Havi Brooks

Seeing as older generations were stuck self medicating with nicotine and improperly dosed uppers yeah I think people getting actual care is good, Janice, you damned eugenics brained sadist!

RIP Jean Baudrillard, you would have loved whatever this is *gestures vaguely at everything* www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I hope someone is in the mood for a 5k words settle in with coffee style essay, because I am exploring heartbreak grief through an Oracle I encountered in a bakery (!) while attempting to learn about cultivating Glorious Mistrust and it is has been a wild ride fluentself.com/blog/persona...

I’m currently seeing three different doctors and a dietitian to address the infernal hell that is perimenopause. I left my last doctor because he told me that, “this is just what nature intended, sorry“. Mr. Rogers’ spirit held me back that day…I was about to make some really bad decisions 

You’d get on the freeway, drive for a while until you were like, “hmm not sure if I’m close to where I’m going???”, take an exit, stop at a gas station, ask a man in a plaid parka how much farther it is, sometimes he’d pull out a map, or he’d want to talk to you about Jesus, it was a different time

It’s true, you never see a straight white guy in a bike lane

Now that women no longer wear hats, we have no idea what the future holds.

a one minute story that got me to feel feelings etgarkeret.substack.com/p/your-story?

I have come to think of the crunching sound my knees make when I bend them as being like the "hwaup hwaup hwaup hwaup hweep" Transformers cartoon sound, it is not a gloomy sign of decrepitude but an empowering herald of change

I get you. But my vision of radical bodily autonomy is more about undoing societal sexism/racism/transphobia etc so people can make free choices Social pressure will always exist, but oppression doesn't have to

Wrote about best possible outcomes and the lebrechaun brigade (my friend Laura’s plan to get me to deal with my stuck project) and being surprised by what my project was actually about fluentself.com/blog/persona...

It may seem funny now, but in about 3 weeks' time the disruption to the global supply chain of knowing-yet-sanctimonious middle-class left-of-centre takes will start forcing prices up, and governments may even have to introduce rationing

wrote about finding my way back to reality, and the healing process more generally, and being tender with the tender process <3 fluentself.com/blog/persona...

I mean ok it does include "Thatcher is dead", "These aren't the droids you're looking for" and "Thickos liked your latest post", but otherwise it feels a tad limited

People deserve clean water. We deserve clean air. We shouldn’t be forced to work in these dangerous circumstances we are forced into every day. Because yes, even vaccinated people get long covid. We have water filtration. We could have air filtration too. We have to demand it.

LORD I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS, please spread this miracle around, I need this exact form of glue

this is Messianic Edging

I was listening to El Paso radio yesterday and almost every time they mentioned the $1k you could theoretically win, it was like, “take care of that electric bill” or “finally replace that phone you dropped a year ago and the screen is completely cracked and it barely works”

Yeah. I always look at them and say, “In this economy?” which usually cracks them up and often opens the door for me to ask them what actionable things can we discuss. But like “lower your stress” when one of the things stressing me out is seeing the big capitalism trap of “can’t take time off”?

nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

Wrote about Reheartened & Reheartening, and tricking myself in fun ways to do tedious busy work in times of heartache and then finding so many clues in turning the whole thing into a form of play… fluentself.com/blog/persona...

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

*entire world goes up in smoke* Oh no my concerns!

(I haven‘t been on a plane since 2018 but from what I hear it does keep getting worse…)

(I was not relaxed ten years ago either)

ME 10 YEARS AGO: [relaxed] I'm not worrying about too many things. ME NOW: [panicked] I'm "not worrying" about too many things!

wrote about acting on my own behalf, and when a small thing turns into a seemingly Impossible Obstacle (an Impobstacle? An Improbstacle, at a minimum!) and shifting energy and what it means to me to train fluentself.com/blog/persona...

Turns out that it's the rocket scientist bit, not the nazi bit, that helps you get to the moon