sapere aude ♠

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

clicking 'stay signed in'-buttons used to mean that u would stay signed in

(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

the internet seems like a distant dream

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

hang on i need to review my entire post history from all time and make sure i haven't said anything embarrassing

awful news guys

remember to be scared all day so youre not caught off guard when it happens

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

santa put me on the Nuanced list this year

as per my last straw,