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If you’re the type of person who acts like we’re better than people in the past because of reasons like tight-lacing corsets or lead makeup or other beauty things that seem super drastic, I need you to look into what looks maxxing and extreme diet culture entails and realize that we’re not much different from our ancestors

I just recently learned that looks-maxing (as popularized by that one influencer) includes intentionally breaking your own bones, so yeah we have some insane trends of our own

If you’re the type of person who acts like we’re better than people in the past because of reasons like tight-lacing corsets or lead makeup or other beauty things that seem super drastic, I need you to look into what looks maxxing and extreme diet culture entails and realize that we’re not much different from our ancestors

you utter fool! while you were playing chess, I was playing the game!

Europe must choose between having a delicious cup of chocolate pudding and shitting its pants on a crowded public train

I feel like we don't talk enough about the effect AI's misinformation has on psychotic people. Like, not even just from people getting misinformation directly, but moreso the pervasiveness of misinformation that becomes so filled with shit it's impossible to tell what's true from what's false.

oh my god it hurts

and it's going to hurt forever

Okay I was like ‘surely that is fake’ so I looked the quote up and not only is it legit, the next bit of the letter is “if this Letter should be preserved, and read an hundred Years hence the Reader will Say “the Envy of this J. A. could not bear to think of the Truth”! [“]He ventured to Scribble to Rush, as envious as himself, Blasphemy that he dared not Speak, when he lived. But Barkers at the sun and Moon are always Silly Curs.” But this my Friend, to be serious, is the Fate of all Ages and Nations. And there is no Resource in human nature for a Cure.”

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

the differences between alcohol, tobacco, and anything else in america is kind of absurd and it’s hard to wrap your head around without going kinda insane

you can drink alcoholic drinks in public if you want BUT ☝️ only in some places. you can smoke cigarettes almost fucking anywhere though, even though that makes the environment way worse for everyone around you. however you cannot smoke cannabis anywhere. you can’t even have it at all in a lot of places. having open containers (i.e. a bottle of liquor you’ve drank from before) of alcohol in your vehicle is illegal EVEN IF you’re sober as a nun. you can smoke in your car. everything has so much caffeine in it that sometimes a drink just hospitalizes or kills you. you can buy caffeine pills to stay awake at drugstores and gas stations. you need a drivers license to get decongestants and you have to jump through hoops and bark like a trained seal to get any kind of hrt or psychiatric medication. they sell cigs literally everywhere. they wreck your life and finances and make you smell horrid and give you cancer but a bunch of rich people are dumping so much money into keeping them legal that seemingly the only thing the government can do is “ehhh they give you cancer but we can’t BAN them.” cannabis has well-documented medical properties but old white people think smoking it makes you a satanist because of racist government propaganda. hell world

once you learn about the war on drugs you will never want to stop beating reagan to death with your bare hands

MY MUM GAVE ME HER WEDDING DRESS I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVER

GIRL WHO ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED TO YOURE LIKE SIX YEARS OLDDDD

SHE JUST GAVE IT TO ME BUT I'M STILL SO HAPPY

Okay guys I was planning on wearing it tomorrow for a meet up with my friends and I was like "oh my mum wore this for her wedding god she was so beautiful and amazing" and I started crying (I'm still crying as I write this) so I can't wear it because I'll just start crying again

GIRL WHAT!?

I'm allowed to be happy over getting a nice dress without getting married