Honestly I think it might be why expression is something people (or at least I) seem to need. Bundling up the way I feel into a little “scene” to be distributed to others means that I have turned my grim ass emotions into something more solid that I can maybe pick apart and recontextualize. The cloud of death becomes something I can point to and moan about, maybe even joke about, instead of being my reality that I am stuck with.

edit: What plants are you growing?

The grief hurts but I think the part that has me particularly fucked up is the constant presence of death in my home now. Two pretty old parents and the remnants of many absent pets means it feels like everywhere I look I am reminded of mortality, and that’s without mentioning the awareness of genocide in the wider backdrop.

I gotta get started back up writing something bigger than little practice exercises soon I think, it’s the only method I know for processing this type of mental sewage

Man I lost like 3 pets this year and I’m feeling lonely as fuck and I can’t really complain to my friends about it because they are dealing with much bigger problems right now, this sucks

Yeah yeah, your marriage is struggling, okay yeah you are making a lot of extra suicide jokes lately, yes yes I am happy you’re recovering from your gender reassignment surgery

I happen to miss my dog and I reserve the right to be sad today

It is based it IS based and the people who do it have extremely correct opinions and are attractive

These losers want to turn one of our greatest evolutionary gifts, our ability to recreationally nut, into a problem

Fuck that, I’m not going back to breeding seasons or heat cycles.

Don’t be melodramatic, it is perfectly possible to both contribute to society and produce a 4 hour dissertation on the subject of The Dark Side of Stardew Valley Lore

I do agree though if the point is that these people are clearly willing to do things but the only path that seems available is pop culture analysis, it’s just that tbh it’s still a pretty small number of people producing these video essays compared to the sheer number of people in a society.

What the fuck this is MY trivia to bring into convos this is THEFT

(Ants also do complex geometry by instinct and they even triangulate positions with the sun as reference, they are amazing)

Doing this kind of fantasy for your political representatives is of course cringe but I am much more bothered by the way this is written

Hard to figure out why exactly, maybe it’s because it’s structured like a TV scene with the narrative voice just being inane commentary? Like what does that “this is going to fun” at the end add? It would be better to just end it at the smile.

See I remember being interested in the stuff from a much more indistinct lens, stuff like our instinctive fear and disgust towards certain stimuli (seeing a snake in the grass, trypophobia, why certain bugs freak people out more than others) but most of the people I met who were into evopsych just wanted to study IQ, I assume because it would let them categorize people into tiers of worth. I hated it both because it was a hiding spot for racism and because it was ruining what could be a pretty interesting field looking at mankind’s part in the evolutionary narrative of mammals.

Biology disciplines that focus on evolutionary study really do have rightoid enclaves, it feels very much like a microcosm of the ideological side of being right wing since studying evolution is ultimately systemic study and these people instead boil down the rich and fascinating narrative of evolutionary history into a series of great man narratives except it’s Great Gene Theory instead.

ANTS

ALL LEFTIES SHOULD LEARN THE WAYS OF THE ANT

Unironically, they make for an incredible model of societies and their moving parts, even down to how they recruit one another for group tasks and how labor is divided up (most of them don’t do shit most of the time and it’s a good thing)

AntWiki has the full text of EO Wilson’s famous book, good place to dip your toes in https://antwiki.org/wiki/The_Ants

Damn is this typical of Chinese posting? They all go pretty hard

That second one fucking owns, does anyone have a translation for the text in the first and/or third?

do they really manage to eat an entire cat? That’s pretty impressive

Sure owls COULD limit themselves to preying on mice (which spread DISEASE and SMELL and DESTROY HOMES) but there are many reports of owls not being content to eat mice alone, and extending their violent tendencies towards many other small terrestrial animals, specifically squamates and this must be taken into consideration

most likely it’s a picture from a mating season, horny male frogs will do amplexus (basically a mating grip) to anything they can, even if no mating is going to follow it

found a pic of my bearded dragon (RIP) heightmogging me from like a decade ago and I think the people should witness

Okay yeah I should establish that it is a problematic fav

I was much more interested in how it captured a deranged side of post 9/11 America that I was steeped in but saw no representation of.

Like people literally fled from him for approaching them while looking indistinctly foreign

The first Borat showed me a realm of funny I had not yet established trade routes with, it was awesome

No need to go all the way to beatnik wandering artist. I feel like the creative urge can strike any person at any time, and the problem with this is that as things are currently organized, that spark will be smothered. Part of demonstrating to people why they should want things to change is appealing to those who have felt that happen to them. I don’t think a person ever forgets the pain of it, and it can happen to anyone.