Thats the context for this meme???

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

I'm dying

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

there's something to say about how chatgpt and ai companies directly seek to monetize people who are lonely/struggling with no recourse, and how they tweak their ai to make it easier for vulnerable people to become dependent on chatbots to then sell and monetize their data, about the surveillance involved—and there are ways to talk about it without sniggering or implying that people with "ai boyfriends" or who use chatgpt or bots as friends/therapy/companionship/aid are some weirdo degenerates who deserved to be taken advantage of and are subhuman in comparison to You, A Well Adjusted Human Being

The most recent Android update making it impossible to actually disable any AI features no matter what you do is surely a sign that this technology is the future and about to take off and make everyone SOOOOO much money that all the nay-sayers will be sobbing about how they were fools who should have listened and invested. Everyone knows you have a winning product if you have to uh *checks notes* trick and/or force people to use it against their will. Great job, everyone!

just saw a progressive ad where a young woman is working in a completely dark office (implying after hours) and the narrator was like “look at amy now, working hard to buy a boat later” and then it cut to amy at around 60 on a small pontoon boat and it was supposed to be funny or whatever but it was so fucking bleak to me. so absolutely completely bleak. 60 year old amy having fun with her progressive agent on her pontoon boat because you’re only allowed to have fun after retirement because before retirement you’re supposed to grind yourself to dust in a dark office after everyone else has gone home. amy can’t even have that boat now. it wasn’t even a nice boat. it wasn’t even a yacht it was just a shitty little pontoon. grind yourself up to afford a shit boat in 30 years, maybe

flareon is very fluffy and would be so so so warm to hold did you know that

i hold my flareon and give a wide smile as my clothes catch fire all the while my flareon is very happy they are going :3 and im like on the floor now on fire please help me

if your flareon sets you on fire when you cuddle it, it is a skill issue or perhaps you are not pure of heart. i simpyl do not have this problem

Honestly if you say or do something strange, an employee probably WILL tell all their coworkers about it all day, however they’ll basically never remember it was you specifically and instead just a faceless “customer” amalgamation of every time someone said something to them. Plus you’re giving them enrichment and something to mutually bond over. So really you’re doing an important service by being a little awkward.

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

Yesterday my brother out of nowhere in the middle of cooking said "if wreck it Ralph was a woman people on the internet would actually say those things and mean it" and I keep thinking abt this. Hes crazy but he's right.

we need to nuke x.com off the internet i am so serious i experience so much distress every day knowing people still use that fucking website it need to be destroyed i am not kidding. kill it NOW

have you seen that really excellent li ziqi youtube video where she raises silkworms and makes, like, a bedspread and clothes for her grandma? its AMAZING, i never knew that raw silk worked like that. the way she stretches it is incredible. [link]

I love her channel SO MUCH and it MAY have been the inspiration for my looking up ‘live silkworm eggs’ on google

Oh God don’t tell me those things

“Waves from bottom of fiber craft rabbit hole” I’ll let you know how it goes!