Thinking this morning about how the two main people in my life are: work friend, online friend.
That’s very 21st Century dystopia. Not that either of those things are bad. Easily the two best things in my life. And I would say my online friends are just my real friends. Much more than the people I know in real life. Except the real friends that became online friends. Those are good.
My coworkers are the people of my everyday life. A friend that became my boss. It’s very familial. Or, like fellow patients in the psych ward, perhaps. When they are being friendly, you learn it’s because they are trying to manipulate you for some devious reason. And in the end, you have to choose, well, that was nice, now to check my body for wounds.
I was lying in bed this morning thinking about the time my coworker was standing in front of my desk talking to me and flashed me her pubes underneath her sweatpants. Now, that could have just been a mistake. The girl is wearing pajamas at work. And once a thing like that happens, what are you going to say?
I believe I was in the middle of some kind of thought, but I forget now.
Ah. People feel like I am safe to flirt with, and if I was very good looking, they would just indulge themselves and think “Wow, I did well for myself,” but with me, they’re never going to go that far. You step your toe over the line to see if you can, then step away with confidence. These things happen to me because they didn’t happen to anyone. Once I can begin to truly intuit this, everything will make more sense.
The thread itself has more information available for folks interested in checking it out. The US government is only interested in protecting THEIR imperialistic agenda and supporting the terrorist settler-colonial state of Israel. For people in the US, please share this/look into this/call your representatives. This is horrifying. Thank you for sharing this.
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
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As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.
Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).