The physician role sounds very difficult to me.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Saturday, May 23, 2026
I'm kind of glad that I have this side of myself that hasn't died yet.
Sometimes, I still can't believe that some people actually seem to think that a civil rights movement in a time of persecution is just supposed to feed their egos and their bank accounts without them changing the least little bit.
I feel like creative projects are good to focus on in times like these.
I think that some people might start to think of their lives as creative projects, and they can share different parts of their lives with different people so they can connect more deeply in certain ways, or have more curiosity about certain topics and learn more that way.
Going back to a safe space, I guess.
And the sad thing is, it's at least six times cheaper to buy an analog version of this book in Spanish then it is in English.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Anyways, glad I'm not him. Ha-ha.
"John Mayer Says His 2003 Hit ‘Daughters’ Was 'Very Selfish'"
https://people.com/john-mayer-says-the-inspiration-behind-daughters-was-selfish-11954259
What....
"L.A. has its own mini 'Gardens of Versailles'”
https://secretlosangeles.com/los-angeles-gardens-music-summer-museum-roses/
Oh, it's the Huntington. I've been there a bunch of times.
As if they don't have enough land up there, huh?
"‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention
As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they were turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/23/canadians-refugees-rejected-face-ice-detention
Of course, there are worse rich people, like the people who own these detention centers and are getting richer off of what's going on.
"Guillermo Torres recalls bearing witness to the suffering of detainees at Adelanto when hunger strikers were mistreated for protesting, and says these conditions have not improved.
A program director at Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, he described a recent visit with a mother from Colombia who suffered a dislocation in her shoulder during her arrest. The GEO Group staff ignored her cries and pleas, he said.
“They denied her help and they told her that they couldn’t do anything, and that she had to put the bone back in place herself after screaming and crying. And that’s what continues to be at Adelanto,” noted Torres.
Immigrants in detention, meanwhile, are denied options for release on bond back to their communities. The bond system has been “systematically dismantled,” said Soto. “The Trump administration declared that anyone who entered without papers was ineligible for bond, regardless of their record, their family, their ties to the community.”
A February ruling ostensibly ended the Trump administration’s efforts to deny bond to immigrant detainees, though, according to Soto, “ICE and the immigration judges there at Adelanto kept applying it anyway.”
Ultimately community advocates want Adelanto and other detention facilities to be shut down.
GEO Group—along with private prison firm CoreCivic—is reporting significant profits from these operations. Both companies stand to benefit from the $75 billion additional funding set aside for immigration enforcement and detention centers under H.R. 1.
“We will continue to add our voices to … shut down this place,” Torres said. “And not only this place, but all these horrific immigration centers that should not exist.”
Li Lovett
"Hunger Strikers Protest Conditions at Adelanto ICE Detention Center" | ACoM
Maybe it's becoming more of a rich people problem at this point.
You're also going to have to start looking at the toxic patriarchal white supremacy mindsets living inside of the non-white people, because so many people who are joining ICE are not white!
Seduced into reading a newspaper article.
"Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition"| ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/ice-immigration-oregon-facial-recognition
The world wouldn't be as interesting without you in it, and that's also therapeutic to say to yourself in excruciatingly painful times.
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best (Live on KEXP)"
I think it would be fun to see you try.
At least pick a man who's not feeling so blatantly entitled to act like a jerk towards the ones who are so different from him, why don't you?
Jesus, Paul.
"Paul was not issuing an economic manifesto. He was telling a group of eschatological freeloaders to stop being weird"
~ Derrick Day
"Capitalism, Socialism, And Christians Who Ignore Jesus"
"Paul was a genuine intellectual titan, a Roman citizen who wrote Greek the way surgeons use scalpels, and many of his letters contain passages of devastating moral clarity. His chapter on love in First Corinthians has earned its place in every wedding since Gutenberg invented bulk printing.
But Paul had a worldview. It was hierarchical. Slaves were to obey masters. Women were to be silent. The Body of Christ had members with different functions, some more dignified than others. He was a man of his time, which means he was also a man shaped by Roman patronage culture, where your value was inseparable from your productivity and your productivity was inseparable from your place in the social order.
Jesus had no such worldview. Or rather, his worldview was a direct assault on that one. He praised a widow’s two pennies over a rich man’s substantial donation. He elevated a Samaritan — a religious and ethnic outgroup — as the moral exemplar in what is probably his most famous parable. He positioned a child, the lowest-status person in first-century Jewish society, as the model for entering the Kingdom of God.
Paul’s theology organized people. Jesus’ theology disordered them — intentionally, radically, and with what one suspects was a fair amount of pleasure.
As one Christian minister and theologian writing for Radical Discipleship puts it, the word 'capital' simply means money, and capitalism is 'moneyism' — a system that strives to place money at the center of all human life. Jesus, according to the Gospels, said plainly: 'You cannot serve God and money.' The conflict is not subtle. It is definitional."
~ D. Day
Maybe pick a survivor story?
