[bathroomcube]

fuck me all my friends have jobs which means they have no time to play toys with me and its fuycking ruining my life

[thisarenotarealblog]

fuck me i have a job which means i have no time to play with my friends and its ruining my life

[hamletthedane]

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

[sevenoffeathers]

as of today (6/30/2025) this post was made over 1.2 million minutes ago. a billion minutes ago was still the height of the roman empire

[autisticinfovore]

We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

[goatexx]

This is current- it was posted on 8/25/2025

[huariqueje]

The Ocean at Dusk -  Kate Jarvik Birch 

American , b. 1977 -

Gouache on paper , 10 x 10 in.

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[beaft]

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

[starbitten13]

[squirreltastic]

nursing homes are not punishments.

They are supposed to function as care centers for people who are disabled.

So why is it our culture thinks its a joke to say "shape up or you'll be sent to a nursing home". Families are not trained medical staff. It is a luxury to stay in your home as your care needs increase. You can need a nursing home or similar level of care at any age.

Pay attention, how they are run is a sign of ableism and ageism. The lack of funding and abusive staff stories should matter to you NOW because if you arent disabled now you will be in someway (and well, because its basic compassion but if we had that I wouldn't need to make this post)

[molabuddy]

what do you meaaaaaaan this is baby sturgeons youre lying to me.... you just Shrunk him

[theonion]

“I’ve had it with being labeled spineless simply because, at the end of the day, I really don’t give a shit whether we tax the rich to help poor families or hungry children or whatever,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Full Story

[bakedbakermom]

fuck terry pulling no punches in this one

[historynerdj2]

Sir Terry Pratchett once again continues to be relevant

[moon-mason]

[madamslayyy]

Got his ass together in three words

[bogleech]

Okay but frog genitalia are internal whereas male rats have among the largest proportionate ballsacks of any animal.

[callmestannismaybe]

[sioltach]

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

[wizardshark]

This isn't even a shit post that actually happened

[gayvampyr]

“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

[horreurscopes]

hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

[topazlight]

of course bro opening up about your lack of knowledge and asking questions is the only way to fill in that fundamental gap

[charlesoberonn]

So Trump's DOJ is suing the state of Washington because WA's new mandated reporting law says that clergy (among many other professions) are legally obligated to report ongoing child abuse if they know about it. And the Christofascists in the Trump regime call that "anti-catholic"

And all I can think of is this iconic post

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*blowing out my little bedside tealight, putting away my phone, and drifting off to sleep with one last dozzy thought of gratitude to blue light screen filters, only to jolt awake because wait shit did humans evolve that way because of candles???

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

pre-electric light sources (candles, oil lamps, fire) tend to warm/yellow tones—and have been used in one form or another for all of human existence. use of fire pre-dates humans; our hominid ancestors were using it for light and heat as early as 2 million years ago.

for a long, long time, yellow light (the open fire, the communal hearth, the candlelight, the burning lamp) has been an indicator that hey sweetheart, it's almost bedtime

and as for blue light, well. they called that daylight (and sometimes: dawn)

[wizardarchetypes]

speaking of third-wheeling i love when people are like "third-wheeled too hard and now i'm in a throuple" but i think a little spoken of third-wheeled-too-hard option is getting adopted by other adults. one time when i was 25 and in undergrad i made friends with a married couple in their thirties and ended up in such an unusual relationship that one day they called me to their house and sat me down very somberly and then one of them started crying and i thought one of them must have gotten some sort of life-altering health diagnosis or something

but then they told me they were getting a divorce and they were going to be okay, but they had been agonizing for two weeks over how to tell me because they didn't want to "disrupt" my life and it was then that i had to remind them that i was actually a fully grown adult and that i was going to be completely okay and that in fact i would like to be there for them in this tumultuous time and they were like

"oh....... yeah"

[teaboot]

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

[teaboot]

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

[teaboot]

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.