a gothic soul in a yellow sundress

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

World Heritage Post

eeby deeby... i haven't heard that name in years...

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

did the virgin mary ever have sex after the whole virgin birth thing. like i I were her, a young girl barely an adult and I got pregnant and had a little holy boy id be like "well obviously abstinence doesn't work. i might as well let my husband hit it. especially since hes been such a good sport and believed me when I told him the baby belonged to god and he didnt accuse me of cheating. we both deserve this"

Guys im the last person that gets a social security number sorry😔

The most annoying thing about making cities in the United States car-centric is that it also makes them miserable places to drive a car. You can’t make them car-friendly because they inevitably become actively hostile to cars. They are still car-centric, just unfriendly. Like dogfighting. That’s not friendly to the dogs but it’s pretty dog-centric. It’s also illegal. Something to consider.

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

Hate to break it to you but basically every rural area in the US is culturally the same. There's basically no meaningful difference between a small town in the Midwest, a small town in the south, and a small town in New England, other then like accents and biome, and both the accents and the biomes are being destroyed, its all just McDonald's and fascism. Meanwhile cities, especially walkable cities, are so culturally distinct from eachother, New York, and Boston, and Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and Los Angeles are all such distinct and unique places even if you ignore the immigrant groups that define them. Philadelphia and NYC are like two hours away from eachother yet they're so different from eachother and so unique and cool, and meanwhile a town in Maine has all the same stores as a town in Arizona.