"Texas mother of 4 says 'no one is safe' after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-mother-speaks-weeks-ice-custody/
So pick one; or several that move you to acknowledge that they're doing the really wrong things with the tax dollars.
"Infected tooth led to death of man in ICE custody in Arizona, medical examiner says
Family says 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas complained about toothache for days before given proper medical care"
Brains of Our Elevated Culture can't process all 145,000 stories.
"Over 145,000 US children separated from parents since Trump’s ICE surge, study estimates" | US immigration | The Guardian
Gross negligence that doesn't even spark national outrage - should it be forgotten?
"She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing." - The Washington Post
On this path: "Crying" in otra idioma 🎼🥀🪽
"Rebekah Del Rio, 'Mulholland Drive' singer..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/s/SOOe8OCS1b
Mulholland Drive (2001) - "Llorando [HD]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c3eSIkQY&si=kqEbERgAHZj1-znt
"Crying (Album Version)"
Roy Orbison
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k_L_GZLa5ow&si=YWBL-cNlxOS7fnoU
Rebekah Del Rio - "Llorando"
Bubbling over with curiosity years later just because of what he chose to pay attention to.
"Riggs was a gay Cherokee playwright, born in Indian Territory in 1899. He was a disappointment to his father, a banker and a rancher. Photographs of Riggs show him to be a man of slight build, something of an 'egghead' with his glasses and premature balding. What was his experience with the hypermasculinity and heteronormativity of the West? Did he experience hazing and bullying as a rite of passage? Did he learn to 'stand it' in order to become an adult? Is he telling us something about the survival of his people, as each new generation has had to face a heritage of ongoing violence, denigration, and theft?"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
This ritual reminds me of other problems that we still have difficulty addressing these days.
"'Charivari' dates all the way to medieval and early modern Europe, where it was a ritual used to punish members of a community who failed to conform to social norms, especially sexual norms. Targets of the charivari might include a widow who remarried, a wife who assaulted her husband, or a couple who failed to have children. In France, where the term originated, teenaged boys and unmarried men traditionally led the ritual, parading through the streets, shouting mocking insults, beating on pots and pans, and threatening violence. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, these males would also attack local brothels during Lent. If the victim paid his or her tormentors off with money or wine, the charivari might end without these threats being carried out.
Apparently, until two hundred years ago, most Europeans thought the charivari was a legitimate and effective practice for curbing social deviance. It allowed for a public venting of outrage, with the opportunity for a “peaceful” resolution of a potentially explosive situation. In other words, it served as a kind of communal vent for blowing off steam… an exorcism of deviance. The victims were shamed, but then reintegrated into the community.
Here’s the thing: It’s actually a rape culture ritual empowering young males to assert their primacy and dominance in the community, and especially with regards to widows who dare to remarry, women who most likely were just attempting to defend themselves in abusive marriages where their husbands had legal rights to rape and batter, married women attempting to salvage some degree of bodily autonomy and/or freedom from compulsory serial pregnancy by practicing birth control or abstinence, and women who were prostituted. The historical roots of the 19th century Midwest shivaree were not in a playful hazing of newlyweds, but in a sanctioned, violent policing by gangs of young men over women who, in their eyes, were not sufficiently sexually subordinate."
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
"Sanitized and civilized"
"The shivaree as depicted in Oklahoma! has become sanitized and civilized, so that it is little more than an extension of the wedding party… kind of like when the bridesmaids and groomsmen sneak off to tie old shoes onto the back of the newlyweds’ car. The musical has transferred the scene from the dead of night to broad daylight. Shivarees are traditionally done in the dark. In the musical, just after the ceremony, the bride tosses her flowers over her shoulder, and then exits to change into her traveling clothes. The groom leaves to pack, and the men announce that they plan to have a shivaree. There is a vaudevillian interlude featuring a henpecked husband, and then the men return with pots and pans, making a racket. As the bride and groom exit for their travels, the men hoist the groom amiably on their shoulders… but whatever good-natured hazing they have planned is interrupted by the arrival of Judd Fry, the villain of the piece. Wielding a knife, Judd goes to attack the groom and a fight ensues that ends in Fry’s death. The shivaree has been reduced to a noisy, fraternal, daytime bon voyage party for the newlyweds.
The shivaree in Riggs play is something completely different. It is a terrifying artifact of rape culture, and it serves to traumatize and permanently alter both protagonists in ways that are resonant with the appropriation of Indian Territory. To understand its dramaturgical significance, it’s important to look at the origins of the custom:"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
People don't seem to know how good it could feel to care more about a greater scope of humanity..
Like the difference between eating stale versus high quality food or clothes or art or whatever speaks to them the most.
There's so many different kinds of people...
One time I was really in the hot seat because I felt like the universe wanted me to talk to a Dean after a professor encouraged me to do so, and the Dean did not like what I was bringing to him, and he kept telling me all these things about myself like I was a bad listener, and in a way he was right, because other people told me don't talk to this Dean, but I ignored them, so I was a bad listener, but not in the way that he was implying. I guess that's another experience that's passing away.
