For Every Nineteenth-century Middle-class Family That Protected Its Wife And Child Within The Family

…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

Honestly the only slur I ever get called is 'gay' or 'homo', people here just aren't very creative with their slurs anymore

In the first years, herds of over a hundred pigs would sweep through the farms and homesteads of Indian territory in eastern Oklahoma, devastating the land and driving rural people into nearby towns. They quickly armed themselves and formed militias to fight the hogs, but progress was slow. Over the next decade they pushed herds out of open land and into more vegetated areas. The hogs found enough shelter and forage in the forests and shrubland to breed at still alarming rates. Hunting parties started regularly scouting open ground for any pigs daring enough to venture out of cover. Over time these parties became more systematic and economical, figuring out how to anticipate and capture entire herds. Although they still had no usable farmland, the people developed efficient butchering and processing techniques and found safe routes through the landmine fields to trade for Texan crops. Initially devastated by the hog invasion, the east Oklahoma nations eventually fought back and carved out a niche for themselves in the new American order.

The US government, hollowed out, has all but collapsed. The east coast states down to Georgia have mostly held together and still recognize the authority of Washington DC. California, Oregon, and Washington have formed an independent coalition on the west coast. Texas' influence captures the whole coast of the Gulf of Mexico, now called the Gulf of Texas by several hundred million people. The Great Lakes states have merged with Canada. And the Great Plains in the middle of the continent are overrun by feral hogs, and war.

I'll need to read about this more, but I think there's something interesting about temples in the Roman imperial era and server farms today

"How much do you earn?" "How much do you make?"

No. How much have you wrested from the grubbing hands of the capitalists? Or, flip side, how much have you stolen from the workers? You don't make money unless you work at a bank. Otherwise you're just dropping your line in the flow of capital and snagging whatever you can. But of course, it's catch & release only without a bank-issued permit.

At times, I'm depressed by the minuscule percentage of all the literature from Greco-Roman antiquity that's survived to the present day. (For example: of the roughly 120 plays we know Sophocles to have staged at the Dionysia, all of seven have come down to us intact.) At other times, though, I'm amazed that we have any ancient literature at all. Consider: the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Hymn 2), one of the finest and most beautiful poems we know of from Archaic Greece, survives in a single fifteenth-century manuscript, which turned up in Moscow in 1777...in a stable.

the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

Doctor House * is a real doctor * not a real house

Doctor Worm * not a real doctor * is a real worm

“Robert Pattinson showed up with iPhone voice recordings and had already nailed the voice for ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ before recording started. It was his first ever voice role and he finished in 2 days.” (source)