you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

no one in the comments has listened

i think if you folded a pizza in half it wouldn’t be very easy to eat and i would not eat it anyway actually because i am lactose intolerant. but if i did eat it i would unfold it first because the folded pizza would be too tall to fit in my mouth unless i squished. also if i shoot a bullet from the moon and it kills someone in texas do the texas police have jurisdiction or do the moon police?

you, though. 

you have listened.

I think Ludwig Wittgenstein would approve of this post. Bertrand Russell, too. I'd be curious to know Paul Grice's thoughts on it, as well.

Okay, that is NOT Ludwig Wittgenstein in the GIF but I feel that Adam Driver could play him well in a film or for an audiobook. Just sayin'.

Adhd will have you too burnt out to eat or shower but give you the hubris to decide you can homebrew an entire d&d system on the back of a receipt

#yeah hubris is what the h stands for

THIS. I have lived this so fucking much throughout my life. The only reason it's eased any is possibly because--at this point in my life--I'm too goddamn tired and rundown to be about that "awake for three days writing with no sleep, no showering, no eating, barely any water" life.

I kinda miss it. But I kinda REALLY don't.

DAYUM. It's like that, huh? I'mma just clutch my melanin a wee bit closer for the next little while, and be grateful that of all my many points of discomfort brought about by simply existing ... all the sun has ever done to me is make me sweat and melt my frozen desserts.

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

How zionists talk about the murder of 4, 8 and 10 years old children

The “terrorists” in question

Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?  I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.

The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth

#Children’s media used to be about making you feel the entire depth and breadth of the human emotional spectrum#All while your 7 y/o brain struggled to make sense of if all. But it was like an emotional vaccine#Comprehending loss at that age didn’t make it any easier to bear with age. But atleast it was familiar (conserving these tags by @jonairadreaming because yes)

I remember this film, this scene, so clearly. I saw this in the theater when it was released and I sobbed and laughed and felt good at the end, even though I had been and still was sad. Littlefoot's mommy died but he found more family, eventually. It didn't make the loss of his mother not hurt but he made peace with it and could bear it better because he made real friends who became real family. Do-or-die RIDE-OR-DIES. When my mom and I walked home from the theater, about a mile or so through our part of Brooklyn, I was very quiet. I had a lot to think about and my mom let me. And even though thinking about losing MY mommy still terrifies the shit out of me, since that night, when I think about it (VERY often, as I get older) I also think about carrying her with me in things I say and do, and some of the ways I'll be, even when I'M in my 70s. I don't believe in life/a perpetuated consciousness after death and I'm not sure I ever have. I don't even wish it was true anymore nor do I even want to believe anymore. And I'll in all likelihood never raise children. But I'll do my best to carry my mother with me in the best ways I can. If the examples I live--even just one--go on to inspire or even nudge others to do something helpful and better-intentioned, in their turn ... to pay it forward, then that's her legacy carried on. My grandmother's legacy carried on. The legacy of my grandmother's mother, who died very young, carried on. They'll live forever through their actions and mine, just as I will through my own and someone else's. The great circle of life, I guess. Well-before The Lion King did its appropriating bullshit-ery.

I tend to equate emotional comfort explicitly given with flat-out lies and delusions accepted. But ... not what Rooter said. Rooter's the real deal, spittin' wisdom and facts. His take on life and death is one of few versions of comfort I trust by instinct and on further examination. Even the absurdist in me gives a Sisyphean half-smile at Rooter's words, and nods. And keeps pushing that boulder uphill.

Even just these stills shown above make me eight years old again, and really, truly beginning to reckon with death for the first time in a sticky, crowded Brooklyn movie theater. In a way, I never left that theater and showing--I am still, in many ways, reckoning with death, and life, in terms that I learned and that have been shaped by this film.

Fuck you, Don Bluth, for helping me learn empathy and person-ing better. Nobody asked you to do that <3

Reblogging this again now because DON’T GODDAMN FORGET

As a recovering Capitalism True Believer, and a former aspiring economist… this one hurts.

Capitalism, y'all.

