saturn went direct again

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

That's also why all of my friends in litigation are flipping out about AI, by the way. It makes it even easier for pro se litigants to generate filings/responses that appear reasonable, but, with a little bit of legal knowledge, are refried bullshit. Given the shortage of judges and the graying judiciary more broadly (Illinois mandates retirement after 75, but that doesn't apply to the federal bench) it's not good to suddenly start having more cases to adjudicate, with nonsensical arguments and hallucinated case law to boot.

I'm sure a post to this effect has been made before but, as someone who does love a good tantalizing food description/image in the stories I enjoy, I also love very much the way Murderbot describes food its humans eat in the same way it describes other things it doesn't care that much about- like "crunchy things out of bags" (chips? popcorn? pretzels? chex mix??) or "hot liquids" (tea or coffee? cocoa? warm milk?) or "a bag of raw plant product" (baby carrots? cucumber slices? just plain lettuce???) or, my favorite, "fried protein in the shape of water fauna and flora" (RaviHyral's version of dino nuggies?????)

arts degrees r so funny because you go in class and theyre like What Is A Poem? we dont know for sure... and then moral of the story is we don't know what a poem is. and then the worst part of it is that theyre right

abstragedy is truly a ship for the ages like cool younger tattoo artist bartender butch theythem develops the worlds cutest puppy crush on older quiet loser otaku artist girl and they have the sweetest most comforting uplifting healthy romantic relationship and also they get up to some real FREAKY shit while being deeply in love like PLEASE. they make me insane

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

Your fat body is not a placeholder for a "better" you. It IS you. And you deserve love and respect NOW.