Like Drill Inside Your Brain

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

the fact that chris brown is still a thing is concerning

I enjoy soulmate aus as much as the next person but I don’t think they really reckon as much as they should with how the existence of soulmates would change nearly everything about human history and society.

You have to understand that if there were mysteriously ordained soulmate marks on all of us it would change the structure of religion. Divinity would be evidenced through it, correct or not. Sacred texts would change. If soulmate marks appeared on people of the same sex we would have completely different interpretations of sexuality and gender. About what it meant to have children! If the mark appears at a certain age, coming-of-age/adulthood ceremonies and traditions would be only about that!

And if the soulmarks are names, naming conventions would be wild to ensure the certainty of that person being your soulmate. Writing would be less an invention than an evolution of the base marks seen on the first homo sapiens. We would have had writing first!

Politically, wouldn’t a majority of people be nomadic in order to seek out their soulmate, if indeed they could be born anywhere? And maybe seeking out your soulmate could be seen as going against destiny, intervening “too early”? Family ties and inheritance would be altered by a vast amount of people leaving or coming based on a population which sought partners through soulmate-bonds. War would have to consider not just economies and borders and resources, but an attack on a population that could be and likely are the soulmates of your own. If soulmarks don’t recognize borders, what would nations even be?

In the contemporary age there would be agencies dedicated to uniting soulmates and scientific disciplines dedicated to them. There would be movements against them; there would be inquiries into their removal; there would be arguments against this based on their being sacred and/or natural. The entire philosophical debate over free will would begin and end with them. And what about legislation? Are crimes against soulmates punished more severely? Are crimes committed for them, less? When would marriage be allowed between non-soulmates, if at all? What would grief look like? The cemeteries? Would cremation be even considered if the marks are of the flesh?

You’ve heard of “i didn’t say it was good, i said i liked it,” get ready for “i said it had some technical problems & didn’t fully deliver on its themes, not that i didn’t like it”

Luigi Mangione plead guilty which is crazy because I still don't even think he did it. Man WHAT have they been doing to you </3

Bring this back cos no one talks up the Asian heritage of the Blasians like Anderson Paak, H.E.R and Saweetie or the Latinasians like Bruno Mars. No one raises this much hype for the mixed white-South Asian actors. No one includes Olivia Rodrigo (white-Filipino) in the "Republic of Wasia"

God forbid non-white mixed Asians and monoracial Asians criticise the recent hype around Wasians and talk about proximity to whiteness, antiblackness and colorism, or butthurt Wasians will flood their comments sections accusing them of being divisive or complaining about how they are excluded by the Asian community. Babes, Blasians actully get excluded a lot from the Asian community becos of antiblackness, these feelings of not belonging and alienation aren't exclusive to Wasians 🙄

The Wasian meet-ups are just boba liberal bs. Becos yall were so annoyingly loud with your damn meet-ups during AAPI month and acting like victims when yall get called out by other mixed Asians and monoracial Asians for centering your whiteness. Nolan Wells is literally mixed Asian with a Blasian mother who's grieving him, they're from your community as well, but yall are staying mad quiet about his murder and the harassment his mother is receiving 🤡

rewatching s2 of the pitt and thinking again about how trinity santos is a csa survivor who has spent this whole season keeping a huge Our Little Secret for a man in a position of authority over her. two men if you count robby. she could have burned that hospital down and i still would have been like can you blame her

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile