rosey-rosey-rosey

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

apologies to anyone who has ever added me to a discord server

#i CANNOT use that site #evil things happen there #hostile to human life

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

New sentence I think

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

made some affirmations for my fellow grocery shoppers out there

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

i just gotta have my weekly “i am frustrated w employed people” moment. because i just feel so isolated in every conversation, i feel envious of their income and ability to live an independent life and buy things. if thats u I truly do need you to recognize and be conscientious of the fact that even though there is much wrong with the environment and expectations of employment, still that it is a privilege to be able to participate in it, because it means you at least have that base level of worth to society so that you can participate in it as designed. ppl like me cannot.

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

I feel I should specify when I talk about the vast majority of Israelis supporting this genocide it's not to call for violence of them or even to demonise them. It's to call attention to Israel having a genocidal education system which dehumanises Palestinians from the moment Israelis start school. Ilan Pappé did a study in 1994 of the Israeli education system and raised the alarm that it would raise a generation who are even worse than those who first colonised Palestine in 1948. We're seeing the truth of that now.

I raise this point because we're seeing this attempt by politicians and the media to claim that it's just Netanyahu who is to blame for this genocide and not a systematic problem that requires boycotting, divestments and sanctions to push them to correct. This lie is being pushed because they do not want to change the status quo which allows for Israel to steal Palestinian land and homes and keep Palestinians under military occupation.

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

Daniel Richter (German, b. 1962), Das Auge War Kaputt [The Eye Was Broken], 2011. Oil on canvas, 100 x 270.2 cm.

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

I went to a restaurant with a friend yesterday and upon entering we saw these splendid blueberry tarts under bell jars on the counter and we made jokey small talk with the waitress like oh, people will fight over these if there's not enough for everyone, it'll tear families apart, are you making more later? and she said no, I'm afraid that's our entire stock for today, but there are 18 slices, it should be plenty! It was a small village restaurant with only one menu du jour so there weren't any other dessert options but they don't usually get that many customers—but then a couple of large groups arrived and most people noticed the tarts like we did, and went ohh blueberry tart, it's been a while, I can't wait, and it became clear that when we'd get to the end of our meal there would be winners and losers in the blueberry tart rush

But later as we were about to order dessert I wasn't hungry anymore and I was like well that's too bad but someone else will be glad to get 'my' slice of tart—and my friend said yeah, me :) You should order it anyway, I'll eat both! At first I thought she was joking, but no. I said, there's not enough for everyone, you can't take two, and she said, we were going to order two slices, what difference does it make? and I was baffled that she couldn't see the ethical difference between two people eating one slice of tart each vs. one person eating two, when there's a limited quantity of tart. I felt like we were in a simplistic social justice metaphor it was so obvious, but there was no changing her mind. When I said "it's just... not nice" she said "okay" with a shrug, and what can you say to that. She added, you don't know any of these people and I was like, why are we reverting to tribal dynamics in a non-apocalyptic setting, how would you feel if we'd arrived a bit later and seen others ordering two desserts knowing you'd get zero? And she said, I would think that's their right, and I felt kind of amazed.

I pointed out that if she didn't think it was a wee bit wrong, she wouldn't ask me to order her second piece as if it was for me, and she said yeah maybe we don't need to do that, there's no law preventing me from ordering two desserts. What about Kant's categorical imperative Okay I guess you're not breaking any laws by taking more than your fair share of a thing other people also want, just failing a kindergarten-level morality test. I felt embarrassed for sounding like an annoying preachy rigid person so I dropped the issue, and as she ate her two slices she'd smile at me every time we overheard someone order coffee without dessert—like "See? There'll be enough, no one will be deprived of tart because of me!" as if that cancelled the fact that she didn't care in the first place. I guess it was one of these tiny issues that can still significantly alter the way you perceive a person. I tried to tell myself not to be so bothered about this small thing but I was! so bothered. And I felt like writing a letter to some agony aunt like "should I end a friendship over irreconcilable blueberry tart ethics"

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

tone problem

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

lmao

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

Never let them exorcise you before marriage!

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

The more places I live the more I discover how fucking weird the weather is all up the west coast. I'm used to both SoCal and PNW weather systems now but what those both have in common is consistency. You will not see a 40 degree jump between two days in Seattle. You will not see a 40 degree difference ever really in San Diego.

But all the rest of you are living in some weird ass looney tunes world where it can snow one day and be 65 degrees and sunny the next and then be rainy and foggy the day after. In the tropical areas sometimes you randomly get a lightning storm in the middle of the day and you're just supposed to be okay with that.

How do you live like this? Do you just check the weather every single day? How do you make plans? You people are insane.

#idk i live on the wind island #island known for wind #weather is unpredictable #i have beef with how bad met eireann is

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

C unt

S erving

I nstitute

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

#golden eagle #sorry yall its the best option

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

me forreal just got to stay strong

[rosey-rosey-rosey]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things