Weekend"
Reynell Meredith
Well, you know attitudes are changing.
Exposure to feminist beliefs still varies widely. Healthcare options for women's bodies are evolving!
"I beg your finest"
Magg'z
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSmFXJmS/
"I will talk about this song forever"
didi
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSfnxmaT/
"It happens slowly through a thousand tiny messages"
Emily | PMDD Support
And you know how I got reminded that music is very important to a culture this evening.
The universe planted me on the sidewalk right outside of a venue after the England versus Mexico World Cup match ended, and people were streaming out in their green Team Mexico shirts. A group of girls were walking up the sidewalk towards me and they were saying...
Fuck England
Fuck Queen Elizabeth
Fuck Oasis
And fuck the Beatles.
And another group of people were crossing the street towards me, and one of the girls shouted:
¡Viva Mexico cabrones!
This guy was quite the nasty character.
Briefly mentioned in the queen of ice cream book.
"Roy Cohn" - Wikipedia
People are often like needy children.
"What sparked Hannah Arendt's ideas behind "The Origins of Totalitarianism" | American Masters | PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-on-totalitarianism/36154/
😹😹😹😹😹
And after all, I did watch a PBS documentary about Hannah Arendt a while back, and at the end of it, somebody with more life experience than I have told me that that she wished Hannah Arendt was a little bit more like Taylor Swift. 😂
Maybe???
"There goes Sister Taylor pulling off the sort of s*** I would have been pulling off a few centuries ago. Silly Taylor. We're supposed to clean up the environment now!"
Look how adorable and unsullied by The Wicked Patriarchy I am!
I raise expectations just by existing.
You want to be a better person!
I kind of like moon face! It's cute! 🌝
"I really wish I had known..."
mila.habsy
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaTU7WyDrnA/?img_index=1&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Not the first time I've had that thought.
There should probably be more songs out there about how the "sensitive" men have done some young women wrong.
Never mind. I will think judgeler thoughts now. I mean gentler ones.
"The gentleman standing beside the fireplace with an almost untouched glass of whiskey beside him on the mantelpiece is Mr. A, a descendant of one of the great American families. There has never been an American Blue Book without several persons of his surname in it. He is poor and earns his living as an editor. He has had a classical education, has a sound and cultivated taste in literature, painting, and music; has not a touch of snobbery in him; is full of humor, courtesy, and wit. He was a lieutenant in the World War, is a Republican in politics, but voted twice for Roosevelt, last time for Willkie. He is modest, not particularly brilliant, a staunch friend, and a man who greatly enjoys the company of pretty and witty women. His wife, whom he adored, is dead, and he will never remarry.
He has never attracted any attention because of outstanding bravery. But I will put my hand in the fire that nothing on earth could ever make him a Nazi. He would greatly dislike fighting them, but they could never convert him. . . . Why not?"
"Who Goes Nazi?," by Dorothy Thompson
You're on a scale of locked up immigrant to Taylor Swift now.
"No, you can't confine me that way. I'm too good, and I'm bigger than that and far more important than your limited mindset would ever allow."
They're probably the least privileged ones in their organization and they wish they had the cushy desk jobs.
"I handed out Capri Suns at a children’s rally at Delaney Hall. Then ICE agents opened fire" - nj.com
Really? What would you get out of going Nazi at a time like this?
Can you describe the perks to me in more thorough detail, just in case I'm considering it?
"Who Goes Nazi?," by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
God, I hope I don't go Nazi!
That was my second thought after I looked up this article, and I also saw in my search engine, "Who plays bass clarinet?"
"Who Goes Nazi?," by Dorothy Thompson
Oh, it's just because they're getting paid decent money to do this!
"ICE arrests 10,000 people across US in 5-day span, a sharp surge in Trump's deportation push" | abc7.com
You're definitely not doing that for other mothers' children. I don't even think you're doing it for your own.
You just have to flaunt all of those messages that got pumped into your little fragile brains when you were small and felt insignificant and you wanted to grow up and be big and important and accepted by a violent, patriarchal, racist, misogynistic culture.
Immigrants feed you; media people who are paid to prop you up don't.
Media people who are getting paid to be impressed by you are the ones who are acting like they are the most impressed by you.
