masc in a peacock way

trying to explain to a 50 something criminal profiler that suicidal teenagers are people responding to internal logic with root causes rather than mindless droids who catch social contagions via rock music and tiktok

“but they seemed so happy!” yeah that’s the oldest suicide cliche in the book. it’s called hiding things and the more you act like suicidality is some irrational external contagion that can be prevented by taking away freedoms the more you train your kid to hide things.

additional note. why do we call it “religious experience.” shouldn’t it be a “spiritual experience.” “religious experience” implies one is like, connecting with a specific religious doctrine or something. like you orgasm so good that you specifically fully grasp the talmud

My biggest lesson for the year is that if you feel like you always have more questions than other people or it takes you longer to figure things out it could be because you’re thinking of things that never occurred to people. You’re like “well I’m not very good at 4d chess I only know basic beginner moves” and there are people that are just playing regular 3d normal chess but a million times more confidently and successfully in complete blissful ignorance that there’s an entire other dimension of chess to be played

Coding should be able to backfire like magic. Some guy in a polo shirt messes up an equation and turns blue. Person in the coffee shop next to you forgets a semicolon and suddenly they're an inch tall and eternally moving left. You get it.

Seeing people who full-chest talk about how transmasculine people need to be decentered in feminism is genuinely ??? "Let women be feminine" levels of online. You can't decenter a group that has never been centered, and the worst part is, you're telling everybody that continued transmasculine erasure is praxis. Rather than organizing around social forces of oppression, you're explicitly abandoning one of the most vulnerable groups to patriarchal violence.

every now and then i am reminded of nintendo's official solution to the wii u pro controller not having gyro controls and it never fails to send me into hysterics

a lot of americans are scared of food labels because the companies have to list every single thing in it even like table salt in very precise terms, but i just ate a british bar that listed 'puffed cereals' as an ingredient and wouldnt even tell me the cereal so i think the americas have it right there

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

forget trying to explain dubstep to a victorian child, try to explain genAI to yourself from ten years ago. they invented predictive text on steroids and people take its words as gospel. ceos fully believe that glorified autocomplete can replace millions of employees and many people are fired or forced to edit machine's vomit. creative fields are in shambles, everything is slop. anyone can publicly make porn of anyone in one click, yes, including children. no, there are no consequences for that. nothing feels real. no one can apparently write an email anymore. I'd have a stroke.