These songs are both good in different ways.
I just imagine people surviving brutal changes and coming out better for it. And also, for some reason I have this happy memory of having orange herbal tea with my mother when I was very small, possibly 4 years old. And she did some embroidery and we watched television and I had so much fun drinking this herbal tea with her. Kind of like Heaven on Earth for a little kid. Very different from how I usually feel when I listen to these songs though. As a matter of fact, it might just be the memories coming back to me as a parallel experience alongside of listening to the songs. That can happen when you're in a calmer state.
Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8&si=flEPePf8u2wrkDZz
tori amos - "do it again"
I like the kind of peaceful, calm feeling that's coming back.
It's as if the universe told me I had to drag out the skeletons (out of the closets.) So that happened. Maybe it will happen again in the future. But maybe it will never need to be that dramatic again. I know some things about how the Universe operates that I wasn't aware of before. Then the Universe decided to give me the calm and peaceful feeling after all.
I don't know. I kind of like how my life is going sometimes, even in spite of everything.
I really don't listen to this one as much as I listen to a lot of her other songs, but it got my head this morning when I was going for a walk.
Tori Amos ~ "Putting The Damage On Live"
But I also feel that ignoring some others who going through worse things is a disservice to my purpose in this life.
"We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people' | Russia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/jailing-daria-egereva-plight-russia-indigenous-people
Friday, May 22, 2026
The universe is creative naturally.
Looking forward to some of the better moments!
"Hot off the press"
toriamos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYnBOPEIGbt/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🎶GUNS AND FUCKING ROSES is a much better thing to think about🎶
tetyanawrites
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYpCHTnhUog/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe conversations could make it more fun to compare experiences.
Anyways, a lot of us have been repressed and oppressed, and a lot of us are just waking up now in different ways, according to our biological inheritances and our life circumstances. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few decades.
Prince Cinderella, My Friend.
My friend, do you have the feeling that the patriarchal ladies and gentlemen have honestly been giving you the absolute best advice that you're ever going to get in this lifetime?
Pretending everything's fine just doesn't seem to be the logical choice for this brain at the moment.
What are they thinking.
"NC Republicans have lost their damn minds"
pullupspastapolitcs
Nature AND Nuture. Let's allow more kinds of people to flourish, shall we?
Sometimes, I honestly think that my biological make-up, combined with my specific set of circumstances, and the emotional aftermath of having certain encounters with the violence in our patriarchal society, must have made believe that I must identify with the marginalized, oppressed and forgotten people more in this life then the average person seems to want to.
"They don't go away just because you act like they're not there," is what I feel like saying to some people. Even if a marginalized and oppressed person dies, their spirit lives on and might come back in another body, and other people are going to live out those destinies too. I feel like we need to embrace change as a collective to allow more different kinds of people to flourish in their lifetimes on this planet.
Creative people can be the best, most innovative protesters!
"The results of the protests..."
kimiyasajjadi
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpqRxICIJi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Some of the more fortunate ones need to get better at having fun with giving away their money, maybe.
Look what I just noticed about this book that I bought for an extremely low price at a library used book sale.
I used to want to take that class. I didn't feel that I could take it, but now, for less than a freaking dollar, I have access to the textbook!!! Those college textbooks were incredibly expensive. And I've given away my old textbooks, and I hope that somebody else got great joy and benefit from obtaining them.
I wonder if I can get more into spring cleaning if I can think of it as though I'm a rich person giving away their money.
That is a thought.
I should try to make more money soon.
So I can travel!
"the best tour guides have honesty and ABBA"
sohotheatre
letsdoubledutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYpDNn2jz_4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And now, three versions! 🎶
Sara Bareilles - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live from Atlanta)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd2ja7mAgM&si=QB-T8TzGW5pcAXra
[Video] Sara Bareilles - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live Cover)"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/s/jJ5f7trQ8D
"Sara Bareilles sings 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' at the Kennedy Center"
And here's another thing.
If the powers that be feel...I mean, if the alien intelligences are of the opinion...that I don't need to actually meet and converse with someone right because they are convinced that I already know that type of individual well enough, then I guess I'll just make it easy on myself and choose to agree. However, I just think there a bit of a stunted growth spurt thing that's going on, and some people are getting trapped in developmental stages in which trauma occurred, and they haven't fully healed from those stages yet, but whatever, maybe I'll have a different opinion later on...
This is very pedestrian and rough...
However, I think it's possible that someone like Diane de Poitiers had a bunch of different influencers all shoved into her at one time, so it's like, you can't just blame one person if you start to feel like that influence has touched you, as well. It's kind of like with Benjamin Franklin. He probably had a bunch of different influencers shoved into him all at one time, too. So, people who are like them, who don't become successful, might have ended up going into insane asylums or something. It's like, they have to be what they are, but they also have to have the circumstances that help them become what they are. They're not just a product of themselves, but also of the circumstances that they found themselves surrounded by.
