AI isn't the first tech to atrophy people's intellectual agility, reducing my online time has definitely rescued not just attention span but my relationship to written language, reading and writing, after ending the 280 character asphyxiation of thought that is the reality of social media overuse.

I hate to praise Britain for much these days, but taking firearms away from rich nonces could in fact turn out to be a popular idea in more than just one English speaking country if it ever catches on.

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*Galadriel voice* But they were all of them deceived, for a second day of Christmas was made

One of the hardest life lessons I ever learned was that "I can save her" does NOT mean "therefore she must want to save me, I credulously assume I'm safe to count on this ☺️" Learning that (if you've lived a weird enough life that you need to) is granting yourself a brand new right to choose things.

Marathon is starting to look like a much more interesting game than I'd been idly assuming since they announced it

This is my first Christmas since finally managing to stomp out the last inadvisable embers of love that I still held for my genetic family. Huge relief to confirm I truly don't miss them at all; I've got a proper family now. Homemade, hand-made, superior, actually worth spending the holidays with. 🎁

I don't know why but a lot of the "proud European" internet users have a massive inferiority complex when it comes to interacting with (people they think are) Americans

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

In our actual cyberpunk dystopia, there will remain in the dark nooks and crannies of the world machines which are cognitohazards people must avoid. Young people told "if you see one, don't fucking talk to it. Don't ask it any questions. It will drive you mad and get you to kill yourself."

Greek Mythology: and it has the body of a lion. Average Greek: Ah, yes, a lion. The thing I’ve seen before and can picture.

conservative guy: in my proud heterosexual family it's called CHRISTMAS, and there's no disgusting pandering to greedy homosexuals who will NEVER own Christ's birth me: *squinting* homo...sex...Yule

When trans people express dismay that society and our families hate us on such a deep level, the usual gaslighting kneejerk is to tell us we must be exaggerating for dramatic effect. Wretchedly, this (awful, unnecessary) poll disproves that line of argument very neatly. I WISH we were exaggerating.

It's gonna be so weird seeing Detective Miller playing Bones McCoy in the next season of Strange New Worlds, can't wait to [legitimately pay for] it

It was always only about destroying a trans woman and turning manufactured outrage into a career in media. This is the message: they can destroy any trans person they want on a whim, for nothing more than daring to exist and demand to be treated with dignity.

that look that says “check your phone NOW because we need to discuss this conversation we’re both overhearing”

brb making this colourscheme for vim (not visual studio code, fucking scabs)

The best colour schemes can be described as "faggy but serious"

JFC. I just typed "Erica Kirk" into Google, and it suggested "grift." That's how many people are apparently looking for it.

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

Stop internalizing all of the abuse and horrible things from your past, mocking and/or tormenting yourself is doing exactly what they want. Your abusers didn't win, remember that.

I was doing this for probably 20+ times a day for at least most of my adult life. Making the decision to stop and be kinder to myself, I haven't done it in almost 2 weeks! It really fucks with you when your own internality is one of learned self loathing and judgement.

me tagging my friends in snafus so vague they can use them like a tarot reading for what they're hating on recently

Oh come on, be fair. That could be ANY member of the royal family whose name begins with A, is a known associate of Epstein, and who left the Royal Navy in 2001.

If this is the level of secrecy these morons are capable of then the Epstein files are only going to keep getting spicier

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Maddie and I went through the exact same medical gatekeepers at the exact same time. I'm heavily traumatised but she has at least as much trauma as me. Too many coincidences for both of us, which got me a whole year of EMDR and her nothing, seemed to favour my class coding over her medical criteria.

Less class discrimination would also be really nice. Person A with recieved pronunciation: Gets referral and treatment. Person B without RP: Gets referred, eventually, and subsequently ignored. It's systemic across all the services though tbf 🤷‍♀️

You get a k/d score at the end of your life but it's how many times you've broken hearts vs how many times you've been heartbroken

This really is a mercy these days

You can't have a serious new year's resolution, it has to be an excuse for something you already resolved to do. In 2026 I will wear prettier outfits and post more selfies, might as well call that a resolution since I'm already resolved. Cunt will be served shortly after tea.

I understand Andrew Tate losing a fight and then pretending he threw it deliberately to win big, I'm a bratty princess sub too

Bluesky sucks in different ways at different times but I do appreciate that it's rarer now that I'll have to spend significant time quietly making myself aware of all the details of some god awful dust up among mutuals so that I don't unwittingly get sucked into someone's side

I am in therapy. I have no idea what precisely it's going to do beyond the vague indication I decided to go in for, but it's got to do something. It's bad enough that I cannot function with it and continue living, and that doesn't even mean killing myself.

The fact that as a cis man you feel that you can respond to trans people telling you how our rights are under attack with "lol fuck u I know better" suggests you don't actually give all that much of a shit about the liberty of trans people.

It's genuinely insane that Ann Widdecombe (a socially conservative religious zealot) sensibly opposed this idea because she opposes trans women being raped. Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'. For opposing rape.

Man I feel like shit from that tear the other week, and I will for probably a month now, but also the days where I feel like shit are so much better than they used to be. This year has been a series of hard won victories, I've come to terms that my body is still disabled but my mind has agency.

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

I'll give avatar credit for having sci-fi worldbuilding that somehow feels like it came out of chatgpt 10 years before it became a thing

"What are you gonna do, shithead? Play Nintendo like a baby? Go ahead, jerkoff, get a PlayStation. The Nokia N-Gage will still be here when you come to your senses."

Therapy was essential for me to even begin to be able to undo so much learned helplessness caused by so much trauma. People who need treatment NEED TREATMENT. This shit needs to be funded and it needs to be accessible, and tbh I think the economy needs it almost as badly as the poor fuckers in it.

I think it also reflects a sense that the only way to save the planet is to get a big lizard to eat all the capitalists.

It's interesting how many Godzilla movies now not only favour ecology as a major theme but also pose the big guy himself as an ally and necessity to humanity considering I thought he was originally invented in 1954 to represent the horror of the nuclear bomb and the trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

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Girl are you the Castel Sant'Angelo because you look awful and I need to be inside you

Women deserve more dopamine

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