[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

one direction was gonna eat that girl. they bought her for food

[nonbinarypastels]

people with breasts who don’t want to wear a bra aren’t doing anything wrong by going braless and quite frankly their boob situation is none of your business to begin with.

wearing a bra is a personal choice just like wearing any other garment of clothing is. no one is under any obligation to harness their breasts—they are not being “disrespectful” or anything else negative by not wearing a bra. you, however, are being disrespectful if you give people who prefer to go braless shit for doing so.

if you have an issue with it, stop looking at their chest and mind your own damn business. problem solved.

[official-boob-posts]

official boob post

[nevercure]

So to catch you up to speed

Luigi Mangione is an innocent man who has not been confirmed to have been involved in any crime.

We have police documents confirming he was not DNA tested or fingerprinted, and confirmation no usable DNA or fingerprints were recovered at the crime scene due to incomplete prints and immense DNA contamination of New Yorks streets.

No evidence has linked him to the crime.

No facial recognition has even remotely come close to identifying the cctv suspects face as that of Luigi. His own family and friends do not see a resemblance. Most people agree the features in the cctv do not match the very well documented features of Luigi Mangione.

Luigi Mangione has no history of violence nor with firearms. He is a vegan pacifist with no history of mental illness and an aversion to killing even bugs.

He is still only a SUSPECT and all involvement in any crimes are merely ALLEGED at this time. Alleged by the most corrupt police force in the entire nation; the NYPD who do more organized crime than they've ever stopped.

Luigi Mangione's attorneys confirmed they have been shown absolutely nothing that even places Luigi at the scene of the crime.

People have repeatedly tried to recreate the entire timeline of events and found it is not physically possible to do what was alleged in the time frame police gave. Especially dubious for Luigi Mangione to have done given his recent, crippling back injury.

Luigi Mangione in his own words has said police planted evidence on him and are not being honest about his arrest or what he had on him at the time.

There is no body cam footage of Luigi's arrest.

There is no autopsy report for Brian Thompson.

Luigi has so far been:

Stripped of his hat, jacket and shoes and forced to walk in the cold in December wearing wet socks.

Forced to urinate on himself where police then took and published humiliation photos of him.

He was then stripped of his shirt pants and socks and put in a blue psychiatric gown and strapped to a chair inmates called "the torture chair" and left for prolonged periods of time. To the point the entire inmate population at the prison protested in anger.

He was slammed unto a brick wall, choked, and shoved by various police officers for no reason.

Was marched through nyc at gunpoint by officers with military firearms, forced to wear chains

Was called a murderer by the mayor of NYC on national television.

Was then placed in solitary confinement for weeks. Something extremely damaging psychologically to be exposed to for even just a few days. Something usually reserved for cannibals.

He is now being forced to sleep on the floor despite again, a crippling back injury.

Again, he has not even had trial yet. He is an innocent man by the very definition of the law. He has nothing tying him to any crime. And even the crime itself was a nobody being shot in a city where nobodies are shot everyday, seven days a week. And those shooters don't get this treatment. Cannibals don't get this treatment. Serial killers don't get this treatment. Why are they doing this? Because we entered an oligarchy and they want people who are rich to matter more than people who are not. The NO ONE, no name, insignificant person that Brian THOMPSON always was and WILL ALWAYS BE is more important because of his net worth, to the fascist oligarchy we've entered into, than the innocent man, data scientist and robotics engineer with a promising future that is Luigi Mangione.

The NYPD doesn't want him to be innocent. They are torturing him gleefully and postponing his trial because they know he's innocent. They just want to scare the public into understanding that the ultra rich, even those who's names will never be remembered as anything other than markings on a never visited tombstone, are the only persons who matter now. Not yours. Never yours. You're poor. They'll torture you without a trial too. Your life means nothing to them. Your children dying in school shootings means nothing to them. Pinning a crime on an innocent man they can beat to scare the public out of class consciousness is the only thing that matters to them now. Depose them.

[obsessingoverl]

found this today

Please use these terms correctly. Not doing so will deeply harm the people who actually have experienced trauma, gaslighting, triggers, and people who have NPD.

[otherearthsoutthere]

This needs to be shared wide and far. I’m so sick of people misusing these terms. Especially to draw and false sympathy to themselves.

[raddagher]

Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

[jay-wasreblogging]

Why would utility prices go up because of ai?

