la vie ennui 🟦
"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
- Helen Keller
(Formerly Yet Lotuses Bloom.)
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- Music break. A French soprano singing the French art song "Après un rêve" (After a Dream).
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- I'm badly dehydrated yet can't seem to get off Bluesky long enough to drag myself downstairs for a drink.
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- Reposted by la vie ennui 🟦Someday, everyone needs to reckon with the utterly blasé attitude with which the internet left invokes the slaughter in Gaza as a rhetorical cudgel to beat social media enemies with. It cheapens the suffering, has no positive benefit at all, and turns a real war crime into a meme. It’s disgusting.
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- Reposted by la vie ennui 🟦He targets Somalians because he’s a racist. He targets Haitians because he’s a racist. He won’t watch Bad Bunny because he’s a racist. He posts images of the Obamas as apes because he’s a racist.
- My dad isn't an expert cook, yet he's able to cook Chinese food each day of the week for three meals a day. Strange, that.
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- Reposted by la vie ennui 🟦Doing progressive work in a society built to de-humanize and hate is arduous and difficult. There are moments where no one is going to see or affirm the work that you do. If you need praise to be a 'good person' then you're just not a good person. And the state of the US reflects this reality.
- I'm a weirdo who actually enjoys assembling IKEA furniture.
- I loaded the 61-lb box into my car by myself. How I'm feeling now:
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- One of the items in my IKEA order is 61 lb. Time to see if my three years of experience lifting heavy boxes at my job has paid off.
- If you see this, post a character that starts with D.
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- Found on YouTube. Feel free to share with any "Do Something" howler monkeys you may encounter.
- Been gone for two weeks, and honestly? Didn't miss this place like I expected I would. My focus has shifted to unfucking my life, and I expect that will remain my focus for the foreseeable future. Be well. Logging back off.
- I'm going to peace out for now. There's an obvious plot to sow division in the service of a particular individual who is seeking the presidency, and many here have clearly taken the bait, as several of the conversations on my timeline have shown. The primary has started, and I'm not here for it.
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- Why is this so funny to me? 😆