It wouldn't surprise me at all, right now.
If Taylor Swift and Tori Amos teamed up for a collaboration on how much they learned to appreciate how superior their favorite, favored white men are to everybody else. Only the richest and also most favored by the Patriarchal White Supremacy will be able to afford the tickets to their show.
And how many of them were parents?
"I handed out Capri Suns at a children’s rally at Delaney Hall. Then ICE agents opened fire" - nj.com
I'm looking forward to your grandchildren. Learning a lot from you.
"Don't be as shallow, sexist and selfish as them. It's terrible for society, terrible for the environment and terrible for the next generation. Also, consider the importance of the mental and emotional health aspects, as well as the physical ones."
What the hell?
"I handed out Capri Suns at a children’s rally at Delaney Hall. Then ICE agents opened fire" - nj.com
She may not be quite correct about this.
But I do think The Patriarchal Culture has tried very hard to destroy many people, such as Anne Frank, as one example.
"Carl Jung described this..."
avangard_nastya
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ_SnctsGf2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What the hell? And people still act like wedding celebrities of white supremacy are more important?
"I handed out Capri Suns at a children’s rally at Delaney Hall. Then ICE agents opened fire" - nj.com
"Of course I don't act like care about the less fortunate females, as fashion dick-tates."
"And using children to s*** on other people like the shallow, misogynistic parent The Patriarchy raised me to be is par for the course, and very retro."
They both reincarnated as plus-sized women.
"James Dean and Paul Newman flirt during East of Eden"
cassiecarpenter
We can't all have other people's childhood upbringings and genetic inheritances.
I've decided that the kind of love that can't talk about this society discriminating against certain body types is not a love for me.
I heard "This Land Is Your Land" on the radio yesterday!
Also, I'm getting flashbacks to the clothing sizes I used to wear.
"250 years and there's still a lot of work to do"
erin.go.go.bragh
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaX2kJgB3vC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Born with a full set of teeth, I was born with a...Wait. No, I wasn't, was I?
"The amount of people who think these songs..."
erin.go.go.bragh
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaX4bSph1q2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This is cute!!! Learning about the anchoring heuristic.
"This Father's Day..."
acceptingunclemurphy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ2oxm4RE1L/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
There's also the "They have an entity attachment" explanation.
They have an entity attachment.
"What a beautiful question. Thanks"
trevorfultzofficial
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaQ6idPy3uZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You know you're healing when you stop..."
raeokino
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaEDwf9yYgu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I swear every woman I know is angry about something she was told to get over"
nataldee
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ6IKM0mY_f/?img_index=2&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I mean, every ICE agent is probably descended from an immigrant.
"Mariachi band star detained by ICE records ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ for the Fourth of July"| The Independent
Nobody cares about President Martin Van Buren anymore. You irredeemable control freak.
"Conan remembers the time he took a date to Disneyland."
@teamcoco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaY7dCAid-X/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Martin Van Buren" - Wikipedia
What kind of name is Demetriou?
"The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)"
HamiltonMusical
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6_35a7sn6ds&si=IpEe4zvpCaZEoXGy
"Steven J. Demetriou, Executive Chair..."
You wonder what kind of parents they had, and how they were raised.
Narcissistic people act like they don't know that immigrants are the ones feeding and clothing them all the time. So all this persecution of immigrants is kind of, like, not going to work out very well for them if it continues.
I have so many questions now.
How does having a narcissistic dad affect a boy? And how does having a narcissistic dad affect a girl? Those are two simple questions to start off with.
What are the poor children of narcissistic dads supposed to do about this?
"This is not always just an armchair diagnosis"
streetlighteyesdontdie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaZ2OMSpk9_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's so crazy, we could laugh and make a joke about it!
I can't believe I was remembering that I was kinda traumatized by the attitude of a racist blonde mom babysitter with a son named Steven, and I started to feel like some other stuff was kind of racist and like it was the long arm of white supremacy at it again, and now according to the internet, it turns out that some guy named Steven who runs an ICE facility.... Oh my God!... In a picture with a blonde woman... Attending the wedding of a famous, narcissistic blonde woman... Oh my God!!!
"Steven J. Demetriou, Executive Chair..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/iGPi4UOJFb
I can't believe Nazis ruined lives because people were emotionally immature.