(I am not defending the usage of generative AI/ChatGPT/Character.ai etc etc i am very much against it - I am just curious as to the correlation between using it and utility price surge please don't come at me this is a genuine question)

[raddagher]

Happy to help.

ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY'S electricity.

ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.

The AI boom wastes so much electricity that we are very immediately risking US cities having to have rolling blackouts just to keep up with the energy demands, as early as NEXT YEAR

Gen AI's water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027

More AI use = more data centers = power drain on local cities = gas, electricity, and water utility prices rise because all of our resources are being funneled into a machine that makes garbage

[caspercryptid]

New sleep style: hitting the snooze button so many times that you sleep two additional hours in ten minute intervals. I call this Horse Sleep

[caspercryptid]

Worse sleep. That was meant to say worse sleep

[caspercryptid]

I Am So Fucking Tired

[caspercryptid]

Literally immediately after reblogging this to correct it I went "wow, it has a reblog already?" And got all the way to checking my notifs before I realized. That it was me.

[caspercryptid]

I actually wasn't that far off you guys

[caspercryptid]

HOLY SHIT THE POST IS SAVED

[caspercryptid]

Anyway horse sleep: sleep, but horse. Worse. Sleep but worse. Definitely one of the two.

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[jackironsides]

Oh my god, as a disabled person who cannot work, you have no idea what it's like to be unemployed full time indefinitely. It suuucks. There's a reason why when one of my friends retired, all of his friends told him he needed to make sure he had things to fill his days

People want to work. People want to be useful. I volunteered to make rehearsal tracks for my choir because I wanted to work. I have beta-read friends' fics because I can't work as an editor any more.

UBI just means that you can't trap people in abusive environments because they have no alternative any more.

[lxcke]

THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

[sreegs]

Sections of the Alphabet, a guide:

ABCDEF - The Grade Quarter. For obvious reasons these letters are associated with rank and quality. Though E is not a common grade it nevertheless is part of the territory.

GHIJK - The Working Class Neighborhood. In English these letters do a lot of grunt work. Their proximity to the grades make them overlooked but what would we do without them?

LMNOP - Midtown. When learning the alphabet this section gets a lot of attention due to its distinctive landcape and how it rolls off the tongue. Its vista of peaks and hills make it stand out as well.

QRSTUV - The Support Town. A land of contrasts. The heavy lifters in this area draw a sharp disparity with Q, which is unique for its specialist role.

WXYZ - The Outlands. A stretch of unusual landscape that is distinct for its cuisine. Everyone knows what kind of dish you're eating when it's got some of these letters in it.

[alphabetcompletionist]

26/26

[fruityyamenrunner]

u don't think about T being near the end of the alphabet, but it is. TUVWXYZ. T and U are the last holdouts against those monsters.

[mntds]

[beneathsilverstars]

2025 is a good number, it’s a quarter of the way through the 20 hundreds and it’s got that nice set of 2s separated by only a 0. not bad. whatever happens this year at least it’ll be happening during a good number 😌

[186-3]

and IT'S A SQUARE. IT'S 45 SQUARED. THE LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS IN 1936 (44 squared) AND IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN UNTIL 2116 (46 squared)

[rlyehtaxidermist]

It's not just any square, it's the square of a triangle number - 45 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9. (Which is also the sum of all the squares in a Sudoku grid, an inescapable tool if you like to do more mathematically intense sudokus.)

The squares of triangle numbers, also known as Nicomachus numbers, have a very interesting identity - the square of the sum is equal to the sum of the cubes! So we have

The previous Nicomachus year was 1296, and the next is 3025 - and given that the Gregorian calendar wasn't in use until the 16th century, I'm not holding my breath for a second Gregorian Nicomachus year to happen at all.

[chazkuangshi]

I think there's something to be said that saying the words "Deny, Defend, Depose, you're next" to an insurance sales rep can get you arrested for 'threats of mass homicide' or whatever with a threat of 15 years in prison

But when I was a manager in a fast food restaurant I've had customers throw food at me, demand for my personal phone number with an added threat of "Well I'll just have to FIND it", customers charging past the front counter to physically intimidate me and my coworkers, screaming and swearing, demands to know what time I get out of work, demands to know when my manager would be at work as a threat, people sitting in their car waiting for me to finish closing because they were angry at me, causing me to stay in the office watching the camera waiting for them to drive away...