807,000 is really not that many subscribers in this day and age.
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website | US immigration" | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
"The alert was headlined 'online immigration impersonation' and noted that Palmer, who is a US citizen, 'operates a satirical website impersonating a submission form, which acts as a mechanism for reporting suspected illegal aliens.' The Bolo included a screenshot from Palmer’s spoof tip website and two screenshots from his YouTube channel, which had 807,000 subscribers at the time it was captured, along with his photograph."
~ Aura Bogado
Well I didn't actually subscribe to it either. Anyways, I am taking the time to read about it now, however.
I feel like the universe spent a lot of time convincing me I should pay attention to certain individuals that we can all read about.
And it felt like, some of them couldn't really listen until I paid more attention their beastliness, that Wicked King and his eldest feminine servant Diane de Poitiers! I don't know what is wrong with people. What is wrong with people?
This line is good. It makes me remember that it's good to make things!
"At the cobblers' table, Vevke forgets for a while the hurt buried deep in his heart."
Page 14
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Seriously, why are more people not talking about this?
"The DHS bulletin was issued by the department’s Nashville field office in February, about a week before the Washington Post profiled Palmer after a kindergarten teacher reported one of her student’s parents to Palmer’s supposed tip page on spurious grounds, thinking she was communicating with the government."
~ Aura Bogado
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website" | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
Uh - oh. They did this to that guy.
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website" | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
Back to my finely tuned taste for the literature that seems to appeal to me in this particular era.
And I hope he didn't reincarnate just to be put into another concentration camp.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
I feel like some people might be like that. They have experienced tough things in multiple lives. And it's not because they have to suffer on account of being wicked. It's because their soul is...I think there is some kind of Buddhist belief I read once about people coming back again and again, to experience hard situations...To raise the vibration of all of humanity....I don't know, exactly. I'm going to look it up later though.
What are the best kinds of songs for children to sing when they're in stressful situations?
Should they sing hymns? Should they sing silly songs? What kind of songs do you think they should sing if they're locked up and super stressed out right now, and they got to, you know, get some of that stress out of them, and chill out and feel a little bit better in spite of not ideal circumstances. What songs would you recommend? What are the top 10 songs?
Oh, the universe wanted me to bring up home care nurses, too.
Some person who's being treated badly in a detention center right now might become a home care nurse in the future. That's weird. Why are they supposed to know about that? Well anyways, I'm taking a break to eat lunch now. Thank you for growing this food for me, so I can eat it.
Please do not have a "rich guy going to visit Jeffrey Epstein's Island" mentality!
That mentality is the worst. Ugh! Also, you know, some women helped those guys do what they did.
What about having a gardener mentality instead?!
And then, you would be more likely to care about all of the plants. Not just that one in the corner that's going to bring you the most money from the richest who are willing to pay for it because that's just what their tastes are geared towards at the moment.
Maybe the slave owner mentality needs to die and get reborn as something better.
I feel like demanding people put out products for your satisfaction in order to prove their worth or humanity to you is kind of like a slave owner mentality.
What about love???
Are the fortunate people who are very busy with not caring about the immigrants absolutely sure that none of their grandchildren will ever fall in love with an immigrant, or fall in love with somebody who is related to someone who has been treated not very well in these times?
Why do you have to put out a product that costs money just to be considered "a real human being."
I don't know why some people seem to feel entitled to act like putting out a product is necessary in order to be acknowledged as an actual human being who is deserving of full human rights.
I think there's been some very damaging brainwashing that's been happening for a long time and it's no longer sustainable.
Because now lots of people, both children and adults, are being harmed in far more obvious ways, and still lots of other people are acting like they don't feel like they have to be the ones who care about that.
Even though they're the beneficiaries of lots of the labors of immigrants every day, they don't really care about those immigrants very much, do they.
It doesn't look like they care very much.
Wow, even Martha's Vineyard High School students are being affected.
"MVRHS students hold walkout to honor classmate detained by ICE" - The Martha's Vineyard Times
https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/05/22/mvrhs-students-hold-walkout-to-honor-classmate-detained-by-ice/
Well, people of all backgrounds can still strive to tend to their own mental health as they gain more awareness of various issues, I guess.
"Against the backdrop of Mental Health Awareness Month and the advancement of Congress’ budget reconciliation bill, hundreds of immigrants, community members, and allies gathered in the nation’s capital on May 20 for a peaceful march from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) headquarters to the Capitol."
~ Angelica Sedgwick Oun
"Mental Health Is Another Unfortunate ICE Casualty" | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/22/mental-health-is-another-unfortunate-ice-casualty
The vast majority of people are not rich.
So how does a "Everyone who's not rich is worthless" mentality start happening in some people's brains?
Do you know of any people who are getting rid of all of their clothes that were made in other countries?
I don't see people getting rid of all of their clothes that were made in other countries.
Maybe there's outrage because it's cruel to people and a waste of money and it shouldn't be happening.
