Recovering Lurker

Mal, 23, they/them, aro, will write eventually

[theonion]

It's actually happening. Via Global Tetrahedron CEO Bryce Tetraeder

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[fluorescentbrains]

this lab safety training module is sending me

[fluorescentbrains]

I feel like whoever wrote these questions was speaking from experience

[lizardsfromspace]

The weird thing about AI detection is that people will lead with the nonsense then throw in real evidence. Like playing up the use of em dashes then revealing "also, the narrator's accent changes frequently in a way unnatural for a human" or "the story is a bunch of nice sounding but meaningless metaphors with nothing tying the paragraphs together into one story". Like okay I would've led with that but you do you

[vriskarune]

"there's no way toby can wrap all this up in just 2 chapters!"

toby, preparing to drop chapter 6 chapter 1:

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

deltarune fans in 2031 sitting through chapter 6 chapter 5 intermission 25 when they thought the whole thing would be done three years ago:

[complimentaryculler]

[swallowtail-ageha]

I like how when people claim to be reincarnations of someone they always turn out to be reincarnations of royalty and when its royalty they are always cleopatra and never random stillborn hapsburg baby no 4729

[prokopetz]

I love it when media fucks up the wording of the Rasputin disclaimer and ends up with shit like "any resemblance to people or locations living or dead is coincidental". I'd love to know what committing libel against a dead location would entail.

[abalidoth]

Fuck the Fiesta Mall in Mesa, AZ. I heard it ate someone once.

[probabilitydirigible]

this sea sucks shit. it doesnt even have any scrolls im sure

[prokopetz]

#Sorry what do you mean “rasputin disclaimer” (via @big-condiments-official)

For once I'm not actually doing a bit; those "any resemblance to real persons living or dead" disclaimers genuinely exist because of Rasputin.

(In brief, the 1932 MGM Studios film Rasputin and the Empress is a dramatisation of the life and times of Grigori Rasputin which is partially adapted from the personal memoirs of Felix Yusupov, one of the principal conspirators responsible for Rasputin's assassination. The film, which was heavily marketed as being based on real events, falsely claims that Rasputin fucked Yusupov's wife, Princess Irina Alexandrovna. As both Yusupov and Princess Irina were still alive at the time, they jointly sued MGM for libel – and won. This is actually, literally the reason the practice of including those disclaimers was taken up.)

[insomniac7809]

Ra Ra Rasputin Life adapted to the screen But doing so they slandered a prince Ra Ra Rasputin Felix hatched a legal scheme And MGM was thoroughly rinsed

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[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

(See also the video here from ITN.)

[iconuk01]

A not-so-subtle reminder to PM Burnham that Larry has seen off the Queen, a Pope, seven PM's, and and he's STILL in post.

Seven PM's... so far.

[cryptotheism]

>game is based on occult stuff

>they interpret it wong

[raginrayguns]

> works of historically central occultist are based on occult stuff

> they interpret it wrong

[cryptotheism]

It never FUCKING ends

[maelwife]

Maybe one reason time seems to speed up in adult life is because when your full time job leaves you roughly 5 hours of free time a day plus two days off a week your life turns into a sort of monotony that makes the days blend together and creative pursuits move in slow motion as you can only get to them when other your commitments are done.

[maelwife]

When you look back and think damn 2019 wasn’t that long ago where did the time go? Job. Your Job took it.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Hello. Since I've seen people submit finished wheels, I thought I'd submit a wheel I came up with. In this case, it's a wheel to tell you something that you can't do for a week.

https://wheelofnames.com/kch-gkt

this is a really really cool idea! Thanks!!!

You can't do this for a week!

How bad is this for you?

Its great! I can live with this

I already don't do this

It'll be annoying but I'll be fine

VERY BAD.

results/other

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

thanks inkarchivist for the submission!!

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours

[cheaphalloweencostume]

it feels really classless to say that remembering that charlie kirk died badly makes you smile and laugh but ill power through. ill say it

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

how it feels remembering charlie kirk got shot in the neck and bled out and died and his legacy is reduced to a joke

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[pitbolshevik]

if only yall focused on actual transphobia that trans men faced as much as you do on some random trans woman on tumblr making a textpost saying she hates men

[pitbolshevik]

like we could be discussing how cis people simultaneously infantilize and sexualize us or how we are routinely left out of conversations about abortion and gynecology or how cis men openly fantasize about forcing us to detransition or how conservatives seem extremely fucking interested in studying how soon we can get pregnant after forcibly detransitioning us or how trans men who DO choose to get pregnant are treated like freaks or how phallo and metoidio are extensively fearmongered about or how people insist that historical figures who lived as men up until their deaths were just gnc women

but no a trans woman said the phrase "birthday boy" once and that's obviously the real pressing issue here

[prokopetz]

A problem with a lot of folks' speculation about how Deltarune is going to end is that they're treating all meta brainfuck indie games as basically interchangeable and anticipating some sort of Void Stranger level ass-pull even though literally nothing about the game's narrative structure to date points in that direction.

[prokopetz]

Like, I'm not saying there's not gonna be a swerve, but there are levels of fuckery. "Rudy is the Roaring Knight" okay, sure, let's go with that. "Town is a simulation running on a computer in Undertale!Alphys' basement" you have played too much Animal Well.