conversations from the coffee shop

can I have oat milk with that?

[pansyfemme]

yes im addicted to attention and orgasms and food and shiny jewlery and 7$ Iced Lattes. does that really not sound like an awesome lifestyle to you

[rederiswrites]

Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.

[jottingprosaist]

Shareholder Profit: War (the casus belli for attacks on workers' rights)

Private Equity: Pestilence (they are parasites that voraciously strip the value out of a healthy business until it withers and dies)

Workforce Optimization: Famine (cutting hours and employees until the business is starved of staff, barely functioning)

Corporate Personhood: Death (a hollow, shambling mockery of a human with rights and needs)

[rederiswrites]

Yeah I can work with that.

[catboy-joyfriend]

how r u gonna call them love handles and then try to convince ppl thats a bad thing. insane to me

[pankomako]

[plasticfishies]

she ides on my march till i get stabbed 23 times

[depsidase]

[mimosa-sex-tea-people-contrsf]

Tumblr Sexy Rock Contest Round 2

Ammonite Fossil

Amethyst

Voting ended onAug 3, 2025

[prunelya]

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Arthur telling Merlin he's the only person he can trust and shares all his thoughts and feelings with while Merlin is actively trying to kill him is one of the funniest things they've done in the entire show

[sabertoothwalrus]

what can change the nature of a man?

estrogen

[kee-ree]

get in line

[quasi-normalcy]

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

[quasi-normalcy]

[fousheezy]

This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe

[disredspectful]

When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here. Fund theory and fundamental science research.

[quasi-normalcy]

It's actually kind of heartening, lasers; because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. But it actually turns out that their usefulness as a weapon is extremely limited, whereas their usefulness for just about everything else is incredible. It's one of the occasions where we flipped the "Dual Use" coin and it landed very solidly on the good side.

[blurrymind11]

Stan 100% deserves this win he’s been in the game! I love him. Ps im drawing stan as a beauty queen in a dress later so stay tooned

[virgin-on-acid]

[eldritchbauble]

Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

[forgotn1]

In the same vein, the rockabilly & pin up gals are performing gender. Just like the lumberjack and jock dudes are performing gender. They happen to align with their AGAB, but it is all absolutely a performance of their gender. Often to an exaggerated degree.

[heyybeach]

Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way

[depsidase]

[glowcowboy]

fuck casual friendships. our souls are intertwined. loving you is woven into the fabric of my life

[glowcowboy]

and brother? let’s make a beautiful tapestry