Eye do a lot

a menace | queer | they/them | artist | music lover | fan of a lot of things |

[robotslenderman]

I’m sorry my lovelies but the reason you hate yourself is because you treat you like shit. If you came up to me and then told me I was a fuck up who could never do anything right I'd fucking hate you too.

[robotslenderman]

if you didn't let me go to bed until after midnight because you'd rather watch Netflix than let me rest, and then got mad at me for not being productive the next day I'd be PISSED

[robotslenderman]

You keep calling me a fatass but you tell other overweight people they’re beautiful? Why do you keep shitting on MY weight, then?

Oh? It’s different if it’s me? Wow fuck you too

[robotslenderman]

Love is a verb! Self love isn’t a warm fuzzy feeling, it is compassion and action in support of yourself!

And yes, this includes having compassion for the bully in your head. Unfortunately that part is also you and deserves as much of your understanding as the rest of you.

[xxverygoodcowsxx]

I don’t want to critisize what makes other people happier, because it’s great that it’s supposedly made them happier. But I don’t like this anti-realism, anti-self improvement, pro-narcissism ideology that seems to be popular now. What’s marketed as “self love” seems like refusing to agknoledge that you have problems, and I want to acknowledge I have problems, which often doesn’t mean being nice to myself. And I hate that people consider that a “bad” thing.

[robotslenderman]

You don't have to be nice to yourself, but you do have to be good to yourself. Nice here means prioritising good feelings, and being good means prioritising your well-being. Often it doesn't feel great to put well-being first.

You will never beat a problem out of yourself. Lots of people who hate themselves have tried, and all of them are equally convinced that they're the first human being who will finally make it work. They treat themselves the same way that people they despise treat others, and then they're surprised they don't have any self respect. Why would they? I've never respected anyone who treats people like shit. But swinging to the opposite extreme of pretending you're the bees knees and sucking your own dick doesn't do shit either.

If you go to bed early instead of staying up to watch Netflix, that's not pretending your problem of staying up doesn't exist. It's the opposite. It's not nice to tell yourself to go the fuck to bed instead of watching your favourite show but it is good for you, and if you do fuck up and can barely function the next day it is the good thing to understand that you can't make a miracle happen when you're sleep deprived, so you go easy on yourself and resolve to go to bed early the next night. There is zero reason to treat people who have problems like shit, so there's no reason to do it to yourself either.

But doing the nice thing, chanting affirmations in the mirror, trying to cultivate warm and fuzzy feelings - I don't think that actually works. That method of self love has always seemed a bit self obsessed to me. I've never had warm fuzzy feelings towards myself and I don't think I ever will, but I much prefer being someone I can rely on and trust to support myself, and that's done a lot to combat the self loathing I used to have. It's done more to actually fix my problems than hatred ever did.

[televisionenjoyer]

Tbh I kind of sat through the odyssey only to as the credits roll be like "where the fuck are the plastic skeletons" like. What the hell there weren't even skeletons in the movie.

[televisionenjoyer]

I dug deeper and it turns out all they found was like. two mysterious plastic arm bone structures and the natural conclusion was "well of course these must be props from Nolan's filming" so the government is kind of investigating but it got blown way out of proportion due to the internet hating Nolan (which. huge respect for the haterism) but I'm just kind of obfuscated because I was specifically looking out for the sea bones or like. Any bones at all for that matter.

[feminist-space]

[evilauthor]

Fun fact!

Everything you'd use for an AI prompt could just be sent to an actual human person as bullet points of what you want for a commissioned piece.

Want art of a character that has certain features? Send that description to a real life human person with a payment and get beautiful art back.

Want to read a story that has a set prompt? Send the description to a real life human person with a payment and they'll write it for you.

[actual-changeling]

it's soooo funny to me that eva stratt essentially rage-baited grace into coming onto the project. she really dangled everything he could possibly want in a lab right in front of him, made him the first human being to interact with an extraterrestrial life form, and then went "alright then, i'll keep you updated. goodbye forever" and walked away.

and just. the smile on her face when he comes running after her. she knew exactly how to get to him, she had that man locked down before she even met him.

she was SO confident she even kept the little earth bean bag just to pass it back to him at the end of their conversation. absolutely iconic.

she did nothing wrong and i love her

[its-timego]

Imagine the surreal insanity of being Irina Petrova and just hanging out having a hobby that you're very intense about and then you notice something weird and then all at once your name is one of the most uttered in history, by total accident. In the movie universe they describe her as a "radio telescope enthusiast" she does not even do this professionally. And suddenly everything is Petrova line, Petrova frequency, Petrova wavelength, Petrovascope, Petrova Task Force, Petrova problem. And you're like man. I have a day job.