"Bridgeport father arrested by ICE agents at school bus stop draws outrage"
https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/article/bridgeport-father-ice-arrest-school-bus-stop-22268629.php
I assume whoever bought this unlivable house is already well off and can renovate it.
"California’s housing market is so out of control that even a small, burned-out home goes for $1 million
The ranch-style home on a busy corner in metropolitan Los Angeles commanded the eye-popping price even though it’s clearly unlivable"
You can at least find out the country where your clothes were made.
You don't know the conditions in the factories. You don't know the age of the person who made the clothes. You don't know those things, unless you can find out in some other ways, but you can find out the country.
A lot like all of the "regular" people, who also can't seem to come to a consensus...
"Days before California’s June primary, governor hopefuls split sharply on ICE"
I have to sort through my clothes. I should find out where everything was made.
I think I should check both my chewed-on clothing and my not chewed-on clothing. And my clothes that I can currently wear, and the clothes that are too small for me at the moment.
Oh, that's where I saw Corrie Ten Boom's grave on Mother's Day.
"Santa Ana Considers Banning Police Officers From Moonlighting as ICE Agents"
Hunger strike happening in another part of the county.
"Immigrants launch hunger strike over conditions at SoCal ICE facility" - Los Angeles Times
CLEARLY UNLIVABLE
"California’s housing market is so out of control that even a small, burned-out home goes for $1 million
The ranch-style home on a busy corner in metropolitan Los Angeles commanded the eye-popping price even though it’s clearly unlivable"
Unlike these much nicer homes I strolled by in the morning. And another one I didn't take a picture of which probably had a child behind a screen who was not visible to me but nevertheless shouted out, "Hiiiiiiiiiiii!"
Also, some crows on a telephone wire were being nice to each other, and I took a picture of them.
What a phenomenon!
I was feeling well enough to go for a walk this morning and at one point a disembodied child's voice called out, "Hiiiiiiiiiii!" I don't know if the kid was hiding behind something outside or behind a screen inside a house or what. I said hi back.
But curiosity is still the best.
I want to meet the people who were treated better by the system who still can be available and willing to listen and willing to cooperate and help work on creative projects and brave enough not to be in denial or run away and still be curious and able to have fun.
Something else to read about in these trying times: "There's a lot of innocent people in there."
"'I want to make people aware of how unfortunate it is that it's not just criminals getting detained. When I went to visit him, he's not the only one in there that's detained because his DACA has expired. There's a lot of innocent people in there, and it's just unfair. Even a lot of people out here are losing their jobs because their DACA is delaying so long,' Cristina Villa said."
~ Athena Jreij
"UPDATE: Federal officials comment on Palm Springs DACA recipient detained by ICE"
What an opportunity, if you're in the Chicago area.
"Anne Frank: The Exhibition at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry"
I heard about this $ car commercial shutting down a bridge recently.
I'm sure the rich and really out there, totally not locked up in any detention centers with the innocent immigrant children kinds of people got paid plenty of money for being a part of it.
And didn't the Patriarchal Societal Pain do really horrible things to the family and just get away with it? That's sad.
Only the Bible is read more.
I'm so glad Anne Frank wrote her diary, and that her her Dad survived the concentration camp against all odds, because her diary probably wouldn't even exist without him! That's what he did with the rest of his life. Promoted his daughter's diary. Went through a lot of hell doing it, too.
3 - 2 - 1, liftoff.
First, you had to know that people who shouldn't have been abusive could be and would be abusive.
Next, you had to know that people who should have stood up and helped you weren't going to stand up and help you.
And then, you also had to know that the people who were going to be so selfish that it was going to be a big shock to your nervous system were exactly that selfish and unhealed.
Time to learn more about healing because of what you experienced from learning about humans being huge unhealed jerks.
Sometimes people get desperate, and that's life.
Sometimes the unhealed "fortunate" people act a lot like the people who hurt them when it comes to how they treat others, but depending on how they do it, you might also feel like you just see that they have in their pysches a child who needed more love and they didn't get the tools to know how to ask for what they needed. So they figure it out the best they can, and they do what they feel they must do in order to obtain what they seem to feel they need the most.
Curiosity is the best.
I want to meet the people who were treated better by the system who can be available and willing to listen and willing to cooperate and help work on creative projects and brave enough not to be in denial or run away and still be curious and able to have fun.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Going back to being offline now.
"Patriarchy..."
kirstyleephd
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYm5HZACHUy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Which one(s) can you relate to?
bynicolleofficial
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYgIgjlFIYR/?img_index=9&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Who..."
marmaladebleue
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYPy1XCMRie/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Well, who knows, maybe some people really want to now.
I hope some people can work on their problems more now if they really want to.
I hope this changes soon. Preferably for the better.
Liberal people being not that different from conservative people. You'd think that they would not want to act like a bunch of Lords of the Manor reincarnated, especially at the expense of the safety and well-being of other people's children. And in fact their own children too honestly. That's why the Cult mentality that so many grew up with is very dangerous. It's seduces them into thinking that really imbalanced behavior is just a normal way of life.