But none of those incidents are arrest-able offenses, not one, any time I called the cops on any customer I would just hear excuses like " "there isn't anything illegal about calling a restaurant", that nothing physical happened and therefore there's nothing they could do, to call back and let them know if anything else happens

Idk, just think it's A TEENY TINY BIT ODD

Cop in the news goes "words have consequences" as if people don't berate and threaten fast food and retail workers every day

[shrineart]

EXACTLY.

Like I said we literally had someone make a national threat and everyone laughed it off at my work.

I've heard people get threatened with all kinds of shit and no one cared. It was just something you had to "leave at work at the end of the day" something you had to "move on" from.

But lo and behold when CEOs and rich people feel threatened suddenly it's a fucking huge ass emergency. Suddenly, it's something they can take you to jail over.

[jamiemaybeme]

thinking about "you're eating soup with a fork" and "how am i overflowing when i feel so empty" and "we began to dance whilst crying aplenty" and "you said you're having one of those days where you wish you didn't have a body" and "once upon a time you were sort of two ended candle, but somewhere along the line you became melted wax on the carpet" and "as we continue to live, we continue to die" and "took the bus into town, looking out at windows as we drive past, think of the endless infinities tucked behind each glass" and just the entirety of feel so empty tbh

[genderkoolaid]

you there, adult! quickly! explain why children are a socially vulnerable class of people without defaulting to "they are stupid and their brains don't work"

[steampunkette]

Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.

They lack life experiences required to recognize they're being manipulated or abused and do not actually understand the intricate nature and structure of lies which makes them easy targets for con artists and abusers.

Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.

Their lack of experience with negative feedback results in a lack of scale causing them to respond to even minor inconveniences with dramatic rejection that could cause them to leap to a different extreme and harm themself unintentionally in the process.

Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.

Due to the formative nature of everything they experience being a baseline for their lives their isolation from socio-political topics reinforces a idealized youth, later in life, wherein politics "Weren't a thing" that leads them to desire to avoid the topic as adults.

Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.

Their constant need for stimulation as they grow results in an endless drive for novelty combined with a natural human response to dive into the familiar for comfort results in a deeply uncomfortable psychocsocial battle which can be paralyzing when even simple choices are presented making them apt to default to the desires of authority figures.

Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.

[fullofowls]

10. Them acting independently is inherently criminalized as third spaces are eliminated. Them existing in a space is treated as "being up to something." Youth activity is not treated as something done out of boredom or lack of spaces to exist in, but malicious.

[2spirit-0spoons-deactivated2024]

11. They are not only treated as property more than people but are routinely dehumanized and Some argue this is because they are not even seen as fully human.

Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?

Is perceiving children as not yet fully human a manifestation of dehumanization or a mere reflection that children lack the features commonl

Children, by definition, are not yet adults. Might this imply that we think of children as not yet fully human?

The literature hints that this might be so. For example, Black people, Native Americans, and indigenous people of South America were likened to nonhuman animals and children by White people, in the past and now. Adults perceive infants’ mental capacities to be more similar to dogs’ or chimpanzees’ than to their own. Childlike is a marker of animalistic dehumanization when applied to social categories or individuals and perceived higher competence, agency, and civility predict lower dehumanization. Thus, empirically testing whether children are dehumanized seemed worthwhile.

[...]

The human becomings perspective places a strong emphasis on cultural knowledge and on complex, usually intellectual, abilities supposedly unique to humans. Schooling is an obvious way to pass a lot of that knowledge and abilities to younger generations. However, this emphasis puts several social categories at risk of being dehumanized. Social categories who routinely face social exclusion or lower academic achievement, such as Roma people in Europe, persons with learning disabilities, or people living in poverty, may be seen as not having become fully human, even as adults. Other social categories may suffer when one defines what it is to be human in relation to abilities, paving the way for the dehumanization of older adults, people with disabilities, mental disorders, and so on. All aforementioned social categories are infantilized to this day. Being blatantly compared with children or subtly treated in condescending ways is yet another risk of the human becomings perspective. However, whereas children will (presumably) eventually develop features that are seen as essentially human, members of those other social categories may never acquire them, alienating them even further from what it is believed to be human.

Interestingly, the notion that children are becomings, while adults are beings, does not only imply by contrast that children are not yet human beings, it also implies that adults are not ‘becoming’ anymore and reached an end-state as humans, as full members of the human category. This is not how most of the adults I know feel about themselves, rather that they are still ‘becoming’ who they are and will be as humans.

This is a good read btw and I do suggest reading it all even if you don't click on every linked source.

[multifandumbmeg]

Anthony Lockwood is an emotional chameleon. He changes how he interacts with people to be what they want and need.

