Notices by Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)

I grew up with parents that were hoarders. We moved a lot when I was a kid, and it would astound me that they would haul, what seemed like trash to me, from place to place. It's taken me a long time to realize that this wasn't something they did to me, that mentally healthy people don't do this. They had built this identity around their pain, and didn't know how to heal. I'm still working on this myself, trying to turn anger into compassion, and see depression for what it was. This isn't to let my parents off the hook for the ways in which they failed me. Forgiveness and understanding is something I have to do for myself. If you can't forgive other people, you probably won't have compassion for yourself either. I haven't got there 100%, I probably never will, because this is a journey where every day I have to ask if what I'm holding onto is serving me. We probably all hoard something in the end, maybe it's not physical things, but it's there nonetheless. I hope you all find the healing you need and deserve in life. I love you all, have a great day.

@Uair ❤️
You're right, anger can be great to get us motivated to work for better things. It's the anger that sits and turns to bitterness that gets you.

Y'all...knives don't go in the dishwasher.

Fantastic job, AI!

I've gone back in time!

The weird thing about the idea of participation trophies is that it is somehow blamed on the children who got them, not the parents who clearly chose to give them, the exact same parents who are now complaining about them.

The Tolkiens knew how to party!

This isn't a diet, it's a cry for help:

If you're lucky, one day, you might meet someone you want to spend your life with, and they will load the dishwasher in a radically different way than you.

Welp...

Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the existence of the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein about it at the time, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never mentioned the exact problem as Gödel saw it. This has led to speculation about the precise nature of what has come to be called "Gödel's Loophole." It has been called "one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law" by American constitutional law scholar John Nowak.

The basic theory is that a series of Amendments over a long period of time could destabilize the Constitution, and then combining that with Gerrymandering would quicken the descent, and...I'll let you come to your own conclusion. But this is probably true of any Constitution no matter what, there always has to be room for change, but that let's all kinds of people in the door.

Thinking things will always be good isn't logical, but thinking things will always be bad isn't logical either.

You need your hope and joy, the world needs it. Love you!

Okay, let's talk about something silly!

What are your favorite snacks? Tell me a favorite healthier one, and a favorite indulgent one!

This is hard for me to choose, but I'll pick stuff I've been into lately.

Healthier option:

There is this drink/snack in Mexico that is honestly kind of a hangover cure, but it's called a Rusa. It's different kinds of chopped up fruit and ice with a grapefruit soda poured over and chamoy and tajin. It's so refreshing, and had endless variety. For every day, I make it healthier by using flavored water or a lower calorie soda, but it's a fun way to get fruit, sort of like a nonalcoholic sangria.

Indulgent Snack:

Gotta go with chocolate chip cookies or bars, they are just hard to beat, I like mine with dark chocolate, lots of nuts, and a sprinkle of fancy salt.

Just remember that every time a group has fought for positive social and political change throughout history, they have been told that what they were doing was pointless, wouldn't matter, and wouldn't change anything.

They have been wrong every time.

Y'all, I'm dying, Logan Paul had a daughter this year, and the platform of malformed incels he fostered have been their normal selves, and he realized it might not be great. This quote is hilarious:

“Thinking about having a daughter, my mind went to some dark places, dude,” he said in a confessional, looking somber. “I don’t want to come across like a woke asshole, but like, dude, women have it hard. Women have it fucking hard. And I empathize with them.”

Thinking women are people, who deserve respect, so woke, apparently.

I'm so sick people thinking if they don't like the system, they can just not be a part of it. There will always be a system, and you will always be affected by it. There is no system that runs in autopilot. Even in the best case scenario, where there is revolution (we don't need to talk about the 50 years of violent unrest that follows violent revolution, right?) there will still be a system, you'll still be a part of it, it will still be vulnerable.

The Cost of freedom is eternal vigilance, the cost of not participating is even higher.

Why do 70's ads always look like a woman is about to either get murdered or have the best sex of her life?

Horseshoe Crabs are so cool. They've survived like 5 mass extinction events without really changing much at all. Their blood is a blue color due to the copper-based hemocyanin protein, which transports oxygen. Their blood is highly sensitive to endotoxins, and it is used by scientists and researchers to detect possible contamination.

My brother's boyfriend has a birthday coming up, and he's always bragged that he's never touched a vagina, because his mother had a C Section. So, these are the things we have done:

Republicans in Utah and Idaho ban pride flags from public display.

Salt Lake City creates their own official city pride flags. Boise just straight up makes pride flags one of their official city flags.

https://apnews.com/article/boise-salt-lake-city-pride-flags-law-13c8f9f7269d1b33daaa7ef041c6c497