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Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th
i know ur from the uk(?) but reading this as an american is really really funny
why 😭 it’s about twenty one pilots???? Their new album is out sep 12th????
THERE’S TWENTY ONE THIS TIME???
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rosieglobal:
The True Danger Isn’t Dictators — It’s Our Indifference
Today I told someone that I felt nervous about the state of the world. It’s not like me to worry the way I have been lately, but the news has truly unsettled me.
As if the events in Venezuela weren’t enough to rattle me, now we’re confronted with two more possible scenarios: the invasion of Greenland and the halt of the midterm elections. I shared my fear about the erosion of democracy and world peace. The person I spoke to replied, “Well, I agree — an invasion of Greenland is ridiculous. It shouldn’t happen. Just like kidnapping a foreign leader shouldn’t happen. It’s wrong. But it doesn’t affect my life, so I don’t worry about it.”
I can’t fully describe what I felt when I heard those words. I was stunned. And then, after sitting with it, I realized I had just encountered the true danger. The greatest threat to democracy — to humanity — isn’t the dictator, the authoritarian, or the violent leader. It’s the absence of caring.
I am well versed in the theories about how evil manifests, how a lack of empathy allows it to flourish. But I’ve always associated those ideas with the darkest chapters of history: the Second World War, the Crusades, slavery, and other horrors committed by human beings. Yes, I’ve written about Sudan, the destruction of the rainforests, the suffering in Palestine, and countless other crises. There is no shortage of malignant behavior in this world.
But today I realized something uncomfortable: my battle against the destruction of humanity has been a safe one. Fought behind my computer, in my warm and cozy office. Focused on distant places and distant people. Today, for the first time, I felt confronted by the absence of caring in someone I know well — someone I respect — someone I never expected to respond that way.
Many have written about this. Plato, perhaps the first, said: Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil. He believed that unawareness of truth, a failure to understand consequences, and the absence of compassion create the conditions for injustice. Knowledge, he argued, is the antidote.
To a large extent, I agree with him. People often hold convictions that aren’t grounded in objective truth, empirical evidence, or even basic knowledge of history or geography. They rely on what others have told them or on their own interpretations. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with that — none of us can know everything. But we can strive to learn more, especially about the issues we form opinions on. The question is: even if we knew everything, would evil disappear?
Plato believed knowledge was the solution. I’m not convinced. Modern thinkers aren’t either. At the Nuremberg trials, the American psychologist Gustave Gilbert concluded that evil is the absence of empathy. A genuine incapacity to feel with another human being.
The atrocities of the Second World War forced us to examine why people stand by and let terrible things happen. Hannah Arendt, the German philosopher, called it the “banality of evil” — the idea that great harm often comes not from monsters, but from ordinary people who fail to think or care about the consequences of their actions.
So is that where we are now? Have we become so disconnected, so consumed by the virtual world, so focused on protecting what we have and chasing what we want, that we simply don’t care about others anymore? Has our capacity to worry about strangers evaporated? In this age of disinformation and noise, have we lost the ability — or the will — to understand the consequences of certain acts?
Are we absolved from evil simply because we don’t know or don’t care?
Think about it. If our indifference contributes to famine, violence, or death, are we truly free from blame? If we shrug when a politician dismantles democratic foundations because it doesn’t affect our personal lives, are we not responsible when a country collapses into chaos?
Building and maintaining a society is, in my view, a collective responsibility. Every one of us is accountable for keeping democratic values alive. We must act when those foundations are threatened. We must help people in need, regardless of faith, nationality, or race. We must protect those facing oppression and violence — even when it has nothing to do with us.
How, you might ask? Writing a blog won’t fix it. Thousands of people are doing that. Awareness matters, but it feels insufficient in times like these. This morning, I admitted how shocked I was by the disinterest in Greenland and other threats. I said that indifference will be our undoing. History has shown it again and again: when we stop caring about others, evil takes charge. A nod and a “yes, you’re right” was polite, but not convincing. My fear is that we won’t care until evil knocks on our own door. And by then, it may be too late.
The truth is: I don’t have an answer. I don’t know what will shake us awake from this corrosion of empathy. I don’t know how to make people care if they don’t. And I certainly can’t control the politicians, the tech giants, the profiteers — those who thrive on the suffering or silence of others.
