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welcome to all my recent followers. cliff notes:
"There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul."
Nosferatu. Does this word not sound like the midnight call of the Bird of Death? Do not utter it, or the images of life will fade - into pale shadows and ghostly dreams will rise from your heart and feed your Blood.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau
happy tdov never kill yourself
happy tdov to people who don't pass or have no interest in passing, who can't pass because there is no culturally recognised category for the way they want to be recognised, who flip flop and fuck around, who can't hide their transness and have to plan their everyday around being visible, who can't signal their transness and have to come out over and over because the default presumption is intolerable, who don't have the resources yet or the knowhow or the willpower to change what they want to change, whose transness is warped by a hegemonic image of ideal transness that is almost as difficult to escape as the hegemonic image of cisness, who don't have a justification prepared for the assertion that they are trans but can no longer justify the assertion that they are not, who have a million justifications that are all surplus to the fundamental requirement (that society mandated one articulation of you and you chose another), et cetera and so forth across the world and universe forever. your version is right. don't concede.
david lynch’s notes to a theater tattoo’d on user ginfantasy
judicial duel between a man and a woman
manuscript illustrations from hans talhoffer's fencing manual alte armatur und ringkunst. bavaria, c. 1459
source: Copenhagen, Det Kgl. Bibliotek, Ms Thott 290.2º, fol. 80r-84r
I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.
(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
shout out to the people in the notes saying "this is so true except actually middle age starts in your 30s and ends at 50". you are completely wrong and you're the target of this post, get help.
funniest response so far is that middle age is actually 35-50 but that you're not 'old' until you're over 60. great news for that decade in between. category error, you're young again.
okay well. moving out of the realm of vibes and implications and into the realm of what words actually mean in society, middle age is the 'middle' period of the typical adult aging process
tip: you can look things up in a 'dictionary', 'encyclopedia' or even 'textbook' to learn their standard range of definitions. many find this preferable to moving through life on a cloud of arbitrary supposition.
yes so 40-60 would in fact be the middle of your adult life per my tags. the middle of your whole life would be about 35-50.
making a post about not being afraid of aging and then pretending people 5 years from the average end are still in the middle and using "well the society which is famously scared of aging says that's what it is" to back that up is weird and contradictory
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
shout out to the people in the notes saying "this is so true except actually middle age starts in your 30s and ends at 50". you are completely wrong and you're the target of this post, get help.
funniest response so far is that middle age is actually 35-50 but that you're not 'old' until you're over 60. great news for that decade in between. category error, you're young again.
okay well. moving out of the realm of vibes and implications and into the realm of what words actually mean in society, middle age is the 'middle' period of the typical adult aging process
tip: you can look things up in a 'dictionary', 'encyclopedia' or even 'textbook' to learn their standard range of definitions. many find this preferable to moving through life on a cloud of arbitrary supposition.
last week two ambulances, a fire truck, a UN vehicle and around 16 rescue workers were dispatched to save people crushed under the rubble after a bombing in rafah (do you remember rafah? one of biden's red lines.) they disappeared, and due to israeli tanks nobody could enter the area and nobody knew what had happened to them.
a few days ago after the tanks left the vehicles were discovered crushed and buried under the sand, and one rescue worker's body was recovered. israel admitted to targeting them. and then yesterday the rest of the workers' bodies were recovered in a mass grave. one of the corpses had wire around one foot, indicating torture and interrogation, several handcuffed, all of them buried in their clearly marked uniforms and gloves.
cnn reported this story alongside like five other incidents of israel targeting humanitarian workers this past week to little outrage because the workers killed were palestinian and not international, and because israel has been regularly killing humanitarian workers.
but for the PRCS (the palestinian red crescent society), the same organization that hind rajab called desperately from her car around this time last year, one of the few that struggled to save lives throughout the war even when it got their workers killed by israeli forces, these are fathers, sons and loved ones who spent a genocide digging people out of rubble with no equipment and trying to save lives:
all of them were buried in a careless mass grave of rescue workers, found after a week of pleading from their loved ones and radio silence from their murderers and those who enable them.
oh okay
I don't know why I always forget that expressing anything even remotely constructive or optimistic on this site gets your mentions filled with strangers' suicidal fantasies and snide pot shots at the lavish life of excess they imagine one must be living to recline upon a velvet pillow and tap out a post like '30 is not elderly' upon a keyboard of gold filigree and poached ivory between greedily suckling down peeled lychees from your butler's gloved palm
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actually as long as we're talking about realistic expectations of ageing, the nature of social media decontextualising people's personal posts has absolutely given some of you guys a false and potentially dangerous view of how your body is expected to change over time. I semi frequently see people sharing or repackaging commentary on experiences with disability as if it's an inevitable part of getting older. and like, yes, as you get older you are likely to develop new conditions, injuries or disabilities, but you need to understand your body's baseline well enough to identify those changes and interrogate them.
e.g. if you are seriously having such bad joint or back pain in your 30s that it hampers your day to day activities, you need to take that seriously. that is not 'just ageing', that's potentially an indicator of an underlying condition, unaddressed injury (which is quite common but will get worse if you don't notice and take care of it) or daily habits (poor posture, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle) causing cumulative damage to your body.
I know plenty of 30+ and 40+ year olds who are not especially athletic but who can still climb up and down stairs with ease, sit on the floor and get up again without discomfort, have floor or shower sex, ride a bike, wrestle a dog or a kid, climb a tree, maybe even do a handstand. there is no shame at all in developing pain or mobility issues which limit the kinds of things you can do comfortably, but it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that those changes are bound up with reaching a certain age. even in your 60s and 70s and beyond you should notice if you start feeling a new kind of pain or physical limitation. don't dismiss this shit just because someone told you "yeah that happens when you pass 30"
i agree with this as someone who was invisibly disabled REALLY young, like in grade school, and grew up with parents who also have a bunch of chronic conditions they refused to acknowledge and instead just normalized in the household. likle every other week my mother would just have to disappear for 48 hours because she had a migraine so bad not even her overachievement OCD could get her through it. my father definitely has some sort of collagen/chromosomal disorder that causes chronic pain and joint laxity. and the parents of my friends who were the same age roughly, and are now the same age that i am currently, were not disabled to the extent that i and most of my age cohort are currently. i remember everyone's parents being 30 and 40 years old and they did not start getting weird cancers and injuries as a group until much later. it is not in fact normal for a 30 or even 40 year old to suddenly have arthritis, chronic lower back pain, have limbs regularly falling asleep from nerve injury, or not be able to jog up the stairs. covid has contributed to this significantly but it was happening before covid too. it's making the millennial and zoomer aging process extremely muddled because it is abnormal for the standards of recent history, and we all LOOK a lot younger because everyone is inside a lot more, not smoking, and wearing sunscreen.
it's normal for public health to fluctuate over long periods of time in response to socioeconomic conditions (and we are having a lot of different socioeconomic conditions rn, and no im not going to provide citations today ibut it's certainly Around in the literature), but doctors and researchers have been noticing for a while now that something weird is happening on a population level. dont lower your standards of health or function for yourself just because you know so many people who are also having problems, because most of them statistically aren't supposed to either
this isn't even touching on the things people falsely believe are inevitable mental changes as you age. I used to work in age related healthcare and you would not believe some of the awful shit people just put up with, not seeking support or treatment or even telling their relatives what was going on, because they'd been told "yeah that's just getting older" and didn't want to make a fuss.
