Brent

me: *plots a diabolical Christmas dinner*
him: Please tell me you're not plotting a diabolical Christmas dinner.
me:

Beauty Tips 1. Stand completely still in a wooded area for three hours and walk home backwards. 2. Go to the nearest body of water and start screaming. 3. Find an object that you would save from a burning building and set it on fire. 4. Eat an apple while holding a snake. 5. Bite your tongue and taste the consequences. 6. Fill a jar with air from your childhood home and bury it in your backyard. 7. Use the privilege you do not deserve to help others who are in danger. 8. Dig for diamonds in a pile of broken glass. 9. Go somewhere you can see the stars and then write your own horoscope. 10. Protect yourself, especially on days when you feel safe. 11. Exfoliate so thoroughly that you literally become a new person. 12. Hold the image of a ram in your mind while lying on your back under the full moon. 13. Read the obituaries on your birthday. 14. Apply so much highlighter that you become a holy beam of light, both beautiful and terrible. 15. Make a list of words that won't be spoken after the apocalypse, abandon those things, and flee into the wilderness. 16. Accept that death comes for us all and try to look alive. 17. Be kind because the world is not.

beauty tips

Jarod K. Anderson, SOMETHING IN THE WOODS LOVES YOU

WITCHCRAFT

“How are you coping with and navigating these interesting, uncertain times?”

In general this is a good question to be asking in the coming months and years when you see dramatic news. Some of it’s gonna be real but yeah

don’t worry guys executive orders aren’t REALLY legal. but DO worry guys because the law isn’t REALLY real in any real sense. but DONT worry because they’re kind of too incompetent if you remember but also DO worry because maybe this time it’s different. but DONT worry bec

January 19

Remember to do things that bring you joy. This is very important!

americans: omg these times are so unprecedented!!!
historians: lmaoooooo

Kill the "temporarily embarrassed [billionaire]" in your heart

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of an endless stream of stupid fucking bullshit.

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

[waking up from a nightmare] okay, this is actually worse

[calling up from rock bottom] what the fuck it just keeps going

happy joanna newsoms birthday to all the sweet little honeys

*At a party*

STRANGER: Are you that guy who brags about weird shit?

ME: No I’m the guy who takes the longest baths in the city.

need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up

LOG OFF by Kristen Felicetti

If you're a millennial who watched the Twin Towers fall on a TV that was rolled into your classroom. If you blogged on LiveJournal or Xanga about how terrible your life was as teenager only to yearn for those days as you near 40. If you grew up queer and lonely. Read this book.

This is a perfect sentence:

"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

Lion’s mane mushrooms growing on a tree

Me too! This is us.

my dog HATES the neighborhood cats who periodically come on our patio so we put film on the windows so now she hangs out halfway up the staircase so she can look at the thing she hates most and get real angry which seemed dumb to me until i realized i still read scoial media everyday

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff

[Mexico City, Mexico]

Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.

Via Ghost of Durruti

it's me again stanning Nora's work again. these pieces are a joy and money's helping others too. fyi!

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Art is what helps us through every other fucking thing.