María Magdalena Campos-Pons

How was July the longest month ever

August

Everything in my life is these colors

March

Falk Gernegross - Baggersee

"Is the beauty for you or for everyone?" Environmental poster from the Belarusian SSR, 1986

I can’t stop thinking about how Cocomelon is damaging babies because the fast pace scene changes can “interfere with the development of executive functions”, and how thin parents are spread in capitalism that they rely on television to entertain/keep their babies company just so they have some time to complete domestic tasks. I am thinking about disintegrated Community Care/structure. I am thinking about how Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter, Tumblr, all media are engineered to be addictive and alter the executive functioning of kids, tweens, teens, and adults of all ages. How malleable our minds are..bread and circuses. Everything we consume has the power to heal or destroy us. I think about Congress Bill 686, and feel discouraged and powerless. You may have heard of it as “The TikTok Ban” of course, the media intentionally oversimplifies it as a ban on TikTok, but really it is the means for The State to restrict the sharing of information on the internet and to censor us, keep us misinformed and suppressed. The State knows that knowledge is power so they keep us intentionally in the dark and distracted, plucking away human rights one by one while we are watching the stage. The Restrict Act would require the Department of Commerce to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, and mitigate transactions involving ICT products and services” 🤳🏼👁️ (ICT means Information and Communications Technology, ICT Products and services refers to social media) When COVID first hit, my friend said “this will be like 9/11, there was the world pre 9/11 and post 9/11” I am not one to believe we are “post-covid” because we are still in the grips of the Covidian information wars, which I feel will be one of the main long term take aways from The-Covid-Years. Bill 686 harms all, because any group of 1 million people organizing or sharing information online can be persecuted, banned and shut down under the guise of “prohibiting certain transactions between persons of the United States and foreign adversaries” Congress Bill 686 establishes both civil and criminal penalties for violations of the bill, meaning anything that they consider an “unacceptable risk to national security.” Please don’t forget we live in a police state which is meant to protect the empire. In The United States privacy is not sacrosanct, and actually American big brother corporations like Meta and Google are investing millions into anti-TikTok propaganda, because it clears their competition and allows them back into the palms of citizens, so they can personally be the ones to steal our time and data. It makes me angry, it’s painful. How can we organize against the faceless enemy? It’s all subversion and censorship, anything to get the undiluted power to be placed back into the hands of an American corporation. It will always be The State, Corporations, and Colleges keeping information tucked away and inaccessible to the masses. We must do what we can to preserve the internet as a place of free information sharing and connection. The infrastructure of our communities in real life are generally weak. Weekly I hit a paywall online, and I have seen my own words be instantaneously given an AI generated COVID misinformation banner before. It’s insane, and most people are not comfortable admitting out loud that we are alive during fascism. What’s funny in a way is, I have long hated TikTok, but now that it risks being banned in this “land of the free” I find myself urgently realizing how important it is to preserve and protect.. It is on the individual to use the internet wisely and with boundaries, not the state to restrict people’s access to information. Privacy is important and data-preservation is important, obviously, but if this is what 686 was truly about, we would be having different conversations. All legislation is created to build a precedent.

dead ocean scorched land poisoned medicine stolen medicine fentanyl patches health care system censorship illuminati bunkers 2 months without sunlight prison industrial complex food grown in depleted soil sprAyed with chemicLs the doctor sends you home too early and now your womb is cut out teachers abusing their students selected not elected mama orca carries stillborn calf around dead in the ocean for 16 days mourning, mourning children neglected undernourished and stolen from their parents ICE agents challenging babies to kill themselves while they sit in an unchanged rotting diaper flouridosis big pharma killing God consciousness AI sentience big money selling stocks and buying gold the hood now has 12 pot stores 9 liquor stores but where the fuck is the garden the grocery store selling fresh food white supremacists run rampant in plain clothes in every industry with blood on their hands our president sexually abuses women, our congress our senate all of them Amazon wants to buy libraries the burning of the library of Alexandria lions gate portal eclipse season burning but a new system is not taking it’s place I want to give everything for free I want to sacrifice I want a new world

and yet still

Sacrificing and giving freely in the face of these things has been a recent pastime, too bad it’s spurred on by anger and not really by a more positive impetus.

to be honest I don’t know why I’m replying to this. but firstly, it’s important to note I wrote that when I was 19 or 20, a young adult with still a lot of angst about the world I was born into, the dysfunction that I did not create but would shape conditions for life on earth. And being young growing up with a young internet where I could consume more dismal information than I had the true ability to process. Secondly, yeah I am angry about it still. And I am angry BECAUSE I care deeply and love and want to protect the beauty of the people and the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms.. all life on this earth. I think anger can be degenerative or regenerative depending on what you do with it. I believe it’s very important to find out what the fuck ur pissed off about, truly, and then use your heart to create solutions and act. It’s passivity in the guise of virtue which continues to demoralize us and allow for the death machine to thrive mechanically onwards. So if people feel angry and because of it begin practicing solidarity, is a lot more of a “positive impetus” than staring blankly at the reality and doing nothing. Anger comes from our solar plexus which wants to act, and contribute. The solar plexus is the bridge between our heart (feelings, seat of our soul) and our sacral (creativity). Simply If I didn’t love these things there’s no way I could feel angry about them being undervalued.

dead ocean scorched land poisoned medicine stolen medicine fentanyl patches health care system censorship illuminati bunkers 2 months without sunlight prison industrial complex food grown in depleted soil sprAyed with chemicLs the doctor sends you home too early and now your womb is cut out teachers abusing their students selected not elected mama orca carries stillborn calf around dead in the ocean for 16 days mourning, mourning children neglected undernourished and stolen from their parents ICE agents challenging babies to kill themselves while they sit in an unchanged rotting diaper flouridosis big pharma killing God consciousness AI sentience big money selling stocks and buying gold the hood now has 12 pot stores 9 liquor stores but where the fuck is the garden the grocery store selling fresh food white supremacists run rampant in plain clothes in every industry with blood on their hands our president sexually abuses women, our congress our senate all of them Amazon wants to buy libraries the burning of the library of Alexandria lions gate portal eclipse season burning but a new system is not taking it’s place I want to give everything for free I want to sacrifice I want a new world

and yet still

Gerlinde Mader, 1986

please beautiful precious gentle lovers don’t let the eating disorder thinspo “skinny, clean” propaganda infiltrate your life. You’ve come such a long way. you’re doing so great. you’re healthy now, nourished now, your relationships are better now, your body loves you and I pray that you love it back. these corporations ‘don’t make enough money’ off of u when ur confident and healthy and happy in your own skin. The earth celebrates every act of kindness you choose, and wants you to thrive.

after my most recent trip to LA and spending a lot of time around my sister’s friends and their fucked up body comments and glorification and normalization of ozempic I am feeling ED triggered for the first time in a loooong time, then somebody reblogged this. Thanks homie

girlhood never stops we just evolve…