Ignorance isn't always a choice, but apathy usually is.

Perhaps we just like "oops, we redacted all of everyone's debt. Lost completely. Jubilee, we guess."

Either kill the apathy and hatred within you Or do us all a favor and let it die with you

eternal gemstone in the light i see your face differently. a camera can't seem to capture it. paint could never hold its shape right. the texture, the depths, the detail. impossible. the way your eyes peer into me. the telepathic connection, electricity broadcast from one mind to another. from…

On Trusted Voices I often feel that there's a lot of us who have put trust in very specific people for a really long time. It was comforting to have the same rotation of faces be the sources of your moral judgment, that there was some welcome continuity between the things that they were teaching…

Lights Out in Night City It's August of 2078. 6 months ago the second DataKrash happened. It was predicted, it was feared, but it came nonetheless. Not everyone knew right away. Below is a draft for three people who only just now found out the truth. A Nomad, a Corpo, and a Street Kid. NOMAD -----…

Conduit Original Prompt: You have lived multiple lives just trying to be normal. Yet, due to circumstances beyond your control, every lifetime involves a fanatic cult springing up to idolize you. These cults last long enough to still be around in your future lifetimes. The intern was practically…

The Pet Clause “Why does paperwork have to be involved? She lives in the cave, I live in the cave. She brings me food, I eat the food. Why is this so complicated?”

What if immortality wasn't a matter of one life lasting all eternity, but rather one set of knowledge being imbued into and expanded upon, one life at a time. Is this not already how things are? Is real immortality just the stories we share and whose memory lasts after we're no longer here?

When all the stories end Who gets the last laughwhen all stories end?Who will tell our taleswhen silence descends? When life is dust and gone,and barren lies the land,who remains to carewhen all the stories end? Our mark upon the crustscorched by swollen sun.Histories dissolved,our satellites far…

I really benefit from being grateful for correction. I hate being wrong. So I appreciate when people can help show me the truth. In earnest. Why stay wrong? Take in the new information and respond with thanks rather than contention. I was the one that was wrong, I need to do better too.

Forever and Then Some Writing Prompt: "Two immortals are slowly coming to terms with the fact that what they each thought would be a short 50-60 year marriage to a mortal is turning out to be a much longer commitment." "I followed you to your 'clinic' appointment today." She declared as he passed…

It's wild to me that a whole bunch of nutjobs stormed the capital because of a lie, but the sane people aren't storming the capital because of the truth. A dictator is manifesting disastrous change and no heroes are coming to the rescue. People just keep hoping they'll play by the rules.

Wild that America is devolving into a technocratic oligarchy. So fucking fast too. I feel like I've grown up witnessing our collective futures being siphoned away, now we just get to watch the final spiral as it goes down the drain. No one seems to be coming to save us. Where are the heroes?

Wrote something last night based on a writing prompt, might add more to it later.

When they make a college's tuition free it doesn't mean people will suddenly have the free time to attend. But it's a huge step in the right direction. Better pay should be next.

I just want to live a "can I pet that dog?" kind of life but instead I have a job and rent. Made to whimsy, forced to work.

The real looting in California begins when corporate landlords start price gouging on rent, and private equity firms swoop in a start gobbling up fire-damaged properties in working class neighborhoods and reselling them at huge, unaffordable markups.

I like when comment threads are just gifs and memes. We've advanced so far from hieroglyphics. We're in the era of the hierogifics.

Some people think the culture war is directed at them, but it’s not a war on their culture, it’s a war on their beliefs, their disconnection from reality. Their thinking about reality is so warped by deeply held lies that that’s why they feel attacked when we point out objective truths to them.

Time to celebrate the birthday of one of the most lauded empathetic egalitarians of human history. Just remember Yeshua told us to love and care for each other. We were supposed to learn kindness and to work together for a better world. Oh, and this isn't his birthday.

Kind of cool that LCD Soundsystem does out-the-door pricing, even just whole number dollar amounts on their merch. Something about "never change, never change, never change, never change".

I was raised in the church with Christ as a role model. I wanted to emulate the kindness of Mr. Rogers and gentleness of Bob Ross. I watched MacGyver and Jackie Chan movies, wanting to grow up smart and strong like them. Wealth and power corrupt, but empathy lifts all of us together.

Silver Perry Hobart @silverhobart.bsky.social · 2y ago

This 👇 for decades 🤷🏻‍♀️

The true measure of a nation lies not in the battles won, but in the lives made better. A country thrives in the fertile soil of peace, where progress blossoms and the lives of the people, each a precious bloom, bear fruit a hundredfold under benevolent reign.

Dreams can only become real if they are shared. I dream of leaving a better world for the people that come after me. If we all share that dream we can make it become our reality. What are your dreams? How do you wish the world would be better for us now?

Today on Human Rights Day, we mark 76 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! #StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay2024

Ending exploitation creates equity by removing oppression, not opportunity. Workers shouldn't struggle to afford their single lifetime, paycheck by paycheck, while their wealthy bosses horde hundreds of lifetimes worth of their laborers' wages. Raising wages for workers is a benefit to all.

I feel like I've been ranting. Here's some beauty as a counter balance.