not a wedding but I guess this tweet is evergreen

an interesting and sad form of transphobia is when someone in a professional setting is more sexist toward your other colleagues than you. it's pretty much impossible to make a stink about without validating the sexism on display and also making myself be treated worse, but it occasionally happens

it's really annoying how the only problem I have with a MacBook Air is that I'm playing a Unity game on it after like two hours it'll just slowly drop frames regardless of how little is going on graphically

16 year old me: don’t tell me what to do 33 year old me: tell me what to do

you know I think I fit into the Logan Square hipster vibe a *lot* better as an egg than I do as a transfemme lmao. maybe I just need to change my haunts

Truly a perfect news alert

whomever invented the 2 1/4 round "decorative" jbox cover, meet me outside I just wanna talk

I appreciate the comically aggressive advertising of goth fashion to me on Instagram, especially with hot curvy models I wish I looked like, but they really should have made sure their account wasn't spelled Fore Stink before they did that

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

a formative trip to ride the subway in Washington DC as a child is probably why I'm such a weird freak about moody indirect lighting today

the first app that has a button for "oh did you see something interesting in the moment between refreshing and the new page loading? wanna go back?" will win my undying loyalty

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

couldn't sleep basically all night due to Vague Body Problems and I'm at the threshold of deciding between sleeping for like five hours and trying to work from home or just toughing it out and slinking into work like a zombie with

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

this one's going to straight to the apps, double-chin be damned

just got back from a Rock Band party and damn we need to play more of that game. are there cool kid ways to "unlock" the whole RBN library on Rock Band 3 now that all those licenses and storefronts are dead anyway

I cannot imagine how someone can be born into a universe with this many remarkable and funny and charming people and choose not to be social. there are no dull stories, from anyone. this place is just full of whimsy and wonder from top to bottom

"Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists." -- Gita Jackson, aftermath.site/anthropic-cl... I feel this in my bones.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

tariffs struck down! Refunds to the companies that paid them! and the consumers that paid them get...???? Uhhhhhhhhhhhh oh no oh god this was the plan the whole time

need a "don't talk to me until you don't have a gender" coffee mug

there's a lot of cool things about often sleeping alone and having a standalone room I can use whenever I want but occasionally it's 1 am and you're like aww dang

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

Get rid of your Rings. They aren't changing a thing. Except "maps' in their ads.

things woud go fucking crazy if me and an open minded woman got up to some bisexual Shit

i dont think cultivating your own feed makes you a nobler or better person, we're all just wasting our one precious life posting dumb bullshit regardless of platform we're on. just really shows how effective the "turn on, tune in, drop out" original brainrotting technique still is

this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals

Wednesday mood

I feel like I'm not really understanding the whole "30 something mall goth to 30 something circus clown" thing, can y'all hang on and gimme time to catch up to the first thing before you move on

if you wear these stupid glasses I'm getting the fuck away from you

my "all my emotional support is solution seeking" shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

are you really nonbinary or are you scared about your body and gender roles are you really binary trans or are you scared to break the mold by being yourself

it tells users what they want to hear, and they stop wanting to hear anything else. they promise us unleashed creativity, and give us only diminished possibilities, the history of human creation fed into itself over and over. a rancid tech culture demanded a way to make more rot, that’s all

it’s a navel-gazing technology by design, and it encourages its users to shrink their worlds to the input and output boxes. it promises efficiencies and new possibilities, leading users to waste days chasing “it should be able to do this”.

the most significant change in the lives of those I’ve observed habituating themselves to LLM use is that they become worse thinkers and speakers. they cut themselves off from interesting conversations to “quickly check ChatGPT”. they regress. they become addicted. they certainly don’t “save time”

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

it is really quite spooky how overstimulating offices are. when you drop in the earplugs and your tinnitus feels slightly louder than normal but everything else dims and it's like a weight is slowly being lifted

yikes :/ so where is every niche internet community migrating to now

Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”

There are one gender

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

I've had a recent string of events where I've gotten to hear what people thought of me after interviewing me for all the jobs I've had since 2019. And man, if I was half as good at doing anything as I was at being interviewed for a job, I'd be rich

at this point I think the only reason I open Instagram at all is because of the targeted ads for designer hot goth girl clothes that will never look good on me

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

maybe one reason nobody goes to Target anymore is because their cheapest SD card is $40 and they won't price match to anyone anymore

spent two weeks at work worrying about a huge design problem, designing experiments to try out different ideas, psyching ourselves up about it... and then the very first thing we tried immediately fixed the problem. I'm relieved and all but damn do I feel stupid

"why does the white house press corps not punish trump for his indecency and dishonesty" like you're asking why the refs miss so many travelling calls at the Globetrotters game

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

we are going to win