i will show you fear in a handful of dust

every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

It’s crazy how Europeans spent centuries colonizing, brutalizing and destabilizing most of the world and when the people from the places they worked (and are often still benefiting from) to destroy and exploit flee to Europe, they’re baffled and enraged. Why would your NHS nurse be Nigerian? Hmmm. I wonder who the Queen of Nigeria was up until 1963. Oh, you’re mad your new neighbors are Pakistani? I wonder who the head of the Commonwealth was there until 1972. This is truly baffling.

Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have

The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet

"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel

i have mentally physically and emotionally uncoupled myself from marvel however for my good buddy peter parker i WILL make an exception,

I hate that whenever I complain about scam callers people are always like "just don't pick up!" BROTHER I DON'T PICK UP! YOU JUST WATCHED ME GO "ugh spam" AND HANG UP. It's still such an annoyance, and I can't just like, ignore phone calls because sometimes it's my wife calling about the children, or doctors offices or or or. Not answering doesn't make it not a problem omg.

If solicitors, salesmen, senators, scammers, and strangers were constantly knocking on one’s front door at all hours of the day and night, “just don’t open the door!” would come across as blithely stupid and unhelpful advice. In the digital age, a phone is as much a portal into your life as your home’s front door, and an unwanted invasion of either can be just as obnoxious, costly, or even deadly. The fact that we are 150 years removed from Alexander Graham Bell’s first phone call and yet today’s carriers still refuse to clamp down on the rampant abuse of their services is a scandal. “Just don’t pick up” exculpates the scammers and the complicit carriers who refuse to solve a solvable problem.

YEAH EXACTLY

if you can’t handle me at my die mart you don’t deserve me at my bro food