I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.
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Last Notes npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Lilac Diesel is such a lovely strain npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I kind of wish people would stop using those white German tourists who were pretty obviously intending to work illegally as some kind of "now they're coming for the white people too" gottcha. Americans may not realize this but that's always been illegal, y'all have always been paranoid everyone else is out to take your jobs and you have always had extra difficult work visa requirements and have always been harsh about applying them to everyone. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura super idée et initiative! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Looks like bird flu is turning up in SF wastewater in increasing concentrations, meaning it's likely human to human transmission (if this is accurate). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-mangione-judge-married-to-former npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Before there was a bag of dicks to be eaten there was a cup of dicks to be drunk. @npub1whs…vn0x npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Not sure about this read on it. It was weird timing on Trudeau's part to remove her from her position just as the budget came out. Clearly there was a lot of internal conflict. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura · npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Post npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Sorry to share a link to Bluesky but the fabulous Dr Flowers as usual breaks things down with extreme clarity. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Not in Berlin but Canada gets a bit grim too. I take vitamin D and use a very bright light in the morning, it helps support your carcadian rhythm. You can get light therapy lamps/lights for pretty cheap these days. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Things are not going well with moderation over on BS right now. It seems the same issues that occurred here are occurring there (predictably). But, because it's all centralized and one big server, and is working from a Libertarian ethos, there are no instance admins and moderators having discussions like occurred here and users are left just appealing to the BS authorities to do something. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Remembering the mass murder of 14 women in an act of femicide in Montreal on Dec 6th. Particularly as anti-feminist, women-hating, anti-bodily autonomy and anti-abortion legislation by right wing political parties in North America around the world increases. Pushing women out of schools and jobs, murdering us for existing as humans with agency not objects of male desire and abuse, forcing us into pregnancy and servitude, all these oppressive things are back everywhere in the world, despite how hard we, our mothers and women throughout history have fought. The femmicide needs to end. And that includes the murder of transwomen and femmes of all kind. Femmephobia leads to femmicide. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's shocking how abusive hospital systems are to all healthcare workers and how little mental health support there tends to be. That medical residencies were designed by a cocaine addict and have never been fixed, and are super macho/stoic, is all you really need to know. @npub1nzj…pmgc npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura We joke until we realize it's possible :( npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura The starter packs seem to mainly function as a Trojan horse. They're already being weaponized in various nefarious ways and used as a vector for abuse. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura So, I'm becoming concerned that Bluesky is going to become just as, if not more, of a vector of right wing propaganda as Twitter was as we get closer to the Canadian elections. Maybe less of the very bro Canada Proud and overtly White supremacist type of stuff but definitely the "we're just sensible conservatives" that a lot of people who think they're smart fall for and that of our very corporate owned mainstream and business media promotes. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Spoiler: Mussolini did not actually make the trains run on time. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I read some things about it here. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is also very tied into rural vs urban/Montreal in Quebec, along with narratives about being colonized by the English while denying French colonialism and while also acting like a colony of France (in Legault's government's case). But then there are things like favoring immigration from Haiti because of french and stuff like the FLQ's relationship with the Black Panthers. Some of this is also generational and about very wealthy Quebecois businessmen exploiting the rest of us and destroying the remaining bits of the socialist state (PKP, etc). It's an attempt to return us to the Grande Noirceur. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura A stark contrast to some of what's happening in Ontario, Canada where the Premier is pushing through legislation that allows drivers to kill others with impunity. It's insanity. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura They're not cheap though, unless the price has dropped a lot! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I think one thing that people who lead relatively secure and affluent lives don't understand about being poor is that long term planning is much harder when you're poor (just like bulk buying at places with member fees is). If you're worried and struggling to survive now it's very hard to plan for the future or to know if you can even afford a future. This doesn't mean poor people don't dream of better futures, it just means they have less or no resources to plan or enact future plans. This becomes even more relevant if you're part of a demographic at risk of being murdered by police or other people. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's vanity greenwashing for people who don't want to get their hands dirty. It's a toy, basically. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I know far too much about unethical medical experimentation in authoritarian and supposedly democratic regimes from growing up around medical research and having a friend whose aunt was experimented on as part of MK-Ultra in Montreal at the Allen Memorial Institute. Kind of wish I didn't. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Jesus, I just had a thought about Musk and human experimentation that is far too dark to type out loud. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Says the man fucking around with brain implants... 🙄 npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Is that really why Dorsey left? But, yeah, this new round of funding makes it all seem even more dubious. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura "decentralized foundation" hmmmm, it's not foundational if it's not actually part of the reality yet and integral to the implementation. It's still entirely conceptual and likely well out of the economic and technical reach of most people in practical terms. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Biden's legacy, if these things are even relevant anymore, is being a passive facilitator of fascism and genocide. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Good grief no, neoliberal politics fail because they think tokenism is change when it's not and they always cater to the upper middle class. Veering to the right will not help the Liberals, just like it didn't help Harris and actually made her look more establishment. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura What a lot of people want is our governments to stop hurting us. This is how people end up here, we need to understand these things, not just mock people who don't have the resources we do. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura What reasons did they give? I'd love to know how they rationalized that choice... npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura What a pathetic attempt to greenwash and brightside tariffs. It's unlikely to make any difference to people who overshop and build their identity on being a consumer. @npub1nzj…pmgc npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This sounds incredibly difficult and exhausting. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This doesn't surprise me, it's movement that's protective. I work either lounging or standing up because chairs are my personal nemisis (my back hates sitting on chairs for long periods). But when I work standing up I tend to be moving around more too. Just standing in one place all the time isn't great, as most blue collar workers with jobs like that will tell you (especially if it's standing on a hard floor). Basically our bodies like to move and evolved to be moving or lounging around. Just standing in one place or sitting in a chair for long periods is pretty unnatural behaviour. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura 💯 we need more "tend and befriend" response and less "fight, flight or freeze" over the long haul. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yes. I posted an article earlier discussing the fall of the USSR and the "shock" policy that set is on the path that gave us Putin, Orban and now Trump. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's a pretty easy tactic and used by right wing and neoliberal governments everywhere to justify privatization. It's being done to healthcare and education too. The incompetence obviously makes breaking things easier. [@peter_mcmahan](https://mas.to/@peter_mcmahan ) npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This applies to the US and free market capitalism too... npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is how fascism works, it makes people mistrust reality and not know what's true. It's societal gaslighting and it's why Musk bought Twitter, to disrupt and control collective meaning making and to promote confusion and lies. It's why fascists target universities and groups that have their own ability to create meaning collectively (so queer people, other religious groups, Swifties lol, etc). It's why us culture theory nerds have been talking about and warning about epistemological collapse (the collapse of knowledge/meaning) and why fascists (and cult leaders) create and use disorienting people then indoctrinating them and doublespeak to create a meaning vacuum they can shove "certainty" into. Knowing your own heart and mind, and having strong and honest relationships and living our values, and being able to tolerate uncertainty, is how we protect ourselves from becoming fascists. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura You should get some kind of medal for that! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Here, would you like some Canadian made angst for dessert? 😆 Apologies about my part in it. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Sorry about that! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura So a lot of relatively privileged people are freaking out, White guys perhaps the most, but your lives might FEEL different but will continue relatively unchanged for quite a while, particularly if you put your head down and play along. So will everyone else's for a while. The veneer of normalcy is actually pretty crucial to fascism, particularly in the earliest stages before kleptocracies are solidly established. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I see it more as just acknowledging reality so other people can too. Too confrontational just scares people into trying to aggressively preserve normalcy but saying "actually this is bad" and affirming shared social values gives people permission to be honest with themselves and others. @npub1ppe…qv2g npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I don't have my own kids but I care very deeply for kids of all ages in my chosen family. I've been thinking about my responsibility to them a lot. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Give people permission not to perform normality. Performing normality in terribly not okay situations helps fascism (same in domestic abuse situations with authoritarian abusers as it is on the national level when fascists are in power). Us weirdos often end up being Cassandras BECAUSE we have a hard time performing normality. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I get the impression that Russia's going to launch a huge offensive on Ukraine using those NK troops on or just after election day knowing Trump will create chaos. I'm so sick of living in a world ruled by sociopaths and violence. It doesn't have to be this way. I am sad for us all. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura No doubt that's a reference to glass ceilings but it's hard not to read it as much darker considering it's basically an election with Nazis. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Did PR block him from building a resort or something? Did Miss Puerto Rico rebuff his sexual demands? This all seems rather personal! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura There was even a movie made... https://mashable.com/video/the-sticky-trailer-prime-video npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Or an Italian one! The Italian mafia is deeply involved in a lot of food theft and fraud (mislabeling of stuff and passing it off as being higher quality than it is). Here in Quebec there was a massive maple syrup heist from the warehouse where strategic reserves are stored. