If you feel numb, whether during happy moments or devastating moments, and/or if you feel comfortable with not changing, those are signs you aren’t healing. You aren’t fixing it. You’re gonna keep hurting like that forever, unless you figure out how to change.
You have to let yourself viscerally feel things - all of it, including the joy that makes you scared of false hope and the mourning that feels like drowning - and somehow decide that you want to move on, rather than languishing in the hollow comfort of staying the same.
It hurts like fuck to live through fascism without going emotionally numb, but you really really really have to figure out how to do it or else you’re making yourself trivially easy for the fascists to manipulate
The U.S. obsession with perfect lawns is a big driver of what scientists have called an "insect Armageddon." All of the mowing, blowing, and insecticide and herbicide we dump is killing off the vast, complex. and beautiful world of insects, on which all life depends.
Go to get a job: only entry positions available, every good job has a Boomer or Xer camped on it saying "id love to retire but im making so much money"
Go to start a business: spend 30-100k just to find out that only boomoids have money and they only spend it on boomer owned businesses
Want to farm a family asset? Good luck, after grandpa (85) finally goes its going to be split amongst the Greedy Aunts (65, 62, 59) and they all are gonna want $25,000 an acre (and from a boomer)
“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain or
A lot of my behavior will make sense once you find out one of my primary coping mechanisms is trying to assert control over trauma by striving to prevent other people from ever having to feel this way
One man in California has spent 57 years recording the sounds of natural places. Much of what he's recorded no longer exists.
His name is Bernie Krause. He started as a folk musician and an early pioneer of the Moog synthesizer. In 1968, he began carrying recording equipment into rainforests, deserts, coral reefs, African savannas, and research sites associated with scientists like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.
The Wild Sanctuary archive now contains more than 5,000 hours of recordings and over 15,000 identified species. Krause coined the term "biophony" to describe the collective sound of living organisms in a habitat and helped establish the field of soundscape ecology.
Through thousands of recordings, he observed that healthy ecosystems often partition acoustic space, with different species occupying different frequencies and times of day. On a spectrogram, an intact habitat can resemble a densely layered musical score.
When Krause revisited many of the places he had recorded decades earlier, he found that over half had become silent, severely degraded, or so altered by human activity that their original biophonies could no longer be heard. His archive preserves sounds from ecosystems that have been transformed or lost.
@suchnerve People might road trip from cities by car but in counties like mine, poor and car based, they’ll be saving gas money just to get to work unfortunately.
@singingsox@BirdieBittern We can clip lav mics to the masks themselves. I’ve done it.
Once as an experiment I ran a mic under a mask and sealed it with mask tape. Looked weird but sounded like you were IN the mask. Words were ultra clear.
People don’t do this tho cause you can already hear them! 😂