The cat is safe inside. These are some very large leaves.
"Chicken broth with puya chili and hoja santa chili"
Obduliah Ag
The cat is safe inside. These are some very large leaves.
"Chicken broth with puya chili and hoja santa chili"
Obduliah Ag
Keren Ann ~ "Chelsea Burns"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1A1thQqUvAI&si=Su5JNaWPw2HbXCGj
plus
"Inside the house of a lilac inventor"
Kendra Gaylord
"You know the melancholy"
thistlethistle
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuCY7XJglHy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Lady in Red... You're going to have to chase a lawyer around the restaurant when she's drunk and scantily clothed... And other people will make fun of how she's mad and kind of a mean drunk and really angry underneath all of her little weird flirtations that she likes to do when she's not drunk... but you have a moral obligation to make sure someone doesn't take advantage of her incapacitated state... Because life has definitely set things up for you to feel this way... And as part of this whole process you'll take away her phone to try to call for help ... then she'll growl and jump on you like a cat and you'll give up....you'll give up and then she'll get home fine...but she'll call you and make you give her a blow by blow account the next day and...she'll still act mad at you about everything... So fun! Hope she found the right man to marry.
The punitive patriarchy will need to either die or fizzle out. Also, so crazy that apparently my higher self wanted me to be a bigger size at this moment, since it feels like I gained XX amount of weight in such a short span of time.
Another question I find really interesting is, if you're the survivor of some forms of violence and you're living in a patriarchal society, then does the any aspect of society encourage you to pay attention to that part of you that might become more empathetic to other people and their experiences as a result of your experience? Or does the patriarchal society instead ask you to ignore and shove that down and reward you more for going along with certain agendas if you're living your life in a certain type of body?
Nature can help people have conversations, and maybe it would be fun to ask questions and compare notes and administer flower essences and get in touch with the earth or water or air or fire elements and things like that.
"8 Secluded Towns In Southern California"
https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/8-secluded-towns-in-southern-california-53631.html
I'm getting more curious about what can be learned from exploring the nonfiction.
Multiple points of view...how much better is it to be able to consider them?
For processing and progressing.
"When we said the most marginalized would pay..."
hersocialtakes
"Toni Morrison didn't write about domination the way most people expect it..."
anetiaisbell
"A mother..."
u/ God_Emperor_Doom
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/8Lrz2gBIfa
It's like being able to notice things and either think about them or talk about them might be a key to creating more peace and progress.
"This is horrifying"
therealebjohnson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXrjpMmlevQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Copy Of 'The Scarlet Letter' Can't Believe The Notes..."
https://theonion.com/copy-of-the-scarlet-letter-cant-believe-the-notes-high-1819574420/
I am starting to remember...this didn't actually happen to me, but I knew a person whose dad would get so mad, that he would say: "If you're very lucky, you can have a relationship with me again someday." Not so nice for a dad to say. Probably had lots of unresolved trauma from his childhood to work on.
I'm literally never ever ever going to have to go through something like this ever again, and that's fantastic.
Maybe they'll try harder to figure out how to have higher standards for how they believe certain members of our society should be treated.
People can be quite shocking in regards to what they expect others to just go along with.
And if any of your kids or grandkids have infertility problems or need to have abortions or have any other reproductive health rights issues, I hope they're experiences are absolutely idyllic considering that you're so great at acting like you just really don't give a s*** about those kinds of things because you're so invested in acting like such a brainwashed tool of this Awful Patriarchal Society. Be better! Do well.
I don't know, I find this to be a very hard time of life right now, but I'm sure things will get better.
"No one told me black cats were this strange😂🥰"
Happy.place.23
"Wild Flower Hotline" | Theodore Payne Foundation
https://theodorepayne.org/learn/wildflower-hotline/
“'This is all driven by the Trump administration’s cruel and xenophobic mass deportation agenda of rounding up and warehousing longtime members of our communities, forcing them to either endure indefinite detention under inhumane con"itions or, out of desperation, to make the devastating choice to leave their families and communities behind,' said Loren Khogali, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan."
~ Katherine Dailey
"Civil rights organizations call for independent investigation into Michigan ICE detention center"
Well, I guess Jesus would like it better if we gave Grace to the ones who we believe are acting like they find it very difficult to give Grace to others.
