A Wild Human Has Appeared

My most old-school internet opinion is bring back chunky scroll bars! I don't want some scroll bar so discreet I can't even find the fucking thing. I want a nice Windows 98-level of obviousness.

Solarpunk has failed. It's time for the Solar Gothic. Show me an environmentally conscious world that is haunted by its past; where its failures still intrude upon the present. Where the characters live in the shadow of a decadent but much more materially wealthy past whose crumbling edifices mock them with the waste and the missed opportunities they represent. Show me characters who remember the promise of modernity, the story of ever-growing progress, and either lament that it is not for them or continue to cling to it like madmen. Show me a world that's trapped, claustrophobically, in an anthropocene that they are only gradually learning to manage, and where all former illusions of mastery or permanence have been dispelled.

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

stop deactivating

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

This is so smooth and satisfying

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

god i'd be so hot if i was rich and disciplined and neurotypical and rich

In most societies, beauty standards can be summarized by the question "what represents wealth?" So, yes.

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, events, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

I don’t think you can raise your children in an isolated ‘off-grid’ way without being massively fucking abusive. Every few years there is a news story about an abusive and/or neglectful parent taking their children out of society and forcing them to rough it in the woods with no medical care, education, socialization or interaction with others outside of the familial unit and it usually results in someone dying or being traumatized for life. And people are sympathetic towards them online. It is fucking evil. Isolating children only benefits their abuser. It takes a village. You know damn well why they don’t want anyone else to teach, speak to, play with or watch out for their kids, control.

Nothing makes me feel more weirdly influential than the fact that I took this screenshot of a facebook video because I thought the AI's proposed questions were funny, and in the year and a half since that I've come across at least five different facebook pages posting a cropped version of my screenshot, some of them without even knowing it was a video in the first place.