this is giving me …… a slight feeling of ……. fomo 🥲

oh wow it actually looks so good as a potted plant. This is making me want to grow one. 😁

I think also anxiety is the mind killer (as shown in one way in Inside Out 2) 😋

I was organizing a bookshelf and needed to move the books somewhere else. Picked out these two to slowly read. I first read Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf 10 years ago. I remember it was uncomfortable to read. I want to try it again because the description on the back cover makes it sound so good. The only thing I’ve read by John Steinbeck is Of Mice and Men, in highschool. My partner got this book called < On Reading The Grapes of Wrath > by Susan Shillinglaw. I feel a little nervous to read both these books together because they deal with very heavy experiences, like mental illness related to war, suicide, poverty. So far, the grapes of wrath book is much easier to read. #bookstr

yeah, they really thought it through. In the first episode, at the dinner without food, the black guy was saying something about how the work selves would be trapped, and I was like, huh? How are they trapped. They’re not trapped. They seem chill and cheerful. Then it was like ….. oh. 😱

yeah … it makes sense when applied to nature or some type of sustainable farming (was watching some 李子柒Li Zi Qi videos on youtube that reminded me of this)

are you talking about something money related 😗

doing the May and June cover page (review / highlights of the month) and it’s going slow. Everything I wanted to include is hard to draw. Everything needs a reference. I don’t like coloring with just one color (black, in this case) for what feels like a long time. The “news”, as in USA politics + social media + AI chat bots has become very noxious. If I see a profile page posting thousands of times a day, or even around 5 times a day, that page is annoying to me. I would not follow that page, and would probably block it. If I see someone always posting along a narrow topic in a scripted kind of way, that is annoying to me. And it feels like there are a LOT of public figures posting in a very scripted way. #coloredpencil This drawing is from when I discovered a new bird species (the red-winged blackbird). 😊

it’s from 2021 😊

oh you watched it? I actually just watched the first episode, then read all about it on Wikipedia, then cancelled my 7-day free trial, cuz of PTSD. 😵‍💫😵

At this phase of development, the plant looks like an octopus with a pumpkin head or a hairy spider. #plantstr Had two grieving dreams last night, so making a plant post as a kind of therapy.

#dogstr

yes I know that is what is implied/said about the grand and distant future of Bitcoin. “We are so early”. I am saying it’s interesting and disappointing that the Human Rights Foundation only talks about helping poor people in developing nations. I have yet to see or hear someone discuss how Bitcoin can help America’s working poor. Basically, if you are a #pleb who is #hodl ing and #stackingsats then that just means that you are most likely middle class. mayyybe upper class. Not if you’re in the oligarch class, or the working poor class.

you can’t compare when you’re having fun

Quotes about the TV show Severance. "The same frustrations that led us to this moment as a country [United States] and as a world are the ones that I was feeling when I wrote this because I was working office jobs, and I was dealing with all these increasingly insane requests that are made of workers. This was born of that ... Employees are the ones who are expected to give and give and give, with the understanding that this is a family—you're doing this out of love, but then that is often not returned by the employers in any kind of a substantive way." Dan Erickson, creator of Severence (April 2022, The Wrap) It’s a really interesting question … where does each character take meaning in this world? Where do they find meaning? We talked about Dylan as being the capitalist where he’s got these objects that have been artificially assigned with value by the company in a way that I think happens in the real world all the time, where a certain car is a status symbol, and it shows that you’ve achieved a certain thing, and it’s designed to mean more than just the physical object. Irving is much more the spiritualist. So many companies like this have a cult of personality surrounding their founder or their history or their lore. And there’s … this sense of … ‘Yeah, this is more than just coffee. We’re saving the world.’ Not that I’m referencing any particular coffee maker there. But yeah, it’s Starbucks. But yeah, Irving has kind of bought into the more spiritual side of this corporate ethos. We’re in such a fascinating moment right now. I think that the pandemic became this catalyst for re-examining what role work should play in our lives, and what we owe to our employers and what we owe to ourselves and at what exact point you should draw the line between what of yourself you’re willing to give up for the benefit of having a paycheck. … the cult of personality that can arise around any founder of a company. The sense of like, ‘We’re going to bring you in and you’re going to be family, and you’re going to be part of this big world-changing thing.’ It’s a nice idea. It’s a seductive idea. And I like to think that sometimes it’s an earnest idea, on part of the people on top, but I think it can become this really scary, manipulative thing where the employees are the ones who are expected to give and give and give with the understanding that this is a family — you’re doing this out of love, but then that is often not returned by the employers in any kind of a substantive way. That’s where you get burnout, and that’s where you get mass depression and all this stuff. You wonder, does this have to be part of our society, or could we be doing something better? #laborday in America has violent origins of murder and execution 💔

how does Bitcoin heal the world if it can’t benefit poor people in the USA? 🇺🇸 Bitcoin is not a structural solution to poverty… it’s a parallel money system, not a redistributive one. (systemic economic problems like wage stagnation, healthcare costs…class inequalities)

it’s new to me that it can be done in a jar 😚 it reminds me of those witchy/magic illustrations where people draw a jar filled with some sparkling fluid. my parents would do sprouts, but on a bamboo tray covered with a damp cloth.

how is all of civilization built to support motherhood? I haven’t seen that at all. Also, don’t you mean “parenthood”? I’ve been seeing a lot of dads as the stay at home parent too so

wow! 😲 that is crazy cool

I have personally never heard of this person. Read his wikipedia page. So he was using his “free speech” to be hate-mongering and fear-mongering. As well as denying that something is violent when it is. That’s going to have consequences. In a similar way, the USA claims to have “free speech”, meaning the federal government can’t do anything about it, but, everywhere else can (usually the workplace). 1st pic is the definition of “monger”. 2nd pic is from Wikipedia, describing his response to a question relating to gun-control of the types used in school shootings. He seems to be deflecting the question and bringing up a totally different topic, relating to gang violence, which usually has to do with poverty and socioeconomic inequality.