Clap Your Hands

they should invent a disproportionate emotional response that goes away when you understand it's disproportionate. they should invent a way to logic yourself out of emotions

They should invent a "remind me later" button for distressing responses

rummaging for an earl grey teabag like its a cigarette

I always loved how back in the day before cellphones, people were unreachable if they weren’t at home. You can call but I won’t be there to answer. You can leave a message but you don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear it. You don’t know if I’m home, but you will have to make the trip to come to my house and knock on the door, hoping I’ll be there. And if I’m not…you can’t reach me!! Now that everyone has a cellphone the expectation of being reachable 24/7 is so disastrous. And let’s not even get into read receipts. I think one of the worst times of my inner peace is when I had an apple watch and suddenly every text and phone call and notification was on my freaking wrist, even if my phone was giving the illusion of distance by being in my pocket or bag or charging in another room. I stopped using it in 2022 and I’d rather eat a jean jacket with no water than ever be so connected again. “oh you can just turn off notifications!” not the point.

I do think the vibe has shifted this year though, ICE was bad last year and inflation has been a persistent problem but Iran was a watershed moment, Trump is wounded and visibly bleeding in ways today that he just wasn't a few years ago, his impervious troll-like aura has cracked and the war has left him grubby.

I love my grandmother dearly but also sometimes I can’t take it anymore

Fun fact I just learned: The US has a Spanish-speaking population larger than the entire population of Spain, making it the second largest in the world after Mexico

a masterlock? bro you are practically free-use

Now this might alarm you but nearly everything on the internet is being hosted in a data center. You are utilizing a data center right now reading this post

while I understand the arguments for compulsory voting, we are so far from everyone even being allowed to vote if they want to in the US right now that I almost don't understand the point in talking about making it mandatory.

Speaking from experience, the "normal to want and possible to attain" meme has been revolutionary for the "abnormal to want, impossible to attain" crowd

(thinking of something I want) is this normal. Is it attainable

"why is everyone blaming taco bell" because taco bell publicly and immediately took precautions, so they're blaming taco bell despite it being taylor farms' fault. just like china with covid or spain with the spanish flu

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

i recently found out what the * * * that sometimes separates parts of a text is called and youre never gonna fucking believe it