Cali

Looking deep into my soul to find my inner tropical bird.

[fleetnaturals-deactivated202110]

At the queer cafe

Barista: “I have a medium grande fig newton fleet water no-foam cappuccino with almond milk on the bar.”

Person with an undercut: “Isn’t almond milk kinda problematic?”

Polyamorous man with a beard: “I’m polyamorous.”

[cykelops]

I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually

[moghedien]

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today

[secretgarden]

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[calibaby]

The way my social science professors my last semester b4 dropping out of uni salivated over my messy papers because they felt human and presented actual ideas with proper and real citations (Zotero the goat). It gave me mad imposter syndrome bc I didn’t understand how my garbage were getting As.

Contrary that with my comp sci teacher who used AI to create their coding prompts and the AI tool they used to grade my code used some kind of fucked up exact pattern matching for outputs that meant i kept getting zeros on my coding assignments until I stopped hand coding them and began to plug the prompts into copilot which gave me an 100% every time. I even tried to cheat traditionally by having my friend, a professional software engineer with a pre AI CS degree from a prestigious university try the problems out and his submissions got zeros too. I fucking hate AI.

I think AI played a part in why I dropped out. It didn’t feel worth even more debt when the IT industry is a smoldering crater and I already have experience and certification. I decided to just go back and finish my associates and somehow community college now is more rigorous than my university studies.

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[animentality]

[blackpyrefly]

[oblivious to sexual dynamics] ohhh are you guys playing knights and princesses? can i be like a grizzled mercenary captain? i could teach the soldiers in matters of arms and project a gruff and unyielding yet ultimately kind and fatherly demeanour. if you guys are looking for a third. player

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[calibaby]

It’s amazing what you can do with hand tools and autistic obsession.

[assiraphales]

I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive

[gaylor-moon]

[dogpuppy]

[memory-of-stargazing]

“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?