"Emotionally immature people can't hear you..."
francescapsychology
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZxOdIPCFV_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Why? Did he have a messed up (according to the standards of the Patriarchal Cult) kind of family?
"Steven J. Demetriou, Executive Chair...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/iGPi4UOJFb
"ICE Contractor Swap Draws Scrutiny After Deaths, Safety Lapses"
"ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions
Public Citizen report reveals dark histories of companies awarded billions to run Camp East Montana in Texas"
They don't really love themselves, do they?
They don't know how to heal themselves, do they.
"When incompetence meets abject cruelty"
embodimentwithemily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdjQlxBkjK/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm going to read my book about the immigrant who got successful in the face of great adversity.
The queen of fight or flight, I mean
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656072-the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street
I don't know how to help them leave the cult.
Having contempt for others is the number one occupation of the privileged rich ones. They are in a cult.
The immigration raids are racist and hurting us.
Tears are coming out of my eyes because it is sad to know this: Acting like the rich white people and rich people of color are more important than the people of color, and sometimes white people, who are getting persecuted right now, is racist. The uncaring Cult of Patriarchical White Supremacy is being activated in a lot of white people and non-white people right now. It's very sad. Tears are coming out of my eyes.
Is there some kind of symbolism? 👑
If other people had chewed on their finger hard, it wouldn't have messed up their tooth. I had a weaker tooth. I used to have a stronger tooth than that for most of my life. My other tooth off with the veneer didn't get messed up. It was the crowned tooth.
The cult is madness.
White people of privilege hate thinking about others more than any other kind of people, but also, a lot of other kinds of people will adopt that white people of privilege mentality if it helps them fit in with the cult and get some short-term gains. There's a lot of not very sensitive people from all kinds of backgrounds out there, stuck in their own survival modes, and being the insensitive people that they are being is, I guess, the best they can do right now. I just don't know why.
Maybe pray for them.
People who are in a cult act like people who are on drugs, or like they are possessed by an entity who makes them lose the ability to have empathy for others. They can't be your friend because they're serving their cult.
One more day???
I hopefully just have to get through one more day with the tooth that's damaged. I don't want my husband to burn out because he never gets any days off because he's the one that makes the schedule and they made them lay people off and he doesn't seem to know how to give himself days off. I'm so tired. My mother has early onset Alzheimer's. My father's wife is extremely sick. I know that the Patriarchy hates people. I don't understand why the richer, more privileged people have to hate the poorer ones.
Being an immigrant sounds really hard.
This woman (a fictional character, but still) had a terribly stressful life; a lot worse than mine.
"The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street" by Susan Jane Gilman | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656072-the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street
Maybe this will be fun to check out later.
"Want to unlock a 'sixth sense'?"
asknature & tristangooley
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZYcZYaBel0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Comical. The way humans deal with things sometimes can be comical.
Hey, this is a world filled with people full of wounded hearts and psyches, but I think this is still an odd take if you're either a man or a woman.
"Oh, it doesn't matter if The Patriarchy wanted me to grow up to imitate others and act sexist towards x types of people. I can definitely avoid addressing that. You know why? Because I can make men act like they adore me."
Um, okay, I guess? And that's it? Isn't that absurd?
It's actually, I suppose, quasi-normal-seeming if your role models were sexist male cult leaders.
Anyways, what about thinking about some other things, like how clouds can tell us things about weather patterns?
That's something I want to learn about.
Saturday, July 04, 2026
Sigh. What can be done about living in such an unwell Patriarchal Society...
Sexism has been a real problem in so many places. How awful it has been, to experience it. People who are still in the throes of their own sexist programming are not going to be able to help you very much. That's why you must pay more attention to looking for much better ways forward, for your own health and well-being.
Fireworks are now in session 🎇.
I live where I can see local fireworks from our backyard. That's fun because I didn't used to have an easy time getting a view of the fireworks. But my favorite 4th of July fireworks were the ones I saw as a kid in Michigan. My grandmother had so much fun taking us to see them. She'd drive to a quiet neighborhood and park her car on a hill where we had a perfect view of them. It was a magical excursion. I thought, how could anybody not love this? Truly, I felt that it was one of the best things we experienced all year.
