someone said “if you want to understand a city’s character, look at how stray cats behave, friendly or scared. cats don’t read maps, they read people” and that’s honestly one of the truest things i’ve heard
as americans, we live in a culture that rewards sociopathy and i need us to stop pretending otherwise. we exist in a cruel, domination centered hierarchal society that bleeds into every single persons psyche at the unconscious level. even so called “good people” perpetuate it.
"Cuba’s infant mortality rate for Black children is the same as for white children. Its Black population has life expectancy equal to its white population. No other nation in the Americas can make that claim...
you have to believe me when i tell you that going out and experiencing life is really the best medicine for improving your art and writing and restoring your passion
it’s called “life.” You walk to the store. Maybe you see someone you know on the way. You find a dollar on the ground. The sun shines on your face. You are participating in the world.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage
The propaganda has begun lol. The pro AI camp cannot fathom that people who are very capable of writing all on their own still exist, and that their thieving machine took from these capable people in an attempt to pretend said machine was capable of the same. It isn't
i have a friend who treats me so well that she doesn’t even know that she’s established a standard for how i let everyone else treat me, and i think that’s beautiful