Gotta love forgetting your meds and then getting a headache that also puts some very mean voices in your head. And she's a real grumpy bitch.
"Oh Sssssherman, you alwaysss make me ssssnicker!" (Came across Sneakers enjoying some funnies during opening rounds.)
we’ve been witnessing mass death for a long time. it accelerated globally in 2020. even after we surpassed over a million deaths, even after mass shooting after mass shooting, even after a formula shortage, even after heavy inflation during another surge of covid in an increasingly hot climate, we’re expected to carry on the next day. we’re expected to wake up & go to school and work as if whole worlds hadn’t just been taken away. we’re expected to perform our tasks the same, if not more efficiently.
the reason we can carry on as laborers is because we are collectively experiencing a shocking state of numbness. it’s not that we don’t feel deeply for each event, it’s that our grief physically can’t keep up with everything there is to mourn. we need to stop, we need to sit down and mourn for a long, long time. this is a world built on us working through the unimaginable until we die. it’s a world built on robbing us of time to do anything, but especially mourn. it’s a deep physical and emotional need that is not being met. let yourself be mad, be despondent, be sad, be deep in grief. companies don’t like people who are outwardly grieving, and that is what we must do collectively. every time we lose someone to a mass shooting everyone who can should call in saying they cant work because they lost someone. because we all did, we lost humans to another senseless act of cruel violence. and the world should stop, just like the people who lost their family member’s worlds stopped.
i hope you take time to sit and remember the tragic things that have happened the past couple of years. that you give yourself the love and respect to acknowledge how hard it is to exist in a world that robs us of everything, including your right to being a human in grief.
there’s no peace to be found in any of this and there never should be.
This perfectly explains the numbness I've felt whenever I scroll through the latest news. But I hope we can all turn that numbness and grief into anger, and use that to push for change. Even if we end up screaming into the void, I, personally, and tired of crying.
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Definitely would try out my new speed and agility ASAP!
Basking rocks are for nerds, gotta go right to the source if you really wanna bake your beans!
Basking rocks are for nerds, gotta go right to the source if you really wanna bake your beans!
Current situation
Oh, but the Education team gets paid more than you because their programs bring in revenue. You know, the programs where they use the animals you take care of. And train them on how to handle and present them. And keep the animals happy and healthy when they're not on a program. They're the more important department!
Doubly so if it's your supervisor watching!
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.”
Greta, being hilarious again. I love this kid.
Never ceases to confound me how grown ass men feel the need to attempt to dunk on teenage girls to prove themselves or whatever.
As world leaders boarded their private jets home from Sharm El Sheikh, noticeably absent among them was youth activist Greta Thunberg, who in an interview before the conference accused world leaders and people in power of using the whole affair to grab attention, “using many different types of greenwashing.”
Reading her words, I couldn’t help but think about a group of protestors who last month grabbed the world’s attention in a more radical way than world leaders showing their faces at COP. I’m talking about SoupGate, MashedPotatoGate, and all the other protest actions that were sparked by Just Stop Oil protesters throwing a tin of tomato soup over Van Gogh’s sunflower painting in London.
In many respects the protest was a roaring success, generating international media coverage and making the front page of the New York Times. The video has been viewed almost 50 million times on Twitter alone.
TL:DR activism is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes it's a relay race, as people need recovery time from periods of intense work and other protestors fill their shoes for awhile.
It's easy to get frustrated with the predatory roadblocks thrown up by industries that need radical change, and the seeming lack of political will to fix things due to entrenched interests. GenZ activists like Ms Thunberg are frustrated and disillusioned, because they understand that we need to work very quickly to prevent mass destruction. That clarity of purpose is important, but don't lose hope.
As a GenXer, I can tell you: I *am* seeing lots of progress, compared to the mid-80s, especially at the level of municipal politics. In my own city, a very modest investment compared to the automotive-infrastructure maintenance budget has created a network of bicycle paths in a short time, and our public transit (while challenged by pandemic ridership levels and some construction mistakes) is about to markedly expand its reach. Net-zero home construction is at an all-time high, as is wind-power subscription and solar PV use. Community gardens are booming, backyard food-forests are being planted, and community leagues are creating tool libraries and fostering connections between neighbours to reduce isolation. Celebrate the little successes, and keep building on them. Ruggedize and decarbonize your local infrastructure, and keep demanding that your states/provinces/countries do the same. Build resilience into your information and mutual-aid networks by decentralizing them. Be kind, and persistent.
Low-key hoping my daughter grows up to be like this as she comes to understand the world.
She is so fascinated by animals, I know she will be saddened so many are gone. But I want to show her I work hard at my job to preserve what we have by educating others, and show her it's not hopeless. That there is still a future for her filled with life and wonder.
Can it really be shitposting if it's this cute?