You know, in another era, when things are not so sick and twisted. It's bizarre. It's truly bizarre.
Like being trapped in the kitchen of a restaurant as a low wage worker, listening to the "How Bizarre" song. What is wrong with people? Why are they not behaving better? Why don't they enjoy behaving better? Why are they making other people do all the work? How hard could it goddamn possibly be to behave just a wee bit better. Just a smidge.
OMC - "How Bizarre (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY&si=hBMNGOaZkcz-leQE
They probably don't want to because they're afraid they might like it and they have to convince themselves that they like what they're doing right now the best, and that they're doing the absolute best they can for themselves, and they're just so stubborn and so addicted to their ways, and I just I can't deal with them right now.
Maybe they'll have a great emotional release, a cleansing, and a great spiritual awakening will descend upon them. That would be kind of cool.
"Hundreds protest in Romulus against proposal to convert warehouse into ICE detention center"
"As shown in research and studies, an estimated 80% of people affected by violent conflicts, civil wars, disasters and displacement are women and children. The lifetime prevalence of the rate of violence against women ranges from 16% to 50% while every 1 in 5 women suffers from rape or attempted rape. The most common mental health issues faced by the elderly are depression and dementia, a majority affected being women."
~ Gia Alvares
https://feminisminindia.com/2023/05/26/gender-inequality-and-mental-health-among-women/
"The domain of therapy, counselling, and psychology still lacks a feminist understanding of issues."
~ Banani Ghosh
Oh well, I guess you're just going to have to show yourself how to get better after other people have had to show themselves in certain ways. (So they could get better eventually, hopefully.)
"Hundreds protest in Romulus against proposal to convert warehouse into ICE detention center"
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if my cat, who is good, told me that ballet was just an elaborate brainwashing exercise to perpetuate oppression and the silencing of the feminine.
I am totally sick of the b*******.
"Patriarchal servants warped the dance. It's what they get rewarded for. Something got weirdly wired in their brains at very young ages and now they're just like that. Sorry!"
But compared to when I was chasing around women who got abused by Patriarchal Society and trying to help them...
We are really raised differently, aren't we?
Yes, we are.
I look forward to some people elevating themselves in ways that are not just feeding their insecurities / egos, but are helping them heal, and they can probably become super great at cultivating some of the other forms of "love" besides the ones that kept sucking them under and throwing them off balance because this is / has been a challenging lifetime for them to experience a lot of things, so at times it has been pretty hard row for them to hoe.
"Guri said he worried he was going to go 'crazy' inside Dilley.
He feels sad, he said, but also bored. 'We sometimes entertain ourselves,' Guri said. They collect empty plastic water bottles, and take turns hitting them on each others’ heads: 'Like, I hit it on her head, she hits it on me.'
On Manpreet’s birthday – which came about one month into the family’s detention – her parents assembled a sort of 'cake' made with snacks they bought from the center’s commissary, and everyone in the cafeteria sang Happy Birthday to her. But there were no candles. If there were, she said, she would have blown them out and wished that she and her family could get out of Dilley.'
~ Maanvi Singh
"She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/texas-ice-family-detention
She must have gotten some kind of rewards for having this kind of attitude, from society, from her community, from the people who raised her, etc.
"Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just..."
https://newrepublic.com/post/209562/donald-trump-immigration-judge-women-warm-wet-hole
"She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/texas-ice-family-detention
I think these are like some past life things that I feel I don't want or need to participate in this life at the moment:
Being shaped by a Patriarchal Society to act like a jerk the moment something triggers my insecurities but still being charming enough about it so that I get accepted.
"I was a jerk but at least I was still charming about it" gets perpetuated as if it is an art form.
Oh and then when it gets revealed that I acted like kind of a jerk, do most people ever actually challenge me or talk to me about it? Or do they just sort of arrange their lives in a way to accommodate me being a jerk? Oh, why do they feel that it's better for them if they have to do it the second way?
Behaving like some kind of manipulative church pastor or professor drawn into a dynamic where the followers are feeding off of the leader, and the leader is feeding off of the adoration of the followers.
The reason why I don't want to act like either of these characters is because these are the kind of people that mess up other people's lives and perpetuate harm. And it's really unnecessary and I don't think people should continue to accept it as good enough.
