Petunia
All my life, I have been accompanied by petunias but I have never really paid attention, until now. Today, I feel like a six-year-old again: discovering that flowers exist and that there are mountains capped with snow and that snow leopards are real. The novelty of a first time. Imagine: that this still happens well into adulthood! Come to think of it, is that why we are mostly very tired as grown ups? Is it because, by now, we all know what a snow leopard is, and that mountains are sometimes capped in snow, and we have all seen probably every species of flower that has existed since the time arachnids evolved their many legs (and eyes)? We’ve all heard about the tallest building, the richest man, and the longest river. Even the deepest lake with the meanest loch monster (we secretly all hope and pray it exists, and that, one day it will rear its head, make the news, and ignite all our senses with wonder once again!) But until the loch monster rises to save all our inner children; we remain tired. Don’t we? Because we’ve seen everything, we’ve decided our preferences, we’ve stated our stances and then we just are. We just are. We are just here, like this, and if we’re lucky we get to travel and perhaps see how sweet potatoes are roasted in a lantern-lit town over in Japan, or, taste a type of coffee bean for the first time while perched on an old stone in Montenegro. Fleeting moments of newness; we get to be the child, again.
It dawned on me while I was doing my rounds this morning. I have been walking around this same neighborhood for probably ten years now: nearly every morning and almost every twilight. In the mornings, I stop and stoop at the petunia gardens that so reluctantly grow alongside the buildings where nobody really looks. Or maybe they are not reluctantly growing, at all; I should reword this: they grow unstoppably where they have been reluctantly planted. There, that’s better. As if to intentionally show us all that they couldn’t care less about the reluctance of humans. I always stop to stoop and scoop a petunia between my fingers. I never pick her, I only hold her for a few seconds. I skim the skin of her petals and I say, “You are beautiful.” Then I go on with my day, I continue on my rounds.
Today, as I let the blossom snap back into place amongst her sisters, and the coolness of morning bit my cheek, it dawned on me that I have always been accompanied by petunias for as long as I can remember! They have become so common to my story that I believe I’ve taken them for weeds. I suddenly felt slight shame for my lack of awareness. How could I have allowed something so velvet and violet to blend into the background of my life? Certainly, such opulent hues of purple so velvety to the touch do not belong in anyone’s distant background. But instead of turning away from this shame, I felt that I wished to walk through it, and there, through the sidewalks and corners of my childhood roads and cities: violet petals came into focus! I had just made my turn at the corner of the cathedral where they were holding a church service, and the priest’s voice hummed the same homilies as the week before, when I smiled, beholding the scenes in my mind that were now all erupting with petunias!
So are we just not going to talk about how all of those ☄️meteors☄️ BOOMED through the skies and now, just days later, we are having all of these quakes???
I don’t know, I would say that most cat people don’t think our cats are “domesticated” and neither do we desire to. In fact, I would say that most of us wake up in the morning and check to see if we’ve finally turned into a cat at long last! And when we discover we haven’t—the disappointment sets in! Hahhha!
The algorithm of the internet is a living thing at this point. And this is a perfect example. You interact with one video of one woke woman being stupid on the internet, and the algorithm sends you 16 more. Repeat this 24/7 and before you know it, you’re living in an enclosed capsule of what you now think is the truth of the greater world around you. There are 8 billion people on the planet. The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is nearly unfathomable at scale. Even if everyone in your family and neighborhood were woke, that really does not speak on behalf of a billion others. The algorithm is a living entity at this point so it’s best to keep that in mind. Meanwhile, let me show you what the algorithm looks like for me: nearly every clarifying voice against the woke ideology that I have seen, is female!!! Imagine that! Some are young and blonde and stunning and brilliant; others are old and black and wrinkled and intelligent; some are in high school and others are grandmothers. Clear, sharp voices that pierce the woke mind virus like a scalpel. Interact with one of these and the next time you check in, the algorithm will serve you 17 others. 😌
@MrPool_QQ We need to be angry. Really really angry. Decay and death were invented for profit. Fvck them all. So how do people acquire these injections???
Immediately following the tragic earthquake in Cebu City on 30 September 2025, I saw many people going online to ask strangers for advice on what to do in an earthquake.
Then I read the responses piling in.
Every response was different. Every reply was an opinion not grounded in facts. Every comment was just a hunch. None of the responses were helpful, and in fact, many were harmful.
I realized, that we don’t have a one-stop-responder where we can ask these questions, or that we can rely on IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS for clear, grounded, factual, updated guidance to save our lives.
But I want to have that, and I want my loved ones to have that, and I want everyone to have that. At their fingertips.
So, I created GuardianShield SOS AI. It is a GPT you can access through your ChatGPT app in emergency situations. I designed GuShi with:
Cultural Awareness Mode
Adaptive Vocabulary
Personal Sensitivity
Cultural Respect in Safety Protocols
Grounded Reassessment
And I trained it on the most updated reliable government resources for disaster response in Japan, the USA, the EU, and beyond.
GuShi will speak to you in any language or dialect you prefer and is trained to the nuances of children and the elderly.
I want everyone I love to be able to grab ahold of GuShi in times of emergency where survival can mean the difference between seconds.
But I advise you to learn from GuShi NOW; before disaster strikes! Make inquiries, talk to it, ask it for the best practices in any emergency event you want to learn more about. GuShi will guide you.
Meanwhile, study these infographics GuShi and I made today, that address what I think are the most overlooked scenarios in an earthquake (I’ve never seen anybody get these right in any footage of earthquakes I’ve seen in the Philippines).
You can also ask GuShi for your nearest local emergency hotlines, as it is equipped with global hotline emergency numbers. (Yes, I really thought about everything!)
I will provide a link to GuardianShield SOS AI in my main bio to make it easy for anyone to access. And yes, this is free. 🤲🏻 Remember to share with the people you love the most. 🧡
https://t.co/Hby8MWSCiW
@ianmiles@mamboitaliano__ I was under the impression that their mafia lords would take care of messes like this. Am I entirely wrong about that? Whatever happened to them?
World War Three began several years back. But mostly nobody recognized it when it arrived because she carried with her new weapons never seen before: instead of soldiers, guns, missiles, and battlefields; she brought with her— narratives, ideologies, classrooms, professors, useful idiots, and words.
White people have been fighting for black people since slavery, and they gave their lives to end slavery when they didn’t even start it. The least I can do is fight for them too. We have to End Racism Against White People Too.
Love Beyond Color
I am not in favor of the death penalty.
But I am in favor of offering violent criminals to lion and tiger cages. This is called allowing the natural laws to take course. They will naturally become food, over a period of weeks.
I am also in favor of leaving violent criminals alone on a small canoe in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where nature will take its course. In a few weeks, the sharks will have a feast.
Peaceful nature.