Nowadays, I sort of feel like I can "take or leave it" about fireworks but I try to enjoy them and tap into my inner child when they are easy to see. Cats are not a fan of the noises and need to be by a safe human when the fireworks are going off.
I saw the paratroopers. 🇺🇸🪂😸
One had a big American flag. I don't think I have ever seen that before. That was cool.
I'll get a better camera someday.
It has actually been a very quiet day.
There was an airplane circling around in the sky for a while. I took pictures, but it only showed up when it was against the backdrop of white clouds. I still need to do more work on the Lady Liberty puzzle. I guess I didn't work on it very much today.
There are so many ways to distract the people!
"Steven J. Demetriou, Executive Chair..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/iGPi4UOJFb
"Largest ICE Detention Hub Wasted Millions..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/camp-east-montana-texas-ice-detention-gao-report.html
Her brother is quite the character, too!
"I think this book is based loosely on... — The Ice..." Q&A
https://www.goodreads.com/questions/225025-i-think-this-book-is-based-loosely-on
"We All Scream for Lillian Dunkle!" | Chicago Public Library
"An icy ice cream queen" - The Dayton Jewish Observer
https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2015/09/an-icy-ice-cream-queen/
Anyways, I'm going to finish this book first.
Everything in time. Everything in time...
"The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: Sinfully Delicious" | Book Perfume
https://bookperfume.com/2015/08/13/the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street-sinfully-delicious/
Wow! What a life. Is there a film?
"Rosa Luxemburg" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street is fun book to read, but the main character deals with her problems in very materialistic ways.
Well that seems timely!🍦
I just read the part in this book where they they turned some melting ice cream into soft serve and sold it on the side of the road to a bunch of travelers on the 4th of July!
"The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street" by Susan Jane Gilman
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656072-the-ice-cream-queen-of-orchard-street
Perhaps this is also an opportunity to get in touch with feelings.
Important Feelings.
"Women are often taught how to manage anger before they are taught how to express it."
twoxtopia
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZXpVwmJwUy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Seems like a reasonable and appropriate response.
"As ICE Abducts & Disappears Parents, Moms Nationwide Are Speaking Out" - United We Dream
https://unitedwedream.org/press/as-ice-abducts-disappears-parents-moms-nationwide-are-speaking-out/
Apparently, not everybody thinks it's equally terrifying.
"Masked white supremacists march Capitol Hill chanting 'Reclaim America!' in terrifying scenes" - The Mirror US
https://www.themirror.com/news/breaking-masked-white-supremacists-march-1920656
I think that will be very self-liberating for them, actually.
When some people get closer to healing from the weird and not great messages they got programmed with in childhood which are still manipulating them.
I've enjoyed my cucumbers today, but I'm needing to chew very carefully.
Things became very overwhelming for me and it's been a painful time and I have a very expensive dental repair coming up which insurance is not going to cover. So I need to get through the weekend.
It's disappointing, but we will see what humanity does now.
"I live in Davidson County..."
charleeremitz
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaYs6atR-aG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
'The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Nazi (2008)"
@journeyman
People are being manipulated.
Set boundaries.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Nazi (2008)"
@journeyman
That's what I saw when I drifted off to sleep for a second.
A female army nurse / soldier sitting up tall who got beaten in the face.
How did this happen!?
"Every American should see this photo today."
harryjsisson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYRG-UuBW4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
On the DC Metro which I used to ride!
Patriarchal White Supremacy Sucks.
"Steven J. Demetriou, Who Runs an ICE Detention Center, Attended the Wedding"
u/xlonerangerx
https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/gYOaK2YMA6
I wonder how they're doing today?
All those "other" people who apparently just don't fit in with the expectations of systemic Patriarchal White Supremacy quite so well.
Being shallow is an under-utilization of creative potential.
Acting like a tool of the patriarchy is not cool because it's actually a very cruel way to behave towards fellow participants in the human experience.
Saxophones getting louder?
Inspiring! I will take some fun road trips soon.
1104 Fullerton Ave, Corona
Javier Linares
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTS5pNxra/
Place in California you should never visit
1k Jay Live
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTS5gcx7x/
#california
Foxman
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