@futurebird @lisamelton it *does* hold the universe together.

I need your help and creativity.You know how scratch off lottery tickets work? Did you know you can buy stickers that can turn anything into a “scratch off”? Well ever since I’ve discovered these stickers I’ve been desperate to find a way to use them in teaching grade school level CS. The idea of hidden keys, broken seals— I know there’s an angle here.Am I just attracted to stickers? Yes. I have a few ideas but they aren’t good enough. I turn to the fedi to enable this sticker stuff.

There are so many urban exploitation films that play on the rough days of NYC. Taxi, The Warriors, Escape From New York... on and on... many of these are movies I like because I'm obsessed with what happened to this glamorous "World City" in those days. And it wasn't just NYC, growing up in Cleveland I remember asking my parents "why doesn't anyone live right down town where everything is?"Then there is The Wiz... a KIDS MOVIE that tackles everything from negative self image, to urban decay.

"It didn't make a lot of sense to white audiences, but it wasn't really for them."THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!! it's amazing how they took a story from the hegemonic culture and said, 'nah, this isn't for your gaze. this is for every little Black girl and boy out there'. i watched this in Puerto Rico and asked mami to take us to a movie theater without the subtitles. it was important for me to have that whole immersive experience without the translation. Diana Ross is everything. @futurebird

@futurebird @lisamelton They look really cool tho…

@futurebird yes yes yes yes YES!I saw some fool trying to say the "Stanford marshmallow test" was proof of genetic superiority of certain demographics and... Ya know, I'm not sure if I have ever been angry enough to want to stop living before

@futurebird "I found myself upon a lonely path, with only the truth in hand. A barren and desolate trail devoid of food, water, shelter, and company lay before me. Yet I continued my journey, filling my voice with the only song I knew, the truth I beheld.Soon, a fellow traveler appeared exclaiming 'You look thirsty, let me give you drink'. So I drank, and we talked of the truth. And then another appeared exclaiming 'You look hungry, let us share this bread'. So we ate, and talked of the truth. And yet another appeared exclaiming 'You are drenched and chilled, let me offer you shelter'. So together we huddled in new comfort, and talked of the truth.And so it was that from hour to hour, and day to day, the truth was passed from soul to soul, until its denial was wholly forfeit."SearingTruth

@ironcladlou @schratze When I was a bike messenger there was a guy who worked for the same dispatch who could make the "whooop" sound of a NYPD car asking a motorist to pull over with his mouth. He did something very similar when he'd see motorists making illegal turns and it was VERY amusing.

Monstordon CANNOT be missed tomorrow at 8pm CTThe movie?The classic wholesome story of giant ants who help people and are nice:THEM!#monsterdon

Young boys also need to know that the big men in the community will attempt to normalize abusive behavior, to groom, if you will, by corrupting any horniness among the young for the use of guilt and maintaining silence.The churches play the other necessary role in this trashy dynamic. Between the groomer car dealers and the unctuous purity toads these power structures play bad cop and worse cop to destroy anyone who might defy either one.@futurebird

@futurebird And don’t forget voter suppression. We’ve really built up an impressively multifaceted system of disenfranchisement.

It is strange to me how the story isn't "wow Black men care more about women's rights than white men, what is wrong with white men?" (Can you imagine the howling if this was every other story?) And instead "wow Black men care less about women's rights than Black women (just like every damn color of man) what is wrong with Black men?"It's interesting isn't it?And by "interesting" I mean "predictable and annoying."

@futurebird those look so cool!

What makes more sense, I think, is looking at events that happened in the US after Reconstruction. In particular the reaction to the first Black elected officials. In that context this reactionary movement makes perfect sense. This is punishment for having to have a Black president. If you listen to Tucker's comments from Madison Square Garden he makes this clear in many ways. This isn't about economic hardship at all. 2/2

Once I was in a grocery store and the cutest toddler was having a bit of a meltdown in their adorable toddler voice they screamed through tears "no no you are tired and having an temper-tum tum!""temper tum tum" is the cutest thing ever. And there are other things that are less cute... but similar.

@GoblinQuester @futurebird I read Russian at about the level of a six-year-old, I think. I read Cyrillic fine, but my actual reading comprehension is terrible. I can read children's stories, but no adult literature.I've read Danish and English translations of Dostoevsky, and felt the tone was *VERY* different ... but I can't attest to which one is more faithful than the other.

In the hagfish cosmology the universe is a great knot. This knot, like all knots, is slowly working itself apart, and when it is at last untied only then will paradise (which is a chunk of the universe we cannot see beyond the knot) be free'd from the substance of deep space, like a chunk of flesh, and all those who are slimy will get to go to paradise.Those without slime? They will become a part of a new knot... in the next universe.

Time flies when you are working at maximum efficiency for the good of the colony!

@futurebird @streetsblognyc

@futurebird Or maybe possess the High Priest who, conveniently, already had feet, for the duration of the feet-washing ceremony?FWIW, I think Nehebkau ended up having a mostly human body plan by the last centuries of the Egyptian old theology, but I really can't say if it had a theological significance, or if it's just that the canonical depiction shifted over time.@GhostOnTheHalfShell @mynameistillian