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you really don't get to pick where you hear the things that help.
this year i heard the line, "the scar won't move, but it will heal if you let it" in "face/off" of all movies and it's kept coming up for me.
i do something like this too! if i find myself wavering on a book, i'll go and read the last sentence out of curiosity. if it makes me go, "what the fuck", i usually stick with it.
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
day one: notifications still ring through and alarms still work. overall less screen-time today until i had to wait for a bus. uninstalling even more apps.
Lfgggggggggg
first test: 1. do i still get notifications and new messages without setting up the notification filters, and 2. will my alarms work in the morning lmao
hoping it'll go smoothly 🙏
in theory, i'd love to get a dumbphone, but i can't sacrifice the practical uses i have for my phone (my alarms, maps, etc.). so, i'm hoping that stripping it down to basics and making it boring to use will hopefully impact how much i use it. i've already uninstalled social media.
what i'm doing isn't anything major: i installed one of those minimal launchers for android (this one's beforelauncher) to make it so that only a handful of the apps i use show up on the home screen. also set my phone to an ugly monochrome color space.
doing a little test with my phone to see if i can truly minimize the amount of time that i spend on it. this'll be where i post updates about the process.
![Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them?
Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight.
They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggl3xsbrjtolfrqlyfguuhhn/bafkreiek5jrc36kgwezmon64mwl54k65acol4x677hnmghv6rataurwsti)
Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?
![Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime?
Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy!
There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggl3xsbrjtolfrqlyfguuhhn/bafkreiemfkr64p2svts4gyoqs63u3ewapgbcfz4kg3syo53q5pdn353rcm)
Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.
Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.
Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.
The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...
"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
the way i need omar souleyman to collaborate with more rappers after hearing this song he did with yasiin bey for the new gorillaz album
gosh this makes me miss mine so much. if i hadn't destroyed it trying to force a busted copy of "bully" from blockbuster, i might still be able to play "midnight club 3: dub edition" right now.
The hourly struggle with guilt and shame is extremely relatable as someone who was raised Evangelical. I literally gets into everything and it sucks lol
"a word about gnosis: it ain't gonna buy the groceries
or middle-out locusts, or weigh to find.
I hurry about shame and I worry about a worn path,
and I wander off, just to come back home.
Turning to waltz, hold high in the lowlands
('Cause the days have no numbers)."
Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed
Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
what i like about the practice of buddhism, and what's put me at such odds with christian practice, is that in buddhism, there is already light inside of you. the idea of innate buddha nature is so much better than the original sin / baseline evil of christianity. it's exhausting.
"Make something real, god damn you" resonates so much with me. Thank you for writing this 🖤
I will repost this a lot
Happy International Women’s Day
getting raised evangelical-adjacent really does turn your brain into a prison. even the act of exploration and asking questions carries this fear that by doing so you're damning yourself. just when you think you're free of it, it rears its head on quiet nights.
can't have shit in samsara, dawg.
Apollo and Daphne, by Benedetto Luti, 1707-08, 📸 by Fumito Saeki @tshashin
Oh this server rack is the Shape we've put around The Mystery, huh? Me and this crate of Faygo say otherwise
Everything is a negotiation between refusals and guilt/culpability
And it’s not stuff you can compromise on!
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