Sorrin

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

you need to listen to rap and hiphop you need to listen to jazz you need to listen to blues and country and bluegrass or else you will be inflicted with something most foul of the soul

and if you say you do and post a video game ost you will be hexed by an evil shaman

To this DAY the best argument I ever had with my father was when we were sitting together on the bus to work discussing unions, where HE said “Unions are expensive scams that produce lower quality work at half the speed, they’re bad for customers and bad for workers” and *I* replied “More money than you or I will ever make in our lives has been spent by CEOs of multibillion dollar industries who want to convince you that that’s true” and he called me a conspiracy theorist and like a fucking ‘everyone clapped’ ass moment an old man across the aisle from us pointed to me and told my old man “the kid’s right”

actually in hindsight a shitload of my personal self-damaging habits died off when I started sparring at the gym and got work benefits so damn maybe w’re onto something here boys

I'm gonna be super real, gang, the repeated assumptions in the replies that all of these people are autistic is uuuuh. I mean it's extremely inappropriate, if nothing else. and I'm also deeply concerned by the degree to which "autism" gets conflated with "academic expertise" on this website.

My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they're dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.

kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i'm 19 he's 18 and the woman at the door didn't want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i'm still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy's hand while they play video games. kids aren't just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we're addicted to our phones because there's nothing else to fucking do

I'm sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don't have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.

the thing that I can't stop noticing about commercials for chatgpt and other ai shit is that they can't even seem to come up with creative or interesting shit to do with it. like everything that they show people using it for is stuff that you could already do if you had, like, any friends or the ability to use any search engine

and I do want to be cautious of ableism here because many of the critiques of ai use turn into "uuuuh what kind of braindead moron can't even think of what to make for dinner without help???" when the answer to that is "lots of people, for lots of different reasons, many of which are related to some form of disability." needing help picking out a meal isn't a problem. I'm just flummoxed as to why we're pretending there weren't already tools to do that.

it's so important to me to be nice to the student employees on campus and make their jobs as easy as I can and be really effusive thanking them and complimenting then when they've done good. even the ones I don't know. especially the ones I don't know. I was that thankless student employee and I remember what it felt like to be making just enough money to make rent and nothing else. and also how terrible being an undergrad is in general. one of the students I advise told me one that nobody ever tells them when they're doing a good job, which is why I always try really hard to gas up their ideas and let them know I'm proud of them and make sure they know when I'm impressed with what they've accomplished. it costs so little to use my position to just be kind.

re: that recent post an interesting thing about being an any pronouns user is that most cishet people will hear that and immediately go "oh thank god I can just call you the normal girl pronouns" and many queer people will go "okay got it I'll use they/them and apologize if I ever fuck up and use a different one" and it's like. okay. you're actually both kind of whiffing it in different ways.

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot