beef_curds [she/her]

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Milei aside, watching these forest fires grow…

    spoiler

    across my lifetime has doomed me out. There was some tipping point when I realized every summer of my life is now covered in smoke, and it never really was when I was a kid.

    I moved away from the worst of it, only to have it blow in eventually even here. The locals were like “this is the first we’ve ever seen anything like this,” and I’m just thinking “prepare yourself.”

    I’m surprised this doesn’t cause more of a eco panic reaction in more people, because it’s really unsettling when the air smells like fire.

    Spoilered for bad vibes.






  • Someone woke me up to tell me a plane hit the tower, and I thought they meant a little prop plane and went back to bed. Then I woke up just in time to see the first tower fall.

    My first reaction was the sinking feeling that this would be the ammunition to steer us into fascism.

    I remember people not being able to contextualize the targets at all. People would be afraid whatever pissant thing they cared about was going to be attacked, the mall, the methadone clinic, the stadium.

    The bloodlust was crazy. You couldn’t get through to anyone. I know this is about 9/11 but, like the whole Iraq thing in the aftermath felt so much like Gaza today where you’re just trying to scream and no one cares.