i dont even know which way the quiznos is

sam, they/them.

[hexjulia]

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[my-dailydreams]

[freezi-drink]

Hey um??

Via ID in alt

[sagetheunwise]

licking you bee wanted your sweat. that second one was just a freak I think

[megamindsupremacy]

Beautiful dash pull

[xenosagaepisodeone]

they're making the omelas child go to therapy so it can learn about interpersonal accountability and realize the impact that its confusing and antisocial behavior has on the people around it

[seiya234]

can’t believe i forgot to post the single best piece of graffiti ive ever seen

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[thememedaddy]

[modern-politics111]

[scotty-wolf-lover1968]

important and encouraging

[pcamtschatica]

Found a great (free) documentary on the Freedom House Ambulance Service here- https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/ (has captions too)!

[hoodiedeer]

I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve heard about this. like for years I’ve been thinking “imagine if the police were in charge of ambulances and firefighting, all the horrible problems that would cause, wouldn’t it be better if they were a separate thing, etc” as a way to better understand/explain the fundamental problems with the existence of police. that framing was part of what made me start to understand why my friends were saying “ACAB” and “abolish the police”. I had no idea it was literally once historically like that and not just a hypothetical tbh

[ardentdelirium]

Interview with one of the original members of Freedom House Ambulance

[scriptmedic]

This is cool as shit, and a part of my own career’s history that I didn’t even know about.

[androdragynous]

I'm a disability advocate (I think you should be disabled)

[androdragynous]

really though a lot of people put themselves through a lot of pain or inconvenience because they have decided they aren't Bad Enough to need help with something and it sucks. so I truly do want to encourage identifying as disabled. you can get a cane if you think you'd only use it on the really bad days or if the deciding factor is that it's your favorite color or if you think maybe it would make one single task a little easier. you can use a screen reader if it's more convenient to hear text spoken to you rather than reading it. you can get cut-proof gloves, or a chopping gizmo, or pre-cut ingredients if it would make you feel safer when cooking because you're a little clumsy. you can use a wheelchair if it would just make you less tired.

as someone who struggled (and struggles) with feeling Bad Enough to justify the tools I need: it's okay if you don't think you need them. A want is enough. A passing "oh, that would be useful" is enough, especially if it keeps happening. you're allowed to want things to be easier and you are allowed to make them easier. I love you.

[ink-the-artist]

Grocery shopping

[stevencharleston]

it's kinda sad that slop is such a popular pejorative now. after all it has done to nourish the noble hog

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[figuring-421]

🚨

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This will invalidate votes too

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

[ryannorth]

much to consider

[fuckmaster-unlimited]

i’d be really bad at being a male celebrity’s girlfriend (aside from the fact that i’m not a girl) because if people were thirstposting about him/being jealous of me publicly online i would just tweet out something like “you all can look as much as you want but i’m the only one who gets to put stuff in his butt” and then turn off my phone