Seven Sphinxes in a Hivemind

*swings a pendulum in front of you* oooooh you wanna stop using psycho/psychotic as insults so badly. and psychopath. and sociopath. and antisocial. and homebound. and schizo. and narcissist(ic). and braindead. and mouthbreather. and delusional. and

It's occurred to me that the core of pretty much any name-calling is going to be some level of ableism, racism, sexism, etc. so maybe we all would benefit from being more direct in the criticisms we have for people we don't like. Like, say what you actually mean instead of using disabilities as a proxy for the word "bad"

you're not gonna believe the origins of the word "bad"

It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

talks with my friends who are going to kink parties and having t4t orgies and doing petplay and then goes to sleep in my childhood bedroom and dreams of the snow, and rain

[image id: black text on a white background that reads "your friends are all living their lives and having fun and exploring their sexuality together, but their lives almost feel fictitious and fantastical - yes they're doing all this but all that stuff is just an ideal, that's something you only hear about others doing and never get to access it for yourself. you talk to them about it online to try to get a taste of it, try to live vicariously through them but that's not going to replicate their real experiences. they (adults, experimenting with sex, connecting with people like them, mature enough to live their own lives) are on a different plane to you, you who is still back in your childhood bedroom, disconnected from the adult world, feeling like you haven't finish your teenage years yet. you have a lot of close friends but none of them are close to you. while they are out doing things you occasionally daydream about doing in some distant future, you're sleeping alone in your bedroom. and you're dreaming about the snow, and rain" /end id]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

Doing this benefits these species tremendously. They can become so rare over such a vast area as people destroy the only plants they can eat, every single one that survives makes a positive difference!

once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it

They are going to cancel me on account of my various science experimence.