they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

i think the assumption that intelligent alien life exists just because of statistics is a huge disservice to how disgustingly complex and luck-based biology and evolution actually is. intelligent, spacefaring life forms genuinely could be something that appears only once in the universe, that’s how much of a miracle humans are

like do you have any idea how many miracles had to happen in the specific order they happened in and within the specific conditions they happened within, just for fuckin. jawed fish to appear. how many times complex life narrowly dodged being wiped out. you being alive is a statistical impossibility!! don’t cheapen that by implying it must be a common experience in the universe

june is going to kiss you. Mwah

Top ten reasons to kill yourself ranked by virtue

*walks through a bead curtain*

me when i am on my mutuals' blogs 👀👀👀 #LetsTakeALook👀 #Observing👀