People say Paris is unfriendly, but three people followed me out of a movie to a crepe shop to sit at my table and ask me what I thought of it, because they liked my hair. My French was a disappointment to all of us, but it was a nice thing to happen.
When Camilla feels like her dinner should be an hour earlier, she tries all kinds of ploys for attention. She headbutts, nips, threads between your legs, and, occasionally, does circus tricks. #CatsOfMastodon
I cannot stress enough that divorce is foundational to most Protestant sects and these charlatans are lying about religion to create a white supremacist patriarchal fascist state. The separation of church and state was invented as a cornerstone of Baptist faith. They're liars and deceivers and they know nothing about their own doctrine. https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans
@natebowling Scary. I've had students who are just great, lovely young guys just go blank on me because I unwittingly set off one of their triggers from YouTube men's rights videos, and that is it. They stop talking, stop laughing, stop listening, stop coming to office hours, stop reading or writing anything, because a YouTuber told them anyone who suggests rape actually happens is a mind-thieving feminazi. It comes from guys I totally got along great with, thought I had a lot in common with.
Sometimes I am reminded that there are people who haven't listened to Chad VanGaalen's Infiniheart, and they might not realize they need to. If that's you, it's not too late! https://chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com/album/infiniheart-2
If you are the kind of person who stays up late with unpleasant thoughts and no way to soothe the dread, ask your doctor if Infiniheart is right for you.
I know Althusser (*caveat*), but his insight that there is nothing outside of ideology (which for him is actions that support power, not beliefs) is undervalued. I'm so tired of obviously fascist patriarchal oppressors telling us they're "critical thinkers not ideologues" when they obviously do everything to uphold power as it is. You can't step outside of ideology without stepping into another ideological system. Better to know what system you are promoting rather than "unwittingly" back evil.
One of the reasons I'm grateful for my Baptist upbringing is that it offered me an alternative ideology to step into when I was told to support police or military or capitalism or racism. I know that many Baptists have lost our roots in resistance, because they cannot or will not understand what The Pilgrim's Progress is modeling. The entire thing is about rejecting oppressive ideologies because you have a *different* motivation for everything you do than capitalists and oppressors.
Americans are obsessed with the romance of revolution, of violently saying no to power, but because they are rarely clear about what they support instead of *this*, it devolves into chaos and rule of the cruelest every time. When you step outside the law to demand justice, you have to know what other than the law gives you meaning and guides your vision of the future. Not every resistor should be forced to invent their own dream of the universe; they fight for something not just against *this*.
This is why the social justice movements of Occupy and BLM have been so powerful--they are guided by specific questions and policy changes that are about improving the lives of workers and minoritized people. So of *course* they are the movements that have been demonized as not having goals or an endgame--because their endgame would necessitate the end of the unchallenged, unmitigated right of the investor class to exploit suffering infinitely. "Hey, that's my moral chaos you're dismantling!"
2024 boardgame rehoming season is upon us! @mxtiffanyleigh and I have to get rid of games every 6 months or so, and selling them is way too tedious. Knowing they will get played helps us to part with them. If you live in North America and will pay us back for shipping (packing materials and USPS Ground), you can adopt some of these beauties for your game group. (If you live in NYC, you can come get them, but you do need to come to us in the Bronx.) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TMuZloPXN_mZuMmgmY87mKjzTo3wGtuhR5_ZS2vMJ7M
Being an academic is so weird, because you're too busy 9 months out of the year to do anything but maintain basic life functions, and then, in the summer, there's plenty to do but there is time to discover an enthralling hobby (if you're not having to move to another state for the 10th time to stay employed). I can think back through my whole career and name what I got into each summer: food gardening, learning Mandarin, World Cup soccer, singing in a band, getting tattoos, making fresh pasta...
Really unbelievable how great the Royals are playing right now. It's the best season start they've had in half a century, and it's this heady, popping action where one guy gets going and then the rest want to contribute... Except MJ, who has the look of a guy in therapy for the first time, having breakthroughs but unable to think of what to do next. #baseball#MLB#KansasCity
Since his debut game, it was clear his dad was this drill monster who ran him ragged. Nobody has better fundamentals. He's in great shape, and he's desperate to live up to that expectation, but last year and this year so far, we're just waiting for him to stop panicking at the plate. The guys love him. He's clearly talented. But those eyes at the plate are not those of a guy who loves baseball right now.
Machiko Kyō eats so much in this movie that we basically *had* to go to Nishida Shōten before going home. They've added a spicy fried tofu ramen to the menu, so now I'm going to be making all these weird excuses to be near the UN.
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