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Really good aged cheddar is a very different thing than your basic mild cheddar! World's apart! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Food theft and fraud is a huge crime thing! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I love chickpeas, they just shouldn't be mixed with chocolate! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura See also chocolate hummous. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I think false optimism is more problematic and prevents action more than doomerism. Despair can drive action far more than faith it's all going to work out. Plus we need to be preparing for the disaster that's coming for all of us rather than trying to bargain with reality, that's not how reality functions. There are always going to be people who choose themselves and denial, selfish people will continue to be selfish. Also, accepting how bad it is and is going to be are necessary to prepare...you can't deal with reality while in denial. People are clinging to "normalcy" and dreaming of "normal" futures for themselves and their children while people are already dying from climate change. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura We need realism not hope, especially in North America where magical thinking and brightsiding horrors is our bread and butter. People need to go through mourning and despair to get to realism because we all need to let go and mourn our fantasies about the future. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It did. Being able to have a first block of sleep, then read for a while, then sleep again is the best. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I had a big day planned and it's a beautiful fall day. I went to bed early then woke up in the middle of the night and didn't get properly back to sleep so now I'm tired because second sleep eluded me and I have yet to really start my day. It probably didn't help that the cat was having a fit about neighbor cat being on the back balcony so I had to chase it off and spend some time soothing her. This not smoking cannabis thing isn't helping my sleep cycles and I've only gotten one good dream out of it so far. Before I go to sleep I'm going to have to tell myself to at least have some good dreams I remember! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I also find it disturbing so many of these men are Canadian! Gladwell and Pinker gave rise to Jordan Peterson somehow, I'm not sure how but I feel a loosely held theory coming on... npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura 💯 See also Pinker. The very carefully coiffed big hair is always a red flag (unlike the shaggy unkempt hair and beards of many real scientists and intellectuals they're trying to signify they are). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Old White guys, who very likely have children and grandchildren, can't let go of racist and colonialist overpopulation canards as if this is the way to solve climate change and isn't just more racism and eugenics. It's always men, they're always White and they always evade issues around the racist origins of this "solution" and have clearly never addressed their own racism and systemic privilege. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I mean, it's not just sacrificing the climate, it's sacrificing all of our lives and the whole damn planet to their grandiose delusions and greed. The big lie that the tech industry is innovative is fueling this, even as it consumes and destroys true human creativity. The tech industry has nothing to offer other than colonialist capitalism and death. It didn't have to be this way, of course. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura That sounds amazing. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura And here's your answer, all the techbros are pushing this. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is all such bullshit. It'll be great in natural disasters. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Is there any techbro Starmer won't fellate? npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Same, though I love cooking for people and enjoy being included in other people's ritual holidays and gatherings and holidays are an excuse to do that. Plus I have to contend with a birthday that's stuck between Christmas and NYE. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I also love that the council did this. Rich people just destroying shit for their own benefit so often get away with it. Blocking the illegally created view is exactly the right response. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Give me a deppaneuer (the Quebecois term for corner store or bodega) that sells samosas or Jamaican patties over corporate convenience stores any day! [@sipi_xo](https://indg.club/@sipi_xo ) npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's unlikely to improve much but it's corporations so I don't really feel much of anything. The only reason to go into a Couch-Tard is if it's after 11pm and all the other corner stores are closed. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Our local Quebec 24/7 convenience store, Couche-Tard, recently tried to buy 7-11 (but maybe only the Japanese ones?) Also, how can I suck at trivia games but remember things like this? npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is not a rare thing at all and it's because these kinds of men both covet a "high asset" object* and also want to entirely control and oppress their partner, who they start out competing with because all relationships are a competition to them. These kinds of men also always cheat on their partners too and often are very abusive and into coersive control of both their partners and children. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Lots of disgusting rich White people involved in all this too. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura True! And absolutely no doubt he had influence and used his power to shape hip hop, with lots of help from the rest of the industry, it just wasn't a good influence 🤷♀️ I also saw that Tupac's brother still thinks Diddy killed Tupac. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I'm old so Diddy was the corporatization of hiphop and selling people glamorous delusions about criminality (as opposed to artists that were just reporting on life in the streets). But he apparently did his job of blinding people to hip hop that spoke about reality, that advocated for real change (not spare change for billionaires) and just real people's lives. Bling bling. