elizabeth

saw another skeet full of replies from white liberals saying we should leave people in red states to die

millions of Black, brown, and poor people live in red states and either don’t want to leave or can’t leave.

disrespectfully, fuck all of you who leave people to drown. gross.

Being terminally online is weird. I have family that can't tell what's fake anymore. They'll send me a video of a Baby Tiger in a Sombrero hugging a 2 year old, & when I say "that's done with computers" they don't believe me. It's like wearing those glasses from they live 24/7.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

Good trouble!! Keep it going!

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Keep fighting. Keep dancing.

i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

Katherine pretty much nails it ..

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

When the 4 Non Blondes said “And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high
and I scream from the top of my lungs WHAT’S GOIN ON?!”

I really felt that.

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver

Can we go to one of the timelines where one of the female candidates won? I just want to see something.

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

💗✊

Some book recs for Inauguration Day:

- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
- Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
- Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens
- I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
- How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

#booksky

lol I'm supposed to be offline, but:

Can we finally admit that SOMETHING (allegedly) HAPPENED WITH THOSE VOTING MACHINES? People called me crazy, but alas. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

unpopular opinion: humans were never meant to be this overworked, that’s why everybody is edgy and depressed

Choose one alive or human

Book Cover of the Day:
(Gorey)

haven’t seen a single bit of AI on here and it’s so refreshing 😭