Chaos with a mascara wand

Kristin/30/ PhD student in Chem Eng

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[zvaigzdelasas]

[beemovieerotica]

[redstonedust]

they should invent a bus that never gets stuck in traffic because it's on its own path separated from the roads. and then chain multiple of them together and put it on rails. has anyone had this idea before.

[beroebluejeans]

To me, the appeal Cardan Greenbriar, Holly Black’s titular Cruel Prince, is not that I find him attractive it’s that I find him both relatable and aspirational. He is a 19ish-year-old disappointment who deals with his feelings by getting drunk and wearing a lot of cool outfits and eye makeup and trying to act aloof and mysterious and sexy. This is all deeply relatable, but the aspirational part is that, while most of us just looked ridiculous, for him it’s all somehow working.

[redstonedust]

those ads for ai integration on phones are so funny bc it seems like they cant. come up with that many use cases that arent already on a phone? "ask gemini to give you recipes when youre cooking!" "use our AI assistant to find the perfect gift for your girlfriend" yeah or i could just like. google it. you've spent millions on a slightly fancier version of an alexa. good job man.

[cure-icy-writes]

the human mind is prone to catastrophizing when left unoccupied. And that’s why it’s important to always have a little Blorbo to rotate in your head. It acts as a protective charm of sorts to redirect your imagination away from harmful spirals

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that

thoughts with Blorbo: I haven’t considered the interactions with bleebus; I must rectify this immediately

[roach-works]

intrusive thought: what if i stepped on my kitten full force on purpose

intrusive thought with blorbo: i should get him drunk and drop him off a bridge

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[dogpuppy]

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[mitskiesque]

they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

[depsidase]

[weaselle]

“LA is burning”

A: it is not. a couple of self-driving cars got set on fire

B: you didn’t give a shit a few months ago when LA was literally on fire in a big way. So.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Likewise, if you were too young to remember Bush's daddy sayin' the same thing in '89....Dubya was just a followup.

[brightlotusmoon]

I found photos of those Pallas Cat kittens born this year and bye I'm deceased

[curlicuetruth]

why do these kittens have the exact same energy as a nest of baby owls

[sanguine-tenshi]

@curlicuetruth you are very right

[curlicuecal]

[disc80s]

it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

[theoutsanityshoppe]

“Profession: King (deceased)”

[winterthebeau]

If bro ever decides to come back to life, he's all set and in the system

[theconcealedweapon]

[teaboot]

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

[teaboot]

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

[teaboot]

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.