SomeUselessThing

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[loveridden1999]

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

[galileosballs]

So, if you're not in a techbro-adjacent world you might not know this, but a lot of gamer bros have finally started rebelling against AI. Because they were all waiting for Black Friday sales to get new PC parts, but AI companies are buying up all the PC parts, so they all logged in on Black Friday looking for deals and found everything three times as expensive as it was a few months ago. And I mean everything. It's not just GPUs this time like it was with the crypto miners, it's RAM and SSDs and even fucking HDDs.

You tell a gamer bro he can't get a 1TB SSD for less than 200 smackeroos and he'll be against anything you tell him is to blame.

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[pwhyxco]

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

[wamscoastsmoker]

get spooky

[tshifty]

how does this appear every june

[honeybeeavenue]

@nooowestayandgetcaught

[bardstardish]

STOP BRINGING THIS BACK EVERY JUNE

[marta-bee]

… I’ve just queued this up for next June. Because reasons

[bitchassslytherinsnakery]

Oh and it’s rainbow skeletons too this is perfect 😂

[not-sad-just-emo-deactivated202]

PeRFECT

[no-gender-only-soup]

IT’S GAY HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[spacingout]

R a i n b o w s k e l e t o n s

[annoyed-almond-milk-deactivated]

G A Y H A L L O W E E N

[sulferandwater-deactivated20211]

JUNE

[chaos-triangle]

It’s June but Halloween never ends!

[stantler]

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

[stantler]

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

[crownofstardustandbone]

Just because you’re part of an oppressed party does not mean you cannot hold bias against other groups or members of your own group. Bias is learned and ingrained through society and family and it takes real work to unlearn it. No one is perfect, no one is without bias and you are in fact going to fuck up now and again—what matters is if you learn from it and grow.

[otatma]

this is what people are talking about when they say "do the work"

[bedupolker]

"don't worry scientists will invent a way to solve climate change!" They already did... several times over... just the people who didnt like their solutions (cough cough oil companies) had enough cash to shut them up both legally and illegally

[best-blurst-of-times]

[ironbite4]

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

[thedarkbutbeige]

[spaceshipoftheseus]

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

[randomslasher]

[mayfriend-archive]

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

[mayfriend-archive]

[limbobilbo]

> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature

> looks inside

> hope :)

[strike-another-match]

heartbreaking: well intentioned person who needs detailed instructions to function is giving extremely detailed instructions to person who gets overwhelmed with large volumes of information

[scp-threats-is-back]

Test, ignore this

[kosmogrl]

[manwhorewednesdays]

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

[indigo-roses-blog]

[image: tweet by overlyxclusive: "when people love you they find joy in making life easier for you"]

[boringkate]

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but…

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

[yasmin1000000]

Learn from him and make everything worse. Gamers are idiots and you should never listen to them

[mlembug]

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

bsky post by Will Borger ‪(edgarallanbro.bsky.social‬)

[what-even-is-thiss]

I see people in my life be so confused as to why Europe has less drunk driving than the US does even though a lot of European countries have higher rates of alcohol use than we do and like buddy. It’s because drunk Europeans can get home without a car.

When there’s no designated driver in the US your options are hire an expensive cab or uber, walk ten miles on the side of a highway, or drive home drunk.

Europeans can just walk. Or take a tram. Or drunkenly ride a bike. They have pubs under every trash bin. They have usable buses. Even if they’re ruining their livers they at least won’t have to die in a car crash about it.

[despazito]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

[bogleech]

Guy convinced he has the world's only horse

[bebsi-cola]

all my love to other autistic people who just know jack shit. the ones who have no "infodump" locked and loaded, nothing they can rattle off the top of their head. the ones who have a specific interest in certain things but still not knowing a lot about it. autistic people who will never be able to memorise fun facts about something no matter how fundamental it is to them as a subject. the point of autistic interests are not being a secret expert on random shit, you just like it a real big amount

[eyesonjupiter]

Thank you!

I have such a bad memory but still love some things so so much. It feels weird to not really be able to rant about it

[draconym]

It burns my biscuits whenever I hear someone say that a person or group "doesn't contribute to society." Society is comprised of people. Those people are society. Society exists for and because of the people in it. It's like when I'm bicycling in the city and some schmuck leans out the window of his lifted pickup and yells at me for "blocking traffic." Bitch, I am traffic.

[depsidase]

[theinstagrahame]

It's because the right-wingers all think that they're going to be Trillionaires someday, if they work really hard and suffer just the right amount.

That's why the "self-made man" stories always leave out the crazy amounts of money they're able to borrow interest free; it takes a lot of wind out of Bezos' sails if you know he got like $10mil from family friends to start Amazon. Trump borrowing a "small" million dollar loan from his dad makes his wealth seem a hair more tacky.

That's why the concept of privilege is so threatening to the Right worldview; that's why Elon Musk is so determined to hide his Blood Emerald wealth, really sucks his whole schtick dry. Knowing that he bought his Founder's seat on Tesla makes him seem way less cool.

That's why they're always on the Grindset, Prosperity Gospel "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" bullshit; notwithstanding that they adopted a satirical phrase, they need you to blame yourself instead of the political choices their representative make. If you realize that poverty is a policy choice, then their whole operation kind of collapses.

[kosmogrl]

[manwhorewednesdays]

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

[indigo-roses-blog]

[image: tweet by overlyxclusive: "when people love you they find joy in making life easier for you"]

[weaselknievel]

having a favourite animal you're associated with rules because people will send you beast related things and it'll make your day everytime