#life #simple #rules

We wouldn't dream of it. (via Grammarly)

my friend said that when you have high verbal intelligence (good at expressing yourself/arguing) you should be careful not to take advantage of other people who are less good at “debating” and that’s always stuck with me

An obsession with being a catalyst for a person’s growth is not wisdom it’s just vanity. I’m so sorry

from "financially struggling" to "financially stable" to "financially free" is the goal

real

I've remembered why I'd stopped engaging homophobes because their idea of gender starts and ends with sex. they simply can't seperate reproduction from gender and decolonialize the ideas of marriage, love, pleasure, reproduction, and power 🤏🏾

Huey P. Newton: “I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way….I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing

Kenyan (and by extension African) men have a particular affinity for American right wing propaganda.

The basis of all violent bigotry is this, “I don’t hate them, I just don’t like seeing them” “do they have to be in everything” “everywhere I look there they are”, before you know it, it builds up and you want to do something about it.

you’re 25! you’re not running out of time! it has only just begun! except for me. i am 25 in a far more “it’s all over” way

I need people to understand that even if you're genuinely sorry, you still have to deal with the consequences.

wait… if you’re circling back and i’m touching base, who the hell is monitoring the situation??

Therapy was invented and perfected by an Athenian named Antiphon in the 5th century BC, but he decided it was cringe.

Few sentences have rewired my brain like the Douglas Adams quote “The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”

If grok says I visited your profile, I probably did. I have no sense of shame and I like to commit random acts of joblessness sometimes

The unwritten rules are the real rules and the written rules are guidelines and this is why life is hard for autistic people

The only wrong way to do things is to assume there is only one right way to do things and to then spend ages trying to find out what it is