I genuinely think that social media has become people’s confession booth where they look for forgiveness (or punishment) from a bunch of strangers
This is why we know too much about each other
I discovered today the a the worlds most perfect song (It’s All Coming Back to Me Now by Céline Dion) IS ABOUT WUTHERING HEIGHTS????
There has always been something about the English shitting on Americans that feels like your abusive alcoholic father lecturing you about getting your life together after he went to two AA meetings and started dating a 23 year old yoga instructor
I’ve become insufferable when anyone sends me gendered content. “This is nonsense. This person has no qualifications. All gendered content produces outsized emotional reactions while deepening the gender divide thus serving the platform owner buy increasing engagement while preventing solidarity.”
There was a really good vid that Taylor Lorenz did recently about actually missing posting and social media and it’s true! I miss hearing about my friends lives! I miss hearing their reactions to mine! It did feel like community even when we couldn’t be near each other.
Like… that’s what I take from the emails. It’s clear a lot of shady people’s interest to be able to blackmail their populace en mass. Keep people in line.
What are you doing to regulate Silicon Valley should be THE question of the next president.
My biggest concern about Gavin at this point is actually not the fact that he clearly eats homeless people for breakfast, but rather his coziness with tech. It’s increasing obvious that Silicon Valley is heavily invested in creating a surveillance state.
I feel old dating but like question for the group, it’s normal to see multiple people and then eventually be like “Hello X. I’d like to just see you exclusively” right? And then you both agree to those terms.
So there’s beehives all around Utah cause Mormons are extremely community focused. Frankly I used to get in trouble as a kid in Sunday school for saying Mormons are spiritual communists. But like… they are. They understand community is responsibility we all share.
I cannot express how much the internet and those who own it are getting the world addicted to anger. They are making billions off our self destruction.
Go talk to human people.
we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
One of my closest friends grew up in the very poor parts of the south and is a hard believer in, “Fuck them. Make them touch the stove.”
As Hayley Williams once wrote, “The south will not rise again until it’s paid for every sin. Strange fruit, hard bargain.”
Purely anecdotal, but my mom, a historically conservative leaning independent, has now gone full DC statehood and had a deep distaste for Laura Ingram and Karoline Leavitt due to them “wearing the cross in vain.”
I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants
Lmao get a spicy vet you cowards
Horse_ebooks tweet: Everything happens so much
Like “you’re a bad woman if you feel this way!” or “real men don’t blah blah blah”
Gender is a spectrum and human emotions don’t only belong on one end or the other
Ok but like I’m seriously watching social media just… rip up relationships. Make angry bitter single people. And like it’s on both sides and I don’t get why people can’t clock that the algorithm likes you angry and it’s feeding transphobia and I feel like people start purity testing their own gender
I don’t know how to explain my relationship with some of my coworkers to normal people. “I think they’re insane and I kinda hate them and also I would fucking fight a lion for them.”
Anyway, the military is fun.
Not me drunkenly rambling to my coworkers that the gender wars and increase of gendered content is just the newest way we are being halted in expanding class consciousness
Grew up in a very evangelical area and they had rotating Sunday school lessons on why Catholics were evil, Mormons were evil, and Muslims were evil.
These people are the most fair weather friends and you should not rely on them
There’s that meme about at least Protestants and Catholics can agree that Mormons are fake and I just wanna be like
My brothers in Christ the one u gotta focus on is the evangelicals
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
applying for jobs again
But also not different. But also entirely different. And the feeling of uncertainty and maybe things will go back and I just…. can’t
Also like… fuck some of the replies are rough. Like people yelling at his wife to leave him.
I don’t know how to explain to you what it feels like to have someone just… become a different person.
Grief is weird sometimes and that fetterman article is doing something to me.
Strokes suck man.
At some point we have to start looking at outcomes like this at a population level in terms of human factors not individual responsibility. Are these dudes shitty? Yes but like also I firmly believe that when something becomes this wide spread it’s the result of a policy failure.
Fascism showing up brings out true colors.
I LIED. It’s from 1979. Even fucking earlier.
