Nothing is True

i will not lie, friends in my phone, i have been imagining affection from time to time

At my university's pro-palestine camp, back a few years ago, the chabad house was located across the street and doing counter protestors. I remember one woman, a Jewish lady and pillar of our community (she leads several Jewish initiatives, book clubs, and is an all around wonderful human being) was on the pro Palestinian side, discussing how the horrors of Israel were not representative of all Jews, and when she walked over to chabad to ask if they could turn down their music in respect to a moment of silence, they told her she wasn't Jewish enough to claim that heritage (even though her parents escaped Germany's camps) and then they called the cops for trespassing on their property

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

This is by far the most popular post I have and I have to say: good, I’m right. Password sharing and ID verification are going to kill the internet. not oooh in 50 years. in like 5 more.

the twelve most terrifying words in the english language are: i'm from the government and i'm here to torture you to death

The expectation that you will refer to a trans person by their preferred pronouns and name is not them ‘forcing you to accept them’ it is basic respect. You don’t have to like trans people, you don’t have to ‘believe’ our identities or whatever. You do have an obligation to treat us like people, though. If you had a 40 something cis male coworker named Bill and you repeatedly, pointedly and aggressively called him ‘Shirley’ and exclusively used she/her pronouns to refer to him, that would be a major HR problem. It is not persecution to have to show basic human decency.

does anyone know why is it always so hard. like all the time?

You're supposed to see a doctor after 4 hours

i think they should allow everyone in the world to vote in american elections

i miss altaïr (he is not real) (he is dead)

star trek heritage post (June 2nd, 2017)

Happy Pride!!! Always remember there are gay people in space

Please god it would be so funny

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

deriding things as performative is anti third space

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

people really think "i HATE this [genre/medium], so that should tell you how good this is when i say i liked it" is a good place to start their review from. like why would i listen to you. you hate the genre/medium. the one you like is probably not very good as an example of the genre or medium.

guy who says they're 1000% gonna go to bed early and then spends two hours reading about the very specific details of a nuclear disaster and also watching PBS segments on said nuclear disaster

ilove homosexuals i  love bisexuals  i love trans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yayy ayyayy ayy Weare all sooo ocool

your silence on fresh basil pesto is deafening.