The problem primarily isn’t that people are taking “mental health breaks” (I have a rapidly growing hatred for that phrase) the problem is that they inexplicably demand that they be validated for doing so. They want everyone to tell them what a good boy they are for being so brave when what’s happening is extremely not about them. Stop announcing what you’re doing, give people you know a heads up that you’re going to be afk if you must but that’s it. Don’t publicly belabor how other people’s suffering is affecting you for headpats. The question of whether or not this is the right thing for you to be doing right now is a question for you alone, only you can grapple with the morality of being in a position in which you are privileged enough to be able to take a breather, this is all internal work that you must do yourself. Suspend your need for external validation on just this one issue for a hot second. Do not ask the rest of us to soothe you. Do what you need to do to remain functional, do it without fanfare, and then keep it moving. Get a grip.
& arguing with people online about your right to not read the news is extremely the opposite of taking a mental health break. Just to be clear.
it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and “prioritizing your mental health” when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them
shockingly on the no reading comprehension site, people have no reading comprehension
did i say “fuck you and your mental health” or did i say that it’s disgusting to watch white people reassuring each other about not paying attention to a genocide being enacted in real time (with direct contributions from their own governments in many cases) when that’s exactly what the victims are asking for?
sometimes bad things happen and you will feel bad about it! that is normal and does not mean that you should just ignore them happening! of course you feel sad, it’s fucking sad! of course you feel angry, it’s fucking horrific and unjust! none of this means you should should look away to remain comfortable and undisturbed
also no one expects you to ignore your own life and be glued to the news 24/7 so stop pretending this is what people mean by “pay attention”
Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
Not really D&D related- but I feel compelled to add to this that not only are these GORGEOUS pixel arts- they are also in fact not animated. There are no frames used. There’s no extra pieces of art. Just one layer.
These pieces are so old that they stem from a time where animating cost way too much memory and/or only 256 colors could be used at one time, so the motion is achieved by ‘color cycling’. Half the available colors would be reserved for that very color cycling. It’s mchecking bonkers, please go watch this video if you feel like learning the technical details of how these artworks were made! They were screensavers that would match the actual time of day that you were in. Somehow. Just by cycling color palettes. Wild shit.
(Especially relevant time stamps for color cycling: 5:50, 9:55, 37:26, at 49:54 he gets into the technical side of HOW this even works)
Yup.
I’ve always enjoyed how they depicted some of the landscapes at different times of the day/weather/season.
Like these two areas. Daytime and nighttime at the village by the waterfalls.
And the high mountains hidden by rain in one and visible in the other.
yall r gonna post a man’s entire portfolio of art and not give credit?
anyways these images are by mark ferrari, a color cycling pixel art master, you can check them out in their html color cycling forms, with sound effects and ability to change the time of day of the image, here and here
i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word
one time I played the word “am” and I thought, they can totally let that slide because of AM radio and A.M time.
then i remembered
Scrabble does things to your mind that you can never come back from.
I once was playing and put down ‘cow’ but in my mind I was saying it so it rhymed with ‘crow’ and I told my friend that it might not be a real word but I’m playing it and he can’t stop me and he looked me right in the eye and said it like how ‘cow’ is supposed to be said and I was so mad at myself I nearly flipped the board.
My brother played the word ‘scrabble’ and my mom said, “I actually don’t think that’s a word.” And I said, “yes it is? ‘scrabbled eggs’???”
I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can’t use ctrl+f to find the specific information I’m looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don’t want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
And yet again the “backwards underdeveloped countries” are the only ones with a fucking spine and moral fiber on earth
the Brazilian foreign minister, in the UN Security Council, warned that the UN will be “remembered—and blamed—for it’s inaction and apparent unwillingness in stopping this bloodshed”
Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.
Reports are saying that nearly half a million people marched in this protest. That’s roughly equivalent to 1 in every 16 people who live in Greater London.
I’ve personally not seen anything on this scale since the Iraq war protests.
Genuinely one of the best things in fiction is letting a character have a real ugly cry. Get out of here with that ‘single silent tear’ bullshit, you cowards. I want the catharsis of an actual emotional breakdown! Make it noisy, make it wet and snotty and gross! Make it ugly and unfiltered and raw!
“Marge everything is corrupted by capital. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically the way we close a car door is fascist.”
I think people maybe don’t understand that this isn’t an exaggeration – it is literally something Adorno says in this book.
“RETVRN TO TRADITION. Things were so much better in the olden days. I am very antifascist.”
I know people are going to make fun, and this deserves it, but when you carry your groceries home walking on the shoulder of a road with a 40 mph speed limit, occasionally cutting into a muddy ditch because that part of the road has no shoulder, that stuff about the car causing people to subordinate themselves to the logic of machines in ways which encourage sudden, violent action and discourage slowness or contemplation…
I dunno, after the third time someone almost hits you in a parking lot because they were looking for other cars instead of literally directly in front of where they were going, well, you might think there’s maybe something to all this.
Also I was talking to a friend who had lived without a car for years and was now getting back into driving more often, and he said something like,
“The hardest thing is re-learning to make split decisions again, like when you’re driving you can’t just stop and think, it’s much better and safer to just make the wrong decision quickly then it is to slow down and not be able to decide, and it’s taking a while to relearn that mindset”
So like…
PS - Fascism uses the idea of the past for propaganda purposes but is a generally modern doctrine and in practice is often incredibly frustrated by and violently hostile to the messiness of the past.
I mean, I genuinely don’t know, are there a lot of right-wing fascists in Italy who think the unification was a mistake and want to return to the time before Italian nationalism?
One of the earliest and most intellectually interesting Fascists, the futurist leader Marinetti, lionized the automobile as a way of inculcating fascism on basically exactly the same grounds Adorno is doing here, the only real difference is that Marinetti thought that fascism was a good thing.
Doctrines which long for a return to the past can be non- or even anti-fascist, precisely because Fascism is so modern, but by the same token Fascism sells a lot better so not many people actually commit to those alternative ways of lionizing the past.
Just today, as I was walking home, I saw an older man in the middle of the street who had gotten stranded trying to maneuver a handcart and way too many bags. He had jaywalked into the middle of the street and couldn’t gather up all of his possesions in such a way that he could move when the light turned green.
I had to restrain myself from rushing out into the street to help him on the grounds that I might well get run over by one of the oncoming cars; there are two shrines to people who were run over crossing the street within walking distance of where we were.
Traffic simply maneuvered around him; drivers were probably feeling that if they stopped for him, they’d get rear-ended so people in the lane he was standing in just swerved into the other lane a little bit.
Once there was a break in traffic I ran over and helped him get his stuff to the sidewalk.
How else to describe this process but as one of pure functionality, which does not tolerate freedom of conduct? The car will move down the street; to interrupt that motion is to put your life at risk, so the people surrounding this old man find themselves at least unwilling, and quite likely actually unable to stop and help him reach a safer island.
Basically I have never had a more Hannibal.jpg reaction to anything on Tumblr than I have to that page of Adorno.
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