People feel entitled to be insensitive and boorish, and it permits them to survive in a way where it's like they're wearing blinders on purpose, and they are refusing to see the harm that's a result of the things that are happening now, and those are things which will be talked about a lot more in the future.
But in the present they're still operating in survival mode, and they're just trying to pretend that it's not that big a deal and that they don't have to care, because apparently, that's the best they expect from themselves.
Because an elderly woman in a teal sweatshirt asked for help and I was able to give her a blanket from my car and someone else was able to give her $5 and she walked away and she was crying. I usually have used the blanket to go to the park on a picnic and one side of it keeps out the dew so I think that's hopefully going to be helpful. I have another one at home I might take with me in the car from now on.
Why should I have to go through years of suffering and chewing and being triggered and having these weird mixture of, like, conglomerations of other lives memories, all interlacing with each other, for nothing? Just because some other people are a little bit more selfish and don't want to think about others or see others as being as important as they are, because apparently that's what you feel you must do in order to succeed in your patriarchal cult.
Of course, we're all so incredibly happy that nothing that's even nearly as bad as what happened there is going on now. However, I wonder if the masculine men who are more musically developed could be gaining access to extra resources, as opposed to the ladies who might be locked away in the camp's Joy Division? This does not have to be a literal thing, you guys.
Why not try harder to not create circumstances that make your great grandkids feel embarrassed by your behaviors. Why not?
Whenever you notice a woman is acting like men are more important, it's a great reminder that a lot of men are constantly acting that way. Why are they still acting that way? What do they get out of it? Things to just mull over and ponder. Let it marinate; come to some conclusions later. Might take a while.
When the fun middle-aged people revert to some younger people types of dynamics, because I guess there was some stuff they never worked out in their younger years, and now it's coming back so it can get healed, hopefully???
That could also mean being a "high performer" in a totally different occupation, like accounting or real estate sales or something.
And I don't think that ignoring when things are going wrong in the country with immigrants being persecuted is actually a very high form of self-care.
I wonder if maybe people do that because they feel they deserve better than what they've seen. Other people go through or than what their ancestors went through, but what if it's just spiritual bypassing.
I feel bad we didn't get a well society that could give the emotionally sensitive people some better tools to help them. Maybe I have felt like I needed to look harder for them because I don't get a lot out of performing in front of others. Although it's not like sometimes it wouldn't be fun, but it's just not my primary orientation. And also, I got a lot of pressure put on me to look out for others. And I have to learn how to balance that with taking better care of myself now. Getting really stressed out and chewing on my clothes wasn't my best life.
Sometimes it feels like if some people had different dads, they'd be acting really differently at this moment in our time...
"Trump Endorses Rebranding ICE as NICE" – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-endorses-rebranding-ice-as-nice/
"Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just..."
https://newrepublic.com/post/209562/donald-trump-immigration-judge-women-warm-wet-hole
I mean we I mean we.
"April 29, 1992 (Miami)" ~ Sublime
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ttchToDa7Y&si=eHH8WugA5DVu-RHc
"Ladies, did you get recommended..."
nourishherbody
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXhWqNLjDLH/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's so inspiring to think of all the genders of grandchildren being super stoked about treating all kinds of people in all kinds of bodies really well, and making sure everybody has optimal access to reproductive rights.
Oh how annoying now a song that was annoying seems to have some better parts to it. But some parts of the song are still so annoying.
There's some brothers in this society who could have been better with / been better to other people, so their whole "let's get quite intimate, and now let's have a big party; no, let's be quiet now; okay, let's have an enormous party again" dynamic is just kind of like when the tides ebb and flow, or when the waves come crashing down, but then things can get calmer again...
Bird Fancyers Delight
bradwhitepanflutes
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxMOWclOUUS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"He was the Most Beautiful Boy in the World but..."
baishakhinath09
This is one of the creepiest songs. I have ever heard.
Dave Matthews Band – "Crash Into Me Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-crash-into-me-lyrics
It's just so creepy. I feel like it was written by a 13-year-old.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/tetyanawrites/3884135589800370073
Seeing they rhymed "I'm the king of the castle" with "You're my dirty rascal" for the first time did not improve my opinion of their song, either.