Think about how he acts with George. They bicker, they insult each other, they're not touchy-feely, but they get each other. They care about each other. Lockwood treats him like this because that's what George likes: blunt, to the point, back-and-forth banter and sarcasm. He doesn't treat George's neurodivergence or eccentricities as a fault like others, he casually accepts or even lauds them. He's the hands-off but there when you need him friend George needed.

Think about how he treats Lucy. She doesn't realize this is why, which is the cause of much of her internal fury, but he tries to be what she seems to want. Lockwood gives Lucy a huge amount of freedom, doesn't push her to open up, celebrates and accepts her gifts at face value (especially in the books) but in the show when she makes clear what she doesn't want, he apologizes and changes course. He becomes comfortable with her quickly and doesn't treat her differently because she's a girl- he knows she can handle herself and she's just another member of the household, no judgement for being messy or lazy or looking wrecked like the rest of them. He knows that she is closed off and resentful when people pity her or acknowledge her pain, so he shows his affection in subtler ways, like making her toast and tea. Giving her precious things that are part of his past as a show of trust and attempt at vulnerability. Frequently praising her, but only when she truly deserves it, because she wouldn't accept it otherwise. Constantly showing her how much her life is worth to him, no matter how much it drives her crazy. His relationship with Lucy changes as his romantic feelings for her grow, and it gets harder for him to mask how he actually feels and wants to act.

Now here's the controversial one: Lockwood does not show Holly favoritism, nor is a malicious, manipulative monster pitting two women against each other. Every single thing about how Lockwood treats Holly differently can be attributed to him knowing her past and trying to be what she needs. He is helping her. Lucy's internal monologue of intense jealousy is a matter of insecurity. She sees Lockwood's gentleness with Holly as him seeing her as a "real girl" and Lucy herself as "just one of the guys" - read, not a romantic prospect. But Lockwood makes it clear who he favors soon enough: when Lucy decides to leave, he offers to fire Holly immediately because he knows of their feud. It is Lucy he can't live without. Lockwood is, in a word, polite to Holly. He is kind and friendly towards her because her previous boss abused her, and she is traumatized in a fundamentally different way than Lucy. Whereas Lucy hardened but sees the agent life as all she can do, all she is worth, Holly is paralyzingly traumatized by agent work. Which is exactly why he takes her out on cases slowly, watches out for her, and does everything he can to rebuild her confidence. He gets onto to Lucy rather than Holly because 1) Lucy became hostile immediately and fully started their conflict, 2) as mentioned before, Holly is traumatized by an abusive, toxic prior work environment. He's trying to make her feel safe here, and 3) He's completely unaware of how Lucy sees this behavior as a personal slight because he fully respects Lucy as an equal, which he thinks is a compliment.

Also, I think George sees Lockwood's ever-changing personality as completely par for the course. As a fellow neurodivergent, he thinks this parade of masks is how everyone interacts, Lockwood's just good at it.

In conclusion, Lockwood is simply a kind kid with pretty damn high emotional intelligence, which is frankly remarkable considering how alone he's been. Anthony Lockwood tries to be whatever anyone else needs, because there was no one to be it for him.

[greelin]

as much as i understand being a hater you have to offset that shit with genuine, sincere enjoyment & wonder sometimes lest YOU become the one who is corny. and sad. imo.

[greelin]

where’s your fucking whimsy, jackass? your compassion? is it only irony and judgement 24/7 for you? booooo

[detentiontrack]

i think the people criticizing chappell roan right now don't understand how bipolar disorder works. chappell roan is diagnosed with bipolar 2. do you know how hard it is to keep it together with major life changes when you are constantly going through phases of hypomania/mania and depression? big life changes can trigger a catastrophic episode. i was hospitalized after moving or almost moving TWICE. you know what is a really big change? suddenly becoming as famous as she is in such a short period of time. bipolar can also cause paranoia and difficulty trusting people. you know what can trigger that? being constantly approached in public by people asking for hugs and pictures and literally FOLLOWING HER WHEREVER SHE GOES. SOME of yall are like "mental health matters <3" but as soon as someone puts down reasonable boundaries or prioritizes their mental health, y'all go after them. i feel that some of you guys just expect musicians and other artists to be emotionless content machines and call them selfish when they actually experience emotions and need boundaries in place. chappell roan is a human being before she is a musician. she does NOT owe you ANYTHING!! at this point the people whining just sound selfish and unsympathetic.