It was the first new century...

i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

i love you smog tests for cars i love you clean air regulations i love you HEPA filters i love you dam removal i love you planting native gardens i love you monarch butterflies (up 64% in 2026!) i love you working for decades to bring the condors back from zero to 300+ in the wild i love you inventing little machines to pick up the plastic fishing nets and other trash in the sea i love you occupational health and safety regulations i love you environmental protection agencies i love you unions i love you social aid programs i love you food not bombs i love you sea shepherds i love you most countries stopping industrial whaling and more humpback whales now than ever before i love you saving the forests i love you little libraries i love you take what you need cupboards/fridges i love you secular food pantries i love you public bathrooms i love you all-ages playgrounds i love you museums i love you aquariums + zoos i love you restoring peregrine falcons to nyc i love you letting beavers fix the river i love you releasing wolves into the wild i love you bison recovery efforts i love you landback i love you reducing light pollution i love you freeway sound baffle walls i love you advertising bans i love you public outreach and education i love you maria montessori i love you queer clinics i love you people working really hard and succeeding at fixing the world and making it safer for all living beings!

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Extreme doomerism would be easier to take if its loudest advocates weren't, largely, uninvolved people who will be fine regardless

Okay nice story about how everything's fucked and we need to give up forever and embrace self-destructive nihilism but before we continue can you clarify if you've actually experienced the horrors or just watched them on TV? Watched them on TV? Okay can we skip to the part where you weirdly frame having to see the news on social media as almost more traumatic than having to live it & promote your podcast

@oatmealaddiction

As an asexual-aromantic, I’m tired of being told I’m “heartless” because I don’t feel love the way other people do. So, this pride month I’m partnering with Organization XIII

i’m really not even sure how this discussion started at “movies for children are often works of art in their own right, but as an adult who enjoys a challenge, i have no real place for them in my movie watching” and is now “movies for children exist”

The real problem, I think, is that way too many people (even those in support!) mistook your original post for a rec request, and not a vent about what happens when you put out actual rec requests. Presumably, when you’re actually asking for recs you’re a lot more specific than just “nothing for kids, please.”