Un Obscura Laberinto
The Ocean is troubled to its depths.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Thursday, January 22, 2026
The best deodorant ever
I accidentally discovered what is proving to be the best natural deodorant ever—at least, of those I’ve tried. Clove oil! Yes, seriously. For years I have worn clove oil instead of perfume, because I hate perfume and I’m allergic to most of them anyway. Clove oil is irritating, so it has to be diluted in a carrier oil; any light/thin skin oil will do. (I happen to use apricot oil.)
Now let’s be honest: one of the shitty consequences of suffering major depression (MDD) is lacking the motivation even for hygiene. When showering is a chore I just can’t motivate myself towards, baby wipes—or an adult alternative—are my best friend. But when it comes to armpits, they only go so far. One day I remembered my clove oil and decided to try it under my arms after the baby wipes. And I shit you not, the next day, I had nearly no smell under my arms.
For a moment I was shocked, but then it occurred to me: clove oil is antimicrobial. Body odor in general is a result of the microbial ecosystems that live on the skin on different parts of the body. The clove oil killed almost all those microbes under my arms, effectively killing any odor. 😁 Now it’s my daily deodorant and I’m delighted with the results. Sure, I smell like a goth club all the time but, hey, that’s fitting for me. 😂
In all seriousness, if you are someone for whom hygiene is, for whatever reason, a challenge to keep up with, I could not recommend this more enthusiastically. I think not only of people with severe depression, but also people who are victims of the recent economy and who have recently—i.e., within the past five years—become so economically restricted that things like showering (with hot water!) have become a luxury.
I realize that the likelihood of anyone even reading this is near zero. But maybe by some unlikely chance, someone will happen upon this and read it and the information will help them or someone they pass it on to.
Friday, January 16, 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Saturday, January 03, 2026
Regime change wars again
VENEZUELA HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST THE WAR-MONGERING, BLOODTHIRSTY USA!
How many innocent Venezuelans will have to be murdered at our hands?
What the fuck is this all really for? To create another Iraq or Afghanistan?
How many times has Trump said “no more wars”? He’s bombed Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, threatened China, continued proxy wars in Ukraine, Lebanon, and Syria, continued a proxy war and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and now he’s bombing and sending war into Venezuela.
How much money will he pour into war in Venezuela, instead of fixing the problems Americans are suffering here at home?
The legacy of the USA is disgusting.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Luigi Mangione, the making of a Legend
Monday, December 09, 2024
The greater, wider Resistance—
Friday, December 06, 2024
Words matter, dammit
Monday, December 02, 2024
Biden is literally what Dems cried Trump would be.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Video/Report: Israelis in the Media
I was initially hesitant about even watching this video even though the channel / media outlet usually does good work. The title is rather sensational sounding, but more importantly, it triggered a red flag for the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are in control of everything, so it turned me off at first. Exposed: Israeli Spies in U.S. Media Manufacture Consent for Genocide and Empire. I was pleasantly surprised to hear them specifically explain that what they are talking about is not at all like that antisemitic conspiracy theory. In fact, what they are talking about is precisely the sort of thing—one of many things—that I was trying to refer to in my recent post No, Israel doesn’t “control” the U.S.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Marking people with numbers
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Humanity’s ultimate test, and humanity is failing.
Monday, October 21, 2024
No, Israel doesn’t “control” the U.S.
Surely we should have all learned by now not to trust anything the U.S. federal government tells us. Surely no one believes the Biden-Harris administration suddenly had a revelation about Israel’s brutal and unbelievably savage genocide of the Palestinians? Not only are they now suddenly (supposedly) very concerned about Israel’s policy of starvation and no medical care, they have pretty much admitted that they’ve known full well that Israel has been deliberately blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
Don’t believe for a second that they are actually considering the possibility of withholding military supplies and weapons unless Israel makes sure humanitarian aid gets into northern Gaza. That’s not a sincere threat, that’s theater. What is happening is what the U.S. wants. Those at the top in the U.S. govt genuinely don’t fucking care about Palestinians’ lives and welfare, because the racism is deeply bred into them.
I mean, come on, just look at how the U.S. govt treats its own citizens!
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Israel is bad for the environment
Friday, October 18, 2024
He died a hero and a martyr.
Monday, October 07, 2024
One year.
Right now I am supposed to be preparing for the major Hurricane Milton whose path I am literally sitting right in the center of. I am extremely lucky that I am far enough inland that I don’t have to worry about storm surge, and that my mother’s house is a solid structure, and that flooding due to torrential rain and ground saturation is still just down the street from us.
In all honesty, I am having a hard time thinking about anything but the genocide (& etc) in Gaza, West Bank, and now Lebanon.
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Don’t look away
Don’t look away from Gaza, and the West Bank, and Jerusalem. The IOF takes advantage of people’s attention being drawn elsewhere. Their massacres of Palestinians are still very numerous and brutal. And the Lebanese are being attacked precisely because they refuse to look away from Gaza and are standing up for the Palestinians. These people are such beautiful people, such honorable people.
I told you…
I told you the resistance is ready.
Day one Zionazi troops actually try to enter Lebanon, and Hizbollah turns them right back around. Not a good start for the Zionazi IOF.
Monday, September 30, 2024
The Terrorism of Western supremacy, imperialism and hypocrisy
Watching this, and watching the world watch this, and watching my government pretend it’s not happening and pretend they’re so unaware and uninvolved while they facilitate it, and hearing the way people talk about it, the words they choose to use: this has put me in a state of so much stress and anxiety, anguish and grief, disgust and despair, and visceral outrage, that I sometimes start shaking.
To start with, for the record, Hassan Nasrallah was not a terrorist. Do not refer to Hizbollah as a “terrorist organization”.