"Medical costs are up and wages are not for one reason that is very easily understood by Americans: monopolies. Hospitals, doctor’s practices, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, ambulances, nursing homes, rehab facilities: Every part of our health care world is increasingly controlled by greedy bankers who kill people for money. "
- David Dayen and Matt Stoller, "Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project"
"Stop cringing – at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror – and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should've been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you're dreading and say, "See? You never would've imagined this."
– Heather Havrilesky
“𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒. 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘.”
—Marya Hornbacher, Wasted
this is my all time favourite post I've ever seen on reddit everyone read it please
having a child has taught me that every toddler is completely justified in their frustrations and tantrums because learning how to do something you have literally never encountered or heard of before is insane. and being expected to be completely calm in the face of this constant barrage of overwhelming information is doubly insane.
i got charlie a sticker activity book and it occurred to me i have to TEACH someone how to unpeel stickers. it's SKILL that requires DEXTERITY and FINE MOTOR ABILITY. i thought it was obvious that you have to curl the page a little bit to create a break in the cut so the sticker comes up.
obviously a fucking BABY wouldn't know that because they have no background experience to inform their thought process. OBVIOUSLY. and OBVIOUSLY the LITERAL BABY wouldn't get it right the first few times. it would OBVIOUSLY take practice. lots of it.
i hate this feeling. it's so obvious. why are children treated so badly when they're learning everything for the first fucking time. why do people treat children so horribly and expect so much. they're brand new. why didn't i get the same grace i give to my child? why did no one have patience for me? why, when it's this easy?
it's so easy. it's so fucking easy.
Do you ever feel like people want pieces of you but never all of you?
art galleries should be open 24hrs like what if I can’t sleep and wanna stare at a painting