I highly overestimated some people.
I really thought a whole bunch of people who seemed like they cared in the past would literally be so moved and so determined to help the oppressed that they'd be at the very least playing a few concerts outside of the ICE facilities or something. Wow, that was stupid of me, wasn't it?
Patriarchal Culture has been a very bad and even sickening experience.
Partly on account of the fact that I actually have the wrong genetics for their cult, I will never really be able to know why some people had to turn themselves into shallow, abusive, insensitive, untrustworthy antagonists just because that's exactly how the Patriarchal Culture wanted them to behave.
Patriarchal Culture was more desperate to hold on to their Learned Behaviors than I was though? Maybe that's partly why they did it. I wish they had more courage to just do something new.
I don't think their safe path looks safe to me at all. Like it's not even a little bit safe. It's like so far from safe enough that I don't even think you could probably write a dissertation and still it doesn't matter because people don't change until they feel like changing.
And the people who've been given the most rewards for going along with a lot of what the patriarchal culture wanted them to go along with are going to change the last, probably. This has been a harsh lesson to learn.
I think all of these people should stay away from the vulnerable who deserve better. Because the vulnerable deserve so much better then more of what's just going to hurt them and make them worse off in this really imbalanced, unhealthy unwell culture.
I feel like I've tried and it hasn't worked and I was going to stop trying to have conversations with people who don't want to have them, and I'm going to go somewhere else.
These were really interesting to come across.
I didn't ask the ice cream guy where he was from, but he probably wouldn't have minded.
"Old photos of the Sami and Uchee Peoples" – The Americas Revealed
https://apalacheresearch.com/2025/01/23/old-photos-of-the-sami-and-uchee-peoples/
May the detangling begin!
I don't know. Honestly, sometimes when people are just nice to you and treat you like a human being, it kind of makes you think that the people who seem to have a hard time doing that are just really tangled up in their own prejudices, or something. Probably also stems from their own traumas that they've experienced, and how whatever they've developed as coping mechanisms interfaces with whatever the Patriarchal Society is offering to them as a means of surviving their own challenges.
Met a very nice human being who owns an ice cream shop. The ice cream is homemade.
Very nice. Very friendly guy. And I didn't expect to get dinosaur-themed ice cream, but that's what I got, and a cherry flavor as well. And I admired the decor and rainbows on the floor!
He wanted to give me a sample of the corn with crushed Cheetos, which is a salty offering, and he gave me so much in a cup that I said, let me give you $2, because I had that in my wallet, and he said don't worry about it, but I gave it to him, or I put it in the tip jar.
"Seventeen" magazine used to say it was "where the girl ends and the woman begins..."
Where does the struggle end...
And the sabotage?
Begin?
Slowly or quickly...
"This too shall pass"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW4RZdSIR8Y/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oh, this is funny! My cat doesn't understand funny videos, but she's so fun to be around.
I think human beings' favorite forms of fun will be even more fun when...
"Old bit..."
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYH25fHoxJu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Let's pray for them and not think so much about steel danishes. Or stale ones, or whatever.
"Suicides rise in ICE detention, 911 calls detail serious cases of self-harm"
Yes, I know. I've heard this so many times.
"As you know, Our Father in Heaven loves all of the oppressed peoples far more than we ever could."
"And we were well-hydrated, so that helped, too."
"We had a really great discussion about Jesus at the integrated Bible study and we didn't even notice that the coffee shop danishes were stale."
Maybe it's a weird quirk of having having a metabolic syndrome.
I guess the "Breaking the low expectations that some people's parents instilled in them ghosts" chase after me sometimes.
I mean, you would do it if you were starving.
Also, the bumper sticker I saw was like the cult of eating a stale danish.
It's crazy what some people's grandparents went through, huh?
Kind of makes me wonder what's going to happen in the future, with more people being so open and talkative about so many topics...
The survivor who wrote "House of Dolls" dedicated the book he wrote to Nike! Meaning, the goddess Nike?
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Maybe that's an example of the kind of force that helps some people choose what can help them more when they take the longview; when they can take a more holistic view of their whole life.
Uh-oh. It's online. For FREE.
Actually, I don't know why I'm being dramatic. I just think it's the right time for me to read this book now, so that's cool.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
That one band was really traumatized by this book.
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
Pummeled by this message everyday.
I know humanity's still working up its courage; so in the meantime, I'm very glad that people like Our Fairly Harmless Relative, Uncle Friends With Benefits, can help smooth the way along what would otherwise be a much bumpier road. Honestly, things could be so much worse, right? Who can hold all that trauma and drama in their consciousness for very long? Lightening the mood sometimes leads to far better outcomes.
Oh good. I get to digest my breakfast now.
I got some people who in mind can't wait to meet some other people! It's going to be so fun when they find out you're also the types who know how to help our collective find the words they need to begin having healing and honest conversations about the important topics! Gosh they really hated having those in the past. But not equally so with all people; just with some kinds of people more than others.
