General Bullshit

i think they shouldve taken me on a polar expedition not because i would be useful or especially resilient but because my preexisting mental health conditions would have made me an interesting wildcard

feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns

Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase

is Stephen king “weird boy literature”? Or does he get to be an adult horror novelist?

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

ok that's enough summer, we can head into autumn now

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

no one knows if watching a new tv show is possible

i legiterately always feel like that person on reddit who posted "is it weird if i go on a walk like is everyone gonna be freaked out". i feel like that every minute of every day

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics

i want to go to everywhere and see everything. 0 dollars please

theres probably types of rocks ive never seen before on other continents. styles of architecture we dont have where i live. i've never seen a volcano before i've never been to a rainforest. i want to go to the mariana trench. at least 10 years of human history and ive only gotten to see tiny remnants of it in person. i want to meet the humble snow mountain robin. is the pacific ocean a different color than the atlantic? what about the indian and arctic and antarctic oceans? theres 8 billion people on earth and i have not met very many of them. i want to see everything in the world

i want to see everything in the world and i cant because among other reasons its expensive and not physically possible and sometimes its rude to show up places and poke around and sometimes im just not allowed to (snow mountain robin i respect your hyperspecific range of certain mountain peaks in a restricted area in indonesia. but youre so so so cute. i wish i could deliver this message to you. i love you.) i want to see the midnight sun in the arctic circle and the different angles of the moon at different latitudes i want to see the trees in the tropics and subtropics i want to see the desert wildlife i want to see all the mountains and canyons i want to see the varying architecture of different regions and i especially want to see the birds everywhere and i CAAANNNTTTT!!!!!!! :(