Looking around and seeing people allowing themselves to be vulnerable, sharing their art, their love of music and books, checking the comments and not seeing
"Okay r*tard"
I forgot how pavlovian I'd become.
Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have.
We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”
So we are supposed to believe that democrats are throwing trans people under the bus so that they win and then trans people will be safe because they are just fibbing?
When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home
www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...
Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.
It's wild to think it's almost november, but it's also wild to think that we spend every single day in survival mode as our brains were not designed to comprehend the pain of the world conveyed through a pocket sized tablet of nightmares so it's understandable that none of us can understand time.
I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'
Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."