The single biggest thing we can all do to fight injustice is to heal our hearts of the suspicion of the Other. To stop being scared of those who suffer from oppressions that we don't, or resentful of those who escape oppressions we suffer from. Pitting us against each other is how the monsters stay on top. (They who have made monsters of themselves.) But walk around town and you will see that the basic human attitude we default to is "live and let live", despite all the poison our media and our politicians can muster. If the people chose overnight to follow that principle in their politics as well as their everyday actions, there would be a global bloodless revolution, and a better world.

Varifocal sellers: so right at the top of the lens we'll put your distance prescription, and at the bottom your reading prescription. Me: ok, cool, so what about the middle? VS: well it'll be a gentle gradient from one to the other, neither one thing not the other Me: so what would that be good for? VS: well, it'll kinda be not *great* for anything, but not unbearably bad either Me: ... VS: just wear them for like a week and you'll get accustomed to it, I promise!

The male loneliness epidemic: firstly it's real, and secondly we know the fix. The fix is men reaching out and talking to other men. The problem persists when men keep trying *literally anything other than this*.