The tragedy of movies is you were supposed to just pick one. You just showed up to the cinema with your friends one night and you picked one from the poster. From it selling you.

You were supposed to be sold you were not supposed to be told.

And sometimes you pick a bad one. That was the gamble.

Precision ruined everything. Your time is so precious and so easily selected. You have infinite outlets with which to select your time so it is never wasted.

But wasting your time is its most important quality. And now you don't. You risk not at all. And gain nothing.

What does a life feel like, that is entirely curated by others? It feels like yours.

When was the last time you set out on an expedition to live your own life? One uncultured and one purely decided by yourself?

When was the last time you lived, at all? Name it. You have already died.

"But they're different, they're trans, don't go to church, don't look like me, don't engage with the world the way I do?" So what? And I say this with all due disrespect, why are so many people committed to setting their own life on fire to prevent someone else from having the bare minimum. Wake up

The people spreading misinformation know exactly what they are doing. They don't care and they made sure that you won't care either. At least not until it's too late. White supremacy is a death cult and it isn't the only one. Hating your neighbors will kill them and you too.

We got to brutal mass deportations in the same way we got cops doing the lynchings & calling it an accident or a mistake or a tragic error. The reform school and Indian boarding school systems killed kids and wrecked communities and even now we're still pretending institutionalized abuse is a fluke

Your misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc? All parts of the same fucking system. If you hate your neighbor enough you ignore the horrors happening to them until they happen to you. And then you can't fight back because you have no allies. See the police state

And the best/worst part? The same script has always worked. Pick an Other. Blame them for hard times while you rob the country. Escape with your money (or don't because honestly this is how we get to guillotines) and then your descendants engage in a little noblesse oblige and launder that cash

See Brexit. See the undermining of social safety nets in every country. You think it is an accident that the messaging is always to hate your neighbor? Hmm, want to guess what the biggest business is in the world? War. Everything from supplies to weapons to rebuilding is a money maker

I have a friend who plasters and paints for a living. He charges extra for any home owner who wants to help

So, if your students need an external signal about the value of doing the reading, developing curiosity, critical thinking, and talking about it all, that’s one.

ChatGPT can write a cover letter that tricks me into giving them an interview. But then they’re cooked.

5/5

Electric and corded. Turns a long backbreaking chore into something that's finished swiftly and without injury.

No. The vacuum function is awesome for dealing with stone and gravel surfaces.