Another Internet Human

[thebreakfastgenie]

Four years ago the then-president of the United States sabotaged the United States postal service in an attempt to steal an election. The only reason this even made sense is because his party was denying the pandemic, so the other party was the only one urging its voters to vote by mail. Sometimes I think we don't appreciate enough how crazy that was.

[thebreakfastgenie]

My sibling had to drive like an hour to get medication for our cat because the meds that were ordered and shipped in plenty of time simply didn't arrive in the mail. That's always stuck with me because I assume there were people having the same problem with their medications. Think about the population most likely to rely on mail-order medications. Then think about how likely that population is to be vulnerable during a pandemic. I know we've mostly moved on because the mail is functional again and that's good I'm just still mad about it sometimes. Our government did this on purpose. We're not going back.

[titkoks]

my jaw hit the floor

[cipheramnesia]

excuse the fuck out of whoever this is

[cumaeansibyl]

the gnarliest, dirtiest shredding with that fucking casio keyboard metronome beat I can’t stand it

[yeahiwasintheshit]

If you need a reason to vote for Kamala

[bibliotheksbewohnerin]

things that still freak me out: those sinks americans have in their kitchens that you can destroy stuff with

[coffee--fiend]

For anyone asking: The purpose of a garbage disposal is to break down food particles into small chunks so that they do not get clogged up in your pipes. The reason why this is done instead of simply throwing stuff in the trash is to cut down on airborne bacteria from rotting food, and also because for a brief period in the 1900s it was illegal to throw food down the drain for the aforementioned plumbing issues.

Believe it or not, a garbage disposal is actually more environmentally friendly because it allows the food waste to be processed and managed by water treatment facilities and transformed into fertilizer whereas throwing it away leads it to go to landfills, eventually being burned and becoming more methane in the atmosphere. They are still pretty loud and scary to hear going, though, so I don’t blame you for being freaked out.

Anywho thank you for coming to my TED talk

[compostpile]

when it comes to consciousness raising you can spend time telling someone “crazy” is a slur or you can spend time explaining that what looks like “care” or “cure” or “mercy” to them is actually eugenics or abuse. one of these projects has to precede the other and i bet you can guess which one i would prioritize

[compostpile]

you’re either going to build a base of clueless liberals who learn by rote to nitpick their language for anything with the remotest connection to ability, or you’re going to help them develop the alertness and critical eye necessary to recognize eugenics and abuse. i don’t think those things are mutually compatible in an immediate timeframe, because one locates both the root and branch of oppression in a disembodied cloud of language and thought, and the other locates it in the real material structures that we need to confront immediately in order to save actual lives. not saying “crazy” isn’t going to get anyone out of forced institutionalization

[thebibliosphere]

Can’t show any pictures without doxxing myself or the neighbors, but one of the neighbors recently took down their American flag from the front yard and replaced it with a giant Batman flag and it makes my day every time I walk past it.

[thebibliosphere]

Also can’t post pics without doxxing myself but I need you to know there is only one open Trump supporter in our entire block, and the response to their presence has been a sea of rainbow flags and democrat signs all the way along the property lines.

He also nailed the sign to his tree and in a feat of symbolism I couldn’t write in a book without being accused of being ham fisted, the tree is dying.

It got some sort of fungal infection from the look of it. Poor thing. It deserved better.

I’m going to plant a tree in our front yard in its honor. Maybe get my own Batman flag.

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[jemmylove]

I worked at a Starbucks and some customer at the walk up came to complain there was a lady selling tamales in the parking lot and we were all like “oh whoa really?” And literally all of us left the store to buy bags of tamales

[grimauxiliatrixofficial]

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

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[storybookprincess]

hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

[kosmogrl]

https://twitter.com/isabelunraveled

[gangst3rswife]

Finally watched the Addams Family Values recently! and honestly. my main takeaway is

Debbie slays. And Joan Cusack is a QUEEN

[vbartilucci]

Joan Cusack has never appeared in a film that she did not steal.

And as for Debbie, I will always repost my stance on her end.

I’ve said it a million times - if Debbie had listened to what the Addamses were saying in response to her tales of woe, she’s have realized that they understood completely. She had found her people, and was too wrapped up in herself to realize it.

If they could have, they’d have burst from their bonds, hugged the stuffing out of her, bought her a Bentley (and a vintage Ballerina Barbie) and declare her an Addams.

She could spend the rest of her life trying to kill Fester, and he’d love her all the more every time she tried. And the rest would keep offering helpful suggestions. “No point in trying poison, Debbie my dear - he’s been putting strychnine on his cornflakes since was seven”.

[payasita]

they would have been such good friends

[chthonic-pain]

nobody warns you this but addiction happens without you noticing and one of the first things that it attacks is your ability to care. if you find yourself using recreational drugs every day, stop and take one day a week sober. if you struggle with this or if you don't see the point of the exercise, you are likely already addicted and you need help.

[chthonic-pain]

nobody ever taught me the warning signs for drug addiction, only that "it costs lots of money and destroys your life!!!1" which is not helpful if you can't recognize a developing addiction in yourself.

so here's some things to watch out for with recreational drug use:

planning your day around drugs e.g "i'll give myself an extra half hour before heading out so i can get high first"

rapidly switching emotions around drugs. you love them but you hate that you love them so much. you hate the way you feel on them but you hate being sober. feeling guilty after using even when you didn't give a crap beforehand.

caring less about spending money. if you are budgeting for drugs like they are food, you are likely prioritizing them more than is healthy.

getting high to do household chores and other unpleasant things because it would suck less and be more bearable on drugs

feeling anxious or restless while sober, not knowing what to do with oneself, feeling lost or ungrounded.

thinking about doing drugs constantly even while sober. maybe it's the first thing you think of when you wake up. maybe when you're bored or otherwise have free time, drugs are one of the first things you can think of to occupy yourself with.

going to work or school while under the influence, especially if it happens regularly and if you're seeing your performance suffer as a result.

the idea of taking a 'tolerance break' sounds good to you until it's actually break time, at which point you can come up with 20 very reasonable sounding points to explain why it wouldn't benefit you actually and you should just keep doing drugs regardless.

even if you succeed at quitting the drug, you keep your dealer's number on your phone "just in case"

you pretend to be sober when you aren't. you worry about other people noticing how much time you spend high. you make efforts to hide your drug use or minimize how much other people think you're using. you're scared of other people's judgement if they were to find out.

you have mood swings laced with self-hatred, regret, financial worries, and guilt. these mood swings are then very quickly wiped away by feelings of "but it doesn't matter, i can do what i want, and clearly i'm doing just fine while using drugs frequently". news flash, if you are rapidly switching between feeling numb-ok and hating yourself more than anything because of your drug use, you are mentally ill.

yes this applies to weed. weed is a drug and you can get addicted to it like any other substance. addiction is not the same as physical dependence; it is psychological and it can happen to anyone. you are not immune to addiction.

[asynca]

Many of these also apply to process addictions such as Gambling Addiction.

[spaghettinatural]

and drinking!!

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

[voxette-vk]

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

[booksandchainmail]

according to wikipedia, before

[decepticonsensual]

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

[stele3]

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

[sun-moon-stars-jedi]

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[hollowtones]

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

I hope people know the "eating peoples' pet dogs in the street" thing is like a racist conspiracy theory and not moment of randomness from Trump. Like the "trans people put litter boxes in elementary schools" thing it sounds nonsensical but is believed unironically by a lot of conservatives

[toskarin]

ah... your secret technique... in normal circumstances, such a bullet would have no effect on me, but you certainly knew that, my rival... and so, cleverly, you accelerated it with a gun