the stars are the same as ever

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

was reminded of it again bc i saw the "funny" "meme" referenced -- seriously Fuck parks and rec for its long-enduring idiotic racist joke about venezuela, a country whose per-capita incareceration rate was, at the time of airing, a quarter that of the usa's!

i think people really under sell the physical side effects of mental health disorders sometimes. like sure the depression and anxiety may be 'just in your head' but when what's in your head happens to disrupts your sleep schedule and prevent you from going outside regularly and eating consistent meals and exercising and generally taking care of your body. well it sure takes its toll huh.

I have GOT to stop spending $30

$30 is the new $5 but $100 is still $100 #Fucked

does anyone else feel like we need to raise the standard for writing quality across all mediums like right now

idk where i'm going with this but i think it's interesting that when baru admits at gunpoint that she cared about tain hu the first thing she says is "she was my compass"... like in book 1 when she said "you are my greatest instrument"... there's more examples but like she's just sincerely referring to the person she loves most in the world as a Useful Thing. like damn no wonder tain hu said "if she doesn't kill me then i'll know she doesn't care about me"

just love an unclassifiable weird intense relationship. what are they to each other well they're two of them. what are their feelings towards each other they're strong ones for sure. and of course this can only be improved when one or both of them are in happy committed romantic/sexual relationships with someone else entirely, and then there's whatever the fuck these two have going on.