small talk enjoyers when the weather is in any way notable:
one time me me coworker had a drink break that lasted literal seconds because we were so busy. we did a literal full How’s The Kids How’s The Wife routine. we were both 18
i’m so obsessed with this guy who just makes weird hand-stitched footballs. this video has millions of views on ig and tiktok but w/e look at this reference orange immortalized forever through the medium of Ball
You can be talking to someone and she’ll be like, “Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don’t deserve voting rights teehee.” And you’ll be like, “What.” And she’ll be like, “Oh I’m sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it’s this Tiktok meme where, if you’re a girl and you do something dumb, you say ‘Women don’t deserve voting rights teehee.’”
And you’ll be like, “That sounds bad.” And she’ll be like, “No no. It’s totally not that bad. It’s just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he’ll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.’” And you’ll be like, “Does that make it better?” And she’ll be like, “Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn’t vote’ a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot.”
And then you drop it there because like, you’re harshing the vibe.
y'all r way too comfortable calling transfems who don’t meet ur standards for femininity “butch”
points at these tags. if you haven’t seen her call herself butch, you do not call her a fucking butch
[Alt text: #butch is label that people use to describe themselves and their relationship to their gender/gender presentation #not something you can call people you don’t know /.End alt text]
So let me get this straight, I’ve spent 26 years and counting being told that I’m disgusting and wrong for being trans and for being gay and I’m allowed to be hurt by that and to say that it’s wrong. But when other queer people tell me I’m disgusting and wrong for being a man and for being attracted to men, I’m supposed to act like that somehow different and okay?
Dismantling the relationship hierarchy is not about rearranging it so that sexual and romantic relationships are devalued while QPRs become the new “more than friends.” We need to completely do away with the idea that relationships exist on a fixed hierarchy. Some people will consider friend(s) or a zucchini/QPP the most important part of their life. For some people, their most important relationship will be a sexual relationship (and not necessarily one which includes romance!). And some people will still consider their romantic partner the most important person in their life, and that’s fine too.
Just as it’s harmful to tell an aroace person that romantic and sexual relationships are the most important ones, it’s also harmful to tell an alloaro person that sex is inherently less important than romance or to tell an alloromantic aplatonic person that friendship is inherently more important than romance. There is no way to rank relationships that will not devalue the experiences of at least one group of people, nor is there any reason why we need to rank relationships in the first place.
“getting laid” is very hot and sexy. “getting off”? great news as well. so you would think “getting laid off” would be wonderful news for your penis. but alas
does anyone have that post w the screenshots of like how queer people labelled themselves a couple decades ago like w all the contradictory labels n all
Radfems are always so fucking ignorant about menstrual health and it’s so embarassing for them
You could be complaining about your uterus actively being in the process of killing you & doctors refusing to save you by giving you a hysterectomy & a radfem would crawl out of a hole somewhere to tell you that you only hate your uterus because of internalized misogyny
They’ll literally pretend there’s just no reason anyone would want a hysterectomy other than that they hate womanhood & I assume it’s because they somehow manage to know even less about these things than the average cis het man & feel just as, if not even more, entitled to controlling other people’s bodies based on their ideology
If I considered myself a radical feminist fighting for women’s rights and I didn’t even know the basic most common reasons why someone might opt for a hysterectomy, I would honestly just kill myself
Just like religious conservatives, radfems also care much more about the uterus than the person. They don’t care how much pain you’re in, you’re just a walking womb to them. But they will of course insist that their whole cause is protecting women (including from themselves), just like all misogynists
Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.
SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.
SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!
Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?
SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)
Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok
A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)
16 hours later:
Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.
My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.
So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.
This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.
People who try to copy historical writing styles don’t say enough weird stuff in them. I’m listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was “I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter”.
the kind of people who make it an entire part of their personality that they’re “kind” are always the people who do the most heinous abusive shit to you and they can never acknowledge it because to do so would go against their self conception of themselves as ontologically good people. they’re always people who have like “be kind <3 just trying to make my way through the world as a little sunflower <3” as their bio or whatever and they’re always the same people who will do shit like unperson someone over the most casual interpersonal conflicts. also they are almost always remarkably racist liberals.
like their bio is like “hufflepuff ♡ delicate lights ♡ lana del rey ♡ beloved I want my soul to glimmer in your starlight ♡ there are twice as many stars tonight” and then you find out that they like violently abused a transgender woman they basically kept in their basement as a pet-mother-servant-caretaker-torture puppet for like half a decade.
