Check yourself for Cognitive Dissonance

it's more likely than you think!

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[tibby]

louis theroux interviewing jigsaw: hi, i’m louis theroux with the bbc, british broadcasting company. is it alright if i call you john? great, it’s nice to meet you john. um, do you mind if i ask you a few questions? i’m just a little bit curious about what it is that you’re doing here. the mechanics of the device, but also i guess the logic behind it. i know that you claim that you’ve never killed anyone, but that feels like you’re leaning in on the literal definition too much, rather than the human aspect. do you get what i’m saying? because some people, you know, might say that putting people in deadly situations is still killing them. even if you do explain the circumstances. you only give them a small time frame, and what if they mishear the instructions? that doesn’t seem fair, does it? from where i’m standing, it sort of seems like your actions don’t match your words. so you can understand why people might be misconstrue your behaviour and label you a serial killer. and i’m not here to say that you are or aren’t, i just think there’s more proactive ways to get people to appreciate life. if i was really sad, i don’t think cutting off my arm would make me feel better. i’d be very upset. and it’s not something that i would ever do to you, especially since i see you as a friend now. so not only would i consider it unethical, but also it would really hurt my feelings if you did that to me.

[moldspace]

hungry critters

[sailermoon]

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

[charnel-grounds]

Gustav Adolf Mossa (1883–1971), “The Satiated Siren”

oil on canvas, 1905 — source

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[pixelartpeach]

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[seven-oh-four]

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[pixelartpeach]

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[too-many-blorbos]

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[bees-official]

Cursed amulet necklace that doesnt have a cursed amulet its just the phrase cursed amulet

[sentientballofpeas]

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[pixelartpeach]

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The mythical disabled person who is so disabled that everyone consistently supports and accommodates them without question is a straw man which only exists as a hypothetical for the political purpose of denying real disabled people care while still being able to argue that said care would be accessible to disabled people who "actually deserves it"

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

You've been kidnapped but the main character of the last TV show you watched is coming to rescue you.

Who’s rescuing you?

[hahshbsdisksnjsjsjebsdeactivated]

[standwithdaanes]

We may well suffer a generalized sense of despair, quickened by our clear-eyed assessment of recent left failures and cynical postmodern skepticism over those political movements still promising revolutionary change. We may suspect that our activity cannot change anything, and that it therefore doesn’t really matter whether we join a given struggle or movement, choose another path. Yet this need not render us incapable of political action. On the contrary, as Kierkegaard shows us, truly revolutionary commitment can only begin from a desperate point beyond reason. This journey through disillusionment is therefore not an embarrassment, to be glossed over through melancholic protestations that we never once doubted the possibility of victory. If we don’t doubt our cause, it isn’t faith. To Kierkegaard, “it is an infinite advantage to be able to despair,” since it’s only then that we can hope to one day be cured of that despair. As Öcalan once told his faithful followers: “You must believe, before everything else, that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.”

from Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment by Matt Broomfield

[titsay]

isolation

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Voting ended on5h

[lastoneout]

I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.

[rabbiteclair]

scientists have recently announced that exoplanet HR 3499a is no longer believed to be potentially capable of supporting life, after new spectroscopic readings indicated that it doesn't even have a dishwasher. "i mean, it doesn't even have a fucking dishwasher," said the lead researcher. "I guess you could live there, but, like, would you really want to?"

[crabussy]

conservation is worship to me. in a sense.

[crabussy]

I'm not religious but I'm a very emotional scientist and I've been thinking about this a LOT lately. I love the earth enough to be its steward. and I have the necessary tools for the task. a complex brain. dexterous hands. legs made to walk long and far. millions and millions of years of Chance and Opportunity shaped me into something that can give back to the planet that has been a life-sustaining home for every person who ever lived. it's enough to make me teary eyed sometimes

[crabussy]

"humans are pests that should be exterminated" I don't think that's true. the ecological niche of humans has shifted from persistence predation to stewardship of entire ecosystems. we've done a lot of wrong. but we have incredible potential to do so, so, so much good.

[crabussy]

this post speaks very broadly! I know a lot of us have brains that find some tasks very difficult and hands that struggle and legs that hurt. you're a wonderful person if that's you. I'm more than happy to do enough for us both. we're stewards, but we're also a cooperative species with an incredible capacity for kindness. rest well for me. [:

[rincewind87]

Sorry @arojerk I couldn't leave this in the tags.

[theehorsepusssy]