give love

adulthood is realising no one cares about you and the show must go on

you were born in 2006? what are you? a Honda Civic?

can i fucking help you?

I sure hope so, I need to get to 3rd and Broadway in fifteen minutes, step on it.

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

ring cameras have been police surveillance tools for the last decade idk why people are acting like it's new

these moments, when lots and lots of people en masse are realizing how horrible things are, are a great moment to help bring people into deeper understanding of the systemic issues at play. a great moment to connect people to the work that's been ongoing. if we want to build an actual movement, if we want to succeed in resisting and toppling these systems, that needs to be built on far more than just a self-righteous leftier-than-thou attitude. if people want to get in this fight, hell yeah. that's what we need to win.

25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????

I knooooow the whole series is a political manifesto wrapped in an allegory but reading it as a story about individuals, katniss is so fucking funny bc she's like "idk if im actually into peeta :/ im so bad at acting like it" and then when she's at school for four years she watches peeta and every time she's frightened she holds onto peeta and whenever she's not sure what to do in a situation she just kisses peeta and whenever she can't articulate her thoughts she wishes for peeta bc she knows he would Get It and when she breaks down and can't perform it's bc the capitol is torturing peeta and when they rescue him from the capitol she goes "omg im gonna get to kiss peeta" and then as soon as she's not being forced to marry peeta she goes and does what? marries peeta. like girl okay.....

Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising