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I've never seen trad wives explained so perfectly. "Non-nude fetish content for sexist men"

These tags were too good to leave out

“the tradwife lifestyle is just cottagecore bdsm” is an amazing take

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

red mackerel tabby, black classic tabby

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 8

You gotta watch this one the whole way through.

Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I’m always like “why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day.”

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you’re inside the car, inside the situation, it’s easy not to notice all the extra work you’re doing just to maintain the status quo.

There’s all sorts of type of work that we think of as “free” that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you’re tired from “nothing”, consider instead that you’re probably in situation where you’re doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

opening my body’s task manager to see what’s taking up all my cpu

Also, just to add: we should not lose sight of the fact that the mammalian brain is a ridiculously  energy-hungry organ. A human brain makes up 2% of the body’s weight and volume and 20% of its caloric requirement. Thinking is physical work.

Competitive chess players carb-load before tournaments. And lose weight in the process.

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that thinking physically takes up energy. I would be like “why don’t i have energy I’ve been sitting inside studying all day” ma'am it’s because the phrasings, evidences and vocabularies in your brain are eating the energy

If I’ve been really focused on crafting or something, there will invariably come a point where my brain is just like “Warning! Warning! Out of Energy!”.

Getting a snack usually fixes it.

I get post-exertional malaise from just… Going places. I sit in a wheelchair, I take one bus and spend some time in a different building… And when I get home, I’m sick.

This post helped a little cause I always feel bad about it.

leaving the house is abso-effing-lutely EXHAUSTING and it’s okay to BE exhausted after having to do stuff

Something happened during high school (20+ years ago) that woke me up to how connected thinking was to the physical reality of your body. I was taking a standardized test, and even though the weather was cold, I had worn birkenstocks because I would ordinarily spend most of the day in adequately heated rooms. But the test was in the library rotunda, a half circle of poorly insulated windows, and the test required sitting ?n one place for a long period of time. I got uncomfortably cold, and then halfway through the test I could feel my brain start to slow down to reallocate energy to staying warm. My reading rate slowed and I could barely understand the questions anymore. Of course I did badly on the test, not entirely due to that, but yeah that experience has really stuck with me. Brain is part of body

I understand that you get food where you get food, but it is off-putting when they ask for your income information and then pray over you at food banks.

Okay what the hell? Sorry to reblog but this just pisses me off. What the HELL does praying over someone accomplish besides shaming them and virtue signaling for yourself?

Like, I'm a Christian so I get praying for someone. Personally I would love to be prayed for right now (the shutdown has affected my family pretty badly), but not while I'm at the food bank! Like there's already a ton of indignities you suffer going to the food bank. I, personally, have experienced expired food, being given food I can't eat with no option to exchange it, limits to the number of times I visit each month (2 days of food for a WHOLE MONTH), and having to give my paystubs over to even receive food.

People don't realize how hard it is to be broke. Everyone polices you to make sure you're Truly Worthy of being helped. We don't need to make that worse by performing religion in a way unasked for by the person that only serves to humiliate them and belittle their struggles (trust me -- if prayer alone could fix this, you wouldn't be at the food bank).

Pray with your actions, not your mouth -- hand over the food. Make sure it's not expired and it's something they can eat, and make sure they know you're here to help and they can come again if they need it.

Being a good Christian is not that hard, but all talk no action isn't going to cut it.

Also-- donate money to the food banks! Getting that sweet, sweet fresh produce and meat and milk will go so much further than 2 cans of kidney beans and tomato soup. And for the love of all things good, DON'T donate expired food.

Lately, ive been inventorying some of my grievances against the church I grew up with. At the time, it seemed awesome that we had a clear mission of feeding the hungry and housing the unhoused. We ran a soup kitchen and a shelter and a warming center.

There was a free breakfast on Sundays if you attended the church service. This seemed reasonable to me because we lived in a very Christian town. I was 16ish at this time, didnt know many people outside of school and church.

Then we took a trip to another church in another city that had a similar mission. They fed the hungry, ran a shelter, and did language tutoring for immigrant children.

If the kids were there on Friday, then we would be taking a field trip to the museum.

But these kids were Muslim, and they go to mosque on Fridays.

This put a really sour taste in my mouth and it colored how I view missionary work as a whole. So when I get back to my city and I get back to volunteering at our shelter, I start thinking about how many people in my city were going hungry because they weren't Christian and didnt want to have to pretend to be Christian to get a free meal.

Probably more than I initially thought. Begin my opinions on colonization.

I then learn about some shelters and missions that actively discourage people from going to non-Christian food banks and some other shady stuff and im like... I can't be the only person who thinks this is weird.

So fast forward. I'm now volunteering for a nonprofit that runs a 'no-questions-asked' food pantry. This project was started because some of our members are food insecure and the local 'resource ministry' makes you submit income information and prays over you, so they wanted options that were a touch less humiliating. We have a little white board on the side of it where people can make suggestions for what to add.

And what do i see?

Someone had erased everything that was on the board (it was a pretty full list last week) and written in a request for information about that resource ministry.

It could be innocent. It could be nothing! It could be that someone truly wants information about that place. Though- they are literally everywhere, it would be hard to not know about them.

However- did you have to erase... all of it? I was there doing inventory and checking expiration dates so we could put in an order, but we're going to have to guess.

Anything that does good is doing good. But after looking through my relationship with Christian orgs somewhat carefully, I got that sour taste again.

I hate the sense that we're competing. What i will probably do is put a copy of our resource guide out instead because it also has... where you can get free clothes and stuff.

But.

I am always finding pamphlets and business cards and tracts in our little pantry and its very frustrating that even when we make intentional secular spaces- guess what! Jesus is here anyways. If you want free food, you have to deal with Jesus.

If you believe that good things come from Christ, then the mission is the food itself. You, the person giving the food, should not be proseletyzing to the person who is hungry. The message is in the kindness. This is what I was always taught! You do good things and then maybe someone else does good things because kindness is infectious!

But I was taught that by people who believed that dangling a carrot in front of someone to get them to go to church was right and true and good and godly, so im back to one where im thinking maybe we just give people their dang can of corn.

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

This got me utterly sick i cant stop thinking about this video