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Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work
In order for me to write poetry
That isn't political
I must listen to the birds
And in order to hear the birds
The warplanes must be silent
-Marwan Makhoul
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When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”
He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)
I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.
What is your objective?
Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.
I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.
I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.
Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.
Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.
How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?
Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.
Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?
Hundreds of Jews and allies, including Writers Against the War on Gaza, sagaftramembersforceasefire and Film Workers for Palestine are present in the heart of Hollywood on the day of the Oscars to say: ALL EYES ON RAFAH!
While Hollywood celebrates, Israel prepares for the ground invasion of Rafah, where over 1.3 million Palestinians are seeking refuge. This comes as reports of extreme hunger continue to mount on the first day of Ramadan.
As filmworkers, Jews, and allies, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians. We won’t stop bearing witness. WHILE YOU’RE WATCHING, BOMBS ARE DROPPING" from Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles, 10/Mar/2024:
Living Fossils - Creatures that remain seemingly unchanged by time. Here's the Coelacanth, the Sturgeon, the Gar, the Horseshoe Crab and the Nautilus! (Gouache on 50x40cm canvas, SOLD)
Ever Heard Of A Kagu? This Bird Lives In New Caledonia And Is Nearly Extinct.
Because my last post about this didn't get much traction, I'll say it in a text post.
There is an upcoming global strike for Palestine. February 18th to the 24th. Talk about Palestine and other injustices, call your representatives and email them, boycott companies and limit spending during the week. Get your grocery shopping in now and only buy essentials during the week, please. Limit interaction on posts other than injustices around the world. If you can, skip work or school, though this is a privilege not everyone has.
the thing about the black sails finale is that dead/alive is a false dichotomy, which is why there lingers this need to vote for a secret third thing. it has roots in the same false dichotomy of victim/perpetrator that silver cannot get himself out of, that eleanor cannot get herself out of, that silver tries to put madi into, that max understands and weaponizes, that vane crawls out of at his very end. the answer is that james escapes the narrative, or rather the narrative can no longer contain him. the question of james flint or james mcgraw is a false dichotomy that can no longer contain him. he becomes the secret third thing, or is becoming it, in season four. he is unmade because he is removed. as far as the story is concerned, he is dead, because the storyteller can no longer conceive of what he has become.
Hello. You asked for an infodump so here it comes :) sharks!
Sharks are cartilaginous fish related to skates and rays. They don't have bones but cartilage, that is on our nose and ears, and it's lighter and more flexible which is why sharks are fast swimmers. Unlike bony fish, they don't have a swim bladder but a very large oil-rich liver, that controls buoyancy. There are over 500 different species of sharks. Not all of them are active predators. Some of them lay on the ocean floor and 3 shark species are filter-feeders and eat plankton: whale shark, basking shark and megamouth shark. Sharks live pretty much in every ocean and some live in rivers and some like bull shark live in both salt and fresh waters. 2 shark species also eat seagrass and seaweed: bonnethead shark and whale shark. Bonnethead shark eats besides seagrass small marine animals meaning it's omnivorous. Sharks have different teeth depending on their diet: sharks that eat large sea mammals like great white shark have triangular serrated teeth, sharks that eat fish and cephalopods like shortfin mako shark have needle-like teeth, sharks that eat clams and crustaceans like zebra shark have dense flattened teeth and plankton-eating sharks also have teeth, but they are only 1mm long and unfunctional. sharks existed before dinosaurs, trees and rings of Saturn. Besides 5 basic senses they also have 2 extra senses: on their snout they have tiny jelly-filled spores ampullae of Lorenzini, that sense electric impulses from living creatures, and on their side they have lateral line that senses water pressure changes. There are some myths about sharks that are false. For example, sharks CAN get cancer. Though it's rare because unlike humans, shark's immune cells are formed in spleen and thymus and are released earlier into bloodstream and that's why sharks react faster to cancer and other illnesses. Sharks aren't dumb by the way. You don't survive for millions of years as top predator without intelligence. Sharks have a good memory and they learn from their mistakes and are effective hunters. Sharks, that hunt actively, have a bigger brain-to-body ratio than filter-feeding and bottom-dwelling sharks. Sharks get babies or pups in 3 ways: they either lay egg cases, give live birth or egg cases develop inside the mother shark and hatch there. Sharks don't take care of their pups, but they see lots of effort to give birth in safe areas where pups can live their first years away from predators. Some egg-laying sharks also hide their egg cases into safe from predators. Sharks do have predators like bigger sharks and orcas. Some sea lions are also known for hunting sharks. Sharks are an important keystone species. They keep fish populations healthy and in check. Without sharks the marine ecosystem would fall down. Sharks rarely attack humans. They don't even like human meat and prefer fatty sea animals. The 3 most aggressive sharks are great white shark, tiger shark and bull shark although so called "docile" sharks like nurse shark and zebra shark can also bite if someone annoys them or they feel threatened. Touching sharks unnecessarily damages the mucus layer on their skin, that protects from parasites and diseases. Talking about skin, sharks have teeth-like scales dermal denticles, that are like shark teeth. They even have their own bloodstream and pulpa. Dermal denticles protect sharks and help them to swim faster. The fastest shark is shortfin Mako shark and it swims about 48-74km/h. Different sharks have different types of dermal denticles depending on their lifestyles. Sharks aren't smooth in all directions. they feel smooth when you move hand from shark's head to caudal fin. From caudal fin to head the skin feels like sandpaper and sometimes it's so rough it can even cut human skin. sharks live in every ocean depth. some deep sea sharks are Greenland shark, megamouth, frilled shark, sixgill shark and goblin shark.
Tell me if you want specific infodump about specific shark species :)
OMG, sharks are so cool!!! Wow, they have been around for so long, sharks are fricking warriors. That they dont take care of the pups but rather make sure they end up in a safe place is really cool. Thats so much interesting info thank u for sharing it!!! :D i have a question if u want, whats the shark that lives at the deepest point of the ocean, and do they look weird since sea creatures that live really deep often looks weird, do they look weird too or still normal?
A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.
i learned that there's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)
