"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Using a VPN is good bc of the whole........ *waves hand at surveillance state* But also bc YouTube in Albania has no ads

I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more

I'm not surprised by the zarna garg & usha vance alignment and apparently neither are all the south asian tiktokers dropping receipts on her years of racism lmfao

My god I am sometimes stunned by how many elaborate systems sprang up because people couldn’t stop being weird about sex

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Every year since 2021 🤧🤧 I've been going through a lot leave me alone

sidney sweeney and sabrina carpenter are giving us a rare opportunity to witness a live twin experiment where each side gets one

I really like slutty grinch content plz send me all the slutty grinch content you come across thanks in advance

Started a personal blog :) First post called MARAIS GIRLS: "With 15 days left in my 20s, today I'm celebrating 18 months sober, 3 months living in Paris, and 6 months since my restraining ordered breakup" recoveryinrax.substack.com/p/marais-girls

the only thing more insufferable than rich ppl telling us what they bought is telling us what they COULD have bought

I'm shockingly boring and antisocial and I've been to multiple sex parties. If you want to go to one and aren't: Skill issue.

Just learned that medicaid has been offering $$ incentives to doctors to cut down on c-section bc American doctors do ~20% more than necessary for the extra pay. Another point for my theory that the more money people make, the more they'll compromise for even more money!!!

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

there is honestly no story more banal and overtold than men being irredeemable, and women being drawn to them largely because of it

What a great headline

I am 3 months into this "healing era" move to Paris, and wow. I have seen my confidence and creativity measurably returning, and my trauma triggers reducing. I can do a significantly wider range of things than I could just 3 months ago.

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Decriminalizing sex work will help us in the fight against toxic AI bc the companionship ppl are seeking with these data abusing psychosis-inducing bots is more effectively, and ethically, satisfied by paying real SWs. I can't believe ppl are less embarrassed of dating a bot than paying for sex!

Sci-fi thought AI would conquer us by forming consciousness but i guess it's looking like it'll conquer us by destroying consciousness. Horrifying article!! Really not looking forward to this future!!

u do not know pain and suffering till u need to coordinate something between the Indian embassy, the American embassy, and the French social security office

logging onto LinkedIn and seeing yet another person I thought was smart absolutely bruising their knees worshipping AI

isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

Would it even be normal to not have abandonment issues lol who doesn't feel insane about being abandoned

Paris really cares about art, people show up for exhibitions, artists are funded and celebrated. I get so upset when I think about what AI is going to do to these ecosystems!

I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did. One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.

Everyone wanted to hate Yoko Ono as an artist since the day they learned her name, and she in turn has made a lifetime brand of visionary conceptual art designed to be hated by most ppl - and ppl keep falling for it!!!!!

Ok I've read every Roy Kent & Jamie Tartt fanfic that exists sooooo I guess I have no choice but to start writing

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

to be clear I think it’s good when the good guys successfully manipulate the malevolent idiot king into doing marginally better things

I'm so lucky to be someone who gets to think the thought "wow...friendship really IS the meaning of life" at least like, 4 times a day

While the protein craze is a bit much rn (who needs protein infused tortilla chips???) I'm glad we're in a moment where the trend diet is about MORE of something, instead of less of everything

alright season 2 of Gen V was SO GOOD absolutely top tier suuuuuch a good installation to rejuvenate the universe from The Boys going a lil stale

I've been staying in hostels all around the world since I was 19 and I love them so much but some have age limits so I might be nearing the end of my run 😭😭

As someone who has frequently defended free speech rights of sex workers and sex work advocates, it's completely unsurprising but nevertheless galling to be reminded once again how POWERFUL MEN talk fondly about sex work in private while demonizing it and pushing oppressive laws about it publicly.

my family plan friend group is about to get off Spotify, so what are the more ethical music platform y'all are using? and is there any way to port my existing playlists

Duolingo is either super addicting and I want to do tons of it in a row .. or it is an irritating chore. No in between

why do I have to eat again I just did that yesterday

I cannot overstate the impact Emmy Rossum's acting had on me truly Fiona Gallagher & Christine Daaé are 2 of the highest impact characters in film/tv in my life and they're such diametrically opposite roles!! I absolutely lose my mind every time I remember she's BOTH OF THEM

My fav response to a text is "I was just thinking about you!"

Cleared out my insta for the first time ever - 13 YEARS of content. Here's a photo I took of the screen of my BLACKBERRY, using my iPod touch.

every day I feel better knowing that money really really did not buy happiness, confidence, or peace for elon

My life got so big when I started believing the things my friends say about me

this is a dolphin fetus

Idk do people follow each other on Letterboxd and Goodreads bc I want to know your opinions Letterboxd: boxd.it/4z8tx Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/62...

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

The fact that iPhone has a separate set of sounds for just their "wake-up/bedtime" alarms that you are only allowed to use once a day and for no other alarms is INSANE and classic Apple UX nonsense

as a recovering alcoholic I find it offensive that people are saying "well he got the nazi skull while he was drunk" okay and? I got blackout drunk and did stupid shit tons of times and I never woke up with a nazi tattoo