there are days when i feel so in love with this life, in spite of all the pain i have been through, or maybe all the pain i have been through has allowed me to appreciate the moments of joy so deeply when they come
‘Dance Fever’ by Florence + The Machine OUT NOW!
And let’s not be deflected by concerns about our bodies, their images and their illnesses, from what is most significant about our selves: that we can grow in courage, in grit, in spirit, not in spite of who we are but because of who we are.
Carnal Acts; ‘Challenge: An Exploration’ by Nancy Mairs (via amouthfulloflove)
Unfortunately there is no way to criticize our own bodies that doesn’t implicate other people who have similar features. I argue here often that we have a responsibility not to do this to our peers, but there really can be no argument about the fact that we have a responsibility not to do this to our daughters
the handmaiden (2016)
dir. park chan-wook
Messaging about how everyone is an addict bc of the prevalence of e.g. caffeine dependency that aims to destigmatize other addiction (e.g. to illicit drugs) doesn’t really do the trick, unfortunately. It ends up backfiring in the sense that now people feel guilty about their caffeine use and aren’t likely more sympathetic to illicit drug users.
We’ve really got to get to the heart of the matter, which is that people are self-soothing, self-medicating, coping in whatever ways they can find with intolerable circumstances. We’re not bad bc we feel we need caffeine, or a hit, or a drink!! Ever, at all! Let’s ask: in what ways are our basic needs not being met? For sleep, for food, for safety, for connection? Why do we need substances for energy, motivation, or relaxation? To function or to escape?
The substances we call drugs have always been around in some form. Widespread addiction hasn’t. That’s a construct (w some biological components ofc), a way we stigmatize reliance on substances in a world that’s unbearable and whose demands we can’t meet. We don’t want to say “addiction is bad and widespread,” we want to say “why are so many people unable to function in the world as it is?”
Masato 55 - Sea of Clouds Under Mt. Tate and Mt. Tsurugi (2011)
As far as I’ve noticed, Tumblr is the only social media still in operation that allows you to add links in your text to provide sources for specific statements without interruption the text.
Which is such an easy elegant way to allow people to fact check your work because they do not need to go through a list of sources below, they can quickly see your specific source per statement.
In the forum world of Internet 1.0, you could do that everywhere. That feature was standard. In internet 2.0, this simple feature is almost entirely gone, because social media designers have stripped out anything that takes you away from the social media platform that you’re on. Gotta maximize that engagement so you generate more content for advertisers.
Now that we know more and more about how much social media feeds misinformation.. it’s worth pointing out that none of the platforms that claim to be fighting disinformation have brought back this feature.