#quoted for truth

[rj-anderson]

[mockramblings]

They're a straight-up hazard to other drivers, and they really need to go. When your regular headlights are as bright as my high beams, there's a problem.

i think we all need to complain about LED headlights more. please can we all complain about them more. night driving is nearly impossible for me to do now without having to white knuckle my way through a thousand evil suns. every time i see those headlights in my mirrors i take 2d6 radiant damage. i want to destroy every single LED headlight under my feet like they’re goombas

[rj-anderson]

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God . Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

-- T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from the Rock"

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[pagerunner-j]

All of this. And because I see so much of this behavior in particular: People getting a self-righteous high out of punching "up" when they're actually just flailing around at the only targets close enough to hit are actively making the problem worse in so, so many ways.

I need y’all to understand that every time that somebody who makes $10,000 a year thinks that somebody who makes $30,000 a year thinks that somebody who makes $50,000 a year thinks that somebody who makes $100,000 a year thinks that YES EVEN somebody who makes $150,000 a year is the real enemy

…a billionaire wins and we all lose.

And every time that somebody who makes $150,000 a year thinks that they’re better than somebody else who makes $100,000 a year thinks that they’re better than somebody else who makes $50,000 a year thinks that they’re better than somebody else who makes $30,000 a year thinks that they’re better than somebody else who makes $10,000 a year

…a billionaire wins and we all lose.

Privilege and comfort rises with income, obvi. It’s not all “the same.” But please zoom the fuck out and look at the whole picture. The WHOLE picture.

[myhiddenquerencia]

Look at you, Wiping your own tears With the same hands That long to be held

Ayesha Zahra

[sensitivesublime]

[mockramblings]

Sick Systems

[mockramblings]

Retweeting because dear GOD...

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help

[a-poet-within]

Softness is attractive.

[pagerunner-j]

"Isn't it great how the human body is an infinitely complex masterpiece of cellular architecture, but our stupid asses can swallow the wrong way and choke on our own spit?" - Ben Balmaceda, who ain't wrong

(heard in this highlight video, which is a kick and a half)

[nightmareevara]

Most intimate thing you can do for the one you love is loving them the way they want to be loved

[leto-wriggt]

I try to make something beautiful of my pain, but sometimes I just have to sit with it. Sometimes all you can do is sit with it.

[ink-after-hours]

"I'm scared that I'll never heal from the things I did for love."

[macrolit]

Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. - Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German historian and philosopher