i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said “your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising” one of the tags responding said “this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome” like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There’s a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn’t getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There’s a difference between whom you’re helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you’re choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don’t have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don’t like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you’re serious about leftist organizing.
i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said “your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising” one of the tags responding said “this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome” like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There’s a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn’t getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There’s a difference between whom you’re helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you’re choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don’t have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don’t like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you’re serious about leftist organizing.
emotional neglect didnt even affect me that much. it was the being born inherently without value that did most of the work
emotional neglect isn’t even that bad, I mean you can get pretty good at not rly caring. why care how people treat you when you can just turn off the part of you that cares?
you’re allowed to say “sex” on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don’t have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or “spice” any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe
you’re allowed to say “sex” on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don’t have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or “spice” any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe
Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.
It’s fun when you can tell things about people by what colours they like to surround themselves with. Someone who likes wearing and decorating all their stuff with green is usually a calm, chill, down to earth kind of a person. They don’t usually even notice how much of all their things are green, they just see a green thing and think “oh, pretty” and don’t even put together just how much of their stuff ends up unintentionally being green.
Someone whose clothes and stuff are predominantly purple is something else, that’s a Distinct Kind Of Personality who enjoys having a distinct colour scheme and goes out of their way to get it. Purple is too unusual of a colour to just accumulate unintentionally. A person whose belongings are mainly purple enjoys knowing that the people who know them probably first think “oh, That Person would probably like that” whenever they see something purple.
But someone who specifically enjoys the combination of purple and green? Yeah that’s a harder than average herb wizard.
advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love
You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you
I made heart eyes at a vegetable steamer at the thrift shop yesterday (which I brought home) and my bed is covered with IKEA sharks and squishmallows
Guess which friends end up on the floor when I have to make room for my body and my cats on the bed
Yes it is the extra bed pillows and decorative throw pillows
Every time a small child starts crying or having a tantrum in my vicinity and I catch the parents glancing at me I’ve started saying “me when…”.
Friend kept trying to tell his crying kindergartener to calm down and relax and the kid growled “I AM relaxed” while visibly tensing every muscle in his body and I was like “oh that’s me at work every day” and we had a chuckle.
Parents look to other adults like “shit are they mad? Do they think my kid is acting like a demon?” And this response is my attempt to say “no. I think your kid is just acting like a human being.”
I WISH I could fling myself on the ground and cry because I experienced a minor inconvenience.
SU having a whole-ass episode with the moral of ‘you know sometimes you and your friends will have different feelings about the same piece of fiction and that’s fine, don’t get too worked up over it’ hits different after learning how the internet treated this show while it was running.
i sit down to write and suddenly i am the most distracted human alive. the chair is uncomfortable. my coffee is too hot. my playlist isn’t quite the vibe. i need to research what victorian houses smelled like in 1872 for exactly 45 minutes even though my story takes place in space. and yet the moment i’m trying to fall asleep? every single sentence i’ve ever needed just lines up perfectly in my brain like some kind of creative parade i’ll never get back.
This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author’s personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn’t gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning–she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.
It’s actually funny how humans decided “fuck living in caves with all these creepy crawlies”, got out of caves, built houses that have all the nice parts of a cave without any of the yucky parts, and then all the little bugs and spiders and other creepy crawly creatures that used to also live in caves thought “sweet, new and improved caves” and moved right back in with us.
Briana Boston faces terrorism charges and CEOs are getting free therapy
Briana Boston is a 42 year old mother of three from Florida who is under house arrest for expressing her frustration at her insurance (which she PAYS for) who denied her claim. She owns ZERO guns and doesn’t have a criminal record.
She was originally held in prison for $100,000 bail. They have not dropped the charges and she is under house arrest even after widespread backlash.
They are trying to charge her with terrorism. They want her to spend 15 years in prison.
They are calling her a Luigi Mangione copycat. As if she killed someone. She made a indirect, not at all credible threat.
Meanwhile…
I want every woman who has ever faced threats online, stalking, etc to bring this Briana Boston up at every opportunity. Every time you were told by police that there was nothing they could do, know that they not only CAN do something, but they WILL do something, just not for you.
tldr; not only is “Terrorism” a harder charge to “prove” in NY compared to “murder”, this charge would make it easier to present the elements that made Luigi a folk hero to the jury.
normal costars after finishing a film: yeah it was a pleasure working with them
ariana grande and cynthia erivo after filming wicked: she’s my bosom friend, my other half, my soulmate and we are eternally bonded in spirit. we got matching tattoos that touch when we hold hands. i cry when she cries because our bodies are permanently attuned to the other’s emotional wavelength. i would literally fall on a blade and move mountains for that woman. also we forged a blood pact once
*walks into bar* *sits in a booth with ppl in it* dont yall love being cis? i love to be cis, its good. (whispering to small lizard under the table: what do cis people drink? milk? you said milk?) yall got milk at this bar?
This year I had the pleasure to play the game that got me into animation, giving me the chance to break out of my shell and meet new people and do new things! I’m so grateful for that. Thanks for your love and support!
WOOHOO!! Thanks for the support guys! I’m glad you liked it!!
This year I had the pleasure to play the game that got me into animation, giving me the chance to break out of my shell and meet new people and do new things! I’m so grateful for that. Thanks for your love and support!
WOOHOO!! Thanks for the support guys! I’m glad you liked it!!
About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It’s sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm… but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.
It gets so bad he’s always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.
So he buys the ad-free tier, and it’s great… for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from ‘premium partners’. So he goes up a level… and the same thing happens.
So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila… he can sleep.
Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he’ notionally have bought if he’d watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y’ calculation.
The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors’ so he RICO’s this guy’s house and possessions and sends him to jail.
… which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money… there’s no ads and now he’s happy because the only place he’s free… is in prison.
Which at the time was a bit much and now it’s like: Called it.
Elon’s suing companies for not advertising because he’s losing revenue. He’s also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts… and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.
And google’s going around freaking out about ad-blockers.