"Scientists identify the main cause of sunburns, and now they have to rewrite the textbooks"
https://www.earth.com/news/main-cause-of-sunburn-finally-identified-rna-damage-not-dna-uv-exposure/
"This number is for all you girls"
pinkynel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXjjdwgOEny/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Trailer for a movie I've never seen because I felt like drinking a tangerine drink yesterday.
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine – "Lady Macbeth in Chains Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Sufjan-stevens-and-angelo-de-augustine-lady-macbeth-in-chains-lyrics
(Restaurant worker days. All About David: only the customers would want to date him.)
"Tangerine (2015)" - IMDb
I'm too old to fix other people's problems; I've aged out of that.
Why not make a list of all the problems you want to fix first? Ask for help with prioritizing.
"However, Bertrand Russell could be a cold fish in his past life. A ghost is writing that name on the fogged up window."
"Bertrand Russell" - Wikipedia
I bet, from a higher perspective, humans are very beautiful when they're little kids and their favorite thing is, like, going to 7-11 or something.
"I'm an empath btw"
cbeaumartino
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXcc-AiDydj/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐
William Elliott Whitmore – Diggin' My Grave Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/William-elliott-whitmore-diggin-my-grave-lyrics
It was a bit chilly but not unpleasantly so.
Saw two little dogs who were incredibly cute in the driver's seat of a car, but the picture doesn't really do them justice at all...
Got to try a taco place I'd been wanting to try. Also discovered a Sinaloense restaurant I might try later (it said that; it didn't say "Mexican.")
X: Hey, let's do the thing with the street taco where we make it into two little tacos since it has two tortillas on it.
Y: Okay, I guess, if you want to.
X: I will make it. Because you just sit there and look at it! I will be the mommy and make it happen!
Y: You're the one who wanted it.
It is an imperfect world. I am working on viewing the world through a more matriarchal lens, too.
Y: "What are the more effective ways?"
X: "I don't know. I guess we'd have to research it."
"Ladies, did you get recommended..."
nourishherbody
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXhWqNLjDLH/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Trump and Congress cut funding for Planned Parenthood. Can Botox keep it afloat?"
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5763797/planned-parenthood-botox-medcaid-trump-congress
I kind of feel so much working class Watervliet energy coming back at right now. But women in my childhood didn't have feminist content to watch on YouTube. They had the "Clouds in my coffee..." song by Carly Simon. And Jane Fonda aerobics. And diets! Teenage girls had babysitting jobs and MTV. And there were advertisements in the back of Seventeen magazine about very thin, happy girls in bikinis going away to a camp in La Jolla, California, and having all your dreams come true could happen after you lost weight.
"your favorite feminist is MARRIED"
Manifestelle
And they must be protected!
"Joke for the Catholic girlies"
luciawhalen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXhVZiup4Eg/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Not sure if I want to try wearing one.
"My dad doesn't believe in gender"
luciawhalen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFdW1BJPxMA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Society is much more conversational about these topics than it used to be.
"PCOS is an adorable disease!"
luciawhalen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXCcWUJiTQS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Did I miss any cute words?"
germanwithsammy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXPya7xj6Ak/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Fake news"
Mario Adrian
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXmBfLuhiz7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🎶💐❤️
Fiona Apple - "Paper Bag"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BK30r_SIZ-g&si=ol-hJl7OU6rF38nB
😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾
"Fiona Apple once called her encounter..."
"Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXjeXICDRNL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Nature and simple art!
glitterhog "My heart..."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNL-qTmv-nsh9bY2pGc3JM-L6B9xju8jr41Ofc0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Cute and calming cat content.
"old familiar places..."
lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXj6NsvkalE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"We all sat down with our drinks..."
emmarosakatharina
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJVY7vjAu1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe I should participate on these kinds of forums more often.
"Emily of New Moon (and beyond) dog and cat symbolism"
Apparently I live near 30 high-elevation vineyards. I didn't know that. There's two tasting rooms. I knew that.
She explains why she says "Nobody cares."
"Ox..."
tetyanawrites
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVcGpX0Dr4K/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The pattern is older than you"
thesteministwitch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXQM5U_jJBI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Katie Gavin – Aftertaste Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Katie-gavin-aftertaste-lyrics
She seems to be referencing "The Emperor's New Clothes" in her lyrics.
"Aftertaste" ~ Katie Gavin