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also final word on this probably- I *like* Joyce Messier a great deal as a character. I think she's cool and interesting. I find it fascinating that she tends to approach things very bluntly. the words she uses and the manner in which she analyzes things, this is sort of an instance of a character who knows exactly *what she is* and articulates it in a manner congruent with the writers of the game. she is, as she says wryly but honestly, "a bourgeois woman". i cant think of too many rich people who would without prompting and prodding, self identify with marxist social taxonomies in this way, even with a thin veil of ironic self deprecation. She's educated. she knows the words and the motivating logics of class analysis. and shes *cool*. harry picks that up. honesty is cool. bluntness is cool. cynicism is cool. she is quite open about her place in the world and how she conceives of it. unlike a lot of other powerful figures in the game, i dont think shes completely swallowed by self justifying rhetoric the way, say, sunday friend is. or she is up to a point. she knows about countercultural movements and she has affinities for them and is also aware that they inevitably are consumed by capital. (this, by the way, is kind of complex in that like. ok its a depressing reality but also i think if the de team was fully bought into that line of thinking, they would not make this game. it is telling that joyce of all people would critique cindy on the basis of capital subsuming revolutionary art. I dont think joyce is wrong per se, but i think she is drawn to that line of thinking because it is *very comforting for someone of her class position to dismiss the value and power of revolutionary art and critique of capital* just a thought) She's disgusting in that her power is not rightfully hers. her position is not rightfully hers. she is actively repressing and oppressing others in service of disgusting, semi-fascistic, hypercapitalist forces. shes enjoying the comforts and benefits that such a role allows her. shes disgusting shes frustrating shes profoundly arrogant (as her clash with evrart claire proves definitively). Her self satisfied idiocy is what allows her to play with fire and foolishly assume she cannot be burned. She's smart but her comfortable position puts the blinders on her and so she's also pretty fucking stupid. and shes also deeply deeply sad. I empathize. I pity her. She's so fucking sad. I don't think she is drawn to self medication and self destruction through constant pale exposure or all that rueful nostalgic rumination for no reason. She knows what she is to the world and she knows what she's doing and she's too cowardly and comfortable and self interested to change, but she's too self-aware to ignore it completely. I think she probably dislikes herself to some degree and i think its destroying her. Like most of the cast of the game, she's complex and deeply human. She's hateful, but I also think she is too well realized to hate, at least not for me.
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say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins
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[ID: two social media posts; CNN says "With his handmade keychains that go for $5 each, this 8 year old boy raised $4,015 to erase the lunch debt of students from his school and six others." TheJoannaGraham replies, "8 year old goes months of manual labor so his friends, who are children, can afford to eat."]
The story is from five years ago but if people find it upsetting and want to help, I have personally researched All For Lunch, a small nonprofit in Georgia that partners with schools across the country to erase lunch debt. According to its tax filings it took in about $300K in 2023 (the latest year available -- this is normal, there's a lag in filings becoming public), and paid out about $230K of that in lunch debt erasure (also normal to keep some cash in reserve). Per its website, it also works with partner schools and districts to set up fundraising pages that target their local communities so that they can keep fundraising on a direct rolling basis to prevent further lunch debt.
People can also get involved in lunch debt and debt shaming activism. Districts and states are starting to sign legislation to prevent cruel policies that starve or shame children who can't pay. Searching "lunch debt shame [your region]" will provide information on local laws and policies (for example, Chicago Public Schools offers breakfast and lunch to all students for free, regardless of economic status). As federal cuts further threaten school lunch programs, supporting debt erasure and increased state or county government budgets for meal programs is a small, local action people can take when this kind of news feels crushing.
had a weirder infusion today, probably since the dose went up a bit, but the anxiety symptoms weren't any worse. felt like i had a more complete understanding of time and was standing outside of it. also felt like i was at snoqualmie falls (the twin peaks ones). not, like, literally; i had the distinct sensation that i was there mentally and/or emotionally. which doesn't make any sense. i mean ive been there in person and had seen the twin peaks pilot the night before so i can see how i got there but i don't have an explanation for what i meant by that. sort of like a sense memory but instead of smells or whatever it's a memory for how my brain felt, i guess. which then led to the realization that that's kind of always what i mean by 'sense memory'
also was briefly worried i would forget who i was because my memories and thought processes felt very distant and different, which is famously fairly common
no, like, explicit visuals or anything, just a lot of vivid and intense mental imagery. on the second infusion i had a very clear picture of what my physical anxiety symptoms looked like (sort of a weird gray capsule, open on top; the two straight vertical sides are very important). thc also does this to me but slightly less clearly
it felt very profound and intense at the time and then the further i get from it im like 'ehhh it wasn't that crazy'. it turns out that psychedelic experiences are kind of impossible to explain because they literally don't fit in a normally-functioning brain
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Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
I mean this in the nicest possible way but you're the sort of person that can normally be found only on reddit
