if you want to criticize bluesky and those are the best grounds you have that's weak as hell
no one knows how to fight with their sibling better than their sibling
if a successful intervention is actually gonna happen its best chance is a sibling being like cool i will fight you
as in: it doesn't matter what the fuck you do. if you are worried about your sibling, intervene
what is your sibling gonna say?
"shuT uP brO yoU driNk tO?"
like owch that hurt so bad help me im dying
comment 2 expanded w/ a tiny story:
my rapist called me on the phone. he was updating me on our mutual friends. he was way closer to them. there was a pair of siblings who lost their dad super tragically. both siblings had substance issues. my rapist was explaining to me that one sibling was really worried about the other one but didnt know how to intervene without being a hypocrite cos again, they both had substance issues
comment 2: a lot of this is gripes seeking escalation. hypocrisy is the weakest charge there is.
comment 1: 1.01m subscribers deserves better content not an iv drip drug dealer
"they want diversity in every single area of human life except for thought"
ok.
keep the aspidistra flying
no one deserves to be hired over email
no one deserves to be fired over email
serious matters
momentous matters
actual private matters
deserve care and respect
deserve being handled in person
no one deserves to find out their loved one died on tv
no one deserves a text message ending a marriage
i dont know how he survived telling us. i dont even know how he got the sentence to come out of his throat. but he did. he told us. it was drizzling that day. we were in the Adirondacks. summer camp. he had to leave the hospital and my mom's dead body and drive to lake placid by himself. to tell us in person.
we were all sitting on the same couch. the cushions were thin and marigold yellow.
when my mom died
did my dad have a choice not to tell me and my brother?
what would he have said?
mom ran off?
mom went to a farm upstate?
i will tell you
when it comes to really bad news
the grace is in how
not ignoring it
i didnt have to find out all alone
he was with me
we went around the block
he parked
we got out together to see the devastation
the cops
our whole encampment trashed
everyone missing
then there was a morning i parked my car, as always
and someone i had met there, and indigenous someone i liked so very much, suddenly arrived in his car like he swooped in as if by magic
he said: have you heard?
i said: what?
he said: hop in
i very very deeply cared about the student encampments for gaza
i very very very deeply cared about the encampment i was a part of
i cared about the people i met, i cared about the kids, i cared about the dogs i met, i cared for the trees, the flowers, the squirrels, i started dreaming about maybe taking a class at that university even thats how much
is that the answer? say nothing?
let me jump back in time elsewhere and weave something in
someone in the comments was bemoaning the fact that alex was their husband's favorite artist. they said they felt sick to learn this and would never tell him
inference: it would break his heart, he would be devastated, they wanted to spare him the pain of being so crushed and sick to his stomach
ok so, ya read an article, go: til and move on. but, i skimmed the comments and this is what i want to share, this is the purpose of this
i want to share something and i will explain it deliberately with care.
in the hudson valley reddit someone shared an article about alex grey. the chapels of sacred mirrors cosm tool artist.
the allegations were vile.
ok, many things are. yes i was at cosm for one full moon event many many years ago. friend recommended. i have never listened to tool. this tip was from the new age community not a music scene. i have never been to burning man.
i walked around the gallery of his artwork. i did not care for it. i did like that him and his wife seemed very loving towards eachother and seemed to be gracious hosts.
i am simply sharing my own orientation
i do not mind at all what anyone is into. what people are into are not dealbreakers to me. if someone is like: i love hair metal my response is not: we cant be friends
ive never read marx
ive spent more time listening to dr bayo akomolafe than any other public intellectual and it isnt even close
to me, ive been consistent this whole time
my friends made me a noam chomsky birthday cake in highschool
my favorite writer is arundhati roy
to me, it isnt difficult to know me or the gist of me
i gave one episode about ten minutes and rendered my movie review in a way that didnt spare his feelings.
her recommendation came later so i could head it off a little after the pass.
two people in my life recommended the red scare podcast. one said he thought i would love it. the other said she loves it and thought i would, too.
two people in my life have tried recommending teal swan to me
ok i listened to "The Gateway (2018): This six-part investigative podcast series by Gizmodo journalist Jennings Brown is considered the foundational piece of reporting that brought widespread attention to Swan and her followers. Brown explores Swan's teachings, her history, and the allegations of abuse, with interviews from former members. The podcast was later expanded into the 2022 Hulu docuseries The Deep End." i havent seen the deep end