dawsy

[targetedknowledge]

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[flightsofwonder]

why does this have 85K notes

[randomslasher]

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

[girlfailure-poetics]

I have kind of a niche political view on tumblr, which is that I think misogyny is bad even when it’s just hurting women

[girlfailure-poetics]

and I don’t even think it needs to have a singular benefit for men for feminism and the abolition of patriarchy to be worthwhile

[girlfailure-poetics]

in fact the abolition of patriarchy could be a net loss for men and I would still think that feminism and the abolition of patriarchy was worth it

[thundergrace]

When I tell you establishment dems are fighting far left candidates harder than they have ever fought MAGA candidates or Trump, I'm not exaggerating.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

[the-rad-menace]

It's such lazy writing to have a male character who is a massive, unlikable asshole but people put up with him because he's skilled/a genius. And then when he expresses even the smallest amount of kindness or deference towards another character, they expect the audience to be like, 🤯😱💯🎉.

And of course, all the other characters secretly love and care about the guy who is constantly calling them stupid and inept. Oh, he's mean to others because he doesn't like himself? 🙄 Is he going to change his behavior in any substantial way once he realizes that? No.

The smartest men I've known personally have generally been empathetic, patient, ready to learn what they can from others, and willing to admit when they don't know things. (I've only met a handful of men like this in my entire life.) The ones who think they get to play the asshole genius are usually so astonishingly ignorant on so many fronts it's difficult to even accept what they have to say about their supposed areas of expertise.

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

Oh, you're so smart, so super smart but too dumb to realize that being shitty to people is a bad idea? Oh ok.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

right wing handwringing over birth rates has always unsubtly been a combination of wanting more white babies/wanting control over women, so it's bothersome that the popular response to that is just pointing out the cost of living. "we Would be having more kids if you guys made some positive changes to society" and such. pronatalist sentiment is becoming so much more explicit that I don't think many self-styled progressives are ready to reconcile with the fact that many women simply do not want to have children. we already see how women are demonized for refusing to undertake the thankless burdens of their mother and grandmother's generations lol, I can't imagine how full abdication from child rearing will come across to some people.

I can't even see "we Would be having kids" as a strategic approach to get conservatives to consider advocating for a higher quality of life considering that they truly could not care less if you, specifically, are poor. it's true that more couples would have kids if it was cheaper, but that will not be enough for these types until women's subservience is codified. even now, they consider the lack of child rearing in today's insane society to be a matter of selfishness. they view themselves as completely different animals than you. they have and will continue to advocate for more advantages for people of their specific backgrounds and income brackets to reinforce this lol.

[depsidase]

[beetlewoman]

it really bothers me how trump has completely annihilated any expectations of decorum from elected officials

[beetlewoman]

it also bothers me that said decorum is still expected from democrats from both sides, but republicans can shit on the floor and no one cares that much.

i literally hate the circus show that us politics have become. it's embarrassing. i know it's been like this and it probably has since before i was born but i literally can't comprehend it. i don't want a governor that posts phonk edits about destroying planned parenthood. i don't want a department of homeland security that posts call of duty clips mixed with real drone strikes. i don't want a president that posts ai slop videos. i can't take it anymore. are we in hell?

[depsidase]

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[only-cat-memes]

[depsidase]

[roguemortal]

Lex Luthor wannabe. Lex Loser.

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[segamascott]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

This is true but I'm gonna be controversial for a second and say that I feel bad for jocks who get hit with The Injury™️too. The Injury™️ fucking sucks, man. Having something that everyone praised you for when you were young suddenly betray you and having to grapple with both a sudden loss of ability (whether it's something that can be recovered from or not) and figure out what your future looks like now that the one you had imagined for yourself (whether it was actually realistic or not) feels like it's been snatched away is brutal.

[evilwriter37]

Yeah, like, maybe we shouldn't be shaming/making fun of people for either of these things!

[hometoursandotherstuff]