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[fearwasalwaysshitting]

my favourite individual bird is of course Woodsy Owl. Then in 1997 they made him skinny and took away all his personality. To add insult to injury they required all old mascots costumes burned. He's rarely used and not many people know him.

[deadelated]

imagine coming home and your mom found your steampunk clothes and shes just there with her arms crossed

[deadelated]

she's holding up a ziplock bag of gears and springs asking you what they're for

[deadelated]

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[despazito]

[smhmyheaddude]

I don't know what 15 year old needs to hear this but please please please for the love of God stop engaging with lolcow-based content. I beg of you.

[tim-official]

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

[tim-official]

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

[bobcat-pie]

[hollowedskin]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Cookie clicker if it was trans… estrogen and testosterone cookies…

[saviorified]

I believe he is a girl but not anytime soon

[ask-pacman]

The male bitch at cvs always got a rolex with a cracked glass no hourhand and hes got a cut like he was ran over by bull's at ru paul so we call him tweny dollar dandy I think hes been charging me extra for my vitamin e so i slipped him a viral strain and he dont work there anymore

[06-archive]

[saejima-nyan04]

we all had a pjackk dead wife flashback today

[some-pers0n]

I have a horrible habit of seeing an opinion on something I disagree with by going "Oh that's a neat alternative interpretation" instead of running directly towards their location to start harassing them for being catastrophically wrong. Are there any ways to rectify this. I want my soul to become impure from hatred

[some-pers0n]

I've been getting into literary analysis and criticism and my first move will be to only engage in online discourse on cartoons

[oliviawebsite]

what if what called Medicine Square Garden and it was a reallybig pharmacy or a hospital maybe

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[loathsomespider]

[allegedly-human]

nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.