seeing this image in 2026 is like seeing an old friend who I've dearly missed

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

(beyond the obscenity of the image itself, there is something i find especially grotesque in AI generating racially stereotypical "people" to sell something. there is an element of puppeteering to such an act: the fact that it has likely gotten more difficult over the years to find a real life afrolatina actress willing to dress up as your Chiquita Banana Woman doesn't have any bearing over the possibility of creating such "footage"! it is the logical conclusion of the way such companies think about the people they marginalize, workers & citizens of the imperial periphery alike)

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

sorry. thinking about how katniss just genuinely mourning rue started riots across the dictricts as people realized how fucking devastating it was that they just willingly watched the murder of a 12 year old. just the realization that they’re so desensitized to literal child murder started an entire uprising and revolution. it just gets to me man it gets me every time

someone added to this post saying that they’re NOT desensitized to child murder and i just wanna say um well yeah they are. they watch the hunger games every year. gale has his whole thing about how the hunger games would stop if everyone would stop watching, but everyone still watches. the point is that once children are chosen in the reaping, especially in district 11 where rue is from, they’re already as good as dead. the thing that made katniss different is that she only knew rue after the reaping, then loved her like a sister and mourned her even though she’s ALSO seen her fair share of child murder, because she’s never had her sister die. it’s not about the murder, it’s about the mourning. THATS what started the revolution.

based as FUCK

on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism

Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.

hey man i think you might just be dumb

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