was up all night reading. gonna listen to binaural beats and try to sleep

Every individual human life is worth more than any state or government. And there's a place in hell for everyone that cheers when people are murdered in the name of such things.

would love an ad free censorship proof decentralized social media that wasn't just a giant ad for bitcoin tbqh

nothing can escape its history: not people, not species, not words or ideas. there is no transcendence

this podcast speaks well to how I feel about christianity, and my frustration with the forms of it I grew up with #christian #theology

fun fact about me: I was homeschooled and technically didn't finish high school

i barely sleep. i'm basically nocturnal

"Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured." Hebrews 13:3, NRSV "Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Eugene Debs, at his sentencing for sedition, September 18, 1918

i never much cared for money tbh. it's a mechanism of social control, and i don't trust decentralized control any more than i trust centralized control

"When Elliot Rogers shot and killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, Rogers’s Autism was presented by news outlets as a contributing cause. Autism was yet again blamed (along with transness) in the 2023 shooting at the Covenant School, just outside Nashville. At an NRA conference held shortly after the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, gun advocates echoed that 'evil' people and mental illness were the true cause. By explaining mass shootings as a phenomenon of mental illness rather than one of hopelessness, hatred, and easy access to guns, the NRA managed to effectively distance itself from holding responsibility for the ongoing crisis. And by linking mental illness and disability with violence, they managed to worsen the stigma that already leaves so many neurodivergent people lonesome and disaffected." "From empirical research, we know that people with mental illness are far more likely to be in danger of violence than to be violent ourselves. We also know that mentally ill folks suffer from theft, sexual assault, battery, and police violence at extremely elevated rates. Nearly half of all people with mental illnesses experience at least one of those acts of violence in their lives. On the flip side, only 3 percent of all violent crimes are committed by someone with a mental health diagnosis." Devon Price, Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

this morning I started David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament. before last year, I haven't read the bible since I was a teenager. I read through the "inclusive bible" translation, finishing it up last night. it was interesting and new, and I want to read other translations that deviate from the king james version I was mostly exposed to growing up

welp. seems that there's very little on nostr that interests me. guess I'll keep to myself, same as always online and off

nostr is confusing, no idea what I'm doing :/