True. Social media - Lemmy included - has really proven how effectively people can be socially engineered into hating “the other” to the point where you can kid yourself into believing you’re being tolerant by doing it to the group that is okay to hate.

It makes me feel sick everytime I see it and all the forms it takes.

It just shows different ways of being smart and pit them against one another instead of celebrating them.

I’m aware. I just disagree with using the word “emotional” to describe how women are different from men, because that is not accurate.

I like both. I get the sentiment, but it is really sad that men and women’s strengths and/or weaknesses are being used to wage a stupid war that serves no one.

In my home we compliment each other super well. My weaknesses are evened out by his strengths and my strengths even out his weaknesses. It’s great. Almost like that’s the whole point of having a functioning society.

Emotional. As opposed to men who are perfectly rational at all times and totally don’t sit far beyond women in statistics of violent crimes.

I don’t mind acknowledging that men and women are different, but the “women are emotional and men are rational” narrative is driving me up a wall.

I wonder what that feels like.

I mean, yeah, I have kept my inner child alive too, but I don’t feel remotely the same from when I was 18, which in my case is a positive. I have better people around me now, I feel a lot freer and like I can be myself now than when I was 18. I understand the world on a deeper level. I am more accepting and patient. I am less angry and I’m gradually building selfworth, which I didn’t have at all at 18.

I like aging because I continue to grow towards the person I want to be in life, and not being forced to be someone I’m not by people who don’t care about me.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong about feeling the same as you did when your were young. I just can’t relate myself because my experience is that life is not just one continous journey, but multiple births and deaths of the soul. I’m going through a death right now where I know that once I’m out on the other side of all these challenges, things are gonna be so nice, but right now I’m saying goodbye to who I was these past ten years which is kinda rough, because overall, I really liked this decade of my life and it was a lot better than any prior decade before it.

I hope it makes sense xD

It’s weird because I definitely feel my own aging a lot. I don’t mind it either. A lot of calm comes with aging. But I guess I don’t see celebrities as creatures that age because they are always the same age in the movies I know them for xD silly, I know.

Watching and listening to the birds. Where I live, we have a super rich and diverse bird population. It’s kind of ridiculous. Across seasons and times of day, every bird species get their time to shine.

Nightingales, nightowls, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits, black birds, whooping swans, woodpeckers, cormorants, herons, finches, robins, grey geese, buzzards, larks, falcons, pheasants and on and on and on.

It makes me so happy to be alive.

So weird to see some of these actors aging. I mean, I don’t mind, but it sure is a reminder that the world moves on whether I’m ready for it or not, lol.

I can add to that: the cormorant population in my country, Denmark, used to be endangered and now they are fucking everywhere. We also used to almost have the stork go extinct. For many years we had like 6 breeding pairs left. Now we have 26!

And we brought back beavers. Our otter population is growing too and we have wolves now, which sadly, is a controversial subject. A lot of lobbyist in the farming community (farmers are basically the closest we get to the marfia here) are trying to convince the population that wolves don’t belong in Denmark and should be eradicated. People fall for it because they are scared for their kids. Meanwhile I’m over here like: 🫠 you guys are aware that the only reason they’ve started coming closer to cities is because some of you retarded fucks are feeding them and also, farmers are killing our nature so there’s less food for wildlife in the countryside. That’s why wolves are moving closer to cities.

I still have great hopes for our wolf population. Our newly elected government is planning on cracking down hard on farming after 40 years of these assholes fuckign around and destroying my country with their poisons and pigshit and penicillin abuses etc etc. Finally, someone is gonna hold these psychos accountable. I am very excited for our wildlife because we still have time to save it. But if we don’t do something now, I fear that within the next 10 to 20 years, our natural ecosystems will be erased. It is insane to have grown up in a time where we used to have a much healthier nature and gradually I have seen species disappear completely. Species that used to be everywhere.

But there are still many passionate people who are fighting to preserve and save nature and they are having way more wins in recent years than they have had for decades. So yay!

I don’t care what people say, that movie is a banger.

Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I’m lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.

I could’ve been an ant or I could’ve been nothing at all.

Psh. We all know that clegs are the true scum of nature. Wasps are the dude bros of the bee world. Like a midlife crisis lemon yellow race car that constantly gets into trouble as if they were born to recieve a Darwin award. They get drunk on fermented fruit, they constantly go out of their way to get into people’s homes and even build their hives in or on human homes if they can get away with it.

I have lost count of the times I have tried to help a wasp out of my house and they seem to actively avoid any openings to freedom and actively choose to give themselves CTE against the window glass.

I don’t like them. I will never like them, but I don’t hate them like how I hate clegs. Now there is a mistake of nature that I refuse to argue for, even if they are pOLLenaToRs too. Go fuck yourselves, clegs. Wasps are cooler than your because they have color and speed and mosquitos are smarter than you because when they suck the blood of their victims, at least they are trying to be discreet about it. You’re the reason why horses and cows had to elongate their spine to make it a whip so they can flog themselves to keep loser bugs like you off their skin. You’re so bad at sucking blood discreetly that thick skinned animals had to evolve to slap you off them. What a failure you are, cleg. I hope you all go extinct.

Still not as cursed as hairless bears.

Wendy Cope has a healthy way to cope with frustrating interactions, I see. Maybe I should start writing poems too, when I run into human shapes brick walls.

Trump’s mother just looks like Trump in drag.

And magenta is a lie Dx

I went to my local bookshop the other day to look for The Hobbit and there was not even the slightest shadow of Tolkien anywhere.

Instead the entire English fiction section was wall to wall shit like this. Fantasy porn for women.

I mean, I know that this particular “creation” is AI, but even the human-made fantasy/sci-fi porn is so bad, lifeless and paint by numbers the same story over and over, that it might as well be AI.

It is a particularly dystopian experience to step into a modern day book shop and all fantasy literature is just shit like this.

I’m part of the problem because I spent a good number of years not really buying and reading books and most books I interacted with were audiobooks when I was out on walks.

But genuinely, fuck this is sad. Bookshops practically have turned into bored housemom shops. Fantasy porn, cook books and the occasional biography about a topical famous person whom women would find interesting.

The kids section is hidden away in the back of the store and there’s seemingly no incentive for men to visit the shop. Probably because men generally don’t read anymore. I know one man around my age who reads. One.

And us women don’t really read either, but those who do, read fantasy porn Dx

You are too pure for this world 💖

They were my favourite heron when I was a kid. Used to love nature documentaries and everytime the green backed heron popped up, I was thrilled. They look so pretty, yet so strange, so comical, yet so elegant.