I'm Here, I'm Queer, And I Won't Drink Beer

bro, i desperately need people to learn that romance is an actual, literal genre of fiction. if you do not like a complete focus on romance and only like romantic plotlines incorporated into various other plots - you do not like the romance genre and you are not interested in romance fiction. simple as that. and it's fine if you don't like it, but pretending like the entire genre doesn't exist and is actually all badly written fiction of other genres which is overly focused on romance is asinine. yet somehow continues being a sentiment i see all the time. romance fiction is not lacking in plot or over-concerned with romantic relationships - it's literally doing what it was designed to do: centers mostly or even exclusively around romance.

I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive

I remember when I was a teenager my sister asked if I wanted to go to fall out boy on a whim an hour before, I bought tickets for 45$ a pop for the lawn, and sat down as paramore took the stage to open. I know nostalgia blurs memories but some (a lot of) things were legit just better even just ten years ago

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

sometimes i dislike something but everyone else who hates it seemingly hates it for only insane person reasons

using shared lab resources is always such an exciting window into the lives of other people because when i rolled up to do my experiment and booted up the software it displayed the previous person's results which was a full 4K high res zoom-in of hundreds of worm sperm

(guy who isnt beating the ocd voice) i know! maybe if i spend all night ruminating on something i feel guilty about until i’ve considered it from every possible angle and made myself physically ill, then i can finally forgive myself and i’ll feel better! 99% of morally abhorrent people stop self punishing right before they’re Absolved

honestly "oracle that nobody believes" is such a solid trope. imagine trying to convince anybody in 2006 what the next two decades was gonna look like

Cassandra: I have seen the future and it is really, really stupid. They're hiding in the fucking horse.

Do you guys remember living in a time when this Trump phone thing would've been big news. Remember when he was doing evil fraud and we were like "hey this guy is doing fraud, that's a serious problem, there should be criminal consequences for this." Now we're just like "at least he only ripped off a bunch of his own bootlickers, which is bad, but nobody got bombed or raped this time."