working at petsmart radicalized me about everything but mostly in the stupidest ways

The American nationalists stealing Japanese-originating pop culture for their shitty promo vids is telling on themselves

#UnhingedPit #CS #F #YA

Slamming Tylenol like tic tacs so my children will be gods

I don't need someone who looks like an exhumed corpse telling me to stop being autistic, thanks

I read somewhere, years ago, a theory that boys openly drawing dicks everywhere is an subconscious way to make sure their dick looked normal and healthy, that no one stepped in to tell them "whoa that looks wrong" meanwhile every teenage girl assumes her vulva is wrong, and ugly, and unattractive

three different kinds of social media out there - framework for topic-centered normal interaction (reddit, vbulletins) - errybody scream into the void and sometimes scream back (twitter, bsky) - here is a cultivated summary of my life for my high school enemies and annoying relatives (insta, fb)

America be like Free* Speech (plus $29.99 shipping and handling)

I have the most overly formal, linguistically proper texts of anyone I know and even I don't text like that

hear me out: ASMR but it's just softly infodumping and fidgeting

Just here to say the regime is absolutely making millennials even more insufferable. Now we'll be telling you forever "when I was your age America was free" "used to be you could say whatever you liked about the president and no one could do a thing about it" "oh yeah I just applied for citizenship"

More people in the United States have extra nipples than the name Michael.

There's no way people are actually upset over the cartoon M&Ms, right? This has to be disinformation and satire, right?

Reasonable workplace accommodations should include at least one Amelia Bedelia book being mandatory reading for anyone who considers themself my supervisor

The thing people don't get is that freedom has to mean letting people do things you disagree with, dislike, and find offensive. I'm free to wear hijab. You're free to not. You're free to bitch out a random cashier for dressing differently than you. I'm free to yell about it on the internet.

the 21st century feels like being in a tabletop RPG with a bunch of people who look up a character build on reddit that will let them beat god in one round, and then they still spend half the game arguing with the GM to let them do extra bullshit

This is it. This is what gets me. That there's layers upon layers of people whose approval I need to be allowed to be alive.

Zelda 2. Old Kasuto. Especially something about the way the simple graphics made it unclear if the houses had fallen into normal disrepair, or been partly eaten by the ghosts (3-year-old me's second scariest theory) or been built that way for some reason (bizarrely, even scarier)

If the US government had to pay for medical care of its citizens, it might care more about climate change impacts, air and water pollution, gun violence, traffic crashes, the food we eat, etc. It’s past time for single payer healthcare.

I know my mental health is bad because I'm playing Pokemon Go between turns in Hearthstone while listening to music while squishing a fidget toy while painting my nails, to try to minimize time I can think.

really starting to feel like time to get some sheep and go climb a mountain

I have 15 Azelfs in Pokemon Go and I really ought to be turning some of them into candy but I don't want to when I can have 15 Azelfs and one of them is shiny

I'm really tired of 24 hour days and 28 hour days worth of things needing done

subway sandwiches, twisted tea, and soup for my family make a nice picnic

Dear 2028 presidential hopefuls: Want ALL THE VOTES? Get behind these: * UBI * Universal healthcare * Tax billionaires to encourage them to spend instead of hoarding wealth * Rebuild & restore trust in public institutions * Invest in infrastructure * Protect ALL marginalized people * No genocide

excellent way to practice your talking on the phone! zero judgment from anyone who can affect your life! being somewhat annoying is a bonus, not a risk!

where I've been #pennsic

This is who runs this account.

A statement from Bend the Arc CEO @jamieberan.bsky.social: Food aid to Gaza is critical. And it won’t be enough. Yesterday, 35 rabbis were arrested in Washington, D.C. and New York City. A day prior, another eight rabbis were arrested. Tens of thousands of Jews have taken action. 🧵

People who name their cars and their laptops and shit scare me with their coping skills. I cry to get rid of anything broken because IT DESERVES TO BE VALUED SEPARATE FROM ITS USEFULNESS, and folks out here setting themselves up to extra humanize a possession they'd already be super upset to lose?

I could not write spicy scenes if my life depended on it. And yet I wholeheartedly believe people should be free to read and write the horniest, smuttiest books they can imagine. Government is here to manage free healthcare and pave the roads, not to tell people they can't publish werewolf sex.

I am increasingly convinced a worrying amount of society's problems stem from people who just leave their capacity for empathy on autopilot. Neighbor? Human. Observable facial expressions? Human. Name known? Human. Hypothetical people in the news? Definitely not human.

I am a writer in a film. I go to the quaint little coffee shop to write, where I can sit at the same table in five different scenes and no one is ever already sitting there or awkwardly too close. As soon as my book is published I quit my day job.

Drop your 10/10 game, no context needed

Apparently my new hires were so curious about my accent they started a betting pool about where I was from and yesterday finally dared someone to ask. Joke's on y'all, I've spent my entire life in a 100 mile radius and my accent is autism. They don't consider this to be me winning. I think I win.

A scary number of people who say you'll regret tats/piercings are looking at it with the same mindset as when they say painting your house a fun color damage the value. They're telling you someone might want you less as an owned object someday and you should prioritize that over your own happiness.

The existing default in liberal-democratic political philosophy circles is basically to assume that children (meaning, anyone under 18) are entitled neither to any political rights nor to any very substantial degree of personal autonomy IMO this undermines the entire liberal project!

Okay, let's do this. One like, one opinion that's not on politics.

I want there to be a nice word for being critical of things we love because they're important to us. Probably one of these days an internet post listing "twelve beautiful words for emotions" will have one, and it'll be nine syllables and German and I won't trust the post to actually use it right.

#writesky #writingcommunity #resplendentchronicles Once she'd done what she could to help comfort the people around her, Idelys would most want to see her older brother or her best friend before the end. When it comes down to it, family (including found family) is the most important thing to her.

#writesky #writingcommunity #resplendentchronicles Idelys's biggest skill is her awareness of the people around her. It gives her an edge in coordinating tactics, even if it sometimes makes her overthink things. She mostly notices the downsides, and would really rather have better reflexes instead.

#writesky #writingcommunity #resplendentchronicles Idelys would probably say her role model is the historic hero Nikephoros, a lady knight from an ancient kingdom, but she picks up a few more relatable mentors along the way. She can't really imagine her idol having social anxiety like she does.

🧵/ I know I'm beating a perfectly living horse on this one but the word 'migrant' is a part of the problem. A really tiny itsy bitsy little cog in the death machine, but it is one. Because it's that word that lets them characterize the people they're dehumanizing as not the people we know.

so I want UBI and for labor to be obsolete, but for right now can we settle for, don't tell someone to get a job if you wouldn't hire them. if you ain't gonna want 85yo disabled retirees working for you then you SHOULD want them to have SSI and Medicaid.

Would anyone want to adopt French Fry if I can confirm she will reliably use a litter box? She's good with kids, other cats, and is super friendly now she knows humans won't eat her. I'll drive about 3 hours, so PA, MD, WV, VA, NJ

Watching my pink-eyed white rat try to balance wanting snuggles and wanting utter darkness. There should be sunglasses for albino pets. Sunglasses for leopard geckos. Sunglasses for mice. Sunglasses for Lin the rat so she doesn't have to try to hide in my asscrack.

On behalf of America, thank you Silvana Garza Valdez and María Paula Zárate for saving our children.

if you're not inching farther left every time Nancy Mace says something are you even human

I guess it's the face-eating alligators party now

I was going to make a leopards eating faces joke, and then I remembered they're unironically voting for people to be eaten by wild animals. Like. Damn. The conservatives are really killing satire right now. What do I even say to that.