Unhinged Soapbox

like 'people pigeonhole this thing as being for kids but it is not' IS a legit problem and its how you end up w things like e.g. moral guardians objecting to Watchmen on the grounds that it's a comic book movie about superheroes so it must have been intended for children. OR fantasy novels by women being presumed to be YA when they are not. it is not things that are factually for children being labelled, correctly, as for children.

it's wild how lack of willingness to show large amounts of your naked body in public is conflated with a discomfort or insecurity about said body. like obviously if people are motivated by those things that's also fine but it's like. "if you like your body you should want to wear as small a swimsuit as possible; the only reason to get """modest""" swimwear is if you're insecure or have religious motivations" so it's weird feeling like nah my body is awesome I just don't want every rando at the municipal pool to have visual access to it? lol. how I feel about my body is unrelated to whether strangers have a right to view it

steam repeatedly notifying you that a friend is booting up a game thats clearly not cooperating feels like ur sitting inside and someone outside keeps trying to rev up a lawnmower

If I suddenly stop posting then the giant moth in my room did it

more people on this website need to be blogging about weird literature no one cares about

In a nonexistent perfect world, there is an 80s version of The Muppets Wizard of Oz, where the gang finally meet the wizard. And instead of “pay no mind to the man behind the curtain”- Toto knocks over a table in front of A Wizard Of Oz Muppet Head who bellows PAY NO MIND TO THE MAN BENEATH THE CAMERA!!! And it’s revealed that the wizard was Jim the whole time. And he’s like “im so sorry but i’m just an entertainer you guys are gonna have to go kill the witch on your own. you should probably hurry because there’s only 30 minutes left in the runtime.” I just think that would be funny.

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away

Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy

life update: my tummy hurts, which could be related to the thirty chocolate covered pretzels I ate earlier but tbh is more likely to be a divine punishment for my myriad irredeemable misdeeds committed over the last decade of my life. so, really, I can just have more chocolate covered pretzels without fearing for the worst.