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Mid-twenties and annoyed at existing. If you need anything tagged, shoot me a message.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[inviernodel95]

Thank you. I hope everybody thinks this

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[sarahmackattack]

Hell yeah

[soychronicprocrastinator]

He’s in the right for that this is so cool

[ilovecoelacanths]

it’s true strawberry squid are pretty awesome

[homunculus-argument]

I'm not a catholic and have never even seen one up close, but I think the pope should start excommunicating people on the reg again. Just start publicly going "you know what, fuck you, you can't sit with us. You're not allowed in church or heaven on the grounds of being JD Vance. Eat shit and go to hell."

Stir shit up a little. What's the point of being the mouthpiece of god if nothing you say has consequences.

[xeno42alpha]

they’d have to hold anouther Vatican Council for that, as funny as excommunicating the snivelling litte bitch Vance would be

[homunculus-argument]

Oh, that's lame. Why does the pope have a council he has to answer to. Doesn't he have some kind of mandate of heaven over the catholic world. I always thought he's free to do whatever he wants.

[serenityslain]

I feel like there’s got to be some example in the annals of Catholic/Papal history as to why he isn’t free to do whatever he wants without a council but I’m just not well versed in that to think of anything in particular.

[notoriouscarrotman]

I think one of them excomungated or however you say that the previous pope's corpse. So I'd say probably something like that

[homunculus-argument]

The catholic church needs to return to its roots and start doing outlandish absurd shit again. Boring calculated everyday run-of-the-mill intentional goal-oriented human cruelty that they do on the reg these days is getting really bland.

[draconym]

It's really weird to me when I'm out somewhere with my pets and a stranger refers to me as their "mom." Even putting aside the gendered nature of the term, which does make me feel some kind of way. This is a small flying dinosaur with the soul of a petty tyrant and I am his overly indulgent but long-suffering chaperone.

[puppy-the-werewolf]

I usually refer to the animal’s guardian as their “human”

Like “aww do you want the treat? You’re not sure? Well I’m sure your human will hold on to it for you in case you change your mind later”

How would that make you feel?

[draconym]

That's my preferred term. I'm his human and he's my bird. I would also accept aide, person, friend, or advisor.

[jewish-rock]

what, your bird isn't your advisor??

[draconym]

I don't recommend taking advice from him, no

[catnippackets]

I extremely don't understand whenever someone who's mentally ill and unmedicated is like "I'm afraid to go on medication because what if I can't feel good without the meds?" YOU ALREADY DON'T FEEL GOOD WITHOUT THEM. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF TAKING THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE

[definitely-not-myrcury]

ongoing re:dracula thoughts

i am so very amused by how long and how adamantly dr van helsing keeps up his secrecy around Lucy's vampirism. like, as a 21st century reader (who is already quite familiar with the vampire tropes which dracula helped popularize), it was immediately clear to me that Lucy got vamp'd. i also suspect that any reader at the time would have been able to put two and two together, even with none of the same prior context. because of this, its just really amusing that every other thing van helsing says is something like "i'll explain later ..." or "which could mean nothing ..." like dude we all know. we all know what your silly little secret is lmao

i appreciate how several of the things that "go wrong" and prevent the gang from saving Lucy are on paper the fault of foolish ignorant women whose actions unknowingly doom Lucy, but are actually at their root the fault of ... fffucking Dracula for targeting her in the first place. and that the narrative supports this by not blaming the women and having all the male characters insta-forgive them, never losing sight of who their real common enemy is. like, oh the women feel all guilty like it's their faults, but no, it's the fucking fault of the creepy guy who stalked and raped her. like, let's all be mad at him actually

as others have long pointed out, the text's unawareness of blood types is really funny in hindsight. yeah let's just combine this shit willy nilly, five peoples' blood all mixed together, that'll fix her

i also love how so much of this chunk of the book consists of sharing each others' notes. like "yeah, i wrote a whole diary about exactly the thing we're all dealing with. wanna read it?" it's honestly sort of refreshing to be able to just say "and then they were all on exactly the same page" instead of fucking around with contrived ignorance for far too long

this also makes the story so much more about the act of record keeping, not just the events themselves. and because the text consists entirely of in-universe documents, everything we've read is also available to the characters in the story, which sort of allows the book to loop back on itself in a way i appreciate

finally, i love how quincey is just ... there. no reservations, not much personally at stake, he just wants to know how he can best help his friends. what a team player

[fullest-circlest]

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

[nothwell]

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thelaurenshippen]

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

[thelaurenshippen]

um.

[partasah]

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Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

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[aropride]

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

[aropride]

i know about external disc drives. i want it built into my computer. i want to be able to put a dvd directly into my computer and watch it

[catasters]

[artbymaryc]

Wow that's a really big gecko

[mclennonyaoi]

cardinal sin….? no…. they wouldn’t…. would they?

[mclennonyaoi]

not a malicious bone in his body.

[qwopflop]

Think again..

[birds-in-posts]

Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

[importantcatpics]

[drtanner]

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

[goldensunset]

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

[deceasedcardinal]

[blupeeblep]

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