Reckless Compassion

Happily married to my WIFE. Reading. Writing. Dogs. Walt Whitman, Douglas Adams, Sarah Dessen. Often lost, less often returned. Throughly Akin To It All

[importantcatpics]

[drtanner]

The whole photo is gold but I especially like that the automated feeder is taped to the fucking floor.

[neurodivergentaf]

im dying i completely forgot this conversation i had with a friend three years ago 😭

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[hillergoodspeed]

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[seravph]

i think it is very depressing that like every aesthetic people try to emulate are of people doing things but they themselves are incapable of being somebody that does things… the mall goth 2005 aesthetic revived in 2022 but nobody goes to the mall to be annoying and weird and nobody lets themselves be cringe… the cottagecore aesthetic but nobody knows how to raise gardens or live self sufficiently … the dark academia aesthetic but nobody actually reads books…. The obsession of looking like you are a type of person who does something without actually doing anything … the Instagram effect

[seravph]

we need to bring back the word Poser

[studsandswords]

The Poser is the post modern figure making their identity around consumption habits instead of community and human experience

[homunculus-argument]

Not book smart or street smart but a secret third thing.

[luckyletd0wn]

supid

[homunculus-argument]

supid.

[sabrebash]

Is That Allowed

[catasters]

[idontgettechnology]

The time of his life.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

getting lots of Cat Help™️ on 995 days left

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[tilthat]

TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.

via reddit.com

[fourlughero]

That’s such a fire fighter thing to do.

“You know what? That’s a good question. I’m gonna put you on hold while I find out”

[verdigrisvagabond]

My dad used to design kitchens at Lowe’s and one day he got a dude from one of the national labs looking to buy a countertop. Dad sent him home with a sample of a quartz-composite countertop to make sure the color will look good with his existing cabinets. The dude asks my dad what the composition of the countertop is and whether it’ll melt if he puts a pot on it (since it’s a composite and not pure stone) and Dad gives him some rough numbers and reassures him that it won’t melt if he puts a hot pan on the counter. The dude comes back with week later without the sample. The dude gives dad a detailed list of the countertops composition, to the nearest hundredth of a percentile, and the exact temperature it melts at, because he took it to his lab and melted it down. tldr, it’s not just firefighters.

[kaijuunibyou]

Imagine giving someone a sample of the granite you use to make countertops and they come back a few days later just to tell you they fucking dematerialized it

[ferrous-princess]

Ok, but this is just, like, what people do if they have access to equipment. We just… put shit in it. Just to see. At this point, I’ll try and hit just about anything with an arc, just to see. I’ll sand and polish anything you’ll let me, if I’m bored enough. If I had a machine that could melt something down and tell me exactly what was in it? I’d be just waiting for parts of my world to become “trash” so I could de-materialize it and turn it into knowledge of what it was.

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[avoidbeing]

An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8,000 years old

[old-flesh]

“get the fries, you’ll need the energy in the coming days”

[grimeclown]

Cmon man

[valenalentine]

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[luxiomahariel]

never kill yourself. there will be media that will impact you in deep and profound ways, but they havent yet been made. you need to live to see them.

[onedayillbedeadddd-deactivated2]

never kill yourself bro, you have media consumption and material things. you have to stay alive to consume more media and obtain more material things bro, you have to keep consuming and seeking sense gratification. yes i know this world is utterly inhospitable, and this society is deplorable in every aspect, but have you considered simply engaging in more consumption bro? think of the blorbos you haven't even gotten to meet yet bro. this is what makes life worth living.

#You'reNotAlone #Dial988

[luxiomahariel]

the bad faith misinterpreter:

[busket]

its fascinating that some people will claim to find value in art and storytelling as a way of human connection; they may agree on the surface that stories we tell have a deep personal and cultural meaning and can profoundly impact us and change our lives, as op said. but then they default to calling art and storytelling "consumption". not all stories are souless billion dollar blockbuster marvel movies with an enormous budget for merch and advertising with the purpose of turning a disgustingly huge profit. like, of course you have such a cynical view of media, because you dont seek out stories that have meaning and love put into them, do you?