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We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

“The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms” - Dr Judith Lewis Herman -

Kinda seems like this dude was a mastermind behind a lot of awful evil things.

Jennifer Freyd, PhD developed DARVO via research with betrayal. Check out her Center for Institutional Courage for more info.

Started doing some lessons.

A lot of misconceptions many Americans have about the civil rights and anti-war movements have to do with their effectiveness at changing opinion. A lot of the successes had more to do with top-down elite buy-in due to Cold War competition over societal narratives than bottom-up changes in opinion.

Okay, stuck at home today for work: goal is to catch up on admin, catch up on school work, read some narrative therapy works. Just gotta pace myself til 5 (impossible challenge).

Okay, stuck at home today for work: goal is to catch up on admin, catch up on school work, read some narrative therapy works. Just gotta pace myself til 5 (impossible challenge).

I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website. You can access it in the replies. (or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

"I'm too small and weak to change things" sighed the pebble poised to start to the avalanche

so don't get too comfortable. #art

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

posting this for no reason

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

A few other quick shots from the protest:

As clergy pray, arrests begin

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

Today on VIBE CHECK, @zachstafford.bsky.social and I talk about the vast difference between how white people and black people feel about the year 2016. Also, I pay homage to #WillTrent and Betty, because duh.

No way it did btw.

I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot

I’ve become completely enraptured by Belladonna of Sadness. All the trigger warnings for it, shit holds no punches. But Jesus man.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh. Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...

YES!!!!

FUCKKKKKKK

Most unfair game of football I’ve ever seen and we’re still winning.

Stop saying my friendship with Dracula is just putting me in danger, and he's no good. Yes, I am aware my FRIEND is a vampire who drains blood/kills people/etc, but he doesn't do that to me, and I think it's funny when he does it to others. He won't suck my blood, I'm not at risk. Don't scold me.

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS

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This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.

My girls volleyball team went 3-1 today and I got a yellow card from a ref for messing up subs—BUT THAT WAS THE FIRST GAME. Team and I pulled it together after that, nerves be darned. Turns out I’m an alright head coach!

My friend Rosie in middle school is Kurdish and I remember her explaining this to me at lunch I think in 2011ish. This is huge. I hope it works out well!

Trump is not omnipotent. He exists within a web of institutions. His authority is not unlimited. It appears that way largely because his allies occupy key places — Congress — that could provide a meaningful check. Important to understand his actual reach and the limits of that reach. (14/14)

Coming back to share a couple updates: 1) Work is really going well, I'm starting to find my rhythm and it's sweet. 2) I wasn't accepted to the schools I applied to and while that really got me, I'm excited to commit myself to licensure and staying in my field for awhile!

There is something to be said for having something that could consume as much energy as you can offer it these days—raising kids, a creative practice, community involvement, etc., or any combination of these. Something that can (even if it doesn’t always) break the scrolling, that’s a counterweight.

Logging back off. if you see me on here, point and tell me to log out. I got work to do, kids to hang with. That's the best i can do right now. I will not sacrifice my subjectivity to an algorithm, even if it's a better designed one than other social media sites. I need it for my heart and art.

Hi! The urge to doomscroll is understandable, but maybe it's worth setting a timer or logging off? Have you had something to eat yet or a big glass of water? Is there something you need to do before the end of the work day? I know how hard it can be to try and focus right now. One thing at a time

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

The fact of the matter is that exposing yourself to traumatic content is not praxis. It should be documented. It should inform. But I won’t trust the state about this because these mfers have been lying about their violence since the 1800s. I don’t need to traumatize myself to know that.

I didn't know what the video was and just...do not watch it if you are sensitive to violence. I'm just so incredibly sad. it never had to be like this.

Murdering a woman in cold blood in the middle of the street, fuck ice is not strong enough for these people. Subhuman

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

(quoting so i don't explode the notifs) I don't know if you're aware or a fan of "The History of the Germans" podcast, but the way he explains events––like oathbreakers in my opinion––really demonstrates how the choices that were made were CHOICES and that they could've made different ones!