And yet, every now and then, someone surprises me — someone who does care, who asks questions, who refuses to look away. Those moments remind me that empathy hasn’t vanished entirely. They are small, but they matter.
So I turn to you, dear reader.
Do you care?
Do you know how to make others care?
Or are we all waiting for the knock on the door?
Do you think indifference is becoming normal? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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Source: The True Danger Isn’t Dictators — It’s Our Indifference
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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it’s hard to describe if you haven’t seen them
a certain je ne sequoia, if you will
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Some parents have such landlord energy…
When you know enough about the rates & extent of child abuse happening in families, everyone who says stuff like “well being a parent isn’t easy” comes off the same way as a landlord whining about the massive risk they have to take on when they rent out their properties bc like what if someone damages something or doesn’t pay the rent :/, meanwhile their tenants are working themselves to death just to stay housed.
“poor me, my adult children don’t speak to me” you shouldn’t have had the power to single-handedly ruin their lives the way you did in the first place, be glad that’s the only thing they can do to you without going to jail.
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stop reblogging james and the giant pronoun
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one thing everyone who is struggling with cooking for themselves needs to know is that the shittiest rice cooker, like the ones that cost $5 at rite aid, can make entire meals. you can put anything you want (except uncooked meats that need prolonged temperatures to be safe to eat) in with the rice and push the button and go lie down for 20 minutes. you will learn through making slightly over or undercooked rice a few times how you need to adjust the liquid:rice ratios. you can put rice, a bag of baby carrots, whatever salt and spices, and a can of tuna (or a can of shredded chicken, beef, etc, or tofu, or canned beans, or canned tomatoes) in a rice cooker and it will be completely edible in ~20min. it costs like $1 per batch, less if you get regular carrots and cut them into chunks yourself. you should have frozen spinach and peas and corn in your freezer, or whatever frozen veg is safe for your food allergies. this kind of meal can survive in the fridge for a while and the freezer even longer. if you make it badly it wont poison you and can be salvaged with hot sauce, if you make it disastrously it can be thrown away without losing more than a dollar or two. if you make it okay it fullfills the Just Need Some Real Food requirements completely. if you need more calories you can add butter or oil, or eat sour cream on the side. if you forget about the rice cooker or fall asleep it will dry out on the bottom but wont burn. they should teach you this in 5th grade
If you enjoy an odd cookbook, Roger Ebert wrote “The Pot and How to Use It” in 2010. It’s a rice cooker cookbook but also just an ode to the rice cooker. It’s out of print but worth looking for at your local library; it’s also available on The Internet Archive
thank you!! also i forgot to mention: when you are too sick or depressed to do dishes, you can eat your dinner out of the rice cooker pot itself. just dont touch a metal or ceramic utensil to the actual pot because it will scrape the nonstick coating which causes a lot of problems for another post. wooden or plastic spoon or chopsticks, or just eat carefully out of the middle of the pot without touching the sides. or you can use the actual rice paddle, who cares. ive done it! if youre too sick to cook “properly”, making a one pot rice and veg and protein bowl and eating it directly out of the pot in your pajamas is 100% fine. you will recover and function so much better after eating a hot meal made of actual ingredients.
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pokèmonize yourself!!!!
- spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
- spin this one to see how you’ll look like
fuck it remaking the poll hi
the best option ever
yea its good :)
i mean i guess its okay
ehh
what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!!
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ⓘ Tip
If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.
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2025 stats:
0 dubai chocolate ingested
0 labubus bought
0 episodes of stranger things watched
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every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i’m filled with the urge to go “hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now”, and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu
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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””
— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)
In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence! After that, she teamed up with scientists, journalists and politicians to promote non-violent upbringing. In 1979, a law was introduced in Sweden prohibiting violence against children in response to her demands. Until then there was no such law anywhere in the world.What a legacy. We’re so lucky to have had her.
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Appreciation post to my favorite bird
The Carolina parakeet, also known as the Carolina conure, was a small, brightly colored parrot native to the eastern US. The last wild Carolina parakeet was killed in Florida in 1904, and the last captive bird died in 1918 at the Cincinnati Zoo. The species was declared extinct in the 1930s.
They went extinct due to the feather collecting and the pet trade, along with being taken out due to eating crops from agricultural areas in the southeast.
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are cats ♡
