The Rum Tum Tugger is awful annoying

follow for some more sick text posts that I reblogged from someone else

people have suddenly started reblogging this post of mine from february 8th, 2012. great bit everybody

Spirit Halloween is defrosting as we speak

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY TURN YOUR SOUND ON

"i get a little bit genghis khan" was such a strange and delightful thing to say in a pop song

I think what annoys me about countries like the USA and Russia is that they can't just have internal problems, they need to make it everyone else's problem as well. "Oh, boo-hoo we're a declining empire and we need militarism to reinforce our culturally ingrained sense of masculinity" yeah, fuck off. Get over it.

It's probably fine that the two countries with most of the world's nuclear weapons are also ones that equate manliness with belligerent stupidity

You think this is an exaggeration, but didn't they actually make a whole series of ads showing that you can use AI to write "heartfelt" messages and order "thoughtful" gifts for your family when you can't be bothered to do it yourself? So you can go through the motions of appearing to care while being completely disengaged from your loved ones?

At work, there's occasionally a volunteer activity to write e-cards for kids at St. Jude's. There are some guidelines, as well as templates if you just don't know what to write. Last time the powers that be pushed AI at us, someone gushed that they loved using AI to come up with messages for these cards, an activity that is already so low-effort and distant as to be almost meaningless.

if you are a web designer of any kind and the dropdown menu that appears when i rightclick vanishes when i try to move my mouse and select an option you will go to hell before you die

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

Gonna read Mary Oliver before bed to keep the anxiety at bay

You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love