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura People just out there complaining they can't rape and abuse women anymore and calling it the end of hip hop. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Oh that's a common right wing conspiracy theory and it's vintage Alex Jones climate change denialism. They're coming for our guns, oil and beef, the very foundations of American maleness is under attack, etc. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yeah, Social Darwinism is pseudoscience and a product of colonialism and White supremacy. There is no one essential "human nature" (we are a diverse species, neurodiversity is part of that) but we are essentially a social species and cooperation is key to our survival. This doesn't mean we don't have conflict, how we manage conflict and competition is largely cultural. Our main problem is that Social Darwinism and White male (and just human) supremacy are still deeply embedded in our institutions and practice of science. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura yes, charging more on top of often bad service isn't the way to increase ridership. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Ridiculous. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's hard to avoid AccuWeather! It's good to know it's a private corporation owned by Trump supporting right wingers though! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's always worth remembering that AccuWeather is owned by right wing monsters that support Trump and want to destroy the US national weather service. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Does anyone in #montreal know if they're offering the updated booster yet? I can't find the info anywhere on any of the official sites, they just say they're not doing the older vaccine and will have the new one in the fall. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I'm fine with my DNA being used for science (I'm currently in a study about detecting ovarian cancer that includes testing for genetic markers, for instance). I do not trust corporations (including pharmaceutical corporations) with any of this (in large part because I come from a medical family). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura You just reminded me I have a coffee eclair in the fridge that I'd entirely forgotten about! I popped into a local bakery to pick up a baguette and remembered that last time I'd ordered and paid for two eclairs and got home to find only one in the box. I mentioned it, not really expecting anything, and they gave me a replacement one, which was very sweet of them. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It was very yum! I make no claim to any form of authenticity but I've had Indian and Pakistani friends teach me a few things over the years. And it's so simple to make really and very delicious. Also, there's nothing quite like the smell of spices being opened up in the heat in a dry pan (always do this!). I used a packaged Madras curry mix I had on hand but used some whole cumin and black mustard seeds as well, and grated frozen tumeric and fresh ginger (both tumeric and ginger store well frozen and you just grate as you need). I also threw in some cashews for extra crunch. I'm already looking forward to eating it tomorrow when the flavors have developed more. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I made a very tasty Madras curry with butternut squash, chickpeas, tiny potatoes, mixed greens (frozen spinach and fenugreek leaves, some fresh mustard greens) and coconut milk for dinner. It was delicious but not very photogenic. It will be even more delicious tomorrow. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Exactly why I resisted the lure of cheap DNA tests (that I'd only want to do for medical curiosity reasons anyway). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Gotta love and laugh at "The Gammon Restaurant" serving "English cuisine" too! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yeah, we're trying to make up for not doing any infrastructure work for decades. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is how structural inequalities get perpetuated and designed (unconsciously) into new systems, business as usual. Believing and even being "one of the good guys" doesn't prevent that, it actually kinds of guarantees it. Sure, nobody likes having to deal with resistance to their ambitions but you only get closer to equality and real systemic change when you let that resistance achieve actual momentum rather than getting mad it's preventing business as usual. Actual innovation and change IS often uncomfortable, especially for those who are comfortable. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I'm not crying, you're crying. It's a rainy day. I have the day off and I've started watching The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full and we're 14 minutes in and footage of Billy Holliday singing "Strange Fruit" that I haven't seen before and I am weeping yet again at how exquisitely she embodies pain and makes it into art. And the depth of tragedy and cruelty of racism and racists, and the ongoing suffering it creates in our world and the deep harm it does to our social body. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This bit of research about brain damage, complex thinking and confabulation seems related... npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Boys are often encouraged to engage in violent and dangerous sports. We know concussions lead to brain damage and domestic violence. Domestic violence is also a leading cause of brain damage in women (and children). It's kind of crazy how we tend to ignore this as a society because violence for entertainment and controlling people is so profitable. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yeah, super interesting study and I like that it's something that popped up while studying something else more fun. The brain connectivity and complex thought component is very interesting. Also, it highlights how religious fundamentalist physical abuse of children and authoritarian cycles of abuse in general are ways fundamentalist and authoritarian family and social systems perpetuate themselves. Not to mention the role football and fundamentalist religion play in reinforcing each other via creating brain damage in young men. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura "A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain, when damaged, may influence the likelihood of developing religious fundamentalism. By analyzing patients with focal brain lesions, researchers found that damage to a particular network of brain regions—mainly in the right hemisphere—was associated with higher levels of fundamentalist beliefs. This finding provides new insight into the potential neural basis of religious fundamentalism, which has long been studied in psychology but less so in neuroscience."