[nyenye0701]

grace rocky save each other

[otherwindow]

I feel like zombie settings could do more to make slow zombies scarier in quiet, creeping ways. Zombies facing away from people. Walking backwards. Only moving if they're not seen. Holding a survivor but not hurting them. Motionless but their eyes follow you. Soundless horde.

[otherwindow]

Encountering fast zombies: Physical challenge

Encountering slow zombies: Psychological terror

[ibapoque]

Ohh okay okay okay I like this.

If zombies are a representation of the breakdown of society, the traditional zombie is a more noticeable, violent, immediate collapse of society.

The slow, quiet, still zombie is more about the societal collapse we don't see until it's too late, one that doesn't happen suddenly and drastically but one that happens without a fuss. The violence doesn't become the focus of the tension, the violence is the release of it.

[itsineffhazbinle]

Zombies sitting at tables, doing nothing for days, just staring silently while you search for food. Zombies walking endlessly through the same trails they did in real life. Zombies sitting at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to move. It never will. Zombies that are not mindless drones, they're beings whose sanity is lingering in darkened secluded places of their self, ready to burst forth in unsuspected ways. Humane in absolute cryptid ways and inhumane in the most human way possible.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[for-those-who-wait]

Forgetting your friend is both blind and a professional ragebaiter

[langernameohnebedeutung]

twitter is almost 19 years old and i will still read the quote-tweet before the quoted tweet.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

If only there were a social media that had become the next pdf

[berrytart]

You need to stop being 19 as fast as humanly possible no matter what it takes get out of there it’s dangerous and bad for you

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[dont-do-rice-babes]

beginning to suspect that adult life is one long string of having to either be brave enough to look like a complete moron, or eternally suffering from the consequences of inaction

[lliveonthesunn]

every other week, my mom would make a giant pot of vegetable soup. she'd pack half of it in a tupperware and take it to her best friend's house. they both had three kids whose ages aligned. they'd lock us out of the house and go through each room, finding every piece of dirty laundry and then spend the afternoon keeping the washer and dryer running, folding and putting away each load while gossiping.

every alternate week, her best friend would come to our house with a tupperware full of chicken spaghetti. they'd stick us in front of a tv with a stack of disney vhs tapes and go through each room, finding every dirty dish, and then spend the afternoon at the kitchen sink, washing each dish by hand while gossiping.

it wasn't always soup and spaghetti and laundry and dishes. but it was almost always a meal and a chore. here is a night you don't have to cook dinner. here is a chore you can cross off your list. and here is a day you don't have to spend alone. because really food and friendship and a feeling of accomplishment are what we all need most.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[go-learn-esperanto]

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

[solarpunk-nightbird]

As a disabled person: a world with no modern tech, no modern medicine, no electricity, and no single-use plastics is a world that cannot keep a great many disabled people alive

Disabled people have always been a part of humanity, and we always will be

And if an imagined future doesn't involve keeping us alive, I want no part of it

[fadecrow]

This is why we need to develop direct plastic recycling or plastic bio recycling via organisms that eat it instead of just never making plastic again. We need to actually figure out how to break it down so that it can be sustainable, so that disabled people don’t have to die in order for our planet to not go extinct or have a disaster. (Obviously I’m not suggesting to harm anyone that would be unintelligent and homicidal. I’m saying we need to force plastic to work.) All disabled people deserve to live no matter what their disability requires to stay alive.

Edit: Fixed my words from slang to more accurate descriptive words.

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Thank you!!!

Exactly.

We need to make our technology to work for people, not sacrifice more disabled people at the altar of profit and convenience.

Ecofascism (e.g., saying that we need to let people die in order to save the planet) is still fascism for a reason.

And as you said: "All disabled people deserve to live no matter what their disability requires to stay alive."

I don't care if an individual disabled person's care costs a million dollars. (Which, thanks to the horrific state of United States health care, for some people, it does, in the long-term.) Every single disabled person deserves to live. Every single person has the right to life. Period.

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Re: Some of the tags,

No, unfortunately plastic cannot safely be replaced with any particular plastic alternative. At least for the foreseeable future.

This is because most organic things, such as bamboo and fibers and wood, are porous - and therefore physically impossible to medically sanitize

This is also because organic substances are, by nature, very frequently capable of reacting chemically with things in human bodies, because human bodies are also organic. (Organic in this sense doesn't refer to food, here; it means "of, relating to, or derived from living organisms". via Merriam-Webster online dictionary, Sense 2a)

Also most alternative plastics are just plastics with like 5% bamboo fiber or whatever, but that's like five whole other posts