If It Sucks Hit Da Bricks

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

This but also gimme a scandalous gossip column about papers with dubious methodology, suspect datasets, or retracted results written in the style of Lady Whistledown.

we should start making zines about cool research papers

Combat log: The effect Ibuprofen has ended.

Me: *instantly ragdolls*

I dunno how it is anywhere else in the world, but the USA has a bizarre, perpetual, and systemic hatred of children. It’s quiet, but omnipresent. And it drives me up a wall. It’s just not difficult to treat children with decency, to engage with them as developing people instead of property or pets, and to give them space to exist and live their lives. Doesn’t even matter if they’re our kids or someone else’s.

Too many adults in a kid’s family teach them that everything from their interests to their energy is inconvenient and needs to be curtailed. Too many adults involved in schools teach kids foremost how to survive an indifferent or even ill-meaning authority with unchecked power.

I want a world that’s more for kids, and I’ll fight for it with a thousand small kindnesses.

The conflict between children and adults in kids media works an allegory for class struggle. The controlling adults with all the power do not understand the needs of the children, and their class interests do not align, fomenting a rebellion within the child class. In this essay I will