In spite of the Patriarchy meddling meddling meddling meddling...
We just have to hope that every male relative in every large family is a trustworthy and well-balanced individual.
It's good to be flexible.
Actually, Tom...
Tom Petty – "It's Good to Be King Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Tom-petty-its-good-to-be-king-lyrics
Actually, it seems like it's stressful to be King.
The online chess game trainer is all like, "This is how you checkmate" and constantly shows the king crumbling behind the pawns when you take the rook. And after that, it's saying "This is how you castle your king and put him behind the pawns who will protect him." And it's like, but I just saw the king crumble a bunch of times behind the pawns after the castle got taken away. So it really just points out how flimsy the amount of protection that the poor little kings were actually getting this whole time.
"feminist who?"
girlsvsglobe
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYHax0XjHH9/?img_index=7&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
$$$$$$
"Thank you for choosing to honor Our Cosmic Mother by lending your support to the 'Be the kind of person who would certainly be amongst the very best even in the very worst scenarios' challenge."
"If there's anything we can do to assist you on your journey, please don't hesitate to reach out to have your request considered."
🎼🎶🎵🎶
Tom Petty - "It's Good To Be King [Official Music Video]"
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
This is a very Noble cause.
"Live your life as if you'd be amongst the very best even if you were in the worst of circumstances."
Chess seems like it's kinda hard, and not for the easily fatigued.
Became a song about chess pieces when I listened to the album it's on while learning about the rules of playing chess.
Mitski – "Liquid Smooth Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Mitski-liquid-smooth-lyrics
I was always supposed to learn how to play chess at some point. So now seems to be the time. I should look for more chess pieces tunes...
Will people in the future consider PCOS / PMOS to be an intersex condition?
"Not to mention..."
Iyo_likes_to_talk
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYYg58Ltntn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
But also, how else were they supposed to get a credit card??
"I am the light of her life rn."
wachelrilliams
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYXYqoXupIf/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Still, these are bad habits that need to be broken.
There's the outside voice again.
"Well, I hope THAT ONE got therapy and didn't go on to coach any soccer teams."
FLOOD - "Bidding Farewell to Brockhampton: A Hip-Hop Haven for Women, Queer People, the Marginalized and Misunderstood"
https://floodmagazine.com/123065/bidding-farewell-to-brockhampton/
The "Brave" song reminded me of how some of the better music comes from the better facilities.
Sara Bareilles - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live from Atlanta)"
I wonder if there's going to be any sharp notes...
Anyways, I'll have my detached family members call your detached family members.
It could be remade humorously.
"I was a little disappointed with 'The Last of the Mohicans'"
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/PlARJFMlmD
Not the "The Last of the Mohicans;" the last of the "fill-in-the-blank" grandparents.
When does it get harder, I wonder?
I'm going to have an encounter with the New World Symphony right now as this free trial thing is still going on.
😇 I think those would be quite fitting for a well-rounded upbringing in this era, considering the circumstances. 🪽
👼🏾Harp lessons instead of piano lessons for all the little angels who want them! 👼🏼
Possibly the latter, though?
So, I didn't vote for a bunch of loonies who think that women's main objective in life should be to birth the nation's children.
They are also clear about expressing that certain types of children are more valuable than others.
Its's hard to say whether things have hit peak weirdness now, or whether things will get even weirder...
Ta tee-tee tibby-tibby tee-tee. Or One..and one and two and.
Kind of have to thank public elementary school music class for letting me skip ahead. Or band in middle school. Ha-ha, remembering a bit about the personalities now, too. So mad sometimes!!! 🤣
More useful information, I guess?
"Ladies, which of these 'tools'..."
nourishherbody
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkVPkQMyve/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I know this is gonna shake up a few of yall..."
themagicinhue
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkY-YGx0EP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This is really fun and nostalgic now.
I'm on the unit in Section 2 that has the song that made me teach myself how to drink Retsina wine during lockdown.
I got 100% and 98% the first time I tried the end of unit lesson, and 100% and 100% the second time I tried the end of unit lesson! I should work with songs that have made an impression on me.
I have not tried to play an instrument by reading sheet music for many years.
I think this is the most palatable bottle of Retsina I tried.
Chill and pair with something strongly flavored or cook with the Greek chicken dish that had rosemary. That was a good one.
"Chicken in retsina wine"
https://katerinaskouzina.com/meat/chicken-in-retsina-wine.html
People with senses of humor are succeeding in life. It's a good thing.
"The Nowhere Inn - Official Trailer"| HD | IFC Film
https://youtube.com/watch?v=N7igJaXJreU&si=NXdAWOudLpOYmnRt
"sufjan overconfidently playing pac-man" : r/Sufjan
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sufjan/comments/1kangyh/sufjan_overconfidently_playing_pacman/
Everything dies eventually, so you might as well make art out of it.
"This is absolutely incredible"
u/Hot_Accountant_5507
Good luck with that.
"Wanna play commander?"
u/friend1y
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoupleMemes/s/787TTVuQQB
That's what happens if some of us choose to take Ozempic and dye our hair.
