Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

"To whom do I owe the biggest apology?" No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; Alanis Morissette, Under Rug Swept

Me, on this day in 2002, wearing my Alanis shirt, listening to the number one album, Under Rug Swept, at the Virgin Megastore at Downtown Disney.

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To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

Alania Morissette, “Sorry to Myself” Under Rug Swept

Reminder that the US bombed Iraq a day ago. Reminder that this attack has killed 16 Iraqis, many of whom were civilians. Reminder that Iraq has already suffered enough at the hands of US imperialism, that to this day it’s recovering from the aftermath of being defamed to the world as terrorists, from its cities being destroyed under the guise of “exterminating ISIS” (an echo of Israel decimating Palestine to “exterminate Hamas,” interesting), that the US has so many ulterior motives to continue encroaching upon Iraq that have nothing to do with their seemingly noble rationale, and that it does all this while funding Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians (which are basically doing their dirty work of pushing further in on Arab territory). It’s jarring that this is all happening on a world stage & yet nothing is being done to stop it. Hands off Iraq. Free Palestine. Hands off Iraq. Free Palestine.

Such a good and underrated album. (kids take notes! She`s the OG one.)

Feelings

So you had a conversation with Halle Berry and those people

I have had some conversations with women over the years. Some of them were very beautiful others thought they were very beautiful and really weren’t really much.

“Dear narcissus boy, I know you've never really apologized for anything

I know you've never really taken responsibility

I know you've never really listened to a woman,”

(11/12/23) A few min ago, WHO lost contact with the largest hospital in Gaza - as Israel has refused to stop targeting hospitals for attack despite a global outcry against their actions.

Two babies have already died from deliberate power outages that cut the ventilators keeping them alive. There are 39 other infants that need similar intensive care they will no longer receive in a few hours (reserve power runs out)

(source)

On top of that, The Red Cross has cold feet on whether they want to help or not - letting the murderers who are shooting into a hospital full of children and the injured pretend they are there to help.

Israel is targeting Al-Shifa because that's where a lot of Palestinians are taking refuge. The hospital is far beyond it's carrying capacity; so much so that because of the conditions, even those who are able to get help run a high risk of immediate infection of their wounds

Some of those taking refuge there say they're "just waiting to die"

Unless you're following certain tags/news outlets, you aren't going to be shown what's happening - and definitely not honestly.

Which is exactly what Israel wants.

I'm tired of explaining to people why BANNING CARS COMPLETELY

is not the way to solve the United States' dependency on fossil fuels

and is also ableist snd classist as fuck.

THERE WILL NEVER NOT BE A NEED FOR PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION. We can make cities more pedestrian-friendly without throwing disabled people onto the train tracks as sacrificial wheel lubricant.

killing a mosquito by torching every building on your street is massively excessive, actually.

y'know i love idw1. it is by far my favourite continuity purely because it has the balls to actually do some weird fucked up shit with those robots but one of my forever gripes with the series was how they handled the combiners.

also spoilers for idw1 (not massive but enough that i should warn ya if you haven't read through the series)

not in the sense that i hate combiners or combination but mostly just because i think it's weird that they never tackle the horror of being a combiner. it's never really touched on that most of the combiners were forced together and that combining has a permanent effect on a cybertronian's mind.

sure you've got prowl but idw is written so that the reader is meant to hate prowl, or at the very least dislike him, so you're automatically geared to not give a fuck if he's suffering a little bit. and his relationship with the constructicons is never really given the screentime it probably should've gotten so we never get to hear their opinions on being forcibly fused with an autobot's mind. (clearly they don't seem to mind it at the very least but i have a hard time believing that they just magically were okay with suddenly being part of a gestalt)

first aid literally shows up on cybertron with five other guys that he's only vaguely familiar with and starscream just decides that they're "good enough" and forces them into a gestalt. and then we literally never get to see if first aid gave a fuck about this whole situation. hell one of his gestalt members, rook, literally gets killed in lost light and first aid just, doesn't care, and neither do any of his gestalt mates. they're just like, "eh, moving on"

fucking hell, sunstreaker, ironhide, mirage, and motherfucking optimus prime get put into a gestalt with prowl and the most they have to say is "wow prowl you're really fucked up" and that's it. do they just all have to deal with the consequences of being a combiner. optimus never seems to bring it up ever again and neither does sunstreaker, even when they're in the same place together.

the combaticons seem to be rather fucked up about the whole thing, but that's not because being in a combiner team fucked them up, it's more because they combined with a fucking corpse and sharing a mind with a brain dead swindle seriously sucked ass.

like think about the effect of combination for a quick second.

a mech is forced to share everything about themself, from memories, to thoughts and emotions with another group of mecha (up to five depending on the combiner) and they just, don't get a fucking choice in it. idw talks a lot about bodily autonomy, what with the themes of functionalism and cold constructed mechs but they don't seem to apply the same emotion to the combiners. they're just a plot tool to be throw around when the writers needed a big bad to face or a defender against some type of higher force

combiners are only scary because they're big and angry and difficult to control but the real fear should be focused on the existential horror of having a character whose mind is forcibly fused together with another group of people

Aaron Bushnell did not declare “I will no longer be complicit. Free Palestine.” and he did not self-immolate to call for the attention of those in power, he was calling for yours. He wants your eyes on him, he want you to hear him.

So instead of being complicit and allow them reduce a form of protest as radical as self immolation to mean nothing

You should be asking yourself how you too, will no longer be complicit, and how to ensure his self immolation will mean something

sorry I haven't posted actual art in a tad, here's arti doodles as compensation

Im sorry but the writers did not show Ed cleaning things up after he shot Izzy as a parallel when he started cleaning up after Stede left him so people could still say that he was healing and actually fine in s1ep10

planet robobot and triple deluxe show that you can either forgive your enemy or not, and both are okay options