letting these people go to therapy and learn therapy speak is like handing someone a loaded gun too they’re like honor roll students in the advanced DARVO major program
the kind of people who make it an entire part of their personality that they’re “kind” are always the people who do the most heinous abusive shit to you and they can never acknowledge it because to do so would go against their self conception of themselves as ontologically good people. they’re always people who have like “be kind <3 just trying to make my way through the world as a little sunflower <3” as their bio or whatever and they’re always the same people who will do shit like unperson someone over the most casual interpersonal conflicts. also they are almost always remarkably racist liberals.
like their bio is like “hufflepuff ♡ delicate lights ♡ lana del rey ♡ beloved I want my soul to glimmer in your starlight ♡ there are twice as many stars tonight” and then you find out that they like violently abused a transgender woman they basically kept in their basement as a pet-mother-servant-caretaker-torture puppet for like half a decade.
letting these people go to therapy and learn therapy speak is like handing someone a loaded gun too they’re like honor roll students in the advanced DARVO major program
adults disciplining children: i think i will communicate with this brand new human in the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious and socially off-putting way possible
adults disciplining children: i think i will behave in ways that are completely, radically unacceptable in literally any other scenario
adults disciplining children: welcome to earth! for the next ten years i will treat you in ways that i would not dare treat any other person. i do not treat other people this way because i know it is bad and wrong. hope you understand.
working here so far is rlly eye opening to the kinds of health we need to start doing like rn while we r young tbfh both physical and mental like im about to take my posture and stretching / working out more serious bc the amount of absolutely destroyed backs and lost of ability to do basic functions is crazy in some of my residents and another thing is if you have bad relationships to food or dieting you need to ummmm fix that, very soon, one of my residents is constantly talking about how she needs to lose weight and can’t eat bc shes gotten too fat (she is 109 pounds) and says she needs to look 26 again and this lady is constantly being sent out for literal ivs and feeding tubes bc she refuses to eat a lot and barely gets but on protein shakes and other stuff in that group and she has terrible dementia, cant remember her name her age her children her husband her achievements how to even use a remote but she remembers the intentional starving and is eternally punishing herself for shit she stuck to in her younger years and idk yall the “hehe only eating a iced coffee and a cigarette” shit isn’t gonna be cute anymore when ur in one of these homes (and thats the luckier outcome) and u can’t remember shit but that u “need” to starve yourself
Cats and small kids are curious about what you’re doing in much of the same way. Sometimes when you seem to be up to something, they want to see what it is. If you try to keep a cat from sniffing something to find out what it is, they’ll keep insisting, louder and louder, “let me sniff, let me sniff,LET ME SNIFF, LET ME SNIFF!!” until you do.
And then they sniff at it for two seconds and go “oh, oooh. Now I get it. Don’t care” and wander off. But the demand to know will remain for as long as the thing is kept from them.
This one time when I was in nursing school, I had a training period in a kindergarten. One day I was chatting with one of the workers, telling her about this one time when I was in Kentucky due to my boyfriend at the time living there, and I saw this huge locally native spider-
And then I got interrupted by this one specific kid - a four-year-old boy who had taken a liking to me, sharp as hell and never missed a single thing. Looking at me with a deeply baffled, wide-eyed frown that kids that age do when Shit Does Not Add Up, he asked me: Boyfriend? If you’re a boy, why did you have a boyfriend?
Not sure what else to say, I just shrugged and said that it happens sometimes, sometimes men fall in love with men or women fall in love with women. And I could practically observe in real time as his confusion disappeared in a blink, as this previously completely unfathomable piece of information entered his brain, was swiftly processed, and instantly filed into “boring grownup shit that I don’t care about”. He only had one follow-up question:
first you have to remember that the first disco ball was painstakingly put together by hand from nothing but an idea and lots of intricately cut glass and bandaids and then you have to think about the experience of being under a disco ball for the very first time, bathed in reflections of an era that has not yet come to past, and finally you end up wondering what else there is around you that has yet to be unearthed by something with so much as a silly name
I remembered this post a few nights ago while I was out and looking up at this massive disco ball and I needed to find it but I couldn’t so I just googled disco ball and stood there in the middle of the concert floor reading the disco ball Wikipedia entry. anyway did you know that the disco ball is German in origin.
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