your reluctant optimist

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

i hate that diet culture means all the tasty drinks everywhere are loaded with stevia now. this isn't even a stance about health, I just think it tastes so fucking bad

cute diy video where the fuck is your respirator

That's still not the original version, they didn't have any graphics that came later.

I was skeptical at first, but that's actually real. Nyan Cat for the Commodore VIC-20 by Javier Gonzalez requires an 8K RAM expansion, and it pulls some really creative tricks to get more than 8 colors of the pallet usable, but this one is legit. I downloaded and tested the .prg myself in the VICE emulator, and now I gotta try it out on a real machine. Mad respect.

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

Listening to the audiobook for Ancillary Justice is all fun and games until you see how these names are meant to be spelled. What do you mean it isn't Lieutenant Orn. What do you mean it isn't Mercy of Calor. I've been in the Ancillary Justice tag for five minutes and each post feels like a shot from the Presca gun.

Despite everything the bug scuttles on

Tuesdays aren't real they can't hurt you