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Tuesday night vibes
Clothes — A Daily Thread – Post 9 | @patrickrhone
“I don’t have answers. Only questions. Questions about a t-shirt that end up in exploitation and hunger because as a Black man in America I can’t ignore that this is the very reason I am a Black Man in America and not Africa because the thread that binds me to my ancestors can be stitched back to the desire for someone who wanted cheap clothing and a system that exploited humans to give it to them.
I think about this. You should too.
I haven’t updated, I’m using my beloved 13 mini till it dies, I don’t even have any new apps but I wanted to share my home screen like the cool kids.
Finished reading: The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene 📚
Took me a full year to get through this one.
Getting accommodations at work shouldn’t be so hard by @tracydurnell
“I shouldn’t have to feel lucky that I could afford to give myself what I needed to recover; my workplace shouldn’t have put me in a position where my health took such a blow. Workers deserve working conditions that don’t harm them.”
Beer and bags of food at 10 in the morning because there’s no rules at a festival
Mara’s back for the weekend 💜 Home feels complete.
I have very specific standards for wine:
- Red
- < $15
- Cool label
Just got a timeline: Our apartment remodel should be done Oct 1, move back in Oct 4-5 weekend.
Faster than I thought, which is great! but I’m not existentially prepared for packing everything again + another weekend spent moving. At least this one’s permanent for the foreseeable future.
i like charts. from How the Online Right Fell Apart
D&D night woooooooo!
A lot of my best meals are random circumstantial combinations of whatever’s around.
Today’s lunch, for instance: leftover cauliflower, roasted with chickpeas. Crumbled, herbed goat cheese. Chorizo from last night’s dinner. Diced red onion that was in the fridge.
Not pretty, but it’s delicious.
I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN
Kamala coming in with some zingers before the half woooohoooo
‘we’ll find out’ WE ALREADY KNOW THEY ARE NOT EATING DOGS OH MY GOD
living for Kamala’s head shakes and scoffing facial expressions. Yes. that’s the only level of regard he merits
No feeling is final
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.
―Rainer Maria Rilke
I’ve had to learn that no feeling is final. Not happiness, not sorrow, not anger, not grief, not boredom. That resilience is preferable to safety and one cannot acquire resilience without risk and stumbling. That discomfort is the doorway one must pass through to arrive anywhere meaningful.
Substitutionary grief; Or why I am crying over a crushed flower, an insurance commercial, spilled milk
There are some pains that are so vast and deep you have to shy right past them and find another, smaller pain to dip into.
You have to grieve, to wail, somehow. You can’t pretend no pain exists.
But there’s self-preservation in all of us, whether we want it to be there or not. We fear losing ourselves in a void of blankness and we fear losing ourselves in sorrow so dense and specific that our very identity unravels, disintegrates in the pressure of it. So we find a neighboring sadness, a few steps down the path, and grieve some lesser thing. Substitutionary grief. It’s an outlet, an imperfect one, but something, and I guess it keeps us alive. And maybe the idea is that, given enough time and space (there we go again), we reach the point where we can open the real door and encounter the real pain and perhaps live through it. Or maybe we just lost the fear of death.
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