May the Bridges We Burn Light Our Way Home

You’re right to be concerned ceausescue. It’s not just bad writing, it’s a brutal phenomenon.

as an English teacher, I can attest that it is a heck of a thing to come across ["unalived"] in a student’s essay and explain, “This isn’t social media⁠—you can use the word ‘killed’”, only for the student to express discomfort with that (!), having internalized from the censorship algorithms that writing “killed” crosses a line.  I’ve also seen late Zoomers be shocked to find the word “regarded” in a reading assignment, because apparently that has become a euphemism on social media for a Word That Must Not Be Written (which itself started out as a euphemism)

...none of the above

The focus is the logistics more than the exact item, and I mentioned both toast and gas station breakfast sandwiches explicitly.

hey everyone, just curious:

I block every bot/spam account I see, and that’s 99% of my blocks. For the rest, a repeated demonstration of both hostility/intentional unpleasantness and a lack of saying anything interesting or any other positive characteristics. Being libelous to others in my notes is weighed heavily: I can choose to tolerate nastiness against myself, but nastiness against others is more offensive to me.

So because my day at the salon was absolute garbage 7 hour shift for exactly 2 hair cuts garbage I am halfway through the book. I have some criticism. I will list them below no spoilers

I decided to DNF What Fury Brings due to a lack of physical reality/research on basic things before the nipple clamps and seeing this, I feel I made the right choice.

are you retarded? It's a blind idiot translation from Japanese categories.

John Singer Sargent, ‘Gassed’ and ‘Six Studies for Gassed’ (1918)

In Gassed there is little suffering. Or rather, what suffering there is is outweighed by the painting’s compassion. In spite of the vomiting figure the scene has almost nothing in common with Owen’s vision of the gas victim whose blood comes ‘gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’. What Sargent has depicted, instead, is the solace of the blind: the comfort of putting your trust in someone, of being safely led.

are you retarded? It's a blind idiot translation from Japanese categories.

since you said you know some of the protesters, do you have any idea what they were thinking or trying to do? not that I have any particular investment, just gawking at events in the metaphorical village.

yeah I guess I’m just kinda stuck wondering, what were they thinking? who was the target of the protest? who thought that was a good slogan to put on a flyer? why guy fawkes masks? were they really blocking the road?

On the one hand, I think a lot of CFAR is bunk, and a bunch of CFAR stuff feels like it works, but like PUA, it doesn’t work for the reasons it claims it does.

I feel like you’re thinking about this too hard.

Well, the bizarreness is one sentence above the cut, and there are many paragraphs of uncharitable psychologising below. Kind of weird you took issue with that part TBH.

since you said you know some of the protesters, do you have any idea what they were thinking or trying to do? not that I have any particular investment, just gawking at events in the metaphorical village.

yeah I guess I’m just kinda stuck wondering, what were they thinking? who was the target of the protest? who thought that was a good slogan to put on a flyer? why guy fawkes masks? were they really blocking the road?

On the one hand, I think a lot of CFAR is bunk, and a bunch of CFAR stuff feels like it works, but like PUA, it doesn’t work for the reasons it claims it does.

I'm not at all surprised when I see things from white nationalists and Catholic monarchists and other fringe right-wingers on here. Tumblr is a place for weird people, and I've deliberately positioned myself adjacent to them, and so all of this is to be expected.