mfw family members who got in my face years ago about it “just being a clump of cells” now want to see a video i recorded of my unborn childs heartbeat
my my my, how the tables. looks like they have turned, does it not
good thing im not the kind of person to hold grudges for multiple years
(anymore)
ironically that is also primarily due to the religion they dislike
really just letting a lot of opportunities to be a dick pass me by here, such is life.
some people said congrats. thanks. this means they missed this comic so im gonna repost it. not sure when ill stop linking this every time i mention the pregnancy but i really like seeing my wifes face in it (thats really what she looks like)
oh, i have to use "page numbers" when making a book. why. why is that. so u can just cut the book up however u want. jump in and out. so tweed clad scholars sucking off the teat of the creator class, like vultures, can descend upon and tear apart this document like a carcass. no
the book is an in toto document. it is one cohesive whole. there are no "page numbers". u can take it as a whole or u can take nothing. i will meet these "academic standards" halfway when im dead buried in the earth + worms consume me. then u can have ur "page numbers", sycophant
oh it makes it easier for people to TALK ABOUT particular SECTIONS. yes please. please, chattering class, dissect "the books", please cut them up for me. i am a baby. blend them. chew them and feed them back into my mouth like a mother bird. otherwise i will die. i will starve.
most museums totally open spaces. the ancient vases, paintings, etc., are all right there. its like someones living room. ultimately, you have to conclude that really, deep down, no one wants to harm or damage the artifacts. they very easily could. wonder if that will ever change
theres a handful of times someone has damaged or smashed something but its very rare. its kind of comforting, even in cities with sections you would never go to, high crime, whatever, its still the case that mostly, people can leave very nice old things out in an open building.
true, but the fact that its typically targeted at a particular work for a particular reason highlights the other end of what im saying. ultimately, apparently, the lust for meaningless destruction for destructions sake, is not that great, even in bad places. apparently, i guess.
[my friend, at a party in my apartment]: hey man i saw there was a park nearby on the way here. i was thinking me and gf could
me: hAaha
yeah
yeah...
you dont want to go there.
the other funny thing about places that are sketchy to go in at night like that is people intuitively recognize it if youre out at like 2/3 am with them but if you mention it explicitly or bring it up outside of that context people get mad. that was my experience at least.
kinda seems like social spaces, organizations in general, are either male oriented, female oriented, or transitioning from one to the other (usually first to second). dont really think theres anything wrong with recognizing this obvious reality.
thinking back thru my old jobs if i looked at the bureaucracy above me it was either mostly women and the social space of the job reflected this or it was mostly guys and the social space of the job reflected that. cant think of a situation or space that was an even split, ever
theres also a pretty obvious shift in many things when a transition happens or starts to happen. in terms of internet ethnography i find this topic extremely interesting because ostensibly the main physical driver of this, potential for sex, is at least way way less present.
most people have been told that the way to gain knowledge about themselves is to indiana jones dive deep into their past to unearth “deep” artifacts so they see whatever they placed in the trauma box as the ultimate source of their self instead of something that happened to them
theres some legitimacy to this ofc but ultimately it becomes fetishistic. it also means that instead of the face being a clear window into the spirit it becomes a bricked over facade (florensky, iconostasis), this necessitates a “grand reveal” at some point in the dating process.
i suspect this also has something to do with a pathological view of the self that is in a way reminiscent of [some] mysticism. even if most normal people have never encountered this theres a slight edge of “the self” being pathological or totally constructed in their language.