bugs are your friends

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

a great tragedy of this world is that many things that are bad for you also look very sexy. smoking. riding a motorcycle. that crazy shit they did to saint sebastian

my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

#a lot of the time this happens because someone in their 40’s got into 1 new thing and threw a fic at it before resuming business as usual#like sorry gang they’re not a youth who’s weirdly into your mom’s shows they’re your mom who played genshin impact

I will be honest if someone posted "I'm a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them" thousands of you would reblog it and tag "😱 it's so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they're so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!"

While I was at the sexual health clinic I saw a poster for a gonorrhea transmission study where the ask is that a person w throat gonorrhea and one without make out for 3 minutes under observation and they test to see if the one without contracted and then they treat everyone’s infections for free. And they get paid! Anyway if you’re looking for a fanfic situation that’s free you can use that one

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up

okay. fine. i have a solution that will make no one happy. let's make pluto a planet. if we launch one tungsten cube per day for 200 years precisely aimed at pluto's surface it will become massive enough to gravitationally clear its orbit of other kuiper belt objects. this will be completely useless and extremely expensive as well as potentially dangerous. and it will destroy the heart

see, this is again exactly the type of thinking i was roasting. you can't even name the kuiper belt objects or the features that make them unique or interesting for study. you don't know any of the things we have learned following this change in nomenclature. you can't accept empiricism or adapt to change. you're trying to use a "punk" label imagining yourself postured in some kind of resistance to authority when what you're really doing is clinging to the way things were when you were a child, which changed twenty years ago, and invoking a ridiculous and pointless threat of nuclear bombs to defend it, aligning yourself precisely with the actions of the state. it's sad