my city now

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

Hey lil buddies. I hope ur all ok. Have you eaten yet? Taken your meds? Are you looking after yourself? Be brave ok, ur strong, you’ve got this. I love you.

I miss when it was “that’s photoshopped” instead of “that’s ai”

In another life I would have loved being just as weird with you all on some obscure forum with little to no moderation

It's upsetting to me that any sort of herbal tincture can be labelled as tea. If it's called tea then it ought to have at least some tea in it.

u would hate to hear abt beef tea

I would but raise the same objection! Tea comes not from cows, nor beef from a tea garden.

So you have tea beef with beef tea?

It would seem so!

Compost tea will be an even worse shock, I'm afraid.

This fucking shirt doesn't contain any tea at all.

I mean, yes, I'm "literally from Hell" if you wanna get real technical about it, but I don't do what I do because I'm inherently evil. Like all beings, my actions are informed by their material circumstances – the material circumstances in question being "it would be really, really funny".

What a lovely little post you have here! *Drinks up its wordjuice to add it to my lexicon like some form of Vernacula*

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.

sometimes you have to look at people and say. you know better. You’re to old for that shit