Apikale Museum

This guy (Cory Doctorow) wrote the book on Enshittification. He is pretty much describing what is happening in the United States economy as of 2025. Rightwing economists spent decades weakening the government's ability to regulate anticompetitive behavior and break up monopolies to the point that those companies merged and grew big enough to hold more power than the government or society at large. And they use that power and legal immunity every day to enrich themselves by siphoning surplus value from customers and workers and giving it to shareholders.

People in the Omegaverse are probably writing Betaverse fanfiction where there is no A/B/O dynamics and everyone just falls in love with eachother's personality instead of pheromones and hormones controlling their desires.

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

drives me nuts when ppl act like its somehow feminist to be a huge asshole to people because 'men are allowed to behave that way,' or whatever. ok. well i dont think men should be treating people like that either. and if they talk to me like you are talking to me, i will judge and avoid them as well.

For the record “low-information voter” is like, a real thing and I hate that it’s become a leftist insult meaning “black person I disagree with”. I would argue that a black person deciding not to vote for white populists is actually pretty high information, given an observation of patterns!

Also conversations about Democrats needing to appeal to more rural voters are always like “what if you betrayed all the minorities that rely on you” and not “what if there was actual media infrastructure outside of big cities that wasn’t just run by the notoriously Republican Sinclair Broadcasting Company”

"Wow, you're really good at this, you should do this professionally" okay but have you considered that I don't want to because that would suck all the fun out of this thing that I do for fun and entertainment and it's actually a conscious choice to not do this professionally because that would destroy the very reason I do this to begin with

"You should monetize this hobby" You should go outside and leave me alone

I THOROUGHLY enjoy acting in community theatre. But now my husband and I are undergoing IVF and we agreed that we should minimize stress where possible to improve our chances, so I'm taking a break from acting for the time being (it's tons of fun, but it *is* still stressful). If I were a professional, I couldn't do that, because then I'd have no income. I really think I'm better off working a day job and acting on my own terms.

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

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Yeah, when I was a kid my dad explained X-rays as being like eating candy--one or two or three pieces are perfectly fine, but eating a whole bag of it will give you a tummyache.

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

you can make a little oasis right where you are, and it matters

2.5% *annually*?!? I didn't know it was that bad! That's terrifying! That's butterflies and ladybugs and bumblebees and fireflies! I want there to be bugs left for my kids to find in the garden or at the park. This is... pretty sad.

the thing about sam winchester is if you gave him a death note he would do the exact same thing as light im not even joking. like he'd probably try a little harder to keep up the pretense of 'this is for the greater good' or whatever but come on. he'd start killing people immediately. anyway i think crowley should give him a death note for his birthday i just wanna see what happens

yk how ryuk doesn't even have to do anything, light is just Like That??? same deal. except sam would take the shinigami eyes deal too tbh

Not to oversimplify a complex issue, but i think we could reduce the number of deadly car crashes by increasing wages and having shorter work weeks.