C D C Rest
Drove to a show. Jokes were made. What a fool.
Gopher drool.
Or...
GO go go go
FUR fur fur fur
DROOL drool drool drool
Some of us has to practice, some of us has to practice.
Update before noon: Unit 20 and 25 in Section 2 are giving me some hope.
💀🥀
And recover from trauma before we make a big investment.
I believe I will be listening to more of her songs, too.
Josienne Clarke - "What Do I Do (official video)"
I feel like the universe is telling me it's time to get back in touch with the land.
🌍
SOFIA JANNOK - "THIS IS MY LAND (Official)"
Oh, I hope they reconnect!
"Sufjan Stevens fan?"
michaelshogue
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYcyNWoFn26/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm sure they'd have a lot to talk about.
"Where This Begins" - by Michael.S.Hogue
https://michaelshogue.substack.com/p/where-this-begins?r=q7ts0
This is free!
Something to read later, after I take advantage of my newfound connection with Duolingo?
"Sounding the 'Spirit of My Silence': Sufjan Stevens’s Carries and Lowell and the Affect of Nothingness"
I need to get my walking abilities back.
I was getting better with walking before I went to bed but it's getting more difficult again. We'll see how it goes tomorrow / today later on.
Saw some other stuff about this topic before I fell asleep.
Didn't save it, but I found some other interesting articles to read / look at.
"Putting an End to the Shame Associated with Minority Culture and its Concomitant Negative Self-Images - On Gender and Ethnicity in Sami and Tornedalian Literature" - Nordic Women's Literature
"Old photos of the Sami and Uchee Peoples" – The Americas Revealed
https://apalacheresearch.com/2025/01/23/old-photos-of-the-sami-and-uchee-peoples/
Oops, I woke up and read about some things...
"Female Rage"
"<3
References"
vulturesangel
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjZFVqgaMl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
This is good...
Because I just remembered a doctor saying, "You don't have PCOS! No cysts." I stared at him and then I told him that there were other kinds of PCOS where people didn't have cysts, and he was like, "Oh, okay."
"W for women"
marmunches
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYVm51qMY9o/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's such a quiet, still evening.
A cool little breeze is gently rustling the leaves and the fabric of the parasol on the patio. The loudest sounds are the highway noises and some kinds of insects. So it's quiet and still with an undercurrent of busyness.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have had this experience, I've discovered as I've gotten older.
"Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R." by Amanda Taub - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html
Oh dear, this is pricey...
"Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation: 9781718236257: Medicine & Health Science Books" @ Amazon.com https://share.google/xzOoHJdEKrCqOG3rz
I think I should check out the story about Trimalchio and "Last Night in Brooklyn" in the near future.
"Trimalchio in West Egg at 100: Gatsby and Modern Character" | The Hudson Review
https://hudsonreview.com/2025/10/trimalchio-in-west-egg-at-100-gatsby-and-modern-character/
"Last Night in Brooklyn" by Xóchitl González | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/231126916-last-night-in-brooklyn
People aren't as murderous as they used to be in other eras, so that's progress.
"Howards End (1992) Trailer #1"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hXdE9bf4Z4s&si=UwAJuW-t9UosfeTv
Also what if someone wrote a story about Charles in which you found out more about how Charles was really traumatized, and that when he hit Leonard Bast with the sword, it was because he was literally reacting to the rape culture of his era by viewing Leonard as the rapist of Helen? That's scapegoating, and he still shouldn't have done it. But anyways, it was an interesting thought...
Michigan's got good cherries!
"No fruit at California U-pick cherry farms after warm winter"
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-19/cherry-season-record-warmth
Apparently, being bad to humans is not paying off.
"Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds" by Ronda Kaysen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/realestate/trumps-deportations-are-costing-americans-jobs.html
"The home building industry, already strained, faces a new challenge amid a surge in deportations.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times
According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations."
Confidence of a stay at home cat.
Chess is a rather patriarchal construct. Why is the king the most important piece if he just moves one square at a time. Who would want to be a king in this century? Eeeesh. Plenty of drawbacks to being a king in other centuries, too.
Sounds so pretty!
Found a Helper.
I'm going to go get my little drum and heal my little muscles.
🪷🩷💞
"Follow me for more inspiring manifestation"
carly_christopher
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXcVtuqkZ9k/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Men in female dominated fields"
cbeaumartino
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYNm_N2SMfL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Feeling better!
"see how absurd it is..."
fiona_yoong
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYR1MvNxZEF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"My page..."
allirose819
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYLkAUJssL9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The way we save the world..."
artbybri
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVeNpgxkYFW/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I went to an all girls school and learnt more about the male body than anything to do with women's health" ~ georgias.endojourney
Quotable!
"Most women are learning the basics..."
wombenwellness
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYgINZghjQT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
You're not going to be like a successful man.
Clearly, that is not your path.
"Most women are learning the basics..."
wombenwellness
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYgINZghjQT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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