Why is it so easy for people to understand that gay men may want to appropriate and play with femininity but so hard for them to understand gay women might want to do the same with masculinity

So easy to comprehend calling them bitches and queens. To understand when a gay man greets another with a hey girl. But for a gay woman to want to be a king or prince. To want to be called man casually. Use the occasional he. Suddenly this is unheard of

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

kill one group of aid workers with explicit intent so that all other potential or currently operating aid organizations pull out of the region to ensure gaza starves with no one willing to risk helping her people. deep sickness

Even during war in Medieval Europe, clerics and healers weren't to be killed. The soldiers who did so were not celebrated for it. I'm sure it happened often enough and not always by accident but it wasn't a stated objective to be proud of. At least on paper, as it were, it was considered dishonorable.

In our Modern Era ... all pretense is gone AF. They're taking out the bringers of comfort and aid ... the clerics and healers. When has history ever looked kindly on that? Has humanity reached that point at last--the point where we are now WORSE than medieval barbarians who burned "witches" and "healed" broken legs with leeches? Even they had concepts of war crimes. Even they knew killing the people bringing bandages and broth was not good. They not only had that ethical line but he common-damn-sense to not kill people who would just as faithfully come to THEIR aid, as well, should they need it.

In our Modern World, we're no longer at a "turning point" ... we've barreled 'round the turn without even slowing down. Noncombatants and aid workers are being TARGETED. They're not remotely collateral damage. And all this FACT gets is a Disappointed Face and a sad shrug from the, ahem, most powerful people in the world.

THIS--all factions that aren't standing up and crying out against this genocide--is systematic evil. The world is allowing it to continue and to ramp up. History may have been written by the victors but that doesn't hold as true in a world with Internet and the Wayback Machine, and many other ways of recording history as it actually happened. This won't be hidden nor forgotten. Especially since folks are way-past tired of it being forgiven. Blood doesn't wash away the crimes that let it, only throws those crimes into greater relief.

Oh my god… the cat can’t move because they have a human on

boot’s on the other foot now motherfucker

Shout-out to attention-seekers before they chase that attention-fix. Sometimes, wishes come true and they stay that way :-D

I’ve been staring at this gif for ages and it’s so funny.

Maul is just showing off and does this completely unnecessary jump to back away, doesn’t bother to use the Force to open the doors but throws something at the controls.

AND FUCKING OBI-WAN KENOBI CASUALLY WALKS UP TO HIM, SWINGING HIS LIGHTSABER LIKE “YEAH I’M GONNA FUCK YOU UP BITCH”

The longer I look at it the funnier it gets. He’s just not impressed at all lmao

And he keeps doing it.

When Kenobi does The Walk™, your ass is about to get beat

When Kenobi does

The Walk™, your ass is

about to get beat

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

AGREED. That walk is one of many things that makes MacGregor!Obi-Wan sexy AF. This is a Jedi who knows EXACTLY how to handle you. Just sayin'.

i hate when ppl say shit like BUT ANTIDEPRESSANTS ALTER YOUR BRAIN FUNCTION UNNATURALLY READ UP ON IT NURGGHH like yeah, youre right, they force it to produce serotonin so i can function, similar to how i take thyroxine bc my thyroid doesnt fucking make the right shit, similar to how people with diabetes take insulin, similar to how people with low iron take iron supplements, you thin slice of nutloaf

do you yell at people for eating food bc their body doesnt just naturally photosynthesize energy on its own

Never not reblog.

On point

As a former humanities student, I feel it is my duty to reblog this one.

A tech bro tried to convince me AI was amazing cause "you could make 30,000 screenplays in minutes" not realising that every single one would be shit, you'd have to sift through everything just to find some good bits, time wasted that could've been spent just writing a screenplay.

Technology Brothers know nothing about what goes into creating a work, other than the fact a work has been created to be exploited for cash. They see creativity as an investment opportunity, not a love for humanity.

Matthew Dow Smith: "Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date."

Zoozve, my beloved

"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."

This is my favorite line.

I have learned so many things from this.