Pen Aagaard

If I could have one wish, it would be to outlive the rest of humanity, and watch the world recover.

@WrathQueenof @stueymaco 😄

@stueymaco Aphasia

I failed with the rotary dial phone, but he's currently active so I'll try another one. There aren't any words that begin with A and end with A in the English language. Prove me wrong.

Just saw this on insta. Police brutality in Naarm yesterday at a peaceful 'No cuts to NDIS' rally. "Vulnerable people with disability, young people and the elderly were pushed to the ground, shoved, punched and injured. Police pushed people in front of a moving tram." #springst

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.” — William S. Burroughs

You’re telling me: They can locate the exact coordinates & kill the Supreme leader of 🇮🇷, They can locate & kidnap the President of 🇻🇪 in an early morning raid, They can locate & kill a cartel boss in the middle of a forest... But they can't locate or arrest Epstein clients?

This is what you're posed 2 do with the $ & fame. 👏 👏 👏

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion." — Bertrand Russell

We learned from COVID 19 that oil is worthless in a society without consumption, healthcare has to be public because health is public, 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid, and that we live in a society, not an economy.

tattooing this onto my eyelids

I missed the last train in Seoul once. Phone at 3%. Didn’t speak Korean. It was raining, freezing, and I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I tried calling an Uber but my card kept failing because of my bank fraud protection. Perfect timing. I was standing outside the station looking completely defeated when this older woman walked up to me and started speaking Korean. I told her I didn’t understand. She pulled out her phone translator and typed:“You are lost?” I nodded. She asked where I was staying, looked at the address, then motioned for me to follow her. This woman walked me almost 15 minutes through side streets, holding her umbrella over both of us while I apologized every thirty seconds. When we got to my hotel, I tried offering her cash for helping me. She looked genuinely offended. Typed into the translator again:“If my son was lost somewhere, I hope someone helps him too.” Then she bowed and walked away in the rain before I could even process what happened. Some places still treat strangers like human beings first.

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Lego has updated their age range from the years of 4-99 in honour of Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday: “There’s no age limit for those who never stop playing”

I was talking to a friend about the labor market today, and he said, “Unskilled worker is a term made up by capitalists to justify why a person working 40+ hours a week is still poor,” and I can’t unsee it.

@juliedoherty29 @libriscent I dunno tho - the world is set up in a pretty pathological way by a powerful but by no means ‘neurotypical’ demographic.

@libriscent That’s true but the world is set up for people who don’t have autism. We can’t ask the world to change for us. If you can manage to take part in daily life I suggest you do. 🫶

gentle reminder that ‘high functioning’ just means you’re suffering in a way that’s convenient for everyone else and i said what i said

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. BILL WATTERSON

A very special delivery for David Attenborough, beloved by people (and animals) everywhere 💚 To honour Sir David’s 100th birthday, His Majesty The King is supported by a cast of stars from British nature to relay his handwritten message in time for the celebration at the Royal Albert Hall. Watch David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth on @BBCiPlayer. youtu.be/I1D9YF0YapQ?si…

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A very happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough. The whole world owes an enormous debt to David Attenborough for passionately defending the natural world and how we relate to it. Let us heed his lesson of living with nature, not on top of nature.

David Attenborough, 100 years old today. What a giant he is, what a force for good.

“Why was she out alone at night?” Why do men think the night belongs to them and women are prey? Let’s start there.